the people of angela rose in an armed rebellion. the rude jealousy of the colonialists knew no bounds. despite the un calls to stop the violence, warranties only intensified their terror against the rebels. the 40s actively use the political contradictions between various groups of rebels during the war colonial aircraft regularly used in a farm and dropped the poli and so on peaceful villages. portuguese empire was severely exhausted by the struggle against the national liberation movements. the revolution in portugal brought down, the applause is freezing and put it in to the murder as war against the people of angola. on january, 15, 1975, the l bore agreements were signed and the country gained independence. after so many years of the brutal war, the crushed cause of a high quality of life to my destination is having the necessary conditions. unless

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the on june 8th, 1967, an over active war was committed against the united states. the combined air and sea attack against the naval ship us us liberty killed. $34.00 sailors wounded another $171.00 and severely damaged the ship. at the time the ship was in international waters, north of egypt and i peninsula. but the aggressor was not egypt. it was not the soviet union for any other country, was difficult relations with the united states. it was israel. i'm john kerry, onto welcome to the whistle blowers the . 2 2 2 2 these really attack on the us s liberty on june 8th, 1967 remains one of the most controversial and confusing military acts of the 2nd

half of the 20th century. the attack happened in the midst of the 1967, a war between israel and its error of neighbors in which the united states was formerly neutral, is really military leaders said that they would protect the country's coast at all costs. and the pentagon ordered the liberty to keep a safe distance by june 8th, the ship was nowhere near israel. on the morning of the attack is really jets over flew the ship several times. liberty crew members later so. busy that these really planes came so close to the ship that they rattled the deck. the israelis later said that the planes were hunting for egyptian submarines, but it would have been impossible for me. i am not to see that the ship was american was flying the american flag. but following erroneous reports at 11 24 am that his ship was showing the coast of a lot of these reading military ordered a strike on the liberty they did this, knowing that the liberty had only for 50 caliber machine guns on it's deck and best

could not have shelby the coast at 1 41 pm and is really ship report at the liberty in the area, but as an unknown vessel. and these really ship reported further that the liberty was traveling at a speed that would indicate that it was an attack ship is really forces were understanding orders to fire on any unknown vessel in the area. and they assumed that the liberty was fleeing after showing a lot, each just before 2 o'clock pm, and his really mirage pilot reported back that he was in visual contact with the liberty. he reported that it was a military vessel with a smokestack and a mast. another pilot said that the ship was a destroyer and both pilot said disingenuously that the liberty was not flying a flag. at 1 57 pm is really military headquarters gave the pilots permission to attack, which they did using 30 millimeter canons. and rockets is really torpedo boats approached at 2 35 pm fired missiles and strafe the craft with machine guns. the

torpedo attack severely damaged the superstructure of the. busy and killed an additional $25.00 men, including most of the ships intelligent section. the machine gun fire was directed at 1st responders and sailors who were preparing life rafts. these really military claims that it did not establish the liberties nationality until 3 20 pm. when it is rarely surveillance, helicopter saw an american flag flying on the deck, and at 4 pm, 2 hours after the attack began, israel informed the american embassy and telling me that he had had mistakenly attacked us navy ship. the secretary of state, dean rusk, though, wasn't buying, is really protestations. he issued a statement saying, quote, at the time of the attack, the u. s. s. liberty was flying the american flag and its identification was clearly indicated in large white letters and numerals on its whole experience demonstrates that both the flag and the identification number of the vessel were

readily visible from the air. accordingly, there is every reason to believe that the us as liberty was identified, or at least her nationality determined by as rarely aircraft. approximately one hour before the attack, the subsequent attack by the torpedo boats substantially after the vessel was or should have been identified by his really military forces manifests the same reckless disregard for human life and quote. today we are happy to be joined by a survivor of these really attack on the us as liberty field tourney was a young u. s. navy petty officer assigned to the liberty that day. he also is the author of the book. what i saw that day is real as june 8th, 1967 holocaust of us service men aboard the u. s. s. liberty and its aftermath feel . thank you so much for being with us. well, thank you. i appreciate it. glad to be here. take us back to that awful day. we

know that many in the crew had just completed the chemical drill. when is really planes begin over flying the ship? tell us about what happened before the attack began. well yeah, it's a interest to you. you'd bring up the drill allowance and the damage control. and i was heavily involved in that drill. i was in a impregnated suit to protect from chemicals in a biological chemical nuclear warfare. supposedly it was supposed to keep you safe, but who knows? that's what the tell you anyway, but yeah, it was. it was so hot outside, pretending i was forcing down the ship a new drill. i thought, you know, uh, i'm gonna pass out of shoes to h is excruciating heat, a beautiful, beautiful day flag volume, but always fly. they secured from general corps and i stowed by gear

and went up to what up to the forward gun out. because the some part phones were working and i was ordered by john scott, my division officer to get that phone work and as soon as possible. and so i had a, uh, i assuming that's the person that takes care of, uh, uh, communication, internal communications on the ship davis go lock was assigned to, to come up and do that. and we were looking over at the bank. you know, it is about the, i don't know, 1212 and a half miles away. you can see the black smoke and everything like that. the bombs dropping a weird thing was let us not us really. i mean, it was just an unbelievable of what they were doing. what do you see?

and i left the gun mouth. there was a gunman, there, tops, and the sco lacked i just walked down to the starboard ladder, which about working area. and all hell broke loose the replace coming out as from stem to stern, the from ports to starboard from starboard to port. it was issued taylors instantaneous attack. we couldn't tell who was attacking us. every man on deck was either was either hit or dead at a if i wouldn't have got down that ladder when i did and went to my work space. i wouldn't be here right now. so it was uh it was something that we never expected because we had been identified by israel hours and hours and hours before the attack, as american and friendly. we were always in international waters. we had no idea

who was attacking us till later. but the aircraft were black and there were no marketing around the aircraft. they're mist, ms. steer arised us. doing the attacking. so uh, i can go through a lot of other things, but john, go ahead please. and then these close is really overflights. begin. was there any doubt in your mind that these really pilots knew that the liberty was an american ship? no, john, we didn't have any idea who was attacking us, intel, about 2530 minutes or so at the initial air attack. then we saw this torpedo boats and we recognize the star david on their torpedo boats and we said, oh boy, great, they're, they're coming to help us are coming to help us because that we had stars a david all over that ship inside the ship because we what it is will be the victor

in that war across our, our ally and we knew there they were there to protect us. we thought, no, they were set there to say to send kill every man aboard the ship and it was a it was a nightmare. our government left us out there alone. in fact, they set us up. our own government set us up then, and now they put a lid on this atrocity, this act of war in war crimes on industry crew to it. but the government ordered them do is to spy. we're on the most sophisticated spice ship in the world at that time. the most sophisticated. so that means a lot. and they took out every tuning, intent on that ship in a matter of seconds. we were left about as best as we had no, no way to defend ourselves. all the gun now's for blown to bits are dropped and

they palm on us to burn us up, bridge resolved, fire. it was hell on earth. i can guarantee you that know something. i wouldn't wish of my worst enemy, john. i've just would do it. the attacking torpedo boats the river surface cracked . there were 3 torpedo boats with barred. approximately 5 torpedoes, at least by maybe 6. but the account 5, who knows why they didn't have to torpedo is on each boat. i don't know, it's not, it really doesn't make any difference. at this time, they attacked the american ship with surface aircraft. and the low between it we, we only had about a few minutes low between the air attack and then the torpedo attack, they would use machine guns, a machine gun to the side of the ship. uh, over and over and over again. uh it was it was something that uh,

it was something that history is covered up. the navy is covered up because they wanted this all dead to blame the attack on the air stays necessary and particularly because they, they want rid of him. they want to rid of him bad, and if it's a 294 american souls to go to the bottom of the ocean and blame it on somebody else, that's what they wanted. but by the grace of god, he kept his upload. we were just as servants that day, but you know, i could, uh, i could say a lot more about faith, but he's given us the fact that they to carry on for the last 56 years. because rather we're not gonna allow these people. i'm the current president of the slippery veteran association is by 4th, go around it being the president and i'm very proud of that. we will not give up. we will not band, we will not break. this country may is too much you out to us. you know,

the world would have been a much different place, john, if this would have taken place like they had planned, they recalled the theater craft to come help us from us as us, as so told her in the assess america. they recall the left us out there alone. we didn't see any help for 17 hours filled tourney. we are enjoying this conversation, but we have to take a short break. stay right there. we're speaking with us this liberty survivors field tourney. after the break, we'll ask how he and his colleagues were rescued hours after the attack. stay with us. 2 2 2 2 the a hi,

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stuff which is subject to the the welcome back to the rest of those. i'm john 3 other we're speaking with phil tourney, a survivor of these really attack on the u. s. navy ship us us liberty. phil, thanks again for being with us. absolutely. it took hours after the attack for these or at least to finally admit what they had done, and then they offered rescue assistance which was declined. i could only imagine the fury that you and your fellow sailors were experiencing. what happened once the attack was over, how were you rescued, and how was the ship finally towed to port?

well, the attack was over in approximately 2 hours or maybe a little over, but within that span, but the attack did in then they said troop carroll are carrying helicopters to come finishes up. they had uh marines ready to board. i ship and then there was a message that came down from who i don't know that the, they admitted they made a mistake. there was so sorry, and johnson accepted that and then the lid went on, but it was a it was 17 hours before they come help us. they left us out there hoping we'd say that day we didn't, we were never towed anywhere. we, we went on our own power. these rarely government made a formal apology and finally paid a few $1000000.00 to the families of the dead and a few 1000000 more to the wounded. was that enough?

what was the reaction to the apology and to the payments? what else do you think these really should have done? well, the reaction to the payment. okay, there was some men aboard there. they've got a fair amount of money, 800200000. i don't know why most of us got $200.00 or $250.00. we were ordered. we were ordered by admiral issac kid. so never speak of this again. we've ended up in prison or worse, that was in the board of inquiry. they concluded that the attack was a mistake. mistaken identity that's nothing could be farther from the truth. that was not a mistaken identity. it was cold blooded, premeditated murder on our ship and our crew that wanted to solve that. yeah, we were scared. i didn't, i didn't say anything about the us as liberty for oh, uh,

15 years i got divorced from my 1st wife and she was the, every married. and there was an article in the rocky mountain news. i read it about to you assess, liberty that was written by a friend of mine. master chiefs stand white, an ever says up moment. i've been, i spent every day, every hour, doing something for us as liberty. that i can to load our ship based, die and vain as they did. these are young guys 182021 years old. uh and uh oh my god. and they, they just slaughtered, have never blown to bits blow to pieces or something. you can't even hardly describe it as a insane. why do you think there's been such an institutional effort to move past the u. s. s. liberty? most americans have no memory of it. most americans don't even know it happened. why don't we talk about it? why don't we commemorate the anniversary of the attack?

well, it's, it's a, it's a non piece of history, a non piece of naval history, a non piece of american history. hey, it was a mistake here. there's nothing to see here is a mistake. you know, the, uh, davy said it was mistaken identity, what's, what's their line. but they were ordered by lpga to find that the attack was, was the mistaken identity. another act of war. uh, i don't blame the public for not knowing about it because it was never, we were on the front page one day and a 3rd or 4th the other day and then we were just completely gone. there were, there was nothing said about it just went away and if we, if we talked about it or got on our congressmen or senators, they would say it was a mistake, an identity. that's what the record says. and we've already done 10 separate investigations. they've never done any of the investigation. they're lied to us or

lied to the american people or anybody else. and once we get involved with throughout the old, but you, liars, so that listen, they're, they're protecting israel and they're put, protecting a crooked government. are good, but they're just as crooked now as they were 56 years ago. and this is the and there's many, many more doubt through history of what governments in the past, the power of people in that those positions. we were nothing but cannon fodder board that ship. they didn't care about us. our government didn't care about us. they set us up to be murdered. think about that. a cut a country use for a know to defend them with your life. defendant, give your life. and then our government wants to kill us and then have our best buddy says, we'll do the murdered their hand in hand. they have been offer,

so it's 1948, but i want to talk about 1967, june 8th. and what they've done to us then, and now they've forgotten about us. they've called us jew haters, nazis, anti semitic pigs. anything else you could do to downgrade just to make us feel terrible. we didn't kill everybody. they did all the kill and tell us where our viewers can learn more about the work that you do and tell us about your book. yeah, we want a memorial where we are doing it ourselves. we have do it ourselves because the government won't help us. they will, as i'm telling you, it's uh, it's like standing in front of a, uh, uh, 18 wheeler and getting run over every day. that's what they think of the crew of the us as sliver. yeah. my dad and john that the american legion here in america. he has a bad dust for life. the bad is for life because one

of our guys are to and then all of it and earned a gala one and a booth at the national convention. they refused it, and the gland to our piece of our collision car fell on one woman and she said he assaulted her. they put him in jail, they put him in jail for one night, got out. i had to play to something to stay out of jail again, out of state. and they had him and they, they were just making it a spectacle, loved him in the us as liberty. so they hate us. even in the american legion, the higher ups there, they're all politicians, john, all of them. they don't care about the, the got the garage out there, the people who do all the work when they get in power. just like being a congressman or senator or president is their power and that's all they care about . the investigation. john was there never was an investigation.

never the only investigation they had was a set up one, but by the board of inquiry adviser kid, i might add word boston, who was the chief judge advocate, a board to ship later in life reported back and said, hey, listen, we were ordered to do this. we knew it was a pretty bad attend attack, but we've lowered by johnson. i'm a military man and i do what they, they tell me to do. and he told everybody, and i'll get you that documented if you'd like. but he said this was a set up deal and it was never mistaken. k at identity. everybody knew it except the american people. a feel. thank you so much for being with us. and thanks to our viewers, i like to close the shows with a quote that is up lifting or perhaps even thought provoking. i like to quote

philosophers and learned people from around the world. but today's quote, more appropriately comes from believe george ball, who is the us under secretary of state at the time of the us us liberty incidents. he said, quote, american leaders did not have the courage to punish israel for the bleeding murder of its citizens. the liberties presents and function were well known to his really leaders. israel's leaders concluded that nothing they might do would have fendy americans to the point of reprisals if american leaders did not have the courage to punish israel for the bleeding murder of american citizens. it seemed clear that their american friends would let them get away with almost anything. i'm john curiosity, thanks for watching the whistle blowers until next time. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 the

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