Iran Hostage Blindfold - The National Museum of American Diplomacy

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Last updated 11 junho 2024

Iran Hostage Blindfold - The National Museum of American Diplomacy

This piece of cloth was fashioned into a blindfold and used on U.S. diplomat Robert Blucker, who was serving at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 as an Economic Officer. Blucker was one of 52 who were ultimately held hostage for 444 days, in what became known as the Iran Hostage Crisis. November 4th, 1979, the day the hostages were taken, was Robert Blucker’s first full day on the job at the embassy. On the second morning of his captivity, he was physically beaten. About a month later, he was interrogated and left six hours blindfolded in a very cold room. He could hear the clicking sounds of his captors' rifles. After Blucker and the other hostages’ release in January 1981, he spent some time with friends in Germany. As a token of thanks to his hostess, Marianne Form, he gave her this blindfold and three date stones, which he had saved to represent his primary source of nutrition during captivity. He told his hostess to wash the blindfold, but she did not. She said, "all his tears are still in it, this is like a relic."