WHO BLEW UP THE STATUE OF LIBERTY?

Sitting beneath the flame in Lady Liberty’s raised right hand is the upper viewing platform at the Statue of Liberty. But it’s been out of action for more than 100 years because it’s simply too dangerous to use, explains Dr Timothy White of New Jersey City University. ‘German agents, opposed to America’s support of the British during World War One, infiltrated a munitions depot on nearby Black Tom Island and blew it up in July 1916. It caused explosions that registered on the Richter Scale and the shrapnel struck Lady Liberty’s right arm, damaging it in such a serious way that it rendered the viewing platform it supported totally unsafe. Sadly it remains that way to this day.’