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Jan Thompson

Jak Tichenor previews a locally produced documentary on World War II's Bataan Death March with SIUCarbondale Radio-Television professor Jan Thompson. Thompson, whose father spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) following the fall of the Philippines, discusses her new documentary, "The Tragedy of Bataan," which airs on National POW Day at 9:30pm, Friday, April 9 following this edition of WSIU InFocus. Find out more about The Tragedy of Bataan television documentary and radio series.

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