Monday of next week, we acknowledge an historic anniversary about which the media will be mum, the 27th anniversary of the destruction of TWA Flight 800.
As a quick refresher, TWA 800 left JFK airport in New York en route to Paris on July 17, 1996. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the ill-fated 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 souls aboard.
No one has pursued the truth behind this disaster more relentlessly than physicist Tom Stalcup. I first met Stalcup when I interviewed him for a documentary on TWA 800 called “Silenced” that James Sanders and I produced in 2001.
Stalcup had been deeply involved in the case from very nearly the beginning and remains committed to this day. He is likely the only independent researcher to catch the attention of the New York Times.
Amazingly, a 2013 documentary he created with Kristina Borjesson netted a respectful review from a paper that misreported the TWA 800 disaster from the day it happened.
Stalcup is currently involved in multiple cases related to this crash, including Stalcup v. DOD at the 1st Circuit in Boston and Stalcup v. the FBI and US Navy in the Middle District of Florida.
The Boston suit wastes no time in establishing its central argument: “After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center.”
The real cause, the suit argues, was “an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby.”
The official narrative, of course, has always avoided the obvious source of the crash, namely an errant U.S. missile launched in a test too close to shore.
The government obviously lies and deceives the public. The term “conspiracy theorist” didn’t exist until they created it after JFK was murdered. That single act alone, and the coverup to follow is all anyone should need to realize we aren’t being told the truth about a lot of things, if they can deceive the world when killing a President.