HARTFORD, Conn. — One of the 53 Americans held in Iran for 444 days is urging the federal government to quickly proceed with distributing money from a new financial compensation fund to the aging former hostages and their families.
Moorhead Kennedy lives on Mount Desert Island in Maine and appeared Monday with his family at the Connecticut state Capitol.
The 85-year-old Kennedy spoke of his ordeal, which ended in 1981. He would wake up screaming and later realized he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He said another former hostage hasn’t slept a full night in the last 36 years.
Kennedy credited U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal with helping to include a provision in a recent omnibus budget bill that created a new compensation fund for victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
Kennedy’s son lives in Connecticut.
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