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USS Liberty Dead in the water

Mitchell, Christpher (Director) Format: DVD
3.8 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
IMDb7.8/10.0
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Format Collector's Edition, Color, Multiple Formats, Drama enhanced, Digital Sound, Special Edition, NTSC, Widescreen, Letterboxed See more
Contributor Mitchell, Christpher
Runtime 1 hour and 9 minutes
Number Of Discs 1
UPC 826301000293

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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Mitchell, Christpher
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Collector's Edition, Color, Multiple Formats, Drama enhanced, Digital Sound, Special Edition, NTSC, Widescreen, Letterboxed
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 9 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2002
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00007DT8I
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Never mind The Swift Boats, What About uSS Liberty
    Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2004
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    To dispassionately watch this documentary and call the attack on the USS Liberty "friendly fire" requires a feat of mental acrobatics of such colossal proportions that I can only see such claims as pure disingenuousness.

    The sailors on the Liberty are interviewed at length, and offer a consistent yet chilling account of how Israeli fighter aircraft and torpedo boats systematically slaughter and maim American military personnel. This done with patent obvious intent since the navy vessel they are strafing is flying the flag of their closest ally and benefactor.

    The reason's for this attack, appear to lie in Israel's build up to its invasion of the Golan Heights, an action that a spy ship like the Liberty would certainly have been monitoring.

    At risk of simply regurgitating what is already exceedingly well documented online and in print, all I would ask of skeptics is to watch this DVD, and then go to the USS Liberty veterans own webpage.

    This attack was an outrage, yet proved with savage irony the pernicious influence that Israel has effected upon our government. 34 dead and 171 wounded deserve far better than the under the rug sweeping they have received.
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  • Jerry Dunford
    4.0 out of 5 stars American tradegy and cover-up, The unwarranted and dastardly attack on the USS Liberty in 1967
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2014
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    As a former sailor who left the service just prior to this incident, and having been aware of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and LBJ during the aftermath of the JFK murder in Dallas, I knew fairly well what these men were like and their willingness to do anything to achieve their goals. I cannot say anything about " Operation Cyanide " that is mentioned in various accounts,don't know anything about this, but I do know that Israel did in fact deliberately attack this U.S. NAVY ship in broad open daylight in international waters.

    I also am aware that Admiral Kidd, and McCain, and Captain Boston did assist McNamara and LBJ in their terrible, cowardly, inhumane, Un-American coverup.

    Later, Commander McConagle accepted some sort of secret underhanded promotion to full Captain, a MOH in the back room of the Washington Navy Yard, and he deserved the promotion, not sure the MOH was appropriate, but he did do a good job in all of this, however, to keep his mouth shut he gave in to the cowards and helped in the coverup and received what I mentioned, plus a choice of future duty assignments. He only openly criticized the administration and DOD after 30 years had passed, when he could much earlier have assisted the ships officers and enlisted men who wanted the truth for this awful unnecessary event.

    I would recommend this DVR, and Ensign Jim Ennes book, " Assault on the Liberty, and also James Scott - Attack on the Liberty. This was much worse than most realize, the attack, the refusal to allow the U.S.NAVY to send air support, and the cover-up and dirty dealings by the NAVY leadership under McNamarra, who by the way, has the blood of more than 55,000 American deaths in Vietnam on his hands. This was a rotten bastard in my opinion.
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  • Mike Weeks
    1.0 out of 5 stars The worst type of story telling
    Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2006
    This production, the foundation for Peter Hounam's book titled "Operation Cyanide", is a prime example of myth creation disguised as "investigative journalism."

    What is most remarkable about the production's thesis is that --if it were accurate -- then in fact the U.S. was not a non-belligerent in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war as claimed by outspoken former Liberty crewmembers and others, but actually a co-belligerent, and thus the USS Liberty was not entitled to the rights of a neutral as a non-belligerent third-party.

    The thesis is that the Six-Day War was in fact a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation designed to destroy Egypt, and that the attack on the USS Liberty was simply a pre-text for a U.S. aerial strike on Cairo -- using nuclear weapons no less.

    This production starts with the premise that the attack on the USS Liberty was pre-planned, and thus right from the start loses its credibility as anything to be taken seriously -- especially when the details within the production are reviewed for accuracy.

    Some samples of glaring errors (or outright falsehoods) are:

    Former USS Liberty crewmember David Lewis now claiming that it was via the CRITIC system that Admiral Geis informed Washington of _his_ launching Sixth Fleet aircraft (It was in fact Admiral Martin, as Sixth Fleet CO, who had sent the text message). The CRITIC system is text, not voice, and in all previous story-telling, Lewis claimed it was via radio-telephone or some other _voice_ circuits by which Geis was _talking_ with Washington.

    The worst kind of interviewing technique by not asking former Defense Secretary McNamara a question, but making an outright accusation. This is followed by clearly obvious film-cutting in order to spin a pre-conceived desire by a clearly then frustrated interviewee.

    Taking the brief speech by the late Captain McGonagle in 1997 and editing it out of sequence as it was originally given. This can be demonstrated by simply reviewing the actual speech as directly quoted in the AP release of June 8, 1997 -- reported also in many newspapers on the 9th.

    The use of completely unsupported hearsay material when repeating what supposedly McGonagle told the ship's former engineer, George Golden, as well as making a statement by the narrator which is a further extension of that hearsay.

    The absolute misrepresentation of displaying what is suppose to be a document referencing something called Operation "Cyanide" when in fact the document clearly shows it represents an operation called "Frontlet 615". Then this false claim is compounded further when it is stated that the actual document is related to the USS Liberty, when it in fact references only a "submarine within UAR waters". There is _no_ reference to the USS Liberty in this document, dated April 7, 1967. It was not until late May that Liberty was _diverted_ from her African mission to move to the eastern Med.

    Giving credibility to one Greg Reight (completely discredited in 1997 by retired Ambassador Richard B. Parker) regarding Reight's claim that supposedly USAF-crewed RF-4C reconn aircraft flew for the IAF during the war (thus establishing that the U.S. was a co-belligerent by the producers) and his claim that the IAF had "no reconnaissance aircraft". Displayed as supposed proof is a 1967 Israeli released reconn photo, cropped. In the original release the shadow of the photo plane itself, a Mirage IIICJ(R), is clearly visible. This well-known and much published photo was taken by IAF squadron 119 on June 5th, the first day of the war. It is well established that in fact the IAF had reconnaissance aircraft during the June 1967 period. That the producers would use a photo which originally had a shadow of the IAF photo plane is proof enough.

    The above are simply some representative examples of the many problems with this production, and that they are so easy to spot and fact-check should give pause to anyone who might consider it to be worthy of praise when it comes to such a complex story as the USS Liberty -- especially given the many myths already generated -- one can add this production to that list.
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  • JSR1972
    5.0 out of 5 stars How can we "Remember the USS Liberty" if no one knows?
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
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    This is an extremely well put together, professional documentary on one of the most shameful events in US history. What percentage of Americans know about this incident? 1%? Maybe. If the mainstream media doesn't trumpet it, then most all Americans never learn it. What does that say about our society? Nothing good I am afraid. I have purchased a few copies of this DVD and given it to friends who didn't want to hear what I was trying to explain. After seeing the video, they changed their tune - and big time.
    LEARN ABOUT THE USS LIBERTY! I would say "remember the USS Liberty" or steal the "never forget" line we hear so often, but to remember or "never forget" requires one to have known and, as I said above, no one knows. Why? Because this whole thing has been hushed up by those who decide what is "good" for us.
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