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USS Liberty Dead in the water

Christpher Mitchell (Director) Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars 28 customer reviews
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  • Directors: Christpher Mitchell
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Collector's Edition, Color, Digital Sound, Drama enhanced, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • DVD Release Date: October 2, 2002
  • Run Time: 69 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007DT8I
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,712 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA chilling expose of the Israelis attack on the USS Liberty
By Josef Serf on December 5, 2004
Format: DVD
I just finished watching this film and was curious what others had to say about it so I checked here. After reading what some of the apolgists for Israel had to say about this incident I felt compelled to respond.

"Dead in the Water" is only the latest but probably the best in a line of documentaries on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

The documentary includes some never before seen or heard evidence.

For example, newly released audio intercepts of radio communication of Israeli pilots and their superiors discussing the impending attack on the Liberty were made in real time by the National Security Agency (NSA). These intercepts show that the Israeli pilots knew that they were about to attack an American naval vessel. To his credit, whoever he is, one of the Israeli pilots was surprised to see that he was being directed to attack an American ship. When he pointed out to his superiors that the Liberty was American he was told to continue on a flight path for attack. Incredulous, he repeated to his superiors that the ship was American and again they just told him to follow orders not question them and attack the Liberty which, of course, he did along with other Israeli air and naval forces.

One of the things that the documentary discusses is that Israel sought to sink the Liberty with all hands going down in order that Washington would assume that Egypt was at fault and then America would go to war against Egypt.

The documentary also discusses the fact that when the American aircraft carriers USS American and Saratoga of the Sixth Fleet positioned in the Mediterranean Sea sent F-4 fighter aircraft aloft to come to defend the Liberty, Secretary of Defense McNamara ordered the planes back TWICE.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best of the bunch!
By A Customer on February 18, 2003
Format: DVD
The 1967 attack by Israel on the USS Liberty has been told by Sligo Productions in 1987, by the History Channel in 2001, by the Liberty Vets Assn. in 2002, but the BBC has dug deeper than anyone before in "Dead in the Water." We've learned that US photo recon planes helped Israel in the Six-Day-War with the Star of David painted over the US markings. We've learned that nuclear armed planes were sent to nuke Cairo when it was felt that Egypt had attacked the ship, recalled later when we learned it was Israel. We've learned that other highly classified programs were involved with the attack. And the ugliest of all, that the US government turned their backs on the sailors and covered up the incident, telling the sailors that if they talked about it, they'd get court-martialed or worse! Jim Ennes's book "Assault on the Liberty" unzipped the mum lips of the survivors, but alas, the US congress has refused to listen to them and investigate the incident as they have all other incidents of its kind. Torpedo boats shot up life rafts as the ship prepared to abandon ship, American sailors on deck shot at from 50 feet away. This video lays it out... including McNamara saying he "doesn't remember." It is top notch and any serious student of history should see this one. It is a winner!
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5.0 out of 5 starsoutstanding current events required
By A Customer on December 7, 2002
Format: DVD
The documentary is well planned and presented in a straight forward and realistic manner.It is a required view because of current events. It is past time the American public holds politicians accountable.Liberty is bought and paid for with blood.The blood shed by the crew of the USS Liberty was too much for political reasons and is a shame on our countries honor.It is past time to learn the why of the attack and the reason for the continued cover up.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNever mind The Swift Boats, What About uSS Liberty
By SusScrofa on August 27, 2004
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
To dispassionately watch this documentary and call the attack on the USS Liberty "friendly fire" requires a feat of mental acrobatics of such colossal proportions that I can only see such claims as pure disingenuousness.

The sailors on the Liberty are interviewed at length, and offer a consistent yet chilling account of how Israeli fighter aircraft and torpedo boats systematically slaughter and maim American military personnel. This done with patent obvious intent since the navy vessel they are strafing is flying the flag of their closest ally and benefactor.

The reason's for this attack, appear to lie in Israel's build up to its invasion of the Golan Heights, an action that a spy ship like the Liberty would certainly have been monitoring.

At risk of simply regurgitating what is already exceedingly well documented online and in print, all I would ask of skeptics is to watch this DVD, and then go to the USS Liberty veterans own webpage.

This attack was an outrage, yet proved with savage irony the pernicious influence that Israel has effected upon our government. 34 dead and 171 wounded deserve far better than the under the rug sweeping they have received.
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5.0 out of 5 starsUSS Liberty Dead in the water.
By J. P. Feldmann on August 2, 2005
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Excellent.... I was a crew member on the USS Liberty>
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn interesting take on an infamous attack
By Amazon Customer on February 13, 2005
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Dead in the Water provides an interesting, well researched and well documented take on the infamous Israeli attack on USS Liberty. The two and a half hour, combined air and sea attack on an unresisting US Navy ship in international waters resulted in 34 American deaths and another 172 Americans wounded. Israel did an internal investigation and found that none of its people did anything wrong and no one should even be repremanded for negligence. This documentary establishes, clearly and convincingly, that the Israeli excuses are lies.
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Published 22 months ago by Jeffery E. Jackson
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I caught this documentary on the internet recently and was very impressed by it. Also watch the recent Al Jazeera documentary "The Day Israel Attacked America. Read more

Published 23 months ago by TLR
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As a former sailor who left the service just prior to this incident, and having been aware of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and LBJ during the aftermath of the JFK murder in... Read more

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Thank you; and this was a wonderful experience. The documentary arrived and in great condition; I already showed it to my students.

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