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Former Sen. Denton, who used eyes to send secret message, dead at 89

Jeremiah Denton, a former POW who became a U.S. senator, died Friday of heart disease. Denton was held by the North Vietnamese for more than seven years, and when they forced him to appear in a propaganda film, he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code. Scott Pelley reports.
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