The media would never lie to us. /s
Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite were the most truthful of all.
The LAAP-dog media was so invested in protecting Bill Clinton's reelection versus Bob Dole, that they willingly destroyed the reputation of ABC News journalist and former JFK Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who was reporting that he received evidence from an airline pilot of friendly missile fire being the cause of the TWA 800 explosion.
-PJ
This is all so tiresome. I do believe TWA800 was taken down by a missile, but am 100 percent convinced it did NOT come from a U.S. Navy vessel. I served aboard USS NORMANDY, as an officer, not a seaman apprentice like this “whistle-blower” who served on CARR. I hasten to add my service on NORMANDY ended three years before TWA800, but I personally know officers and men who were on board at the time the airliner went down.
There are numerous holes in the whistle-blower’s story, and the biggest to me is the alleged order to destroy the evidence and to invoke a cover-up demanding the silence of every officer and sailor in that group of ships. It is a laughable and ludicrous allegation for anyone with a modicum of understanding of how the Navy, especially the Surface Navy, operated at that time.
The victims of TWA800 deserve justice, but the Navy hypothesis is a dead end, and energy would be better spent exploring more plausible explanations.