Writing, reading, photographing, helping tell the story of the Israeli attack on USS Liberty that killed 34 of my shipmates and destroyed the ship.
Doing everything within my power to preserve and honor the memory of my 34 shipmates who were killed by Israeli forces in the June 8, 1967, attack on USS Liberty.
Working to thwart the efforts of a group of extremists who seek to pervert the effort of USS Liberty survivors to tell our story honestly and widely. Distancing ourselves from racists and antiSemites is an ongoing and never ending task.
Author of Assault on the Liberty (Random House 1980 and three other publishers in 12 editions selling more than 110,000 copies).
Founding member and co-founder with Master Chief Stanley White of the USS Liberty Veterans Association.
Director and Board Member: USS Liberty Alliance, founded by Admiral Thomas Moorer to seek justice for the USS Liberty.
Life Member: Navy League, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Military Officers Association of America, USS Liberty Veterans Association, Navy Together We Served.
Member: US Naval Institute, Navy Cryptologic Veterans Association.
Member: American Civil Liberties Union (since 1955); Common Cause (since 1955); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; World Wildlife Federation; Sierra Club; American Humanist Association; Human Rights Watch; National Association for the Separation of Church and State; Amnesty International; Greenpeace.
Former member of American Legion: Resigned with some shipmates to protest the Legion's failure to support USS Liberty and the Legion's refusal to support its own 1967 national resolution calling upon the United States to investigate the Israeli attack on USS Liberty as called for in the Legion's own National Resolution #508.
Webmaster of:
http://www.ussliberty.com (This is the primary USS Liberty Memorial Web Site, news, analysis, links, reports)
The ussliberty.com and ussliberty.org URLs redirect to www.gtr5.com
http://www.ussliberty.com/index2.html
(This was the original USS Liberty Memorial Web Site and the primary database and source for background information and over 500 files.)
Other Memories I attended Oakland City College 1955-56, which no longer exists. I understand it was absorbed by Alameda or Peralta Community College in the 60s.
