3/11/22 Larry Bowen and Joe Meadors Tell Their Story of Surviving the Attack on the USS Liberty

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Scott sat down with two of the survivors of the 1967 Israeli attack on the American Navy ship the USS Liberty. They detail their personal experience and fit their story into the broader historical context of the attack. Although the events of that day, almost 55 years ago, still haunt them, they are both fighting to make the public aware of what happened and to pressure Congress to properly acknowledge the attack. They are doing this despite official threats that talking about the attack would lead to prosecution and jail time. At the end, they explain how you can join them in this fight. Discussed on the show: Sacrificing Liberty documentary Assault on the Liberty by James Ennes https://www.usslibertyveterans.org/ https://www.usslibertyveterans.blog/ https://www.usslibertydocuments.info/ Get Involved in Helping Us — USS Liberty Veterans Association Larry Bowers is a survivor of the USS Liberty attack where he was stationed by the NSA. He now serves as the President of the USS Liberty Veterans Association where he works to raise public awareness of the attack Joe Meadors is a Navy veteran who served as a Signalman on the USS Liberty during the Israeli attack. Today he works as an activist for his shipmates who perished and those who survived and who, like him, have been silenced for 55 years. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
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0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. And I'm with Larry Bowen and Joe Meaders and Joe we've spoken before on the phone
0:59.2	very happy to meet you guys here in person we We've had a great time. Went to dinner last night and got to hang out and become friends here a little bit.
1:07.9	Both of these men are survivors of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, June 8th, 1967.
1:16.3	And I want to get thanks to Darrell Cooper
1:20.6	for helping arrange this too, so this could happen today. So I guess we want to start with the bottom line, the number KIA and wounded and
1:30.0	and then we'll get into the story of how events, you know, started unfolding that morning and try to pick up the gory details here.
1:42.0	I guess first of all name rank serial number. What were you guys doing?
1:46.8	You were NSA and you were in Navy, right? Right. So go ahead and just talk about your...
1:51.1	My mind was still Navy. I was a cryptologic technician,
1:55.6	radioman, second-class penny officer and you know my primary duties were to collect international Morse code, copy it, and then it would be processed and sent back to NSA for further processing.
2:15.0	So that morning, the morning of the attack, I had a day watch and I was sitting a position,
2:22.0	copying code and I found out later that
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