The incident led to a North Korean propaganda victory after the Army was forced to make embarrassing admissions to secure Dodd's release.

[1] He graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, where he was a four-year varsity letterman in both football and track; as a halfback on the undefeated Army football team, Dodd was a team captain his senior year and caught the winning touchdown pass against Navy in the 1922 Army–Navy Game.

The subordinate grabbed hold of a gatepost long enough for the American guards to rescue him, but Dodd was taken into the center of the camp and held hostage.

General Charles F. Colson was rushed to the island to take command, and he ordered a telephone rigged up to allow communication with Dodd.

Before he was released, he managed to talk his way out of a ceremonial goodbye, during which, he later recounted, he would've been decorated with flowers and escorted to the gate between formed lines of prisoners.

He died at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas on March 5, 1973, and was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.