The mood in hell was light. All smiles and hugs, Sammy Davis Jr. was in high spirits as he arrived at Paramount Studios in the fall of 1972 to film Poor Devil, a new NBC comedy set in the netherworld.

Flynn, who had been held in North Vietnam since 1967 ... First Lady Pat Nixon, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Bob Hope. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) There were only 34 former prisoners ...