The Lockerbie Air Disaster
This site is dedicated to the 270 men, women and children whose lives were lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. Thirty-five students studying abroad with Syracuse University were killed in this terrorist attack.
The Syracuse University Archives established this special archive in 1990 to:
- bring together in one place materials generated regarding the disaster and make those materials available for research, and
- provide a place to personalize our students whose lives were lost; where their families can donate materials by or about them to let the world know in some way what has been lost by their deaths.
Included in the collection are newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, information on the trial, government documents, books, audio and videotapes, posters, exhibit materials, and items specific to individual victims.
- VOLUME: 180 boxes; some oversize
- INCLUSIVE DATES: 1988 - present, but some earlier material has been deposited by family members
- LOCATION OF MATERIAL: Archives stacks on campus [RG 56 in Aisle 68] and oversize area
- DONORS: University administration; individuals; victims' families, Tom Foster and Matthew Cox
- DATE OF DEPOSIT: 1990 - on
- RESTRICTIONS: Some personal information is restricted
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2009 Exhibition:
"A Special Moment in Time: 1988 Fall Semester in London"
November 6 - December 21, 2009
2008 Exhibition:
"From Darkness into Light 20 Years of the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives"
New Book:
SU Alumna Wendy S. Morton '89 has written and illustrated a children's book about a visit to the Syracuse University Archives. It contains stories and images of SU traditions as told by SU Archivist Ed Galvin. It concludes with a thoughtful telling of the loss of 270 innocent people in the bombing of Pan Am 103. The book, "Flipper and Dipper and the Treasures of 6 Bird" is dedicated to her friend Frederick "Sandy" Phillips, a Pan Am 103 victim.
On-Line Giving:
Click here to give to the Pan Am 103 Archives
Resources:
SU
- Remembrance Scholars at Syracuse University
- Syracuse University 20th Anniversary Site
- Syracuse University College of Law Pan Am Flight 103 Trial Site
- SU London and the 20th Anniversary of Lockerbie
Other
- Homepage of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc.
- Dark Elegy
- The Alexia Foundation
- Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial Cairn - Lockerbie Cairn
- Lockerbie Remembered
- Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors' Centre
- Lockerbie - The Ultimate On-Line Guide
- Virginia Tech: The 4/16 Digital Library
- The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving the Stories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy
