Author claims KC native shot down in Gulf War is alive

Monday, September 23, 2002

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A dozen years after Scott Speicher's FA-18 Hornet was shot down during the first night of the Gulf War, an author claims in a new book that the Navy pilot could be alive and held captive by Saddam Hussein.

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