In 1985, when Detroit newsman William Gallagher asked why Nixon had wanted the file, Krogh was evasive, claiming a lack of memory.). The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. He is based at Detroit, and flies regularly in the companys northern division, from Detroit to Minneapolis and St. Paul, and to Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh. The UAW and those in the world who sought social change, lost an incredible, voice for their causes when Walter Reuther was silenced on May 9, 1970. However, the Civil Aeronautics Board, created only a year earlier after Sen. Bronson Cutting of New Mexico was killed in a plane crash ironically, Lundeen pushed for the legislation that created it raised further doubts in November when it issued an 87-page report of its investigation into the accident, even while concluding that the accident probably was caused by an extraordinary lightning effect., The report noted the fact that all-metal airplanes are frequently struck by lightning with no injurious results, and that the character of the lightning discharge, as well as its effect on the airplane and crew, in the present instance must be regarded as an extremely unusual occurrence. It added, Nothing within the ordinary range of experience and no combination of events of which the occurrence could be regarded as at all likely, would have sufficed to have produced this accident., Whatever the actual cause of the accident, Lundeens death had far-reaching political repercussions, just as Wellstones death did when Republican Norm Coleman defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, who was a last-minute stand-in for Wellstone just 12 days before the election, and led eventually to Colemans defeat by Democrat Al Franken last November after a marathon vote recount. But from the intensive FAA investigation, the facts seem to say clearly that it was caused by human error, not neglect" The FAA/NTSB found "no indication of sabotage." My maternal grandfather was thrown in, front a moving train. Wind shear, a sudden and powerful change in the direction of the wind, was given as one probable cause. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. The Detroit Police claimed that neighbors had been, complaining about his barking dog. It concentrates on, the murder attempts that occurred in 1948 and 1949, the investigation, and, the reward for information raised by the union. Lundeen's father, C.H. . Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. Ernest Lundeen Memorial. He tried undercover techniques to keep me from finding out how he spent it. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. There it disintegrated completely. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. Don Blankenship, Masseys former chief executive officer, and Chairman Bobby Ray Inman, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, made clear in sworn testimony that they firmly believed the company was being targeted by the government, lawyers for Massey investors who are suing the companys directors said in filings unsealed today in state court in Delaware. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. This was consistent with the indentation mark near the screw hole, that looked like a mark a left by a high speed drill bit that had drilled in the wrong area, then quickly withdrawn. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. Perhaps Ultra will expound upon such a topic as its episodes go on. It was the first fatal airline accident in 17 months and the worst in all U.S. airline history. Maloney asked him whether he referred to Viereck. Walter Reuther was first and foremost a labor organizer, with an. "AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN" The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. So were the bodies. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. The pilot had his engines wide open. He had recently announced his candidacy for, president on March 16, 1968 and had just finished giving a speech to his, All of these men were heavily involved in civil rights and the move toward, social justice for all Americans. Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. addressed the possibility that he may have been murdered. I excerpted portions of the 1940 crash article I thought showed that the investigating panel contradicted its own findings as to the cause of the crash, in that they admitted their determination, a lightening strike, was a low probability event, or possibly unprecedented. The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. . Mrs. Dickmeyer stated that her father was going up to Black Lake almost every weekend, and that information would not have been hard to discern. Ham Fish's memory went dead. FBIs Robert Mueller Still Engaging in an Anthrax Cover-Up, By: emptywheel Sunday November 1, 2009 6:55 am. By 1970, Reuther was seen more than ever as a threat to the dominant political agenda, earning him top place on Nixon's enemy list. The link pin of the same rocking shaft was incorrect. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. He could not be sure whether he had introduced Viereck to his secretary, George Hill. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? When US Attorney Jeff Taylor announced FBI was closing the investigation in February 2010, he gave the following 7 pieces of evidence that Ivins was the culprit. Senator Ernest Lundeen Plane Crash 1940. Were used to hearing it come over at just about that time, around 2:30 oclock, in the afternoon., Today we heard the roar of the motors much louder than usual. You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. suffered the loss of part of his right eye and parts of his jaw. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. Harold Stassen. . He was on his way to address an all-state picnic of Minnesota Townsend Clubs when his career ended abruptly in an airplane crash near Lovettsville, Virginia, in August 1940. History rhymes again . Photographs of the set screw revealed normal threading. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe's son, Perry Inhofe, a Tulsa orthopedic surgeon, died Sunday in a plane crash, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed late Monday. The Kollsman report concluded: "Considerable reinspection of altimeters of same repair history is recommended to ensure that the altimeters in service are in accordance with the manufacturer's recommended standards regarding parts used, assembly techniques, and calibration/compensation." The fatal plane crash of Walter Reuther, a liberal who was head of the United Automobile Workers union on May 9, 1970, also raised questions. (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's Punjab state has dissolved the local legislature on the advice of the chief minister, an ally of former premier Imran Khan, in a bid to force snap elections.Most Read from BloombergPfizer Bivalent Vaccine Linked to Strokes in Preliminary DataThe Apartment Market Is About to Get UglyAt Least 68 Dead as Nepal Plane Crashes Seconds Before LandingHuge Sanctions Are . In the process the perennial candidate switched party allegiances to independent, then became a member of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party, a precursor to the DFL. By Having succeeded with Lundeen, Viereck expanded the number of congressional collaborators, which included former Rep. Hamilton Fish, R-N.Y., and former Sen. Burton Wheeler, D-Mont. It certainly does and in mass marketed quantities. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. A Yonkers gang member who set off a vicious attack by more than a dozen people when he knocked a man unconscious with a tequila bottle was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in state prison. Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. The jury was packed with Ford supporters and the lawyer for the defense, claimed that Ruether had staged the event.4, 2) In April 1948, they tried to kill Walter Reuther with shotgun blasts in. D. P. JAMES, interstate commerce commission, Des Moines, Iowa. That high-profile stance drew Vierecks attention. http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1941/March/0308/0309/?action=view¤t=0309-allcurbsr.jpg, For your edification heres the crash report, http://www.baesel.net/capaccidents/1940.08.31_PennsylvaniaCentralAirlinesCorp_DouglasDC-3-A.pdf, As for the part about Inman I have no idea what you were going on about and doubt David or anyone else did either. The podcast describes an event in which angry constituents pushed Lundeen into a refrigerated rail car. Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' The lawmakers involved with Viereck all lost their seats in their next election. At the time, it was the highest death toll of any airplane accident in the United States. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. Achievements Lundeen was recognized for his service in the state legislature, the United States Congress and the United States Senate. Its pretty stark just how much the events of those times rhymes with what we live through now, and continue to live through, Young said. Polis. The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. The full story was not told. I believe. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." In 1933 Victor and Walter Reuther had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. You assert your main cred. you're a CT who believes you had success in "breaking through" with your particular theory, and now, you want to define (restrict) where the boundaries are. A Kollsman Instrument Report attempted to explain the indentation: "Examination of the shaft indicated physical damage adjacent to the questionable screw hole in the shaft. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. board to walk away without injury. JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. Walter Reuther, his wife May, the architect Oscar Stonorov, a, bodyguard, the pilot and co-pilot were killed in a chartered Lear jet while. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Both the CIA and the FBI monitored Reuther's foreign travel, taking note of public comments of his that "might be construed as contrary to the foreign policy of the United States?' Others residents in the district and the tiny town five miles from the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers said they had heard the plane circling for a time before the crash. But it landed short of the airport, and crashed into 50-foot elm trees. The correct link pin ends were flat, while the incorrect one was tapered on one end. CRASH KILLING 25 LAID TO LIGHTNING; CAA Reports Bolt Disabled Pilots of Plane Carrying Senator Lundeen DISCOUNTS TURBULENT AIR Jump-Seat Occupant, Thrown Into Control Cockpit, Might Have Disrupted . Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. A South Dakota native who graduated from Carleton College and the University of Minnesota Law School, Lundeen had a passion for politics. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. In the former case why were the only parts you posted from the article. The Civil Aeronautics Board had the last word in the matter, and it came up with a different theory. The National Transportation Safety Board report in the plane crash that killed Senator Paul Wellstone last October says the Chief pilot initially decided not to fly after receiving a weather briefing that morning. The Detroit Police nor J. Edgar Hoovers Federal Bureau of Investigation, attempted to discover who the perpetrators were.5, Why doesnt anyone seem to find it strange that this article was not enough. Again, there was no indication from the crew over the radio that any problem, Officials at Executive Jet Aviation in Columbus, Ohio, where the jet was, based, said Evans was probably one of the most experienced Lear Jet pilots. Senate probe . The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. The crew member composing and dropping a "note", vs. no radio distress call, indicates there was possibly a three minute window before the crash when the crew member put pen to paper, composed the distress note, and figured out how to drop it out of the rapidly descending, doomed airliner. I wanted to know more about him and, this paper gave me the opportunity to do just that. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down? When I wrote my book I had not seen these files. Washington The death of 128 persons in Saturday's tragic two-plane crash points up weaknesses in the nation's 21-year-old air traffic control system. Mourns. Detroit Free Press. It was horrible., It sounded like the plane exploded when it hit the ground. One victim was a NASA astronaut and another was the president-elect of a large physicians' group. I didn't come here to be insulted. Willy Phillips Jr was 13 years old when he survived a plane crash that killed his father in 2010. LUNDEEN TOOK VIERECK DATA; Former Secretary to Senator Testifies That Widow "Stripped' Files of Records TELLS OF SPEECH-WRITING Witness Asserts Joint Effort Produced Anti-British Attack -- Viereck Paid by Nazi February 25, 1942, Wednesday http://query.nytimes.com/beta/search/query.&submit=sub SIDELIGHTS OF THE WEEK It mentioned that Walter Reuther had died along with his wife May, his, affiliation with the UAW, and the size of its membership.10 There was no, other mention of him made during the time frame for my research. The, picture that emerged was quite unsettling. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. All of these types were essentially military." did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? On the evening of May 9, 1970, Reuther, along with his wife. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. That only says that whoever prepared the (probable) two separate batches of anthrax may have started with anthrax obtained at some point from that flask. NAS holds out the possibility the anthrax producer may have gotten it from somewhere else, that it was possible to get similar genetic results from other means (that is, suggesting thats not the only way to have produced the samples found in the letter). (Jim White gave me a ton of scientific help with this, but the errors surely result from my own misunderstanding.). But when he did come around, it was great, and who knows what he would have developed into. It was only three sentences long. He did not believe Walter Reuther's death was the result of a conspiracy, nor did he believe CIA had any motive to assassinate him. BBC Radio 5 Live. You don't file with just one clue. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . Many of the newspapers went through the process of trying to explain, something about the life and times of Walter Reuther. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into which it had apparently plunged full tilt. Many of us believe that our media is, the last bastion of truth and freedom. A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal's . ', They added that Viereck frequently came to Lundeens office to inquire if certain speeches which had a pro-dictatorship slant had been inserted in the Congressional Record by Lundeen and his staff. Click HERE to see this. 11) Pip, Edwin G. What caused the crash of Reuthers jet? Detroit News. They support defense budgets that fatten the militarists and their corporate contractors and dislike those who protest the pollution more than they dislike the polluters. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license. Suffice it to say that Victor's belief, shared by Walter's daughter Elizabeth Reuther Dickmeyer and other members of the family, that the crash was no accident sounds disturbingly plausible. On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a p*enger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington, D.C. to Detroit. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. W. M. BURLESON, 57 Lock Lane, Richmond, Va. The seditious lawmakers said the Justice Department and the FBI were embarked on politically motivated prosecutions. Its cabin split like a dried pod. Considering the fact that the DFP and the DN operate within the sphere of, the UAWs World Headquarters, you would expect for them to have the most. Lundeens secretary, who was tasked with driving the senator to the airport for that ill-fated trip, testified to the FBI that she found Lundeen in his Capitol Hill office crying inconsolably. So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. 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