In 1979, Iranians took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. On at the present time in 1981, the standoff ended with the hostages launched, however that wasn’t the tip of the story – or the struggling – for the victims and their households. Barry Petersen has extra.
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