The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship.

by Judge A. Jay Cristol

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol, a former naval aviator and current Miami resident, spent 10 years investigating the June 8, 1967 attack of the USS Liberty by Israeli air and naval forces during the height of the Six-Day War. The attack left 34 Americans dead and 171 more wounded.

Cristol's book, The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship, posits that the attack was a mistake and gives minute-by-minute accounts of the events leading up to the attack. He examines the unsubstantiated stories that have circulated for years...