Gaddafi Dead; Justice for Hartsdale Native?

Deposed Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed in Libya, according to that nation's prime minister

Hartsdale resident Kenneth Bissett, a Cornell University student, was among those killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. After several years, Libya formally accepted responsibility for the bombing, though Gadhafi himself denied culpability.

Kenneth Bissett

Born Dec. 19, 1967, Kenneth John Bissett was the only child of John and Florence Bissett of Hartsdale.

He was a Cornell junior studying with a Syracuse University's program. Ironically, according to Syracuse University, Bissett was concerned about terrorism and turned the subject into his advertising project in London.Bissett was just two days shy of his 21st birthday.

He was an aspiring writer who transferred from an engineering program  to communications.

A $3.8 million settlement fromthe Libyan government was used to create  a professorship named in Bissett's name.

Bissett was a jazz fan, a poet and an artist. He graduated from Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle. His parents are both deceased.