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### Footnotes
[^1]: Ward Boston Jr., Declaration Concerning the Court of Inquiry into the Attack on USS Liberty, dated "January 8, 2004 at Coronado, California," four pages, signed. Scanned copy at https://archive.org/download/boston-declaration/BostonDeclaration.pdf (signature page read directly). Text transcription at https://stationhypo.com/?p=69026, which prints the date as January 9. Sole source for the conversations with Kidd and for the account of the transcript alterations.
[^2]: "Obituary: Captain Ward Boston Jr. Dies June 12," Connection Newspapers, June 17, 2008. https://connectionnewspapers.com/news/2008/jun/17/obituary-captain-ward-boston-jr-dies-june-12. Family-supplied; sole source for the early career details, the retirement, and the burial.
[^1]: Ward Boston Jr., Declaration Concerning the Court of Inquiry into the Attack on USS Liberty, dated "January 8, 2004 at Coronado, California," four pages, signed. Scanned copy at https://archive.org/download/boston-declaration/BostonDeclaration.pdf (signature page read directly). Text transcription at https://stationhypo.com/?p=69026, which prints the date as January 9.
[^2]: "Obituary: Captain Ward Boston Jr. Dies June 12," Connection Newspapers, June 17, 2008. https://connectionnewspapers.com/news/2008/jun/17/obituary-captain-ward-boston-jr-dies-june-12. Family-supplied.
[^3]: Ward Boston Jr., "Time for the truth about the Liberty," San Diego Union-Tribune, June 8, 2007, two-page PDF copy at https://archive.org/details/time-for-the-truth-about-the-liberty. The page identifies the author as a naval aviator in World War II on the Yorktown, an FBI agent before his Navy assignment, and a graduate of the College of William and Mary School of Law.
[^4]: A. Jay Cristol, "Why You Shouldn't Pay Attention to the Claims that Israel Attacked the USS Liberty Deliberately," History News Network, June 12, 2007. https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-you-shouldnt-pay-attention-to-the-claims-that-. Cristol is the author of The Liberty Incident and an advocate of the accident finding. His claims about Gotcher, McNamara, and the release of the affidavit on October 22, 2003 are his.
[^5]: United States Navy, Record of Proceedings, Court of Inquiry into the armed attack on USS Liberty (AGTR-5), 1967, 728-page scan, posted at https://libertyincident.com/docs/CourtOfInquiry.pdf. Scan pages cited: 34 to 38 (McCain's first endorsement, June 18, 1967), 106 and 107 (opening, appointing order, oath), 117 (adjournment of June 11, boarding at sea, Malta June 13), 243 and 244 (adjournment of June 15, London June 16), 160 to 164 (Painter testimony, transcript pages 55 to 59), 258 (transcript page 153), 265 (closing of the court at 1645 on June 16), 266 and 267 (findings of fact 1 and 6).