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USS Liberty Survivor Phil Tourney Reveals What Really Happened During the 1967 Attack That Changed His Life
Phil Tourney was just 20 years old when the USS Liberty came under attack on June 8, 1967, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. What he witnessed that day, and the decades of silence that followed, exposes one of the most suppressed incidents in American military history. Tourney describes how Israeli forces attacked the clearly marked American ship for over 90 minutes, killing 34 and wounding 174 servicemen, while the U.S. government ordered rescue missions recalled and survivors threatened into silence. Now 77, Tourney breaks his silence to share the full story of betrayal, cover-up, and the ongoing fight for recognition that has defined the lives of the USS Liberty survivors for 57 years.
A Letter That Changed Everything
Phil Tourney received his 77th birthday with a mission: to finally tell the truth about what happened aboard the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. After decades of forced silence, threats, and being labeled conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites, Tourney and the surviving crew members of the USS Liberty have decided the truth must be told before they all pass away.
Tourney joined the Navy at 17 years old in San Diego and completed two tours in Vietnam before being assigned to the USS Liberty. When he received orders to go to the East Coast, he was told the ship mapped the bottom of the ocean. But Tourney quickly realized something didn't add up—all the antennas pointed straight up. The USS Liberty was actually a spy ship carrying 200 CIA and NSA agents alongside 100 crew members whose job was simply to get the intelligence officers where they needed to go.
Life Aboard a Spy Ship
Life aboard the Liberty was divided between two distinct groups that weren't allowed to interact. Tourney bunked in engineering spaces with about 70 other men, while the intelligence operatives stayed in the back of the ship. For most of his two and a half years aboard, the ship conducted reconnaissance missions along the west coast of Africa—beautiful duty with good weather, friendly ports, and relatively low risk.
But in June 1967, everything changed. The ship had just arrived in Abidjan when emergency orders came through: get everyone back aboard immediately. They were headed to the Mediterranean, though no one told the crew why. They picked up three Marine linguists and a civilian NSA operative named Alan Blue in Rota, Spain, then headed east—the only ship going toward danger while all others sailed away.
June 8, 1967: The Attack Begins
By June 7th, the USS Liberty was positioned 12.5 miles off the Sinai Peninsula in international waters. Israeli reconnaissance aircraft began flying over the ship, taking photographs. The crew could see the Star of David markings clearly and felt secure—these were their allies. The Liberty was clearly marked with "AGTR5" painted on the bow, port, and starboard sides, "USS Liberty" written in English on the stern, and flying a brand new 5x8 American flag in 12-knot winds. Israeli forces positively identified the ship as American and friendly.
On the morning of June 8th, Tourney went through his normal routine: wake at 0600, shower, eat, go to work, stand watches. The ship conducted a damage control drill around 1:00 PM in 100-degree heat. Just after the drill ended, around 2:00 PM on a bright, sunny day, the attack began.
French-made Mirage and Mystère jets—painted black with no markings—struck without warning. Within three seconds, they took out all but one transmitting antenna, destroyed every watertight door above the waterline, and eliminated all four 50-caliber machine guns. The crew had no idea who was attacking them and assumed it was an Arab state. The air attack lasted approximately 25 minutes, killing and maiming firefighters and anyone who moved on deck. The jets dropped napalm on the bridge and shot up all the fire hoses, making it impossible to fight the fires.
The Distress Call and Betrayal
Radioman Terry Halbardier managed to get one distress signal out. He had taken one antenna offline for maintenance, so it wasn't transmitting and wasn't hit by the heat-seeking missiles. He ran a long wire to it and sent out the SOS: "Rockstar, Rockstar, we are under attack by unknown jet aircraft. Help us, help us." The message was picked up by the Sixth Fleet and as far away as Vietnam.
Captain Tully of the USS Saratoga immediately launched aircraft to come to the Liberty's aid. Before the jets reached the horizon, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered them recalled. Captain Tully and the USS America relaunched more aircraft. They were recalled again—this time by President Lyndon Baines Johnson himself, who said: "I don't care about a few dead sailors. I will not embarrass my ally, Israel. Return to base immediately."
Tourney asks the haunting question: How did Johnson know who was attacking them if the Liberty crew didn't know yet? The survivors believe they were set up by their own government to allow Israel to sink the ship.
Torpedo Boats and Helicopters
After the 25-minute air attack ended, three Israeli motor torpedo boats approached. When the crew saw the Star of David markings, they felt relief—their allies had arrived to help. Instead, the boats fired five torpedoes. One struck the starboard side, instantly killing 25 men in the communications spaces. The attack created an 821 rocket and cannon holes, over 5,000 armor-piercing bullet holes, napalm burns, and a 40x40-foot torpedo hole that caused the ship to list badly.
The crew managed to launch three life rafts, planning to put their most seriously wounded in them to give them a chance at survival. Israeli forces shot two rafts out of the water and took one aboard their boat as a trophy—it remains in Haifa to this day. They continued shooting at anyone who moved, making rescue attempts impossible.
Then IDF helicopters arrived carrying armed troops ready to board the ship and finish off the crew. Tourney was on the main deck trying to evacuate personnel when the helicopters hovered overhead. He made eye contact with an Israeli marine who had his foot on the skid, ready to descend. Tourney gave him the middle finger. The soldier smiled back, returned the gesture, and then the helicopters simply left. The attack stopped—apparently because the Israeli forces couldn't sink the defenseless American ship.
Seventeen Hours of Hell
When the attack ended, two-thirds of the crew was either dead or wounded. The ship's sole doctor, despite being shot in the abdomen and both knees, operated for 17 hours straight. Tourney assisted in surgeries, including one on a sailor named Gary Blanchard who asked if he was going to die. Tourney told him the truth: yes. Doc would put in a few stitches, move to the next wounded sailor, and keep going through the night.
The USS Liberty waited 17 hours for help—help that was only 40 minutes away but had been ordered not to come. Tourney believes the government hoped the ship would sink during the night. Lieutenant Commander Armstrong, a heavy smoker, died in the mess decks while Tourney was lighting cigarettes for him. The mess decks had become a triage center—a sea of broken and bloodied men on tables and floors.
The Cover-Up Begins
When Admiral Isaac Kidd finally boarded the ship several days later, the cover-up immediately began. He called small groups of survivors into sick bay, took off his stars, and said, "I'm just like your dad. Please tell me everything you saw." The survivors told him everything—the machine-gunning of life rafts, the helicopters, all of it. Then Kidd put his stars back on, turned red in the face, got right in Tourney's face and threatened: "You better never talk about this again to anybody or I'll make sure you end up in prison, fined, or worse." Everyone understood "worse" meant death.
The survivors were split up and sent to different bases. One sailor, Mickey Lemm (who still has 50 pieces of shrapnel in his body), was taken to Bremerhaven, Germany for medical care. He was isolated in his own room and interrogated by an officer who told him: "Your name is no longer Lemm. It's Smith. You know nothing about the USS Liberty. Don't ever talk about it."
The official investigation conducted by Admiral Kidd and JAG officer Ward Boston was completed in just seven days—an investigation that should have taken a year. They never even spoke to Israeli forces, simply accepting Israel's explanation over the survivors' testimony. Years later, Ward Boston signed a declaration admitting they were ordered by the government to lie and knew it was a deliberate attack, not a case of mistaken identity. He died shortly after making this admission.
Forty Years of Silence
Tourney remained silent about the attack for 18 years. He didn't even tell his wife Lisa that he had been in the military. He pushed the memories so far back that he forgot what day it happened. Then, about 41-43 years after the attack, he saw an article in the newspaper by Master Chief Stan White talking about the USS Liberty. Tourney felt like the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders. If Stan White could talk, so could he. He hasn't stopped talking since.
The survivors have been called liars, Nazis, and Jew-haters for trying to tell their story. Congress has refused to investigate. When the Grove Brothers in Wisconsin wanted to name a new library the "USS Liberty Memorial Library" in the 1980s, the local Jewish population called it anti-Semitic and tried to stop it. The brothers threatened to withdraw their million-dollar donation, and the town relented. At the library dedication, survivors needed SWAT teams on roofs and bomb-sniffing dogs because they had all been threatened.
Threats and Intimidation Continue
The intimidation didn't stop decades ago. While visiting California for his son's graduation from Navy SEAL training (BUDS), Tourney was at a restaurant bar with his wife when a man approached and put a large watch in front of his face. The man identified himself as a Mossad agent and told Tourney, "I know everything about you. The best thing for you to do is just shut up." Tourney's wife confronted the man, and hotel security had to escort them to their room. The man had been posing as a doctor and had been at the hotel for days, apparently waiting for them.
The Lyndon Johnson Connection
The story of LBJ's loyalty to Israel runs deep. A 2008 Jerusalem Post article revealed that Johnson had Jewish ancestry through his aunt Jesse Johnson Hatcher, who was a member of the Zionist Organization of America and nurtured LBJ's commitment to Jewish causes for 50 years. As a young congressman, Johnson illegally arranged visas for hundreds of Jews from Warsaw and oversaw their immigration through Galveston, Texas. He raised substantial sums for arms for Jewish underground fighters in Palestine.
This stands in stark contrast to President John F. Kennedy, who demanded that AIPAC (then going by a different name) register as a foreign agent and had contentious arguments with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion about Israel's nuclear program—arguments that remain classified to this day. After JFK's assassination, Johnson became president and declared himself a better friend to Israel than Kennedy ever was. On June 8, 1967, when the Liberty was attacked, Johnson was in bed with Mathilde Krim, an Irgun agent.
The Most Decorated Ship Nobody Knows
The USS Liberty is the most decorated ship in naval history for a single engagement. The crew received the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, 208 Purple Hearts, Combat Action Ribbons, and the Presidential Unit Citation. Yet nobody knows about it because the government has kept it secret for 57 years.
Israel claimed to have paid $6 million in compensation, but actually the U.S. government paid it. The ship alone was worth $40 million. The most seriously wounded received some compensation, as did families of the deceased. Most of the crew received $200 and were ordered to sign documents stating they could never sue Israel or the United States—documents signed under duress that Tourney believes are worthless.
A Dying Breed Seeks Justice
Of the 294 souls aboard the USS Liberty that day, only about 50 survivors remain. They are dying out—three or four passed away in the last year alone from cancer and other diseases. Many are in their 80s and can barely leave their homes. Tourney, now 78, has made it his mission to be their voice before they all pass away.
The survivors have FOIA requests pending with a federal judge in Washington who will soon decide whether they can access classified records. The CIA is blocking the release, claiming it's a matter of national security. Tourney asks: If it's so easy to explain as mistaken identity, how could it be a national security issue?
Admiral Thomas Moorer, the longest-serving admiral in U.S. Navy history who served as European Commander, Pacific Commander, and twice as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he would never believe it was mistaken identity. He repeatedly called on Congress to investigate, but Congress claimed there had already been an investigation—which there never was.
A Call for Truth and Action
Tourney challenges those who dismiss the USS Liberty survivors as conspiracy theorists to debate him and his shipmates live on television. He believes God saved the crew that day not to let them die in silence, but to tell the truth about what happened.
The survivors are planning a speaking tour around the country to tell the American people about what their government and the Israeli government did. They maintain a website at usslibertyveterans.org where people can learn more, see pictures, read articles including the Moorer Report, and donate to support their efforts.
Tourney's final message is a direct appeal: "President Trump, please help us. Don't abandon the crew of the USS Liberty. This is an act that should be brought out. The truth should be told. Sir, please help us."
The survivors believe the attack on the USS Liberty wasn't just an attack on their ship—it was an attack on all Americans. They maintain that Israel committed an act of war and war crimes, and the U.S. government covered it up then and continues to cover it up now. They were set up by their own government, with Israel as the hitmen, and when they survived, both governments have worked to silence them ever since.
As Tourney says, the question Americans must answer is: Is our country America first or Israel first? Are we an occupied nation? The USS Liberty survivors believe the American people deserve to know the truth.
Video Transcript
All right, you guys. I'll get right into this. A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter that changed my life. Certainly changed the course of my life in politics. And I am going to read you that letter now and let you know that the author of it is sitting across from me. It reads, "My name is Philip Turney. I am 77 years old today. On June 8th, 1967, I was just 20 years old when the gallant crew of the USS Liberty was savagely attacked. Our American flag was proudly flying on our ship in the Mediterranean Sea that day. The designation AGTR5 was clearly painted on the bow, port, and starboard sides. USS Liberty was written in English on her stern. When we arrived on June 7th, we were overflown by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft, and the same activity was repeated on the morning of June 8th. We were positively identified as American and friendly by the IDF. We had requested a destroyer escort long before we entered the Mediterranean, but we were denied twice. Our captain assured us that we were clearly marked as American, and we therefore had nothing to fear. We were alone 12 and a half miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula, always in international waters. The Israeli reconnaissance aircraft were clearly marked with the Star of David. We therefore felt secure seeing a flying box car and other smaller recon propeller aircraft taking good care of us. The attack began at 2:00 on a beautiful bright sunny day by Frenchmade Mirage and Mr. Aayjets painted black with no markings. We had no clue who was attacking us, but assumed it was an Arab state. During the first pass by, the jets took out all but one of our transmitting antennas, as well as every watertight door above the water line. The air attack lasted about 25 minutes, killing and maming our firefighters and any sailor who moved. Our radio man took one antenna offline, so it wasn't transmitting and wasn't hit. He ran a long wire to it, and the SOS went out to the sixth fleet. It was even picked up as far away as Vietnam. Rockstar. Rockstar under attack by an unknown jet aircraft. Help us. Help us. Captain Tully, skipper of the USS Saratoga, sent jets to come to our aid. Before the jets hit the horizon, they were recalled by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamera. Captain Enen of the USS America in Tully relaunched more aircraft to aid us. They were also recalled, this time by Lynden Baines Johnson himself. He said, quote, "I don't care about a few dead sailors. I will not embarrass my ally, Israel. Return to base immediately." End quote. How did he know who was attacking us if we did not? We were set up by our own government to let a foreign government have their way with us. The IDF even dropped Napol on the bridge of our ship. How low they would go, we would soon find out. Three motor torpedo boats headed our way and one torpedo hit our starboard side. We saw the Star of David on the boats. They were there to sink us. The attack continued for another hour and a half. Attacking jet aircraft destroyed all but three of our life rafts which we had put overboard. We were going to place our most seriously wounded in them so that they would have a chance at life. But the IDF would have none of that. They shot two of them out of the water and took one aboard their boats as a trophy of the kill. They continued shooting and killing my mates. They left and we thought that it was over, but it wasn't. IDF helicopters were sent with troops armed and ready to board our ship and finish us off. Then they just left. I guess the gig was up when the mighty IDF could not sink our defenseless ship. When it was all done, there were over 821 rocket and cannon holes and over 5,000 armor-piercing bullets riddling the ship. Napom was burning us up, and a 40x4 ft torpedo hole was in her side, causing the ship to list badly to our starboard side. We then waited 17 hours for help. I guess they hoped that we would sink that night. Help was only 40 minutes away from us, but they left us out alone to die. When the USS America and the USS Davis arrived to help us, they took our wounded to care for them. Their wounds were so horrific words cannot explain. Admiral Kiddboarded our ship a few days later, and the cover up immediately began. We were ordered to never speak of the attack to anyone, not even with one another. Penalties would be fines, imprisonment, or worse. And we all knew that worse meant death. We have been treated like garbage for the last 57 years. Congress has been bought and paid for with the exception over the years of a few brave lawmakers. Their names are representatives Pete McCloskkey, Paul Finley, and Jim Trafficant. As the courageous Rep Thomas Massie has noted, all Republican members of Congress except for him have Apac handlers. We can assume this is also true of nearly all Democrats. We are the most decorated ship in naval history for a single engagement. I believe God saved us that day to allow us to communicate the truth of this attack to leaders like you. We give all power to Jesus Christ. We are just his servants that horrible day and now. The USS Liberty survivors are the biggest whistleblowers this country has ever seen. We have been smeared as anti-Semitic Jew haters and Nazis. Our only sin is that we survived. We didn't kill anyone. Israel did all the murdering that day and the US government did all the covering up. I'm asking you to help us save America by telling other the facts about the slaughter of my mates. We are begging you to support us. Respectfully, Phil Turney, the president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association. Great honor to have you here today. Well, thank you, Candace. It's a great honor for me to be here and uh represent the gallant crew of the USS Liberty that have been uh treated so badly, as I said in the letter, for 57 years. So, I just want to start um just really at the beginning, I guess. When did you sign up to be in the United States military? I joined the Navy at 17 years old at uh San Diego, California. That's where I went to boot camp. I did two tours Vietnam uh before I got aboard the USS Liberty. And uh I did three tours with her including her last. So, um that's that was my naval career. And I got out of the Navy and then uh I wasn't working at the time. I thought I'd never go back in because why would I go back into a place where people are going to try to kill me, but I wasn't working. Had I had baby. So I went back in and I got aboard the USS Maddox DG731 which was in the Tonkan Gulf which was another false flag. Wow. So just as a question, I mean most people I just being in the Vietnam War, I mean that was traumatizing enough obviously. So you came back and you decided that you were still going to serve the country. Uh when exactly did you find out that you were going to be aboard the USS Liberty? I found out when I got orders uh to go to the U east coast from the west coast. I was on an ammunition ship then. USS uh Monakia AE22. I said, "Well, great. I'm going away to the east coast and I always wanted to go there anyway." So, I ended up on the Liberty. When I got aboard the Liberty, they said it was a ship that mapped the bottom of the ocean. And I said, "Wow, how could that be when all the antennas are going straight up?" But I was a dumb kid. I believed anything they told me until a few months after that, and I said, "No, no, this ain't right. We're a spy ship. Okay. So, they initially said to you, they didn't even you're serving on a ship and they don't even tell you the truth about why you're there. So, here you are and they're like, "You're just here to map the bottom of the ocean." Yes, that's what they told me. Okay. Well, there were two different crews aboard that ship. There were 200 spies, CIA, NSA spies, and I was in ship's company, engineering, and there were hundred of us and with the other guys, boss mates, cooks, things like that to run the ship. Our only job, Candace, was to make sure that the communication technicians got where they had to go so they could they could do their deal. Okay. And so when did you notice or I guess when did it become apparent to you? How long had you been aboard before you went I don't really think that we're here to map the bottom of the ocean? Did they tell you, hey, I'm actually in the CIA or I'm in the NSA? No, they they didn't they didn't talk to us and we didn't talk to them. We weren't allowed to. Okay. And so it was two two different crews and I I you know we figured it out pretty quick what was going on you know but um yeah it was it was so secret I mean everything was secret very very secret and did you just wondering how the setup is are you sharing a room with four or five people? How does that work on the ship? Well I was in a a bunk room with um about uh 70 men. 70 men in one room. Mhm. Wow. Okay. Yeah, that was engineering spaces. And up forward was the uh Bosamates. That's where they had their birthing. The spikes, the spies were in the back of the ship. Okay. And so what's a typical day like? Typical day was get up, take a shower, uh go to chiao, go to work, stand your watches. And uh when we were out of see, we had sunbathe a lot cuz you know we were only always off the coast of Africa and we were doing reconnaissance there up and down the coast four or five miles an hour all the time. And we just go up and down and up and down. We go to ports, different ports, uh, Lwanda, uh, Angola, um, Abigan, you name it. All the ports on the west west coast. So, it's beautiful. Oh my, was it ever great taste, pineapples, everything. It was great. I love those people. They were good to us. And you're you're also thinking, this is very low risk. You're going, "Hey, in terms of having an engagement, I'm being sent out here. It's beautiful weather. We're sunbathing. Things are things are looking up." Yeah, things are was great. I mean, it was good duty. It was great duty. But on the last cruise, um, we were headed to Africa again just like we always did. We stopped in Abigen and, uh, this was, uh, in June. And we got emergency orders to leave. We had just gotten there. We got emergency orders to leave. Get everybody back aboard ship ASAP. And we took off for points. We had no idea where we were going. But the six day war was was going on. Okay. And we didn't know it. Oh, you didn't know it was going on? No, not not till a little bit later. Okay. Okay. So, at this point, and just to be clear, how long had you been aboard the USS Liberty? Uh, I did uh a little over two and a half years on the Liberty. Oh, I didn't realize it was that long. Yeah. You had seasick. Not seasick at all then. I guess I got seasick every time I went out for about a week and then it was gone. Okay. So now you you you get these emergency orders and you have no idea where you're going. Uh they're are they giving you any information or they're just saying it's an emergency. Everybody get back in. Everybody get back in. And we headed uh to Road to Spain. We we picked up uh three Marines. Uh they were linguists and uh a civilian Allan Blue. He was a u he he was killed by the way. Uh he was another linguist but he worked directly for the uh NSA. Okay. Okay. So he gets on board. You're in Spain now. And then where do you go? We head into the Mediterranean uh you know and to uh go through the Rocket Jalter and all that. And all the ships were going this way going the other way. And we were the only one going that way. Okay. And still no nobody's informing you about the six- day war. Yeah, we did find out that we were going into a war zone. Okay. And what information, if any, did they give you? None. None. You're just going into a war zone. Prepare for anything? No, we were prepared. Uh cuz our our captain, Captain McGomery, we we trained all the time for for you know u different situations, chemical drills, fire, all kinds of different stuff. And what's the general mood as you guys are heading towards there? The conversation between you and your shipmates, apprehension. Um in fact, we had the Star David. We knew what was going on then. The people had Star Davids all over the ship, inside the ship, hoping the Israel would win because they were our best buddies in the whole wide world. And um come to find out they weren't. So now it's June 7th. Is is that correct? When you arrive into the Sinai Peninsula. Right. We get well we were uh we got there on the 7th and the Israelis started overflying us then taking pictures of us. Same thing happened on the June the 8th uh flying box car which is a two engine plane. The doors were open. You could see the cameraman taking pictures of us. So they're that close. They're that low. Oh yeah. They were you could see the pilots. We would wave at them. They'd wave at us. Very friendly. They dipped their wings like everything's great and we felt good because our best friends were there and uh we had no worries. I mean none at all uh because they were going to protect us but it ended up they didn't. So you had described in your letter um saying that you you had the American flag displayed. Can you describe for me first and foremost again reiterate where it was displayed and also how large the flag was? Right. It was on the mast and uh the flag was brand new as a 5 by8 uh flag very visible. It was 12 knots going over across the deck. You could see the flag and in fact the Israelis identified us as American and friendly. How do you know that? Well, we know it because of uh the intercept we picked up and they admitted it themselves. Uh we were on their war table. They identified us as American and when they changed the watch, they forgot to tell the other watch commander that we were there. They took us off their war table. So, we no we no longer existed. Okay. When you say take you off the war war table, I'm not familiar with that lingo. Okay. So, what what does that mean? They took us off the war. Well, uh on on the war table, they have like uh different ships or different like literally set up the table that shows you right and what's going on. And they they they took us off. So we were all but we were gone to them. Mhm. They they thought and but they knew exactly what they were doing. Exactly what they were doing. When they overflow us, they took the pictures of all the ship. They knew exactly what to hit and when to hit. And I might add, uh, I I I believe and I think most my shipmates believe that this attack was planned a year in advance. A year in advance? Yes. What makes you say that? Well, uh, there was another spy ship in the area, USS or SS Bald. It was a civilian man ship, but it was owned by the Navy. They could have done the same thing that that we were doing, but they they took them out of the area. Sinking the USS Liberty is a hell of a lot sexier than sinking the Valdis. Why is that? Well, it's it's all American sailors and marines. They wanted this at the bottom so they could blame it on the Arab states and bring us into World War II. Okay. So, let me ask you a question. Now, it's the morning of the 8th and you you like you said on the 7th, they took pictures. They positively identified you. You were able to hear this over the radio. Um, did they still have at that moment the CIA agents on board? Yes. Yes. The NSA agents were on board. So, you still got the exact same amount of people that are on board here, right? Okay. So, we're talking about a pretty big sacrifice they were willing to make, right? Total number of people 294 souls. 294 souls. Okay. Take me through what happened on June 8th. You get up. We get up at uh 0600 and uh like I say, we go to chia and take a shower, go to jail, go to work. We had a damage control drill just before the attack, say about 1:00 and I was in a damage control. I was assistant on scene leader in damage control and I was in an impregnated suit, which is a suit uh for washing down the ship of chemicals. And it was very very hot that day. I mean, 100° on the deck, easy or more. And I was I thought I was going to pass out. It was so hot. Finally, it was over with. And I went and stowed my gear. Excuse me. The um soundpowered phones were working on the Starry gun mount. The sound? Yeah, they're they're soundpowered phones, you know, from uh ju just like, you know, you could put on headphones, but they were sound powered. They weren't electrical. And uh for some reason it wasn't working. And I went to the IC shop and I got a a friend of mine, David Skolak. He was an ICman and that was his job. Take care of the IC uh system there for sound powered phones and the IC system uh intercoms on the ship. And he came up there and the gunner's mate was up there also. They were manning the guns. We were in a condition three just in case cuz we could see the bombs going off and everything on on the um Sinai. So we thought, you know, this is really not a good place to be. And um just as soon as I left that gun mount, about 30 seconds after I left it, I got back to my workstation and every all hell broke loose. The attack began. What's the um first thing you remember? First thing I remember was um all hands get to your general quarter station. So, we're under attack. We're under attack. And I got to my GQ station, which is in uh the front part of the ship. And those two men that I just left there, not a minute it took me to get back up there, they were dead. They're blown to bits. Anything that moved aboard that ship, they were shot at. As in the letter, they they took out all all of our antennas within three seconds. Our four 50 caliber machine guns were gone. Every watertight door was was hit. And this went on for 25 minutes dropping napom on us. Uh I mean 25 minutes of that. You can't imagine every every second was like an hour. There was nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. And you got you got people severely blown up, wounded badly badly. And it continued and continued continued for 25 30 minutes. And then there there was a lull. The tor we saw the torpedo boats coming. We thought the Star David, you know, oh, good. Because these were unmarked jet aircraft. We we didn't know who was attacking us. We thought it was the Arabs and then we saw the torpedo boats and that Star David, oh man, here's our best friends are going to come help us. No, they come to sink us. When you talk about um them dropping Napal and so they did this immediately. What does that do for people that are not aware? What what is the purpose of that and how how does the body react to napal chemical agent? It can burn you sever severely and it also um can explode your lungs very very hot. I tried to go up and put it out with CO2 and I couldn't do it. They shot up all our fire hoses too. We had no no way to fight fires with water at all. They shot them all up instantly in that in that first 25 minutes. Yes. So they took out uh everything the antennas instantly, the fire hoses instantly, so you couldn't take out fire. And during those 25 minutes, what were you doing specifically? I was uh getting people off deck, taken to a triage in the mess decks. Uh the whole mess decks was full of people laying on the tables on the floor. It was a sea of broken and bloodied men. And it uh continued like that for like I say for the entire attack, you know, and then the torpedo boats got up to us. They did, you know, they fired five torpedoes at us. So all the antennas are taken out, 25 minutes has passed and there's they're obviously assuming that you can't communicate your distress. Um you indicated in your letter was it before the torpedoes that fortunately somebody had taken one one of those offline Terry Alabardier is a third class radioman. He strung a long wire to the only ant he took that antenna off line because it wasn't working. So they did they didn't hit it because they were using heat seeeking missiles to hit all the antennas because when they're tuning they they they threw off heat and they they took them all out except that one and and he got Thank God. I mean there's there's reasons for all this happened and uh he got hooked up rockstar rockstar and like I said it went went to Vietnam the sixth fleet picked it up they automatically sent aircraft from Saratoga uh and Captain Tully and before they even hit the ri horizon mammer says bring those aircraft back do not help Liberty turn around. So, our Secretary of Defense, I mean, this attack could in theory since he was able to get that message out. In theory, the attack could have been over. How long after it started? Well, almost immediately. In fact, they they could have saved 25 brave American lives. All spies that got killed when the torpedo hit. But instead, if they would have just let those planes come help us. But that wasn't the deal. We were set up by our own government to die. So, Robert McNamera who in interviews thereafter says he doesn't remember a single thing that happened that day. That's what he told the Chicago Tribune. He doesn't remember anything that happened that day. He recalls them back. Um, and then what happened? Then the America and Tully re reconfigured their aircraft and they sent aircraft again because they they went to a different command. They wanted it was their prerogative to go to a different higher because they're thinking what do you mean pull us back like our American and then uh LBJ gets on the phone and his exact words were is I don't give a GD if all those sailors die. I'm not going to embarrass my ally Israel like I said in the letter. Now, how did he know that if we didn't know it, who was attacking us? So, they then have the president of the United States. So, these this guy's trying to do the right thing, Captain Tully. He's like, "We're going to help them." He gets called back by the secretary of defense. He's thinking, "I'm going to go over his head cuz this is crazy." And now the president of the United States is saying, "I don't care. I don't give a GD. If they die, I am not going to embarrass our friend and ally, Israel." So, he knew. He knew. And you know, uh, they destroyed Captain Tolley's career, too. They fired him. He got fired for doing that. He was a World War II, uh, fighter pilot, very, very highly decorated, good man. In fact, he come to one of our reunions and broke down like a baby and cried, said, "I'm sorry. I couldn't help you." It wouldn't love me. And he he took that to his grave. He just it was he was a broken man. Wow. I can't even imagine what he went through. Yeah. Having to follow orders when the orders were so demonic. Yes. Absolutely. So he gets called back again. This time it's from the president of the United States. And now you are seeing torpedo boats with the Star of David. Now, now you guys know and you're thinking, "Amazing. We're about to get saved. We've got these flags inside. We know who these guys are. We don't know who's attacking us, but we know these are our friends. When did that when did you notice? Wait a second. Something's not right here. When the U old man said, "Prepare for torpedo hit star side." I saw two torpedoes go um aft. Where the other two went, I don't know, but I know where one of them went. that hit in the communication uh spaces and killed 25 brave young men. And that's that's one of the reasons I'm here today to be their voice because they we're not going to let them die in vain. This there's you know there's only there's not many survivors left. They're dying out and u it's our duty as Americans and patriots to take care of them and make sure their lives didn't die in vain. And you know, um, all presidents and all Congress, including Donald Trump, has not done anything for us. They're beholden to the Zionist state, Apac. You know, uh, Donald Trump's a new president again. I call on Donald Trump to help us. I mean, we gave our lives and our blood for this country at the hands of the Zionists, Israel. And does he stand with Israel or does he stand with the United States fighting men that were slaughtered that day by the Zionist state covered up same mistaken identity? I call on you, President Trump, to give the USS Liberty the same courtesy we deserve or any fighting man that was killed that day. But we don't get it because Israel did it. It's fine as long as Israel did. It's everybody. It's fine. It was a mistaken identity. It wasn't. Admiral Moore, he had the Moore report. It's a very, very detailed report. He's the longest serving admiral in the United States Navy. He served as the European commander in the Pacific Commander and two two times as chairman of Joint Chiefs. And he says, "I'll never believe it was a mistaken identity." And he called he called on Congress uh over and over to have an investigation. Congress says there there already has been an investigation. There never has been. There's been a a board of inquiry by uh Admiral Isaac Kid and his uh bos or his underling uh JAG officer board Boston. They completed that investigation in seven days. Should have taken a year. They never even talked to Israel. They took Israel's word instead of ours. So you're watching. You're on this boat. you see this torpedo hit. That torpedo instantly kills 25 servicemen um and you escape fortunately um are able to escape this. What is going on in your mind? Because I just am thinking of that moment of consciousness when you think you're going to be saved because you see your friend and your ally and then suddenly you realize that your friend and your ally is actually killing you and they're in torpedo boats. So there's no way they're they're they know this is an American ship, right? What's going on in your mind and emotionally in that moment if you could take yourself back? Like how that conscious switch of wait a second, this is not my friend. I'm being betrayed. Well, I think Jesus Christ would would know a lot about betrayal. And we bet we were betrayed. And um I think that's one of the reasons I'm here is because Jesus Christ didn't want us to die that day. He wanted us Well, I I'll put it this way. God saved us from God's chosen people. That's what he did. Exactly what he did. We put over three life rafts. That's all we had left. They they shot all of our life rafts up. We put three over. They shot two of them. We were going to put our most seriously wounded in them so they'd have a chance at life. They shot two out of the water and took one aboard the road uh boat is a trophy of the kill. It's a Hifa somewhere. Wow. They took one aboard. So there's absolutely no way they did not know that these this was an American ship. They take one on board as a trophy. They're shooting it out. You are now realizing that you cannot help the wounded. Torpedoes are hitting you. What happens next? Well, when the torpedo hit, u we did what we could do for damage control and we like I say put over the life rafts and and they shot them out of the water and they continued and continued and continued doing that until finally they just quit. We thought it was we thought it was over, but it wasn't. They sent over troop carrying helicopters with Marines in it to board our ship, scuttle the ship and u and kill us all. I was on the main deck when they when they were coming over. What is your condition at that moment? Where like what were you doing on the main deck? I was on the main deck trying to still get people off the main deck. And then uh they got there and this marine, he had his foot on the skid. I thought they were going to come down in a rope or a ladder or whatever. And I just gave him the finger and he gave it right back to me and just smiled. This is an IDF soldier. He smiled at you. Smiling. Great big smile. And they just they just took off. The gig was up. I mean, they they they confessed. Well, mistaken identity. He thought it was the elazir what was a h a horse transport and uh enemy ship that's what they said and that was their excuse and they got by with it because of a crooked government then and now. I just can't even imagine this. So you're watching your mates die bleeding torpedo nap bomb and you make eye contact with this guy thinking he's going to board the ship. You give him the finger and he gives you the finger back and smiles at you. Mhm. And then they leave. They leave. And um we were left there for out there for 17 hours for help. This is the part that is so shocking to me because the president of United States knows that you're under attack. The des secretary of defense knows that you're under attack. You know that as you said, Captain uh Sully Scully Tully uh tried twice to help save you. They know you're under attack and you're telling me that after they went away 17 hours. Take me through what you guys did. How many people at that moment were injured, dying, what was happening on that ship for the next 72 17 hours? Well, twothirds of the crew was either dead or wounded. And u Doc Kefir, we had one one doc aboard the ship. He had been shot in the abum admiron and uh both of his le knees were shot up and he operated for 17 hours on people. I helped him in one operation a guy by the name of Gary Blanchard. He was hit he was hit bad and um he says take my socks off. My feet are hot hot. So I rubbed his feet tried to get some circulation. I went over to the side and looked at him and he says, "You think I'm going to die?" I said, "Yeah, I think you are." And uh Doc cut him open. And he he was dead. So that went on all night, put a few stitches and went throwing him and and put him over the side and just kept on doing it. What were some of the uh last words? Cuz I'm sure as you said, many people died. What did they say? I mean, what were the conversations that you recall? You know, Candace, I really didn't recall a whole lot about that. I guess I just blocked it out. Um I do know that the the uh Lieutenant Commander Armstrong, he died in the messex. Uh he was hit up bad too. But I remember I lit he he was a heavy smoker. I lit him a couple cigarettes and then I left and I came back and he was dead. So the conversation was just helping people. Everybody was ablebodied helped them. I was in the walking wounded. A lot of them were walking wounded and all they all they did was want to help their fellow shipmates. Bravest crew I've ever seen in my life. I mean, we guys come to come together like none none other. We had none to fight back with but our will and our wits and with with God's beautiful hand on us. In fact, when that ship got torpedoed, it was like the hand of God was holding us up because it was going like that ready to roll over and just stopped. Unbelievable. And you were just 20 years old. It was just unbelievable. Yes. And so 17 hours later, twothirds of the crew is dead. What happens? What ship did you see first? What was going through your mind? Well, the first first thing we saw was u several days later when Admiral Kidd got there and he he uh we told him everything what happened and why didn't you come help us and u this and that and he took off his stars. He says I'm just like your dad. He had four or five of us in a sick bay at the time. Three stars out there and he said I'm just like your dad. Please tell me everything you saw. We told them about the machining of the life rafts with the uh machining gun the people uh the helicopters everything went on and then he put his stars back on he says he got beat red and he got right in my face. I'm telling you you better never talk about this again to anybody or I'll make sure you end up in prison fin or worse. You know what worse means? I said yes sir I do. But he did that to everybody. In fact, they they split up everybody. They they took him to different bases. There was one fellow, his name is Mickey Lame. He's still got 50 pieces of shrap right now. They took him to uh Bremerhavin, Germany for medical care. He was in a room with a bunch of other people uh a lot of different beds. They took him out of that bed. He got his own room and he was interrogated by an officer. He says, "Your name is no longer Lame. It's Smith. You know nothing about the USS Liberty. Don't ever talk about it." So, you survive living hell. You watch your mates die. You wait 17 hours. And you're thinking, "Okay, at least now it's over." And instead, you guys get reprimanded and you're told essentially, "We'll kill you." Yes, it's it's absolutely in in fact I didn't talk about it until uh 40 about 42 43 years ago I met my second wife. There was an article in the paper by a person by the name of oh my goodness um Stan White. He was a a chief uh master chief. And I felt like the whole world had just come off my shoulders because he was talking. If he was talking, I'm I can I'm going to start talking. And I haven't shut up since. Wow. This is just unbelievable. Unbelievable. So, you're all ordered uh into silence. And how long you said before you started speaking? How many years was that from? It was u well for see 41 uh 18 years after the fact. So you actually you stayed silent on this and I I never I didn't even tell my my wife Lisa that I was uh ever in the military. I even forgot what day it happened. That's how I far back I pushed it. And uh like I saved when when I read that article, man, I was I said now I'm I'm on it. And uh I mean the whole thing is you when your own government betrays you and still betrays you and every congressman betrays you. See what you saw you really didn't see. What you heard you really didn't heard here. Uh that's pretty that's pretty bad. Uh they're calling us liars and Nazis and Jew haters. Our own Congress. And I'd like to I tell you what, I'd like to call out Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro with this uh conspiracy theory stuff. If you think it's a conspiracy, debate me live on TV. I'd be glad to debate you. And my shipmates will be there, too, if you want them. Debate us if if you think it's consp conspiracy theory. Or do you have the courage? I don't think you got the courage. I think you're cowards. Can I explain the USS Liberty incident? Sure. The USS Liberty incident is very frequently used by anti-semites to suggest that Israel deliberately targets American ships and then pays no penalty. So both American naval records and Israeli air force records suggest that there was a case of mistaken identity wherein USS Liberty was in the Mediterranean in a place they were not supposed to be. Israel thought that it was an Egyptian ship and shot it. That's that's the actual full story. Now there are a bunch of conspiracy theories on actually both sides of this. There's a conspiracy theory on the American side that suggests that Israel, for no reason that can be discerned, decided to shoot up an American ship to accomplish no one really can explain what. 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I can't even imagine living through something like that and then being gaslit and told that you're liars or that you're conspiracy theorists or that as your letter said that you're Nazis or that you're Jew haters when you you went out there thinking you might be out there defending defending the state of Israel only to recognize that your country betrayed you um presumably to stage a false flag attack. Um, there was a submarine, the Russians were there, too. If our ship goes down, Israel was going to get nuked by Russia. And that's a fact. Uh, it's it's it's it's on uh tape by the by the people that were there. There were also the USS uh Andrew Jackson there and the USS Amberjack. Our submarines that didn't come help us. I heard they filmed it from the Amberjack. They probably got the film right now. Uh there's so many we got foyer requests right now from a federal judge in Washington that's going to she's going to decide whether we can get the records or not uh in a few days. And this has been going on for two or three years trying to get well it's it's been 57 years total but working on it for the last 41 42 43 years uh collectively with with the rest of the crew we've been trying to get this done and this is closest we've ever come to getting something uh you know but they don't want their records uh out the the CIA is blocking it right now. They said they they do not want to let that out. It's matter of national security. If it's so easy to explain, how could it be national security? If it's so cut and dry that they thought it was mistake, there's no mistake and we can prove it. How many survivors are still alive? Oh, I don't know. Probably 50. Just 50 out of 294. So, it's uh you know, it's it's a they they just didn't attack our ship. They attacked you, you all of you guys, all of America. They attacked us. It was an act of war and war crimes and they don't they didn't want to investigate it. I want to speak a bit about Lynen Baines Johnson because there is a picture that seems to be emerging and so I guess I'll sort of ask questions because there's other big events from around that time period that are similarly classified um in a way that doesn't really make sense. you know, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the nation did not vote for him to be president of the United States. Obviously, yes. Um JFK was assassinated and it is a fact that prior to his assassination, uh he was adamant that he wanted Apac, which I think was going by a different name at that time, to register as a foreign agent and that they had ignored his demand that they register as a foreign agent. Um, and then when he was shot a couple of months later, he no longer had to register. They no longer had to register as a foreign agent. It is also a fact that leading up to his death, he was having um fights which they have not declassified, arguments with uh the prime minister of Israel at that time, uh, Bengarian. They have again not declassified any of those conversations. So, we don't know what it was that they were arguing about, but I would imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson would have known that he had this sort of contentious relationship uh obviously with them trying to implement Apac and not wanting it to be registered as a foreign agent and obviously him having arguments as a number two guy. You would think that he would know this. And before Muamar Gaddafi, the president of Libya was murdered uh by US arming insurgents, he gave a speech in front of the UN where he demanded that they investigate the killing of JFK and he said everybody knows that he was trying to stop their nuclear armament. Uh he spoke about the nuclear reactor and he had heavily suggested in that speech in the UN that that was another perhaps that could have been the reason that he was arguing with the prime minister of course we'll never know and so it's quite shocking to know that information to realize that JFK got killed and to also know that the person who allegedly shot him uh Leosald Harvey said he didn't shoot him didn't kill him and then he was shot by a guy named Jacob Rubenstein who Muar Gaddafi alleges was also an Israeli uh national. Maybe he had dual citizenship. I'm not sure because again, we don't have the files. I'm just speaking about what has been said in the public sphere. It's kind of shocking that Lyndon Baines Johnson would be such an ally to Israel. So much so that he would tell people, I don't care if American sailors die. I'm not going to embarrass Israel. which means he didn't inherit JFK's frustration with the nation. He did not. He uh if you remember, he says uh you had a friend in uh JFK of Israel, but I'm I'm going to be much a much better friend. You have a better friend than you ever did. You know what? Actually, I don't know if you had um read this article. This quite this this really shocked me. This was published in the Jerusalem Post in 2008. The article is entitled, "A friend indeed." I'll just read a bit of it. A few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported the newly released tapes from US President Lyndon Johnson's White House office, which showed LBJ's quote personal and often emotional connection to Israel. The news agency pointed out that during the Johnson presidency, the United States became Israel's chief diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier. But the news report does little to reveal the full historical extent of Johnson's actions on behalf of the Jewish people in the state of Israel. Most students of the Arab-Israeli conflict can identify Johnson as the president during the 1967 war, but few know about LBJ's actions to rescue hundreds of endangered Jews during the Holocaust. actions that could have thrown him out of Congress and into jail. Indeed, the title of righteous gentile is certainly appropriate in the case of the Texan whose centennial year is being commemorated this year. It then goes on and speaks about how he while serving as a young congressman arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews that were in Warsaw and oversaw the apparently illegal immigration of hundred of Jews through the port of Galveston, Texas. A key resource for uncovering LBJ's pro-Jewish activity is the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by a student named Lewis Gamalok uh a University of Texas student and he speaks about LBJ's foreign affair background in this piece and they were able to confirm through other historians and interviews with his wife and family members and political associates that the research was accurate. It says, quote, "Research into Johnson's personal history indicates that he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his family. His aunt, Jesse Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America. According to Galileo, Aunt Jesse had nurtured LBJ's commitment to befriending Jews for 50 years. As a boy, he watched his politically active grandfather, Big Sam, and father, Little Sam, seek clemency for Leo Frank." Um, this says the Jewish victim of blood liel. He's actually uh he murdered a young Catholic girl uh during Passover in 19 I believe it was 1913. I'll have to fact check that. Uh but they present him as a victim uh of a blood liel. Johnson's later told friends that Lyndon's family hid in their cellar while his father and uncle stood guard with shotguns on their porch in the case of the KKK attacks. So they say that he often cited Leo Frank's lynching as a sort of his opposition. But it's interesting because people I don't think knew this that LBJ was Jewish. Um that his aunt was involved in the Zionist organization and also that uh he pressured the administration apparently uh to have tighter ties with Apac. So we can probably trace when we are speaking about Apac um the marriage I would say between the United States government and Apac we can attribute that to Lynden Baines Johnson. How does it make you feel to know that actually you know he was in fact more loyal to Israel? Oh absolutely much more loyal. In fact, on June the 8th, when our ship got hit, in his bed was a Urggon agent, Matilda Crim. Really? Really unbelievable. True story. Yeah. It even says that Johnson raised substantial sum for arms for the Jewish underground fighters in Palestine. He was doing all of this illegally. uh he armed the Jewish underground of quote unquote freedom fighters and did all of this uh alongside his closest advisers were strong pro-Israel advocates Benjamin Cohen uh who 30 years earlier was the liazison between the Supreme Court justice Lewis Brandes and Heim Whitesman and Abe Foras the legendary Washington insider I mean that's just how did we go from a president who wanted to stop this to a president that was involved in the underground and was pushing our government to get more involved with Israel. It leads I mean certainly I think it's fair for people to wonder what it is that is classified and that they're so afraid to release to the public about JFK's remarkably suspicious death. Yes, his death um was not by a lone gunman in my belief. Uh in fact I saw the day that um Oswald got killed by Rubenstein, he says, "I'm nothing but a psy, nothing but a psy." And he was a psy. So, uh there's so much to be said for that. And the USS Liberty is covered up just as deep. And it all goes right back to Israel. Uh is our country really America first or is it Israel first? Are we an occupied nation? I think we're an occupied nation and uh you know look at look at all the wars, okay? Uh let's just go back to Iraq war and Afghanistan war. They they were fought all for the greater good of Israel. That's my belief and it's a lot of other people's beliefs too. They sacrificed men. Worn it's a war machine. you know the uh like Eisenhower warned but of the u uh military-industrial complex and he was absolutely right. I remember that because I was a kid then. I mean I think it's difficult for me and why I say that this has been such a turning point. Uh it's difficult for me to take seriously now any of the politicians who declare themselves to be America first. I mean, just to be clear, Congress passed through in the blink of an eye uh to ensure that people would learn about October 7th in school. Oh, absolutely. Yes. And yet I went through school. I graduated college. I have two degrees. And I had never learned about the USS Liberty and its entire context until I received your letter. Yep. It it was covered up and uh it's not in the history books, which which it should be. It's a very important part of history. Now, something very interesting. Back in the 80s, uh I did a a speaking deal uh with the old uh Spotlight newspaper and the two older gentlemen, they were entrepreneurs in uh Wisconsin, Grafton. Uh they read it and they sent me a letter and said, "We were going to we're building a new library and we're going to we were going to call it the Grove Library. Now, we want to call it the USS Liberty Memorial Library. And the whole Milwaukee area, everybody around there, the Jewish population says, "No, no, no, no. You cannot do that because it's it's anti-Semitic to bring up USS Liberty." Anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitic. And the Gro Brothers said, "The heck with you guys. They've already putting a million bucks up." And uh they said, "We'll just take our money out." And then the town said, "No, no, no, no. We we'll name it the USS Liberty Memorial Library." Because they he threatened to take all the both of them threatened to take all the money about uh away from it. So, and and we had to have, get this, SWAT teams on the roofs, the bomb sniffing dogs because we were all threatened. Uh they were going to get us right there for being dedicating the survivors, dedicating that. That's when Pete McCcluskey, former congressman McCloskey was there and he spoke at the dedication as did others. Wow. So you you had told me that you have been threatened by the Mossad. Can you tell me more about that? Yes. I was in uh California with my wife. We were uh going out to visit my son. He he was graduating from Buds. um seal and uh we were in a restaurant. Well, we were at the bar getting a drink, wait to get our table, and this guy come up and got on my right side of me. He said, "Oh, you were on the Liberty Hunt." I said, "Yeah, how'd you know that?" And he said, "I know a lot." And he had a big watch and he put it right up front of my face. I said, "Get that out of my face, man. What is it, a camera, a speaking device, or why is it going to squirt me with something? I don't know. And then he said, "Listen, uh, I know everything about you. You know, I'm a sad agent and the best thing for you to do is just shut up." My wife heard that. She come over me and boy, she gave him all she I mean, whoa. I I can't tell you. And then security had to take us up to our room and make sure everything was okay. And I went down the next morning and the guy pretext, he told everybody he was a a doctor. He'd been there a couple days before, but he was waiting on me and my wife is what he was doing. How we found out we were there, I don't know. It could have been they traced it somehow. Credit card or who knows. Wow. That's just incredible. It is. They have a remarkable ability to be on the ground when big events take place. Like it was confirmed that the MSAD was on the ground the day that JFK got shot. It has been confirmed that they were on the ground recording uh at least according to ABC News who investigated this the day that 9/11 took place which you could say was obviously the beginning of us being involved in these never- ending wars in the Middle East. Um, and obviously the USS Liberty, they got caught executing uh another false flag at the exact same time, the Leavon Affair. Mhm. Uh, which they were going to murder Americans in order to drag us into war with Egypt. So, I don't know if that was before or after the US Liberty, but there's a lot of I mean, you can't say that Israel is not involved in false flags because the Leavon Affair proves that they are. King David Hotel. King David Hotel. uh means exactly proves that they are you're you survived what you believe to be a false flag attack and yet we have people in America who get on stage and refer to them as our greatest friend and ally. I mean, how does that make you feel just to even hear that? To hear people say they're our greatest friend and ally. And by the way, I want to be clear. I count myself among those people for the first six years of my career. I I genuinely had no idea. Most people don't. And um they it m it makes me furious. It really does. They're they're not our best friend. They're not our ally. Uh they got more money when they murdered my shipmates than they ever got in their entire existence. And uh the Israelis said they paid $6 million. They didn't pay $6 million uh to our ship. Uh our own government did. The ship alone was worth $40 million and they settled for 6 million. The most seriously wounded got some uh and they very well should have. And of course the the dead. Most of the crew got 200 bucks and ordered shut up. Then I was ordered to sign that where I could never sue Israel or the United States, which I, you know, I I signed it gladly. You signed it order because you were ordered to sign it, which means you could never sue Israel or the United States for what you survived. Yep. Yep. And that that was under duress. And uh I don't I don't think it's worth the paper is written. I don't think it's worth anything. No, of course it's not worth anything. Uh but that's what they did to us and they continue to do it. Uh they can't wait till we're dead. You know, we're all dying out. We're getting older. I'm 78 and um I got guys that are 85 close to 90. You know, some of them can't even get out of their house much anymore where they got disease or whatever. You know, um we lost three or four in the last year, cancer and things like that. And uh but we're not I'm not going to give up till my dying breath. I'm going to be here uh speaking the truth. And we plan on trying to get together a speaking tour around the country for survivors to speak to the public and tell them about our government and the Israeli government. As far as I'm concerned, Candace, they set us up. uh Israel were the hitmen and our government paid them to hit us and then when we didn't sink they tell us that it was a mistaken identity us the survivors that they thought we were somebody else they shot two of our flags down and we put up another one 7 by13 they say they didn't see that one either 7 by13 that's a big flag they call it holiday colors And that's what we flew into Malta 1,000 miles away. We went from that torpedo hit 1,000 miles away with a 40ft ho 40 by 40ft hole in the ship hoping we would sink. Well, what I can tell you is that this has completely changed a lot for me. Um, I just first and foremost just want to apologize to you. Look, I'm I'm genuinely embarrassed at my ignorance and I it's confounding for me that I thought that I was on the side of the party of, you know, truth and America first and patriots and caring about our veterans. And I'm realizing now that so many of these people are cowards. They're cowards. They know the truth. They lie to people as they're coming up in this movement. Um, and they are completely occupied. Uh there are some that are brave obviously Thomas Massie but I I do want to offer to you that for I promise you as as long as you live I will hold a candle for the USS Liberty. You forever have a platform if I have a platform. You know, I I almost feel ashamed of myself that I thought to myself this year, "Oh my gosh, I'm getting so attacked by the Zionist media because I had a heart over the Palestinian children that were dying." And I realized I had to survive digital attacks. I mean, you survived. What you survived is unbelievable. And I I first and foremost, I know that you have an organization. So, I want to pledge to you that personally, my family will donate $40,000 every year to your organization. And I'm asking if every single person who is watching this right now, and this will be in the millions. If every single person gives a dollar, just one dollar, we can keep their organization going, we can give them what they need to speak about this and we can show them that despite the fact that we may all be existing under a government that is occupied, this is not who we are. um as Americans or people worldwide because we have an audience all over the world uh who I think is similarly starting to wonder how many of our nations are occupied by lobbying from Zionists and spending money. Um can you tell my audience a bit about your organization? Yes. Uh organization is a veterans and u like-minded people, family members. Uh you can go to usslibertyveterans.org org usslibertyveterans.org. And our This is a brand new uh site we put up. It's very technical. I mean, I don't know a whole lot about it. It takes a lot people a lot smarter than me, but they got people doing it. And it's you can donate there. You can go through look at pictures. You can read articles. The more report and um I was just thinking about uh uh Ward Boston, the JAG. It was with Admiral Kidd. Uh I should have brought this up earlier, but uh there was a man named AJ Crystal. He was a bank bankruptcy judge and he wrote a book, The Liberty, and he's he's Jewish. And uh he lied about it. And then Ward Boston signed a declaration. He says, "We were ordered by our government to lie. We knew it was a no mistaken identity. It was a deliberate attack to sink it sink that ship and he he felt bad about it, you know. He says, "I was a military man and I followed orders." But that brought him out. He just couldn't do it anymore. And soon after that, he died. Yeah. I can't imagine being ordered. Yeah. Well, absolutely. Our our our ship is the most from the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Silver Stars, bronze stars, 208 purple hearts. um combat action rivet and the presidential unit citation and nobody knows about it. Yeah. What do the objects mean if they keep you a secret and call you Nazis for trying to speak out? It means nothing. None of it means anything if you don't have a government that truly honors and respects you. Yes. And if if I honor old veterans, they they go in their they go into to serve the country. In fact, when I put on the uniform the first time, I was the proudest man in the world to do that. to serve my country and to be abandoned and uh for all these years and abandoned right now. I'm asking you front out, President Trump, don't abandon the crew of the USS Liberty, please. I see your picture there with beautiful Candace. And who is that that other man? Is that It's my husband. Oh, that's your husband. I'm sorry. That's George. Oh, but uh President Trump, please help us. Don't don't abandon us. This is an act that should be brought out. The truth should be told. Sir, please help us. I tell you, I have never ever ever had an inkling to run for president of the United States, despite people insisting on it. But hearing what happened to you, if I ever do run, it will be to honor you guys in the way that you should be honored and to give the middle finger right back. I hope you do because the government My daughter said that yesterday. Tell her I wanted to run for president. Candace for president. If I did it, it would be to to honor the memory of the USS Liberty. And I would say it every day when I was on stage because what happened to you is despicable. It is aborant that we have men that are raising money, pretending to be America first, um that are more concerned with getting invited to dinners in fancy dinners, uh pedalling lines that they don't actually mean in their heart. And the worst thing is that they say that they're the party of God, that they are the party of God. And yet they commit themselves not not to a higher power. They commit themselves to politicians. They commit themselves to lobbyists. They commit themselves to money. And to the people that parttook in this lie, I hope and know that all of them are burning in hell. And to every person that's watching this that is going to continue to lie, to call you conspiracy theorists, to call you a Nazi, those people too will either repent or they will burn in hell. I truly believe that. I do too. And uh two weeks ago I was in a church uh a Zionist church. They had a Israeli flag and American flag hanging side by side. I was asked to speak there. Uh pastor Jason Neely and he says we we don't condone everything that Israel does and the truth has got to be told. And the people in the church were very receptive and u a lot of them are you know weeping. Um, another good pastor, Pastor Chuck Baldwin out of uh, Callisbell, um, Montana. Uh, he's he's on our side and he's he doesn't teach he teaches what's really in the Bible, not what they want you to believe. Well, obviously the Zionists funded the Scoffield Bible. Absolutely. The Scoffield Bible. That's a whole another episode that I' I've got to get into to teach people real history. Um, other than going to your website and supporting you, is there anything else that we can do and that we can send our audience to? Well, we need their hopes and their prayers. Um, if if they if they would go there and like you said, donate and your generous donation. My god, I'm I'm almost annually. I almost fell on the floor. I I promise you, you will have that annually from my family. Uh, even if we fall on hard times, we will we will pick up side jobs and we will make that donation every single year. And I and until the last veteran of the USS Liberty is no longer here, you will have that donation. God God bless you. I just God bless you, Candace. God bless you. And I know that right now Christ is with us. Christ is king and the truth is is powerful enough. It is. And I want to thank you again uh for getting me on the map. And uh I I certainly appreciate it. If there's any other people that you can figure out that I could go to or any of my other mates, I'd be I'd walk there if I had. We'll host you every year. I promise you we'll get other people on the show. You guys, thank you so much for joining us. I am sure your mind has been equally as blown as mine has been. I'm sure you are equal parts sad and equal parts frustrated and angry. Um disappointed I think also in our government. But I I really think that things are going to change. And so, thank you so much for listening to the story and Philip, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for the invite. And again, God bless you, Candace. You're a wonderful woman. [Music]
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