don't know you israelis would take such to risk the chances it must have been something that was very important to them to decide to attack without considering the probability of war by general master and that the american planes are going to be launched to determine what the status of the liberty w intent of the attackers was to sink the ship maybe they hope to have no survivors so that they would not be a held accountable for the attack after  the israeli imported explanation accidents down occur through repeated attacks by surface vessels and by aircraft it obviously was a decision taken pretty high up and on the israeli side because it involved combined forces the ship was flying an american flag even if it had been identified from a and israeli point of view it was a reckless thing for them to do suppose it had been a all if america's leaders to not have the courage to punish israel for the blatant roader of american citizens is simply or that their american friends would let go away with almost court of inquiry report in the course of my career as a maybe a lawyer i have been called to review or take actions upon hundreds of investigations  various degrees of the court and while this is the only instance in which a record of such an investigation has been withdrawn from me after initially had difficulty with and still do is the fact that the very first statement of fact that the court arrived and presented was this over all evidence difficulty in supporting from the evidence it was included i'm convinced that it was withdrawn from me in this instance because of my statement to captain boston that i was having serious problems with the evidence that was available to support the statements of fact and the subsequent coverup the israelis maintained that they thought the liberty was this war egyptian freighter who said this is not credible not only w director of the time of the attack turned yellow when he received a copy of the israeli mistake explanation wrote across the top of it a nice way why he didn't believe it off and he later wrote another member in for the record indicating that he thought that the most likely explanation was that the israelis attacked the liberty because they didn't want the liberty to hear what was going on in the sinai and this is ship to interview the survivors he got us in small groups through four or five servers and he would ask his questions the first thing he did is he took off the stars laid him on the table and say listen open up to be and talk to me just like or i'm just want to just like you one of you so we did we trust that we opened up with our hearts be told exactly the way we felt what happened what we saw and when that was done he put the stars back on the pell and he ordered us not to say anything to anybody our family friends shipmates anyone if we did we faced the attack on the liberty the cia station chief handed him intercepted messages between the israeli war room and their planes the pilots were given orders to attack the ship and they replied immediately that it was an american ship it's really headquarters responded you have your orders pack the ship the plane is tried once it got but it's an american ship we can see its flag and headquarters insisted being signaled these dropping on what was going on below and this plane was flying right over the scene of the attack and i talked to two of the crew members of the plane and both of them agreed what they heard were the recorders court everyone felt that it was an american ship and that it was the liberty there were comments about the markings about the flyers everybody in the room was convinced it was an american sh israelis up their word they said they recognized their error and they apologized and the attack had already stopped sad but they were lying type continued for another hour and twenty minutes during which twenty five more american sorry wrist guards and one hundred ten more were wounded all would have been spared if the american plane sent to help them not be recalled by watching and think you're supposed to do a take land or other country and keep it if we could get the truth of the liberty out that it were true history i think in this country i cannot absolutely can't see why  american newspapers and t v people have helped to cover this up but not covering some of our stories the navy board of inquiry would not admit testimony about the jamming the recall the unmarked planes the shooting the life rafts and other material that we tried to present they asked questions we were allowed to answer those questions period they put me into a ward with all of their thousand other patients and within thirty minutes they removed me from that f put me into a single room i noticed that i had a name tag with smith on it right after i noticed that an officer came in and told me that from now on my name is smith i was never on the liberty and i was never ever to talk about it to anyone i still have fifty three pieces of shrapnel in the today never before has the u s navy ignored i was in this testimony of american military to accept on faith th minimize the duration of the attack by over an hour and a half conveniently fitting the israeli version it then documented the number of wounded not as the actual one seventy two but at the widely published media figure of seventy five it gone i know that bill was in on board the u s s liberty and the ship was off the coast gaza strip as i recall and yet i government printed put it in writing and a night of state senate book a congressional medal of honor recipients that he received his medal for action in vietnam to me that is one of the worst cover ups and american history how low can our government go and something i'd like to see totally investigated and a closure of this issue because i think president johnson was the villain thank you we called the people that were to defend the ship i have never accepted a israel explanation and if i as i'm concerned the affair of the u s s liberty remains a scar on the relations between israel and the united states things like this don't happen things or cost to happen there must be some reason some reason why more is not known there must be some reason why we didn't react more deliberately mo decorated for saving sailors lives and then the guy goes skipper of the liberty was awarded the medal of honor for action above and beyond the call of duty and i firmly believe that review of  the documentation of this film that an in depth honest investigation inquiry into what really happened that day is over and to the members of the crew their family and all americans we need to take some very serious efforts to bring out the full story and on that basis i would certainly recommend that we pursue this with delicious we go to the congress states those murdered that day must not have died in vain the fleet for justice by the navy's most decorated for ever want us americans must never 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