Lloyd M. Bucher

(1927-2004) lived in Boys Town and Lincoln. Naval officer, commander of USS Pueblo captured on January 23, 1968 by North Korean military forces, his decision to surrender led to survival of all but one of 83 crew members despite 11-month imprisonment, appeared on cover of Time, February 2, 1968, and cover of Life, February 7, 1969. Consult Lincoln Star, January 24, 1968, p. 3 and Life, February 7, 1969, pp. 15-22 and Lloyd M. Bucher with Mark Rascovich, Bucher: My Story (Doubleday, 1970) and Political Profiles: The Nixon/Ford Years (Facts On File, 1979) 85-86 and Omaha World Herald, August 3, 1999, p. 9 and Mitchell B. Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A spy ship and the failure of American foreign policy (University Press of Kansas, 2002) and obituaries in New York Times, January 30, 2004, p. A-19 and Omaha World Herald, January 30, 2004, pp. A-1, A-2.

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