Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. So were the bodies. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, How a U.S. With all of, this information being public knowledge and not to mention a sensational, story, why did only one of the newspapers (DFP), provide any in-depth, reporting into the possibility of assassination? An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Weather conditions that day were reported as "scattered clouds at 400 feet, measured ceiling 800 feet overcast, visibility seven miles, thunderstorms and light rain showers, wind at ten knots." 11 May 1970. The Kollsman Report stated: "Examination of the calibration arm, Photo 31, and 32, and the end of the questionable screw show discolorations whose shapes tend to confirm that this screw was in position at the time of exposure to high temperature. They said it appeared the big ship was in trouble and the pilot had been trying to find a field large and flat enough for a forced landing. Braden stated: "Victor spent the money, mostly in West Germany, to bolster labor unions there. "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. The certainty of this claim was seriously challenged by both the National Academy of Sciences report and subsequent reporting on several grounds. The plane should, have been flying at about 130 miles per hour, only seconds away from, touchdown, but two and three quarter miles short of the airport something, happened. there were a number of fatal accidents. In 1962, Walter Reuther, a member of the Tractors for Freedom Committee, helped conduct negotiations to release the Bay of Pigs Brigade prisoners from Cuba. Senator to be killed in an airline crash within five years. Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. Why is it that no one seems to find it, curious that some of the major voices for social change were silenced within, When I consider what happened to these men, I cannot help thinking about the, death of two of my relatives. JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. You don't file with just one clue. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Text searches and my skim of the NTSB report turned up no hits for: angus, barfield, military (armed, air force), trace or tso. The four members of the crew killed included Pilot LOWELL SCROGGINS, the Airlines oldest pilot in point of service, who was at the controls of the first ship dispatched from Washington by the company thirteen years ago. 12) Pip, Edwin G. Reuther plane had a flame out. Detroit News. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. The altimeter looked intact, even though it had been tampered with. My study was confined to the following. It was more likely caused by high heat and pressure of a part laying in contact. When Senator Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist, was killed in a plane crash, Stassen appointed Ball to fill the remaining two years of Lundeen's term. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. The doomed plane reported all well at 2:31 p.m., then headed into a squall. Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. "Pin installed was a P/N 371-80 (should be 1357-37)." . While at the Walter and May Reuther Educational and Recreational, Center at Black Lake, I saw a film that depicted much about the life of, Walter Reuther and I was fascinated. Ernest Lundeen 62, Minnesota U.S. I find it hard to believe that the FBI still refuses to turn over, nearly 200 pages of documents involving Reuthers death, and correspondence, between field offices and J. Edgar Hoover. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. .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." The accident, investigators said that the twin jet engines of the plane that carried, Walter Reuther and five others to their deaths had flamed out after striking, trees before the crash. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. addressed the possibility that he may have been murdered. E. J. TARR, 1722 19th St., NW., Washington. I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. 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. He elaborated: "Walter Reuther became a dove in the middle of the Hubert Humphrey - NIXON election. 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. political enemies and bents toward social justice who have preceded him. A staked depression would deform the adjacent holes and shaft as noted in Photo 45 which was purposely done on an equivalent shaft at room temperature." Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., October 23, 1876 . Rising from the ranks to spearhead the creation of the United Auto Workers (UAW), Reuther brought a special blend of unfaltering progressivism and efficacy to the U.S. political scene. The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. They don't put them in Lear Jets. The Rev. At the same time, Reuther was critical of right-wing radicalism. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. David O. Norris, a private detective hired by Elizabeth Reuther Dickmeyer, youngest daughter of Walter Reuther, discovered evidence to the contrary: "Just hours after the crash a reporter from the Detroit News talked to the night dispatcher at Butler Aviation who said he knew that Walter Reuther was on the plane." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, ###################################################OOOOOOOO##########################################++++. W. M. BURLESON, 57 Lock Lane, Richmond, Va. A reader who was exposed to the facts printed by the newspapers at, that time, were not given enough information. On August 31, 1940, his secretary found him near collapse. You can also learn about all our free newsletter options. 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. United States Senator. . It sliced off the top of a. Lawyer ; Judge, Missouri St. Louis Court of Appeals, 1916-40; defeated, 1940; mayor of St. Louis, Mo., 1941-43; died in office 1943. Reuther, developed his passion for social justice from his father. First, the NAS study concluded only that the genetic analysis was consistent with the spores being derived from RMR-1029. Like the charter airplane accident that killed DFL Sen. Wellstone, his wife and daughter and four others near Eveleth, Minn., Oct. 25, 2002, the accident that took the life of the 62-year-old Lundeen changed the course of Minnesota and perhaps even American political history. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. 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. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . Again, their story seems to support the view, that political murders are quite common in the USA. Lowell Scroggins of Washington, may have become lost in the cloud burst and fog came from report of Paul Rogers lumberman who lives near Hillsboro VA and wha told Rhodes he saw the plane heading east not west few minutes before the crash. (Jim White gave me a ton of scientific help with this, but the errors surely result from my own misunderstanding.). Inman held this post until 1981. Pennsylvania Central flies between Norfolk, Virginia and Milwaukee. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. 14 March 2000. http://pages.prodigy.net/kpmcclave/RFKbio.htm. It carries a crew of two and six passengers at nearly 600 miles per hour. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died in a single-engine plane crash in southwest Alaska that killed four other people, including one of his former congressional aides, officials said Tuesday. (WTC 7 collapse comes to mind as a similar official determinationunprecedented event). First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names. 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. This new facility had been designed by Oscar Stonorov and was due to be, opened to the membership within a few weeks of the crash. He. ", A report from the Kollsman Instrument Company stated: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose". The plane was flying low . As progressives in the AFL-CIO try to rally their forces, they would do well to remember those few especially dedicated and gifted union leaders who understood the broader social and political dimensions of the labor struggle. In 1985, when Detroit newsman William Gallagher asked why Nixon had wanted the file, Krogh was evasive, claiming a lack of memory.). One can imagine that this was not well received by the Nixon White House. programs that he advocated for the poor did not endear him to his enemies. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". BBC Radio 5 Live. When the investigation was complete, two scenarios were provided for the most likely cause of the crash. 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. The rest involved, biographies, details of the crash, and how the UAW was effected before and, after Reuthers death. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" The set screw, which was missing from the rocking shaft, was recovered from within the case. This means that the spores used in the attacks were taken from that specific flask, regrown, purified, dried and loaded into the letters. After talking to a scheduler for the Wellstone campaign, however, he reversed his decision and took off for Eveleth with Senator Wellstone and 7 others aboard. heads, and rival unionists to prove that they were communist sympathizers. en route to the unions recreational and educational facility at Black Lake. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. News accounts at the time reported that it was the worst disaster in U.S. commercial aviation history. Jonas was born in 1856. The story, unearthed while the nation is still trying to grapple with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is a reminder that democracy in the United States has been under threat before. . .But unlike the Wellstone tragedy, the cause of the crash that killed the first-term Farmer-Labor senator remains shrouded in mystery nearly three quarters of a century later. Develle Coates, 20, was the only one among 14 defendants who took his case to trial and the jury in November found him guilty of first-degree gang assault. Reuther said: I went to the icebox to get a bowl of fruit salad, my wife was just a foot from me. Lovettsville Game Protective Association, Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville High School (1910), Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Library, Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Post Office (1937-1961), Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Town Hall, Lovettsville, Virginia, McClains Grocery, Lovettsville, Virginia, Historical Photographs of Lovettsville, Virginia, 1940 Lovettsville Airline Disaster Archive, Revolutionary War Veterans of Lovettsville. It is a shame that the political and, social atmosphere of the time would allow such a thing to happen. German ancestry. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Mr. The bodies were burned beyond recognition except for dental records. In the former case why were the only parts you posted from the article. So with the current anti-democracy campaign intended to Nazify America (and you know which orange figurehead and faithless political party this involves, as with Republican Senator Lundeen in 1940), Rachel Maddow 's new podcast Ultra (which premiered today!) Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. They asserted that Lundeens speeches were bitterly anti-British and vigorously against American preparedness.. He was replaced by Joseph Ball, a 34-year-old St. Paul newspaper reporter appointed by Gov. Page of 2. He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. Senate probe Certainly, the fact is mentioned that before, during, and after 1940, Herr H*tler ran Nazi operations on US soil. In fact, the impact of the thing, knocked me down on the floor, and I tried to get up and I got my arm tangled, up as thought it had been torn off. The DNs Aerospace Writer, Edwin Pip, wanted to, know how a time-proven airplane, flown by an experienced pilot in reasonable, weather, could suddenly plunge to the ground. Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. Further microscopic examination leads to the belief that this was due to causes other than upset by staking, due to the lack of upset material adjacent to the depression, and hole shape. ", From the first days of the AFL-CIO merger in 1955, irreconcilable political differences existed between Reuther and AFL-CIO president George Meany, a cold-war hawk. It is hard to fathom what national security concern is involved or why the FBI and CIA still keep so many secrets about Walter Reuther's life and death. Another Justice Department prosecutor failed to convict the accused seditionists after a wild trial that featured 22 defense attorneys filing thousands of motions and the death of the judge, causing a mistrial. 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. AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN. The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. I must also admit that after reading all of the, articles involved in my research, my feelings have not changed. Perhaps Ultra will expound upon such a topic as its episodes go on. 3) One day before the fatal crash, Walter Reuther sent a telegram to the, White House condemning the war, the invasion, and the bankruptcy of our, policy of force and violence in Vietnam.15. Sen. Ernest Lundeen (D-MN) was killed 80 years ago today along with 24 other people on Aug. 31, 1940 when his commercial airliner plunged into an alfalfa field near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains during a violent thunderstorm as he was returning to Minnesota from the nation's Capital for the Labor Day recess. This error was significant. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. In view of that agency's track record, "case closed" could mean, "case open". Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. Republican. 12 May 1970. It was worse than a fog., The plane was broken to bits and so were the bodies of the people in it., We stumbled on toward it. lundeen, ernest, a representative and a senator from minnesota; born near beresford, union county, s.dak., august 4, 1878; attended the common schools; served in company b, twelfth minnesota volunteers, during the spanish-american war; graduated from carleton college, northfield, minn., in 1901; studied law at the university of minnesota at However, he had to temporarily step aside because his appointment expired the day of the election rather than at the end of Lundeens term. Victor Reuther now believes that sabotage was involved in his brother's death; however, he did not believe it was the CIA: "What I did not garner from the material you sent me was that it was the CIAthere are all kinds of wing groups, who could hire sophisticated people; there was a history of right-wing attacks on us." [7] Also on board were "a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from Criminal . But the prosecutor, John Rogge, went on to collect new information about the conspiracies in Germany after the U.S. military obtained control of Nazi government documents. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. 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. He served from 1937 to 1940. Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. 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. Eight investigators from the. 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. In the . Like so many on the Left then and now, he did not realize that those who fight for social change on behalf of the less-privileged elements of society are abhorred by conservative elites whether they be communists or not. Ham Fish's memory went dead. There were several other problems with the construction of this altimeter: According to a Kollsman Instrument report, the same rocking shaft that contained the missing set screw "has the improper pivot on the forward end." Both pilots and three other passengers, including the Senator's first wife, were killed in the crash. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . The Wonderful Life and Strange, 15) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. May 1, 1928 - New York Rep. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R). There it disintegrated completely. Suspicion was that Sen. Lundeen was under FBI surveillance because of his association with a known Nazi, and because of what was learned, later. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. He was previously the representative for Minnesota 's 3 rd congressional district as a Farmer-Labor from 1935 to 1936; the representative for Minnesota 's at-large district as a Farmer-Labor from 1933 to 1934; and the . Joe Karaffa, 41, was the co-pilot and had only recently joined the charter firm after his Air, Force career; both men were retired military jet pilots. The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. The victims of the problem are seen as the cause, while the perpetrators are depicted as innocent or even beneficial. 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. 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." The Senate threatened an investigation, for on the plane was Ernest Linden of Minnesota, the second U.S. The report also faulted J. Edgar Hoover for exaggerating "the domestic Communist menace at every turn" thus contributing "to the public's frame of mind upon which the radical right feeds. Why did the other, newspapers remain silent about the possibility that Walter Reuther was, Walter Reuther had made many enemies in both the political arena and in the, world of business through his negotiations for the UAW, and his social, agenda. Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State University prompted Reuther-the day before his death-to send a telegram to the White House condemning the war, the invasion, and "the bankruptcy of our policy of force and violence in Vietnam?' It was on page two and it appeared in a. regular section called The News-Briefly. The technician who assembled the altimeter had made too many mistakes in the same area, to have done so innocently. My grandfathers lived. (Many thanks to Judy Virts-Beard Fox, Lovettsville Historical Society Board member, for donating this copy of LIFE Magazine to the LHS Museum. I'll say it again, on behalf of a lot of us, sorry, David, you don't get to be "that" guy. MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. The full story was not told. (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 . The plane refueled at Akron and went on to Detroit's City Airport, then on to Detroit's Metro Airport. Consider the assassinations of the following individuals: 1) John Fitzgerald Kennedy our 35th president was murdered on November 22, 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas. Although he and his brother were from a, very wealthy and affluent family, he sought to promote social change and, justice for the victims of discrimination in this country.6, 2) Malcolm X was murdered on February 21, 1965. 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