2/28/1968

“On Jan. 21, 1968, The Washington Post ran a front-page photo of a U.S. soldier supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. The caption said the technique induced ‘a flooding sense of suffocation and drowning, meant to make him talk.’ The picture led to an Army investigation and, two months later [February 28, 1968], the court martial of the soldier.”

 – Eric Weiner, “Waterboarding: A Tortured History,” National Public Radio, Nov. 3, 2007