Lindh, Frank - short clip - LetterNeverDelivered

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-	I didn't know about this before,	0:00
	but the Red Cross under the Geneva Conventions	0:01
	will take letters to prisoners	0:05
	of war from their family.	0:07
	And they actually literally have a form for that.	0:10
	That's been developed and they are named.	0:14
	The Red Cross is actually	0:17
	named in the Geneva Conventions	0:18
	as the organization that's authorized to do this.	0:20
	So I went to my local Red Cross office	0:22
	in San Rafael, California	0:25
	and sure enough, they had that form.	0:27
	And then I called ahead.	0:30
	So they knew I was coming	0:31
	and I was able to write a little letter to John.	0:32
	It's just like sort of a postcard size form.	0:34
	And it says only information	0:37
	of a family nature or something to that.	0:39
	If that's the guideline that they give you.	0:41
	And I just wrote a little note	0:43
	that John we love you	0:46
	and we support you and we have a lawyer for you.	0:47
	So please ask the authorities	0:53
	to allow mama and me and the lawyer	0:55
	to come and visit you.	0:57
	And then I gave it to the lady	0:59
	at the Red Cross and she had it	1:00
	sent through Geneva in Switzerland	1:03
	to be delivered to John in Afghanistan.	1:07
	But the American military I learned later	1:12
	would not allow any of this	1:14
	to get through to John.	1:16
	I actually wrote multiple times to him	1:17
	try to get those letters through	1:19
	under the Geneva Conventions, you know,	1:22
	to have that contact with him	1:24
	from his family but the Americans,	1:25
	when the American government,	1:27
	when it invaded Afghanistan	1:29
	declared and meant they meant what they said,	1:31
	they were not going	1:33
	to follow the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan.	1:34
	It was really literally true.	1:37
	They said it and they meant it.	1:39

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Title:

Lindh, Frank - short clip - LetterNeverDelivered

Date:

April 2, 2011

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Lindh, Frank

Role:

Detainee Family

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Father of John Walker Lindh
Frank Lindh, male, age 58, is the father of John Walker Lindh, a 20 year-old American citizen captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 and held for 54 days without access to family or lawyers.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:02:09

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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