Photos: Remembering John McCain, 3 years after his death
Arizona Sen. John McCain died three year ago on Aug. 25, 2018, after battling brain cancer for more than a year. Here's a look back at his career in photos.
1973: John McCain
LCDR John S. Mccain III smilingly limps down ramp for welcoming on arrival, Wednesday, March 14,1973 from Hanoi. John is son of ADM. Mccain who directed vietnam war. (AP Photo)
1973: POW John McCain
John S. McCain III is escorted by Lt. Cmdr. Jay Coupe Jr., public relations officer, March 14, 1973, to Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport after the POW was released. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
1973: Clark Air Base John McCain
Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain III peers at camera counter during shopping tour on Friday, March 16,1973 at Clark Air Base exchange. McCain, son of the former commander-in chief of the Pacific Fleet, was released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi Wednesday. (AP Photo/GT)
1973: McCain
Lt. Commander John S. McCain III, a POW for over five years, waves to well wishers March 18, 1973 after arriving at Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Florida. At left is his wife, and son Doug, who is on crutches after breaking his leg in a soccer game. McCain is the son of Adm. John S. McCain Jr, who commanded the U.S. Forces in the Pacific until his retirement. (AP Photo)
1974: McCain
U.S. Navy Commander John S. McCain 3rd, a guest of the South Vietnamese government, visits the Holt orphanage in Saigon, Vietnam, on Oct. 30, 1974. The institution cares for many youngsters fathered by American G.I.s. McCain, son of the admiral who commanded U.S. forces in the Pacific at the height of the Vietnam War, was shot down over Hanoi and spent several years as a POW. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc)
1974: McCain
U.S. Navy Commander John S. McCain 3rd, a guest of the South Vietnamese government, visits an orphanage that cares for youngsters fathered by American G.I.s. in Saigon, Vietnam, on Oct. 30, 1974. McCain, a son of the admiral who commanded U.S. forces in the Pacific at the height of the Vietnam War, was shot down over Hanoi and spent several years as a POW. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc)
1978: REAGAN LANDON RUTTLIEDGE MCCAIN
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan, center, actor Michael Landon, second from right, and the governor's wife Nancy, third from left, greet former POWs during a reunion party in Los Angeles May 28 1978. Party featured engtertainers from film and television. At left, U.S. Navy Capt., Howard Ruttledge and his wife, Phyllis' at right is U.S. Navy Commander John McCain. (AP Photo/Brich)
1985: McCain
U.S. Rep. John McCain III, R-Ariz., holds a photo of a marker in Hanoi at Truc Bach Lake where he parachuted after being shot down as a Navy pilot in the Vietnam War. McCain, who was a POW for five and one half years in Hanoi, is in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 18, 1985 en route to Hanoi to visit this site. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)
1986: John McCain
U. S. Sen John McCain shown in 1986. (AP Photo)
1988: Republican National Convention
Sen. John McCain of Arizona makes a point during his address to the Republican National Convention Monday, August 16, 1988 in New Orleans. Monday was the opening day of the convention at the Superdome. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
1992: John Kerry, John McCain
In this Dec. 1, 1992 file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, listens to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a former POW in Vietnam, during a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The committee released classified testimony detailing the Pentagon's intelligence gathering efforts in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, file)
1996: JOHN MCCAIN, MAI VAN ON
Mai Van On gestures to U.S. Senator John McCain, left, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996 while describing how he pulled on McCain's parachute to save him from Hanoi's Truc Bach lake in 1967. McCain, then a U.S. bomber pilot in the Vietnam War, was shot down over Hanoi 29 years ago. (AP Photo/Hong Sam)
1999: McCain
Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to senior citizens in Sun City, Ariz. Wednesday June 2, 1999, where he spoke on his desires to change the social security system, and to allow private investment of a small portion of social security benefits. At left is a poster of McCain as a naval aviator during the Vietnam war. (AP Photo/Ken Levine)
1999: McCain family
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his wife Cindy pose with their children in this undated photo. Children are, from left: Meghan, 14; Bridget, 8; Jimmy, 11; and Jack, 13. Bridget was adopted from an orphanage in Bangladesh. (AP Photo)
2000: Mccain Vietnam
John McCain scolds a Vietnamese boy begging for money on the banks of Lake Truc Bach in Hanoi, Vietman on April 27, 2000 where McCain was pulled ashore after his plane was shot down in October 1967. McCain had earlier given the boy money but lost his temper and told him to go away after the child asked a second time for a handout. McCain was visiting as Vietnam marked the 25th anniversary of the end of the war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
2008: John McCain, Cindy McCain
In this Jan. 19, 2008 file photo, Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., uses a cheetah hand puppet to make her husband laugh as they ride the "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus to a polling station on the day of South Carolina's Republican presidential primary in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
2008: John McCain
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., greets supporters as he enters a campaign rally at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
2008: John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. hugs California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 during a rally at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. At right is McCain's daughter Meghan. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
2008: John McCain, Cindy McCain
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a rally at the Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. His wife, Cindy, is at right. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
2008: John McCain
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks at a rally outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster))
2008: McCain, Palin
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, is joined by Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, during a rally with supporters on election night in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
2009: John McCain
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. listens during remarks of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, hosted by President Barack Obama, not pictured, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
2010: John McCain, Cindy McCain
A victorious Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, walks on stage with his wife Cindy McCain, as he waves to hundreds of supporters after his race for U.S. Senate was called against his closest challenger, Democrat Rodney Glassman, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, at a Republican election night party in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
2012: John McCain
Sen. John McCain clowns around on the podium during sound check the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
2014: John McCain, Cindy McCain
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife, Cindy McCain, watch the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers during the fourth inning of a baseball game on Saturday, May 17, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
2015: John McCain
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gets on an elevator after being on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 4, 2015, to vote on amendments to the annual defense authorization bill. The GOP-led Senate plowed ahead Wednesday on a $612 billion annual defense policy bill despite a White House veto threat and the Democratic leader's claim that it is an exercise in futility.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
2015: John McCain, Larry Spencer, John R. Pedevillano,
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Gen. Larry Spencer, right, stand for photographs as they honor Retired U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt., John R. Pedevillano, 93, of College Park, Md., center, with the Presidential Unit Citation with one Oak Leaf Cluster during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Pedevillano served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as the youngest bombardier in the 306th Bomb Group, flew six combat missions and survived being shot down by Nazi fighter pilots. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
2016: John McCain
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, during the committee's hearing with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
2016: Serbia US Migrants
U.S. Sen. John McCain visits a refugee centre at the train station in Adasevci, about 100 km (62 miles) west from Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. Sen. McCain and a U.S. Congress delegation pledged assistance to Serbia and other countries along the Balkan migrant route. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
2016: Election Senate McCain
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. waves to supporters as he arrives for his victory party prior to officially announcing his victory over Democratic, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
2017: John McCain
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., applauds during the break in the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The Nationals won 3-2. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
