Subject: Loftus/ Hillary Clinton On 4 April 2008 Michael Sylvester wrote: >Hillary said that she misspoke about coming under gun fire and going >in a docking mode when she visited Bosnia as First lady. Would this >be considered a false memory, a reconstucted memory, or a flashbulb >memory, or none of these?
A fascinating question, Michael. I think that into the mix should be placed the fact that in her book *Living History* published five years ago, she actually wrote about the 1996 Tuzla incident, reporting it very differently, with nothing about running and ducking under sniper fire, according to the following: "Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/25/11268/8795/297/483805 That raises the question of how a memory of meeting local children that was later written down some six years after the event could be transformed into her not being able to stop, and running and ducking under sniper fire. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
