From the BBC: The Libyan government has confirmed the names of two men suspected of being involved in the Lockerbie bombing. US and Scottish prosecutors said they had asked Libya for permission to interview Mohammed Abouajela Masud and Abdullah al-Senussi. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34546899 A spokesperson for Frank Mulholland, the Scottish lord advocate, issued this statement yesterday: “The…
From the BBC: Scottish prosecutors want to interview two Libyans they have identified as new suspects over the Lockerbie bombing. They believe the two suspects were involved, along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – the only person to have been convicted of the 1988 atrocity. The rest of the story is here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34543983
The third and final chapter of Ken Dornstein’s documentary, My Brother’s Bomber, is slated to air on PBS next Tuesday (10/13). Viewers may stream all 3 installments from PBS’s website: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Both episodes are also available for purchase in the iTunes Store for $2.99 each.
Journalist Magnus Linklater has followed, researched, and reported on the Lockerbie bombing for years. In his most recent article, published in the September 24 2015 edition of The Times (U.K.), Linklater discusses how Ken Dornstein’s lengthy investigation led to the possible identification of the man whose device murdered 270 people on December 21, 1988. Lockerbie…
From the PBS website: “When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Nearly three decades later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in…
Aired shortly before the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 bombing, Terror & Tears is an award-winning documentary produced by Time Warner Cable and narrated by the late Bill Carey. The documentary was originally produced as a 6 part series; a longer version with slightly different material appeared later. Featuring interviews with family members,…
Katherine Augusta Hollister was born on August 26, 1968. After graduating from the Bronx School of Science in 1986, Katherine matriculated at the University of Rochester where she majored in English. Her fondness for the theater, particularly Shakespeare’s plays, partially influenced her decision to study in England in the fall of 1988. Katherine’s friends remembered…
Today’s post is the first in a series of brief entries commemorating the individuals who were lost on Pan Am Flight 103. Family, friends, and classmates created the first memorial websites in the 1990s; unfortunately, the majority of these were lost when Yahoo shut down Geocities in 2009. There is a vast disparity in information…
Note that the addresses for the victims’ material guides and finding aids have changed since I compiled this list in 2014. I am in the process of updating the links. In the meantime, a list of material guides can be found at this address: https://panam103.syr.edu/victims/index.php, and the finding aids are available here: http://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/search?brand=ead;collection=ead;f1-subjectLocal=Pan%20Am%20103%20–%20Victims%20and%20Families The following list contains…
Cohen, Susan, and Daniel Cohen. Pan Am 103: The Bombing, The Betrayals, And A Bereaved Family’s Search For Justice. New York: New American Library, 2000. Available on Amazon. What drives me is something . . . more personal, basic, primitive. My daughter was murdered, and I want to get the bastards who killed her, and…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lockerbie-bombing-more-charges-likely-robert-mueller-says-1.2467244