1988

Pan Am Flight 103 from London to NY Explodes with a Team of Whistlblowers on Board Set to Testify to Congress of CIA Arms / Drug Trafficking, 270 Killed; Keith McKaskle, Allegedly a Witness the Night the Boys on the Tracks were Murdered, is Stabbed 113 Times; ‘They Live’ Movie is Released; Geraldo Rivera Investigates the Satanic Underground in the U.S. in his show ‘Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground’; Approval is Granted to the French Pharmaceutical Company Roussel-Uclaf for the First Abortion Pill; The Shoot Down of Iran Air Flight 655 Killing All 290 Passengers; Keith Coney, Who Witnessed the Two Boys on the Tracks Murder, Dies in a Motorcycle Crash Fleeing Attackers; The Leuchter Report: The First-Ever Forensic Investigation of the Alleged Extermination Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek; MK-Ultra victim, Cathy O’Brien, was covertly Rescued from her Mind Control Enslavement by Intelligence Insider Mark Phillips; Also Prozac is sold for the first time as an anti-depressant some of the great movies that year included Rain Man, Die Hard, and A Fish Called Wanda

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December 21, 1988

Pan Am Flight 103 from London to NY Explodes with a Team of Whistlblowers on Board Set to Testify to Congress of CIA Arms / Drug Trafficking, 270 Killed.

Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb that detonated in the baggage compartment as the plane made its climb out from London passing over Lockerbie, Scotland en route to New York.  A total of 270 people died including 11 residents of the Scottish town.  According to investigators, the bomb was built into a Toshiba radio cassette player and packed in a brown hard-case Samsonite suitcase that ...
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November 10, 1988

Keith McKaskle, Allegedly a Witness the Night the Boys on the Tracks were Murdered, is Stabbed 113 Times

Keith McKaskle, who was allegedly at the tracks that night, turned over information he had about the boys' murders to Richard Garrett. Believing he had talked to the wrong people, McKaskle had made his own funeral arrangements, told family and friends good bye, and within days was murdered himself - stabbed 113 times. His murder remains unsolved. In August 1989, Ronald Shane Smith was sentenced to ten years ...
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November 4, 1988

‘They Live’ Movie is Released

‘They Live’ is a science-fiction movie from the Eighties that features aliens, a WWF wrestler and a whole lot of sunglasses. What’s not to like? While, at first glance, the movie appears to be a bunch of nonsense, ‘They Live’ actually communicates a powerful message about the elite and its use of mass media to control the masses. Is the movie describing what we call the ...
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October 22, 1988

Geraldo Rivera Investigates the Satanic Underground in the U.S. in his show ‘Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground’

Geraldo Rivera investigates allegations of a widespread Satanic underground in the United States. He talks to investigators and looks at occult crimes and ritual murders that have been committed in the United States. He also speaks to self-identified Satanists who deny that Satanism is a dangerous religion. The above includes the testimonies of: Former Satanists and families of those who murdered in the name of Satan (convicted ...
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September 23, 1988

Approval is Granted to the French Pharmaceutical Company Roussel-Uclaf for the First Abortion Pill

In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf from 1949 to 1980; shortened to RU-486), which was discovered to also be a progesterone receptor antagonist. In October 1981, endocrinologist Étienne-Émile Baulieu, a consultant to Roussel-Uclaf, arranged tests of its use for medical ...
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July 3, 1988

The Shoot Down of Iran Air Flight 655 Killing All 290 Passengers

In a daily press briefing on July 2, 2008, the following set of questions and answers took place between an unidentified reporter and Department of State Spokesman Sean McCormack [1]: QUESTION: Tomorrow marks the 20 years since the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes gunned down the IR655 civilian airliner, killing all 300 people on board, 71 of whom were children. And while the United States Government settled the incident ...
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June 23, 1988

Alarmist NASA Scientist James Hansen Testifies to Senate Committee of the Three Scenarios of Global Warming

James E. Hansen wiped sweat from his brow. Outside it was a record-high 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, as the NASA scientist testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a prolonged heat wave, which he decided to cast as a climate event of cosmic significance. He expressed to the senators his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the ...
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May 17, 1988

Keith Coney, Who Witnessed the Two Boys on the Tracks Murder, Dies in a Motorcycle Crash Fleeing Attackers

Keith Coney, who was believed to be with Kevin Ives and Don Henry the night they were murdered, told friends and family members that law enforcement officials were responsible for the murders. Two days later, he was killed when his motor cycle crashed while he was being chased. According to some officers, his throat had previously been slashed, and he was apparently fleeing his attackers when he ...
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April 19, 1988

The Leuchter Report: The First-Ever Forensic Investigation of the Alleged Extermination Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek

In early 1988, American execution hardware expert Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., carried out the first-ever forensic investigation of the alleged extermination gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek. His sensational conclusion -- that these structures were never used as gas chambers to kill people -- set off an international controversy that is still continuing. In a detailed report, commonly referred to simply as The Leuchter Report, ...
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March 6, 1988

Claire Culwell Miraculously Survives an Abortion Attempt by Dr. Patel on Her 13 Year Old Mother. Her Twin Brother Does Not Survive.

If things had gone according to plan, Culwell's life would have ended, along with her twin's, in her mother's womb. But clinicians did not detect Culwell's presence when they aborted her twin in 1988. It was not until 2009 that Culwell learned of her near pre-birth demise. It was that year that Culwell — the adopted daughter of Warren and Barbara Culwell — decided to search ...
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February 8, 1988

MK-Ultra victim, Cathy O’Brien, was covertly Rescued from her Mind Control Enslavement by Intelligence Insider Mark Phillips

On August 3rd, 1977 the 95th U.S. Congress opened hearings into the reported abuses concerning the CIA’s TOP SECRET mind control research program code named MK-Ultra. On February 8th, 1988, a top-level MK-Ultra victim, Cathy O’Brien, was covertly rescued from her mind control enslavement by Intelligence insider Mark Phillips.  In 1995 when the US National Security Act was invoked on her testimony for US Congressional Permanent ...
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January 4, 1988

Dr. Leonard Cole Publishes “Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas”

Leonard A. Cole, professor of political science at Rutgers University, used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain information from the United States Government and wrote a book “Clouds of Secrecy.” [6] It was impossible to find a copy of this book to purchase in 1994 but many copies are available off the internet today. Here's a few things we learn about from his book ...
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