Episode Details

June 8th, 1967. A clear, calm Mediterranean afternoon. The USS Liberty — a US Navy intelligence ship flying the American flag in international waters — came under attack for two hours by unmarked jets and torpedo boats. Thirty-four Americans killed, 171 wounded. Israel has always called it mistaken identity, and official inquiries agreed. The men on the ship never have. Survivor Phil Tourney joins Kim with his firsthand account: Israeli planes waving at the crew that very morning, then blacked-out jets returning at 2PM to take out every antenna first; the American flags shot down and replaced, twice; napalm on the deck; a torpedo that killed 25 men in a single compartment; life rafts shot out of the water; and helicopters with commandos on the skids that simply turned and left. He describes rescue aircraft launched from US carriers being recalled — twice — on orders from Washington, and what he says Admiral Isaac Kidd told the crew days later: speak a word of this, and you end up in Leavenworth "or worse." He stayed silent for 18 years. He's spent the 43 since refusing to be — through a seven-day board of inquiry he calls a sham, bomb threats against a memorial library, and a lifetime of being smeared for telling the story. Kim adds her own accounting: the run of documented American deaths at Israeli hands since 1967 measured against the death toll now being used to justify war with Iran — and asks why one "greatest ally" gets six decades of cover. With Thomas Massie now calling for a real investigation from the House floor, the last ~50 surviving crewmen are running out of time to get one.

Phil Tourney is a USS Liberty survivor, longtime president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, and author of *Stay Afloat: From That Day to Today.*

📖 Get Phil's book — http://www.philtourney.com/


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