Collection ID: RG 103.MUR.001
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Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Murtagh, Brian.
Abstract:
Correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, printed materials, and speeches and presentations related to the Pan Am 103 indictment and trial created and collected by Brian Murtagh
Extent:
9 folders, 1 rolled item
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Brian Murtagh Papers,

Background

Scope and Content:

The Brian Murtagh Papers consists of correspondence, photographs, speeches, presentations, and other materials collected and created by Brian Murtagh. The collection is divided into the following series:

Correspondence consists primarily of letters sent to Murtagh upon his retirement from the Department of Justice in 2011 by various family members of victims of the bombing of Pan Am 103, members of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. group, and former colleagues.

Memorabilia contains various identification cards issued to Murtagh, as well as a business card for Edwin Bollier of Mebo Ltd. Telecommunication. The timer used in the bomb that destroyed Pan Am 103 was traced to the Mebo company.

Printed material consists of a copy of the December 9, 2012 cover of Washington Post Magazine featuring Murtagh.

Photographs contains photographs taken by Murtagh during a 2015 trip to Lockerbie and Dumfries. Pictured are former members of the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, and images of various memorials in the Lockerbie Remembrance Garden. Also included in this series are photographs from Murtagh's retirement celebration, and several photographs from Kamp van Zeist during the trial.

Speeches and presentations includes the text of Murtagh's remarks delivered at the 2014 memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery, and the presentation "Pan Am 103: From Lockerbie to Kamp van Zeist" that Murtagh delivered to the Syracuse University Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars in October of 2015.

Biographical / Historical:

Brian Murtagh was a United States Department of Justice attorney who assisted in drafting the indictments for Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah in 1991 and was present, with the prosecution, for the trial that took place at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands from 2000-2001. Murtagh retired from the Department of Justice in 2011.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Brian Murtagh in 2012 and 2015. Dumfries and Lockerbie photographs in the Photographs series were deposited digitally in 2015.
Processing information:

The Brian Murtagh Papers are fully processed.

Arrangement:

Materials are arranged alphabetically.

Online content

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

There are no access restrictions for this collection.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Written permission must be obtained from the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Brian Murtagh Papers,

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Bird Library, Room 600
Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
Link to repository site
CONTACT:
315.443.2697
scrc@syr.edu