Ward Boston jr says all there is to say about accidents http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847861/posts
Just because Capt. Boston alleged that Adm. Isaac C. Kidd was ordered to find that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity” doesn't mean it was not a case of mistaken identity. The captain was over eighty years old when he suddenly decides he helped perpetrate a lie forty years before? I'm not going to believe an admitted liar that was obviously infirm with advanced age.
What or who is behind these continuing false charges that have induced Boston, a naval officer with a distinguished career, to dishonor himself by admitting to have violated his oath, either in 1967 or more recently. Ron Gotcher is only a bit player in a much broader propaganda effort.
The article confirms that "we," Boston and Admiral Kidd, boarded the Liberty and interviewed the survivors and states that "the evidence was clear" but does not state what that evidence was. What evidence was clear? This is the point where Boston makes a leap of faith. He says "we both believed with certainty that the attack was deliberate."
Boston, the lawyer, if he wrote those words, knows better. He could say "I believed" but when he attributes that belief to Admiral Kidd, he violated the hearsay rule and the Dead Man Statute which forbids quotation of a dead man because the dead man can neither confirm nor deny the statement.