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Gulf of Tonkin Incident (wikipedia.org)
4 points by h2odragon on Dec 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The captain of this ship was Jim Morrison's dad.


Apart from that he was a warmonger and presumably a shit person overall.

“In his book, Body of Secrets, James Bamford, who spent three years in the United States Navy as an intelligence analyst, writes that the primary purpose of the Maddox "was to act as a seagoing provocateur”




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