Tired of government keeping secrets?
Tired of scandals that never get investigated by government?
Think of how family members of the victims of a shoot-down of a commercial airliner 30 years ago today feel.
On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines flight 007 took off from New
York’s JFK airport, destined for Seoul, South Korea, with a refueling
stop in Anchorage, Alaska. After the aircraft left on the last leg of
its journey, it was subsequently shot down by Soviet aircraft.
The shoot-down of the aircraft, which carried 269 passengers,
including 61 Americans, becomes even more intriguing when one considers
KAL 007 had a very distinguished passenger. Rep. Larry McDonald, a
Democrat from Georgia who was the chairman of the John Birch Society as
well as one of the fiercest anti-Communist in the House of
Representatives, was flying to Seoul as part of a conservative
delegation led by Sen. Jesse Helms for the 30th anniversary of the
signing of the United States-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, which
was intended to be a thumb in the eye of the Soviets.
In the days following the attack President Ronald Reagan issued a
scathing rebuke against the Soviet Union calling the attack a “crime
against humanity” and decrying “the savagery of their crime.” Reagan
noted the attack was far from an isolated incident. More>>>>>>
