Selected Information About the June 8, 1967 Attack on the USS Liberty

Last Updated June 22, 2019

USS Liberty Veterans Association Official Website http://bit.ly/15YkDl6

Email your Congressional Delegation and have them request the Congressional Research Service send you a copy of the US government investigation of the June 8, 1967, Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty.

Email your Congressional Delegation and have them send you a copy of the Congressional investigation of the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.

Email the Historians of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate and ask them to send you a copy of the Congressional investigation of the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.

Donate to the USS Liberty Veterans Association http://bit.ly/2KIt4gi

USS Liberty Document Center http://bit.ly/1TQDxk1

Al Jazeera Documentary “The Day Israel Attacked America” http://bit.ly/1E57ySG

Capt. William McGonagle (Commanding Officer of USS Liberty) [attack was] “not a case of mistaken identity” http://bit.ly/1GFTMYd

Oral History of USS Liberty Survivor Dale Larkins http://bit.ly/1K0rMRY (Dale manned Mount 51 and brought the torpedo boats under fire, fired a single shot at the torpedo boats when the gun jammed)

US Navy Court of Inquiry Report http://bit.ly/1I6dEJP

ADM John McCain Limited Endorsement of US Navy COI Report http://bit.ly/2kxgvIi

July 27, 2005 Letter of RADM Merlin Staring to the Secretary of the Navy excoriating the US Navy Court of Inquiry Report. Staring was the Legal Advisor to CINCUSNAVEUR ADM John McCain who was the Convening Authority for the US Navy Court of Inquiry into the attack on the USS Liberty http://bit.ly/2WWihzJ

USS Liberty Veterans War Crimes Report http://bit.ly/7Rvr4

Exhibits to the War Crimes Report http://bit.ly/L3n9L

Declaration of Capt. Ward Boston – Court of Inquiry Legal Advisor http://bit.ly/RLZM8

Account of Capt. Joe Tully (CO of USS Saratoga) http://bit.ly/13usYrL

Memoranda from RADM Merlin Staring (CINCUSNAVEUR Legal Advisor) http://bit.ly/12N4ICV

Department of Defense Law of War Program http://bit.ly/1QawErT

Affidavit of Lloyd Painter http://bit.ly/13unpcQ

Affidavit of Dave Lewis http://bit.ly/13uhW5N

Statement of Glenn Oliphant http://bit.ly/13ulxRn

Army War College Report http://bit.ly/1Qaxbdg

Declaration of Steve Forslund http://bit.ly/13uDVcB

Declaration of Ron Gotcher http://bit.ly/13uE5Rw

VFW Resolution 431 http://bit.ly/1DLcI5W

JAG Manual http://bit.ly/1GPNE2b

Faked Gun site Photo Included in Jay Cristol Dissertation http://bit.ly/13ujcG3

IDF Statement on Photos Provided to Jay Cristol http://bit.ly/1PeOojw

JAGC Statement on Handling of War Crimes Report http://bit.ly/1zEguDb

David Walsh Article in Proceedings, June 2003 http://bit.ly/1zEgCTh

13 Investigation Myth http://bit.ly/13usC4b

Walter Jacobsen Article in Winter, 1986 issue of Naval Law Review http://bit.ly/jdjgSD

Draft State Resolution http://bit.ly/1GQXmnI

Draft Congressional Statement for June 8 Memorial Service http://bit.ly/1GPOFHJ

Uniform Code of Military Justice http://bit.ly/2F6FKrQ

Naming of LCS-2 (USS Liberty Name Considered) http://bit.ly/17zkJB7

Review of “The Liberty Incident Revealed” by A. Jay Cristol http://bit.ly/1dGtZIA

New revelations in attack on American Spy Ship by John Crewdson-Chicago Tribune Article October 2, 2007 http://bit.ly/1cifslS

‘But Sir, It’s an American Ship.’ ‘Never Mind, Hit Her!’ When Israel Attacked USS Liberty – Ha’aretz July 11, 2017 http://bit.ly/2Mnj3V5

“Attack on a Sigint Collector – USS Liberty http://bit.ly/2Xpsshi

US State Department Legal Advisor Carl F. Salans September 21, 1967 Memo Refuting the Israeli Claim That They Mistook Us for the Egyptian Tramp Steamer “el Quseirhttp://bit.ly/2XhhPQY

US State Department Legal Advisor Carl F. Salans September 21, 1967 Memo Retyped for Clarity http://bit.ly/2XhR8vm