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John J. Herrick

U.S. Navy captain who commanded the Maddox task force on 2-4 August 1964.

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Gulf of Tonkin incidents task force commander; doubted the reports within hours Primary record 1

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Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964 (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 2000/Spring 2001; approved for release 3 Nov 2005), National Security Agency, 2001. Primary record
The commander of the Maddox task force, Captain John J. Herrick, was not entirely certain what had transpired.
Within an hour of the end of the attack, Herrick relayed his doubts about the attack in an after-action report.

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