David Roeder '57 was serving as an Air Force attache at the US Embassy in Tehran when he and 52 other Americans were taken hostage in 1979. The hostages spent 444 days in captivity. Roeder and others fought for restitution which was not granted until 2015. The hostage crisis was the subject of the movie "Argo" with Ben Affleck in 2012. Roeder is a retired Air Force Colonel.
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