article_snippet: Of the 90 people in the compound, six Americans managed to escape the building and flee to other embassies.
article_snippet: Other non-U.S. citizens captured when the embassy was seized were released, but 66 were captured, including three at the Foreign Ministry, and held hostage for 444 days. '
article_snippet: Dramatic: Iranian students climb over the wall of the U.S. embassy in Tehran just before the hostage crisis, in which 52 Americans were held hostages for 444 days in 1979 .
article_snippet: Two weeks into the crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black hostages, mostly clerical staff and members of the marine guard who guard US embassies around the world.
article_snippet: Another hostage, vice consul Richard Queen, was released in July 1980 after falling ill with multiple sclerosis.
article_snippet: But the remaining 52 were deprived of Another hostage, vice consul Richard Queen freedom for 444 days.
highlights_snippet: Embassy garnered worldwide attention in November 1979 when revolutionary students took dozens of staff hostage .
  