By L. Michael Hager | Jul 17, 2017
Why does the US mainstream media continue to participate in the government’s cover up of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967?
The US downing of an Iranian commercial airliner in 1988, killing 290 civilians, is not the only story that our mainstream media have chosen to forget. In his recent FPJ piece (“The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airline Flight 655”), publisher and editor Jeremy R.Hammond notes that “in the rare instances when the media do mention it, to this day they tend to maintain official US government falsehoods about what occurred and otherwise omit relevant details that would inform Americans about what really happened.”
The same can be said of the media’s treatment of Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, which killed 34 American sailors and injured 174 more. A search of the New York Times archive reveals only two brief entries for the topic “USS Liberty.”
A June 14, 1967 report of an LBJ press conference [six days after the attack] includes the following Q & A:
“Do you have any more facts you can release on the attack on the USS Liberty? A. “No, I think you know about as much about it as we do.”
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