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AUTHOR'S NOTE:  "Terror on Flight 789" is a very early, much shorter draft of what would eventually become my book-length memoir, The Accidental Terrorist. If you like what you read here, please consider ordering a copy of the book, which is significantly revised and expanded from this version.

Foreword: A Record in Mine Own Hand

By William Shunn on October 31, 1995 12:00 AM
          

And I know that the record which I make is true; and I make it with mine own hand; and I make it according to my knowledge.
—1 Nephi 1:3
Every word of this is true.

I have to make that clear up front, because some of you are going to recall that I'm a professional science fiction writer and assume that I created the memoir that follows from whole cloth.

Not so. It really did happen to me, and I can trot out the newspaper clippings and conviction records if you want proof. I've changed the names of most of the participants, but the events themselves happened the way I describe them.

Back in the late eighties, I told this story frequently—often to folks from Utah who said, "Oh, yeah, I remember hearing something about that on the news." A good oral telling took at least two hours, and even then it didn't do the story justice.

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