In 2014, as the incident's 50th anniversary approached, John White wrote "The Gulf of Tonkin Events—Fifty Years Later: A Footnote to the History of the Vietnam War". In the foreword, he notes "Among the many books written on the Vietnamese war, half a dozen note a 1967 letter to the editor of a Connecticut newspaper which was instrumental in pressuring the Johnson administration to tell the truth about how the war started. The letter was mine." The story discusses Lt. White reading Admiral Stockdale's "In Love and War" in the mid 1980s, then contacting Stockdale who connected White with Joseph Schaperjahn, chief sonarman on "Turner Joy". Schaperjahn confirmed White's assertions that "Maddox"s sonar reports were faulty and the Johnson administration knew it prior to going to Congress to request support for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. White's book explains the difference between lies of commission and lies of omission. Johnson was guilty of willful lies of omission. White was featured in the August 2014 issue of "Connecticut Magazine".