On 3 July 1988 USS *Vincennes* shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 people. The DoD Fogarty Formal Investigation, ICAO process, and ICJ *Aerial Incident of 3 July 1988* case (discontinued after 1996 settlement) form the primary spine. The Archive holds the shootdown as documented fact and keeps deliberate-massacre versus tragic-error intent language on L2 edges tied to those doors—not to slogans.