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Ward Boston, Jr. (June 21, 1923[1] – June 12, 2008, in Coronado, California) was an attorney and a retired United States Navy Captain.[2] He served in World War II as a Navy fighter pilot and worked as a special agent for the FBI.
He gained notability due to his service in the Navy as a Legal Specialist, where, as chief counsel to the Naval Board of Inquiry investigating the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 crewmen and injured 172, he personally concluded that the attack was most likely deliberate.[1][3] He stated the court was ordered by superiors to ascribe the attack to an accident, rather than to deliberate hostility,[4] and that the original findings he signed were later modified by government attorneys.[5]
- ^ a b Blanca Gonzalez, staff writer (June 19, 2008). "Ward Boston Jr.; helped investigate '67 Liberty attack] – Obituary". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
- ^ Ward Boston, Jr. (June 8, 2007). "Time for the truth about the Liberty". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II.
- ^ Cristol, A. Jay (2002). The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship. Brassey's. pp. 149. ISBN 1-57488-536-7.
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Obituarywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Berg, Raffi (June 8, 2007). "Why did Israel attack USS Liberty?". BBC News. Retrieved June 7, 2021.