Welcome back to part two with the first series of WCH crime, the Columbia Eagle Mutiny.

At this point in the story, Al was now married and his wife was pregnant. He might have continued to settle down, but in early 1970 he met Clyde McKay, and together they hatched a plan

to take over a ship that was carrying U.S. military equipment to be used in the Vietnam War.

It's the case of the successful two-man mutiny aboard the American munition ship, Columbia Eagle.

Two crewmen were armed when they took control of the cargo ship. The hijackers meanwhile went on.

Clyde was a few years older than Al, and he was in a pretty turbulent stage of his life.

Clyde William McKay Jr. was born on the 20th of May, 1944.

His father was a military lifer, and so the family moved around quite

a bit, both in and out of the United States, because he was a military man.

This is Roberto Lloydman. Roberto's a writer, who was a merchant marine in the Vietnam era as well, and co-wrote a book, The Eagle Mutiny with Richard Lynette.

Research in the book, they interviewed many of Clyde's friends and family to find out what his life was like before the mutiny.

Clyde was the oldest of six children.

And so the feeling I got when interviewing Clyde's mother and his sisters that Clyde was not happy at being

the surrogate father whenever his father was away on military duty. He was a rebellious kid who left school before graduating high school.

He joined the merchant Marine when he was 18, 19 years old.

And when he did that, he did it in his usual, in his normal determined way.

He had a, he bought a bicycle, a broken bicycle for $5, living in Hemet, California, which was about 70 miles from San Diego.

He drove, he drove, he drove it all night to get to San Diego,

to be with his Aunt Ruth, who helped him get, make the contact that he needed to make

it in order to get into the merchant marine.

After he left home, Clyde had an interesting life.

He jumped ship one time in Thailand.

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