It happened on the weekend the Lewinsky story broke, if I remember correctly.
You memory is wrong. The Lewinskey story broke in January of 1998, flight 800 occured in July of 1996.
You are confusing TWA800 with the crash of the plane in Yugoslavia which Ron Brown was aboard. Just before the Monica story broke it had been revealed that there was a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head. People were asking questions. But a blow job from a fat groupie is much more important than the questionable circumstances of the Ron Brown plane crash, and so we all talked about Monica.
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