Over 36 years after the tragedy, the bombing of Pan Am 103 has returned to the headlines courtesy of the Sky/Peacock series with Colin Firth (I’ve discussed VPAF 103’s response in an earlier post; the BBC has an interesting discussion about the series, the controversy, and details about the investigation). A second series will debut…
by Rabbi Sylvan Kamens and Rabbi Jack Riemer In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them. In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them. In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them. In the blueness of…
Annie Lareau, whose best friend Theo Cohen was on the plane, recounts the evening of the bombing of Pan Am 103 in 1988. She was an SU student in London who knew many on the plane, and her account is raw, sincere, and more relevant than anything I could write: I scanned the list. My…
Reader interested in a detailed history of the investigation into Mas’ud’s role in the bombing would be well-advised to watch Ken Dornstein’s excellent three-part documentary, My Brother’s Bomber, which is available on PBS’ website. The New York Times has an article that provides a good rundown of some of the history is the case.
Many, many times through all these years, we’ve been asked about a sense of closure. There’s never really closure. You learn to live with it and you get on with your life with the fond memories, and you hope there is a (life) after this life (and) we will see our daughter again. Robert Hunt…
“There is never closure. You have to find a way to navigate the rest of your life with the effects of whatever tragedy you have had to experience or deal with. I do what my daughter would have wanted for me, and that is to go on with my life as best as I could.”…
Yesterday, Syracuse University held a virtual memorial service in Hendricks Chapel and the Place of Remembrance. A recording of the service is available on SU’s Remembrance Scholars webpage. The video also includes commemorations traditionally delivered by Remembrance Scholars during the closing ceremony of Remembrance Week and tributes from family, friends, and others.
The Wall Street Journal has posted an excellent article detailing the lengthy investigation following the bombing of Pan Am 103. Readers should be aware that the article features several videos of the wreckage taken shortly after the bombing.
Nearly 32 years to the day after 270 people lost their lives in the attack on Pan American Flight 103, the United Stated Justice Department in on the verge of filing charges against Abu Agila Mas’ud. Mas’ud’s link to the bombing was revealed in part through the investigative reporting of Ken Dornstein, whose brother, David,…
Today, I join those who remember, mourn, commemorate, and celebrate those who lost their lives in the bombing of Pan Am 103.
TEN YEARS AGO last Friday, then FBI Director Robert Mueller bundled himself in his tan trench coat against the cold December air in Washington, his scarf wrapped tightly around his neck. Sitting on a small stage at Arlington National Cemetery, he scanned the faces arrayed before him—the victims he’d come to know over years, relatives…
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, the BBC has posted an essay, with extensive images, detailing the tragedy as told through the experiences of Lockerbie’s residents.