by Jack Cashill
Meyer, Fritz, 26–27, 57, 68–69, 71, 95, 202
Michelson, Lisa, 177–78
Mifflin, Lawrie, 78
Miller, Rocky, 185, 188
Milton, Patricia, 13–14, 63, 118–19, 123–24, 132–37, 141, 148, 155, 177, 180–81
Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), 40, 43, 45, 51, 54, 181, 202, 205–6
missiles
antiaircraft missiles, 130, 137
MANPAD, 97, 180, 213–14
Navy missiles, 22, 85, 132, 138, 177
standard arm missile, 137
Stinger missiles, 98, 108–9
video footage of, 180–81
Mitchell, John, 155
Montoursville, 85–87, 143, 178
Moorer, Thomas H., 147
Moriches Inlet, the, 2–4, 44, 47–51, 53
Morris, Dick, 98, 103, 107
MSNBC, 21, 84, 176, 211
Muma, Dede, 218
Mundo, Albert, 89
Munich Olympics, 89
My FBI (Freeh), 106
My Life (Clinton), 106
N
Nader, Ralph, 150
Nantucket Island, 64
NASA, 136
National Archives, the, 161–62, 165, 169
National Guard, 43. See also Air National Guard
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), 213–15
National Indian Gaming Commission, 77
National Law Journal, 180
National Liberation Day, 161
National Security Council, 128, 169
Naval Air Warfare Center, 55
NBC, 149
Negroni, Christine, 13–14, 21, 104, 123, 140–41, 148, 155
New Day, 192
Newsday, 141
Newsweek, 129–30, 132, 147, 149, 154
New York City, 2, 11, 14, 21, 26, 83, 90, 110, 128, 141, 157–58, 181, 220
New York State, 44, 47, 50, 53, 86, 158, 197
New York State Police, 44, 50, 53
New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), 21
New York Times, 4, 10, 13–14, 19–20, 23, 73, 78, 94–97, 99–104, 108, 113, 118–20, 123–24, 131–32, 134–35, 141, 143, 146, 148, 150, 155–60, 166, 170, 184–85, 187–88, 193–94, 215, 220–22
Nibert, Cheryl, 86–87, 178
Nibert, Don, 85–87, 143, 148, 178
Night Fall (DeMille), 211
Nightline, 129
Nixon, Richard, 62
Norman, Greg, 6, 99, 111
No Survivors (CNN documentary), 99, 179–80, 197
NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board)
animations, 18
final report, 138, 148, 221
hearing, 12, 18, 34, 64, 73–74, 120, 178, 180, 185, 188, 191
NTSB Board, 62, 142–43, 188, 197, 200
NTSB Training Center, 199
NTSB witness group, 33, 35, 38–39, 64–66, 69–71, 78, 116, 182, 215–16
NYPD, 47, 90
O
Obama, Barack, 6, 194–96
response to Benghazi attacks, 196
Office Depot, 150
Office of Aviation Safety, 12, 64
Office of Transnational Issues (OTI), 33
Offutt Air Force Base, 87
Off With Their Heads (Morris), 107
Oklahoma City bombing, 88
Olympic Airlines, 189
Olympic Park bombing, 107
O’Meara, Kelly, 78
O’Neill, John, 108–9
“Operation Bojinka,” 128–29, 162, 214
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 62
Ott, Ray, 5, 133
Otto, Theodore, 3
Oval Office, the, 147
P
Pan-Am 103, 119
Panetta, Leon, 5–6, 107, 110, 194
Paris, x, 2, 10, 22, 26, 63, 85, 116, 176–78
Paris Match, 143
Parlier, Cap, 98–99
Pataki, George, 158
Patchogue Bay, 46
Patterson, Robert “Buzz,” 5, 128–29
Pentagon, the, 5, 22, 76–77, 88, 130, 132
Perlmutter, Bruce, 81
Perry, Lisa (Witness 150), 26–27, 29, 68, 100, 136, 175, 207, 215
PETN, traces on TWA 800 debris, 102, 104, 114, 122–23, 216, 220
Phillips, Don, 146
Pickard, Tom, 118
Poindexter, John, 160
Point, The, 78, 80
Polar Air Cargo, 84
Polk, Jim, 192–93, 196–97
Ponquogue Beach, 51
Powell, Colin, 160
Press-Enterprise of Riverside, CA, 10, 38, 71, 143
Procrustes, 205
P-3 Orion, 5, 126, 132–35, 182–85, 218–19
new footage of the crash site from, 182–85, 217
Pulp Fiction, 160
Purdy, Matthew, 95–96, 119
Q
Quantuck Canal, 31–32
“Quiet Birdmen,” the, 75
R
radar, 21, 26, 78, 95–96, 108, 114, 118, 128, 135, 138–39, 150, 159, 189, 193, 200, 207, 213, 216, 219
Random House, 13
Rather, Dan, 88
RDX, traces on TWA 800 debris, 114, 118, 122, 216
Ready, Kevin, 98–99
Reagan, Ronald, 40, 63, 131
Regnery Publishing, 168
Reid, Jeffrey, 20, 27
Reno, Janet, 154–55, 167
Reuters, 199
Revkin, Andrew, 100–1, 132
Rhein, Jim Van, 120
Riady family, 159
Rice, Condoleezza, 164
Robinson, Deborah, 167
Robinson, Walter, 89
Rodrigues, J. Dennis, 33–35, 37–38
Rogers, Will, 129–30, 132, 175
Rojany, Yon, 177
Romney, Mitt, 196
Rosenbaum, Steve, 83, 85
Rowe, Alice, 136
Russell, Dick, 20–22, 28, 132–35
Russell, Michael (a.k.a. Witness 136), 100–2
S
Salinger, Pierre, 20, 22–23, 66, 102, 132, 134–35, 174
Sanders, Elizabeth, 10–14, 17, 26, 38, 90, 116–17, 159, 174, 216
Sanders, James, 1, 10–14, 17, 26, 38, 59, 90, 94, 117, 127, 142–43, 146, 159, 167, 174, 178, 182–84, 211–14, 216
Saudi Arabia, 6, 108, 129, 148
Scarpa, Greg, 157–58
Schiffer, Paul, 107
Schiliro, Lewis, 139, 181
Schleede, Ron, 21
Schulze, Glenn, 143
SCMB, 54
Semtex, 114, 122–23
Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, 77
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 88, 107
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Special Report,” 107
September 11, 2001 (terrorist attacks), 6–7, 29, 87–88, 90–91, 93–94, 107–9, 129, 159–62, 164–66, 168
9/11 Commission, 1, 108, 129, 161–62, 165–67, 195
Sestak, Joe, 168–70
Shanahan, Dennis, 188–89
Silenced, 25–29, 31, 53, 56–57, 59–61, 64, 67–72, 74–77, 81, 84, 85, 87, 115, 127, 169, 181, 188–89
Simon, Paul, 79
Simpson, Barbara, 128
Simpson, O. J., 67
Sklamberg, Howard, 162, 167, 170
sonic boom, 37, 58
sound propagation analysis, 56, 58, 70, 73, 191, 217
Southampton Press, 214–18
Space and Strategic Missile Systems Division, 84–85
Speer, Jim, 115–16, 143–44, 188, 220
Stacey, Terry, 10–11, 116–17, 174, 174, 183–84
Stalcup, Tom, 1, 71, 187–91, 194, 199–201, 204, 222
Staples, 150
Stark, Lisa, 77
State Department, 19
Stephanopolous, George, 87–88, 107
Stinger missile. See missiles: Stinger missiles
St. Louis, 11, 119–20
Stone, Oliver, 61, 78, 178
Strasser, Allen, 137–38
Su
ffolk County Marine Bureau (SCMB), 54
Suffolk County Police Department, 43–45, 49–51, 54, 72, 188
sunshine laws, 18
Swartz, Bruce, 162, 167
T
Tapper, Jake, 191–92
Tauss, Randolph, 33, 40, 43, 53, 55–59, 65, 74, 148, 159, 206
awarded Intelligence Medal of Merit, 43, 159
Teledyne Ryan BQM-34 Firebee (a.k.a. Firebee), 218
Tenet, George, 1, 39, 107, 156–58, 162, 164–65, 194, 200, 208
Traficant, James, 120, 122–23, 170–71
Truman, Harry, 79
TWA (Trans World Airlines), 10–12, 33, 65, 75–76, 85, 90, 115–16, 116, 121–22, 128, 137, 177
TWA 800
black boxes of, 6, 140–44
cabin of, 100, 102, 104, 121, 189, 194, 217
center fuel tank explosion, 12, 20, 37, 67, 73–74, 77, 80, 90, 99, 100–1, 110–11, 118, 149, 179, 183–84, 189–90, 192, 198, 200, 214, 220–21
crash site, 49, 133–34, 136–39, 183–84, 218
dog-training exercises purportedly conducted on, 104, 113–24, 151, 177
engines of, 130, 142, 173, 179, 182–84, 186, 217, 220
explosive residue on, 103–4, 113, 116, 118–20, 122, 150, 189. See also PETN and RDX
fuselage of, 38, 53, 66–67, 69, 73–74, 113, 149, 183–84, 189, 192, 216, 220–21
noseless aircraft, 28, 36, 73, 179
radar data of the crash, 21, 26, 78, 95–96, 108, 114, 118, 128, 135, 138–39, 150, 159, 189, 193, 200, 207, 213, 216, 219
satellite imagery of the disaster, 148–49, 151, 217
supposed zoom climb. See zoom climb
weather on the night of the crash, 26, 110
wreckage zones, 183–84, 186
TWA 800: Accident or Incident (Ready and Parlier), 98
TWA 800 Eyewitness Alliance, 71
TWA 800 Project, 188, 199–201
TWA Flight 844, 122
TWA Flight 800 (documentary), 173, 188, 222
Twitter, 201
U
UCLA, 28
Ukraine, 197
United Airlines, 20, 28, 176
United Nations, 130
US Air Flight 217, 26, 57, 66, 68, 207
U.S. Air Force, 5, 21, 87, 90, 115, 128, 137, 201
U.S. Air Force Air Traffic Control School, 21
U.S. Coast Guard, the, 5, 53,
U.S. Marine Corps, 48, 62, 99, 117, 133, 203
U.S. Navy, 5–6, 22–23, 26, 28–29, 57–58, 77–78, 85, 96, 99, 126–44, 147, 150, 161, 168, 175, 177, 182, 185–86, 190, 194, 204, 213, 218–21
Aegis system, 129–32, 218
USS Albuquerque, 135, 138, 218
USS Carr, 174–75
USS Cole, 163
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, 219
USS Montgomery, 185
USS Normandy, 136–37, 218
USS Trepang, 133–35, 138, 218
USS Vincennes, 129, 131–32, 175, 185–86, 220
USS Wyoming, 135, 138
V
Van Natta, Don, 100, 102, 113–14, 119, 123
Van Susteren, Greta, 78, 80–81, 89
VCR (videocassette recorder), 18
video of missile test, 180–82, 210–15, 217–18
video of TWA 800, 21, 25–29, 83–85, 91, 176
MSNBC likely airing, 21, 84, 176, 211
video of TWA 800 debris field from P-3, 182–85, 217
W
Walbert, Calvin, 123
Wald, Matthew, 96, 118
Wallace, Chris, 169
Wallops Flight Facility, 136–37
Wall Street Journal, 9, 29, 165
Washington, D.C., 20–21, 33, 38, 65, 76, 101–5, 110, 113, 116, 118, 122, 132, 134, 147, 151, 158–59, 168–71, 180, 188, 194, 200, 217
Washington Monthly, 156
Washington Post, 9, 34, 63, 77–78, 146, 155, 166
Washington Times, 71
Watergate scandal, 34, 147, 166
Weekly Standard, 9, 76
Weiner, Tim, 108, 156
Weir, Vance, 121
Weldon, Curt, 168–71
Western Washington University, 66
Westhampton High School, 46, 54
Wetli, Charles, 188–89
White House, the, 4–5, 7, 18, 22, 62, 77, 88–89, 94, 96, 98–99, 101, 103, 105, 108, 110–11, 113, 119, 124, 139, 144, 146–47, 149, 156–57, 159, 161, 166–67, 194–95, 206, 221
White House Situation Room, 5, 88, 195
Whitehurst, Frederic, 116, 188
Whitewater scandal, 23, 159
Wire, Mike (a.k.a. “the man on the bridge”), 26–27, 31–41
alteration of testimony to include reference to flagpole, 72
made-up second interview, 72
Witness (Chambers), 19
“Witness by Witness Account, A” (CIA PowerPoint), 108, 202
Witnessed (CNN special report), 197
Witness 150 (Lisa Perry), 68, 100, 215
Witness 144 (Ann DeCaro), 45
Witness 136 (Michael Russell), 100
Witness 73 (“Sandy”), 36, 59, 68, 100, 114, 202, 204, 208, 220
Witness 649 (Joseph Delgado), 205, 53, 72, 205
Witness 32 (Dwight Brumley), 57, 204
witness testimony summaries, 43–60
Women’s Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee, 4
Woodward, Bob, 62, 147
WorldNetDaily, 81
WND.com, 183
World Trade Center, 37
Worthy Fights (Panetta), 107
Wunsch, Michael, 17
Y
York, Gene, 117–18
Young, Bob, 33–35, 37–39, 116, 188, 200
Young, Thomas, 84–85, 90
Yousef, Ramzi, 128–29, 161, 220
Z
Zakar, Frank, 114
zoom climb, 27–29, 39, 56–57, 59, 69–70, 73, 100, 108, 111, 120, 147–51, 157, 165, 177, 179, 182, 192–93, 197, 200–1, 206–8, 217