Maine families finally get sweet revenge from Iranian monster whose nation bedeviled them

By Ted Cohen Maine Wire

It came 46 years late but the families victimized by the 1979 Iran hostage crisis get to sleep a little easier now that Khamenei is boxed up for shipping.

The grabbing of American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the failed Democrat Jimmy Carter administration included two Maine residents.

A Mount Desert Island man, Moorhead Kennedy, died in 2024 at the age of 93.

“I spent my 49th birthday tied up, blindfolded, and tied to a chair,” Kennedy said in 2009.

Hostage, Richard Queen, came from Lincolnville. Queen was released early, in July 1980, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

“Iran-American relations won’t be normal for a long time, there is too much animosity,” Queen said in an interview January 20,1981, the day the remaining hostages were released. He died in 2002.

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