This publicity resulted in better treatment of U.S. POWs from fall 1969 on .
Sybil Stockdale 's husband , Navy Commander James Stockdale , was shot down in 1965 and she was determined to make the American people aware of the mistreatment of U.S. POWs .
This publicity resulted in better treatment of American POWs from fall 1969 on .
Sybil Stockdale 's husband , Navy Commander James Stockdale , was shot down in 1965 and she was determined to make the American people aware of the mistreatment of U.S. POWs .