Four decades after the Vietnam war ended a mysterious man in Southeast Asia claiming to be an American Special Forces soldier listed as 'Killed In Action' has been found
John Hartley Robertson went missing in 1966 and was declared dead two years later. Source: Supplied
- American, speaks no English, found in Vietnam
- Film claims it's Sgt John Hartley Robertson
- Sgt Robertson was declared dead in 1968
A NEW documentary claims to have discovered an American soldier 44 years after he went missing in the Vietnam War.
Unclaimed, a documentary from Canadian filmmaker Michael Jorgensen, purports to find Master Sergeant John Hartley Robertson, who was presumed dead in 1968.
Sgt Robertson was thought to have died after his helicopter was shot down over Laos on a classified US Army mission.
Unclaimed follows the story of a 76-year-old American man who can only speak Vietnamese, the Toronto Star reports.
He lives in a village in the country's south.
"They'll come unglued," Jorgensen predicts of American audiences' emotional reaction to the film.
"They don't hold anything higher than service to the country. [They'll] lose their minds," he added.
Sgt Robertson's family has long believed he was alive, claiming to have documents supporting that theory, including reports that he was living in a Vietnamese prison.
Shelby Robertson Quast, the soldier's granddaughter, was told he was alive when she travelled to Cambodia. Her mother, Barbara, said in the early 1990s she had documents proving he was alive.
The filmmaker was apparently told by a government source on the subject of Sgt Robertson's mysterious new life: ""It's not that the Vietnamese won't let him go; it's that our government doesn't want him."
Unclaimed follows the plight of Tom Faunce, a Vietnam vet who'd heard about Sgt Robertson on a humanitarian trip to the region in 2008.
In the documentary, Sgt Robertson reportedly appears forgetful, according to The Star's report, perhaps suffering from dementia.
He appears to forget the names of his American children and other details, including his birthday.
Sgt Robertson's wife and two children initially agreed to DNA testing for the film, but then backed out.
Jorgensen says he can understand why that would have been a tough path for the family to take.
"Somebody suggested to me maybe that's (because) the daughters don't want to know if it's him," he said.
"It's kind of like, that was an ugly war. It was a long time ago."
But the film features a reunion between Sgt Robertson and his sister Jean. And she has no doubt it's him.
"There's no question [that's John]," his sister told Jorgensen.
"I was certain it was him in the video, but when I held his head in my hands and looked in his eyes, there was no question that was my brother."
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