NYT > World News Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain’s Captor at the ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ Dies at 92 Par :Damien Cave 30 août 2025 à 09:35 He endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting, despite accounts to the contrary, that no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War. © Frank Zeller/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesTran Trong Duyet pointing at himself in a photograph speaking to captured U.S. pilots before their release in 1973.