I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (CSM), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit News (DN), Michigan Chronicle (MC), and New York Times (NYT). Because he had once denied knowing Agent Viereck, Hill himself was tried for perjury a few weeks ago, had been sentenced to two-to-six years in jail. This personality tranformation, called once famously a "trance-formation," was induced by the hyper-raumatizing, savage rape, torture and murder of innocent children in front of other children such as myself. It carries a crew of two and six passengers at nearly 600 miles per hour. 25 DEAD IN CRASH OF AIR TRANSPORT; LUNDEEN IS KILLED; IN VIRGINIA STORM Crash Near Mountain in Fog and Rain Startles Village Dwellers BODIES WIDELY SCATTERED Debris Spread Over Hundreds of. Rhodes said, because a note dropped by the stewardess, Margaret Carson of Pittsburgh, was found on a farm three miles from the spot where the plane went down.Rhodes said the note asked that whoever found it notify the Pitts burgh office. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. At Pittsburgh, headquarters of the Pennsylvania Central, http://www2.dailyprogress.com/lifestyles/cdp-lifestyles/2009/mar/01/1940_air_crash_took_a_toll_not_soon_forgotten-ar-67718/, http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/01/fbis-robert-mueller-still-engaging-in-an-anthrax-cover-up/, http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm, http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR71-03.pdf, http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/nodule23.htm. On August 31 [1940] the weather was stormy. I found the actual NTSB crash report of the Ruether crash. Any part that comes into contact with the altitude capsule itself is critical. But it was not an obsession with communism that caused them to hate and fear Reuther but an obsession with maintaining their privileged place in the politico-economic status quo. metal from the airplane and also flamed out. She later told federal officials the file had been lost in a burglary of her home. 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. The loose set screw could not be explained. W. M. BURLESON, 57 Lock Lane, Richmond, Va. The Pittsburgh native also was an heir to the H.J. Airline with no accidents in its history. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. 25 memorials. You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. 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. This error was significant. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? This second son of, a German immigrant couple was born on September 1, 1907, in Wheeling, West, Virginia. After Rogge made public appearances to discuss those findings, he was fired. Newspapers Snub the Specter of Assassination: In this paper I am going to discuss the death of Walter Reuther and the, suspicious way that the newspapers covered it. One of the youngest persons ever to become a U.S. senator, Ball, at thirty-five, was also the first senator to be required to register for conscription. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. I found no trace of the supposed Kollsman or Barfield reports on the Net. 14) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. ED BATEMAN, son of MRS. MARY H. BATEMAN, of 948 Adair Avenue, has been a pilot with Pennsylvania-Central for some time. Walter early in trade unionism and encouraged his natural bent for debate. But it landed short of the airport, and crashed into 50-foot elm trees. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. Lundeen was not a part of the efforts to commit violence. Don Jonz, 38, the owner of Pan Alaska, piloted the plane. 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. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982. Death of senator from Minnesota still shrouded in mystery, By Albert Eisele | Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. E. W. CHAMBERS, 17 Craighead St., Pittsburgh. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. He stated: "I've had very strong suspicions from the day the accident occurred. 11) Pip, Edwin G. What caused the crash of Reuthers jet? Detroit News. The communist label was used in attempts to smear and delegitimate Reuther. 11 May 1970. The altimeter, however, had only been partially opened by crash events and the rocking shaft in question was still shielded by the altimeter's case. Ham Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office. Apr 4, 2021 Thirty years ago, Republican Sen. John Heinz then Pennsylvania's most popular public figure died in a midair collision in Lower Merion. The set screw, which was missing from the rocking shaft, was recovered from within the case. I didn't come here to be insulted. .. Heres what remains of each of these 7 pieces of evidence: 1. It had never had a fatal crack-up in 13 years of operation. He felt that, violence towards those that would do him and his supporters harm was, 3) Martin Luther King was murdered on April 4, 1968. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" Checking into such things is no easy task. Airport, Pellston, Michigan, May 9, 1970, Report No. The last time that a former US Senator was killed in a plane crash was in April 1991 when former Texas Senator John Tower was one of the 23 passengers and crew members killed in the crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines Embraer Brasilia near . One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. WASHINGTON When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice. 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. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. The pilot had his engines wide open. 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. Heinz, 52, was in his third term in the U.S. Senate. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. . Roll with it, David, instead of trying to endorse the "serious" people. 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Eight months before his death, Reuther reflected on the broader dimensions of labor's struggle: "The labor movement is about changing society . Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' Chuck Todd told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to go back on his "partisan cable cocoon" during a heated interview after the Republican railed about Hunter Biden on Sunday (You can watch the two go back-and-forth below).. Johnson diverted the discussion from the discovery of President Joe Biden's classified documents to a familiar GOP talking point about investigating Hunter Biden's laptop . Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. Theme by AcademiaThemes, Formation of the Lovettsville Historical Society, Lovettsville Historic District Listed On the National Register of Historic Places, The History of Lovettsvilles Oktoberfest Celebration, History of the Potomac River Crossing at Berlin/Brunswick, Street Names of Lovettsville and Their Meanings, African-American Methodist Episcopal Church, Lovettsville, Virginia, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, Virginia, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church from WPA Historical Inventory Project, 1938, Providence Primitive Baptist Church (former site of Old Presbyterian Church), Lovettsville, Virginia, Reformed Church (now St. James United Church of Christ), Lovettsville, Virginia, St. James Reformed Church from WPA Historical Inventory Project, 1938, Brown Funeral Home, Lovettsville, Virginia, Freedom Masonic Lodge No. In 1966 Victor Reuther told Drew Pearson and The Los Angeles Times that many of the AFL/CIO's overseas operations were conduits for the CIA. To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. 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 lack of a distress call is interesting but fits with what many pilots said about the Wellstone crash, that the pilots would have prioritized saving the plane over making a radio call. Some, 1) In April 1938, two masked gunmen forced their way into Walter Reuthers, home and tried to abduct him. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". Killed and mangled were . The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. Nancy Beck Young, a historian specializing in 20th century American politics at the University of Houston who is featured in the podcast, said Viereck was on the lookout for members of Congress who were susceptible to his pitch, which included splitting the money Berlin was paying for the operation. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. 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. 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. At the same time, Reuther was critical of right-wing radicalism. The senator would not say why. Walter Reuther admitted having taken the money, and said that Braden had tried to recruit his brother Victor as a CIA agent: "Victor was contacted by Tom Braden at the U.S. Embassy in Paris and asked to become a CIA agent, using as a 'front' his position [with the CIO]." Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. 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. en route to the unions recreational and educational facility at Black Lake. overpowering sense of social justice that shaped his controversial, temperamental, combustible, and at times unrelenting character. The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. 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. The account posted above contains several distortions: The screw was in place up to the point the altimeter was disassembled, the suspected it might have been loosened by the fire, but a test was inconclusive: http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR71-03.pdf pg. The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. First, the NAS study concluded only that the genetic analysis was consistent with the spores being derived from RMR-1029. programs that he advocated for the poor did not endear him to his enemies. 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. Viereck then instructed him to mail out, under frank of Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen, copies of an isolationist speech Lundeen made in the Senate. When we plowed our garden, we found pieces of the airplane and even a human tooth, she said. No test was conducted to determine if the set screw, sitting in a drilled-out thread, would leave a similar mark; with the threads torn, it could not have left a bright spot or stain on the shaft, since there would have been a total absence of tension. The right engine ingested wood and. AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN. What good is another week's vacation if the lake you used to go to, where you've got a cottage, is polluted and you can't swim in it and the kids can't play in it? An even bigger problem is the complete lack of attention on what happened to the anthrax after it came from Ivins flask, if it did. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. The FAA/NTSB found "no indication of sabotage." On Aug. 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane carrying Sen. Ernest Lundeen, along with 20 other passengers and four crew members, went down in a heavy rainstorm near Lovettsville, Virginia. 12) Pip, Edwin G. Reuther plane had a flame out. Detroit News. JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. The other passenger victims included a number of government employes and minor federal officials, among them being at least three agents of the department of justice. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. A drawing of this shaft and its jeweled bearings pointed out several areas of "possible interference" with the altimeter's accuracy as a result of these mismatches. . My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. 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. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." The technician who assembled the altimeter had made too many mistakes in the same area, to have done so innocently. 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. Page 1. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. Probably something wonderful. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. ", Where you "not insinuating" the plane was sabotaged" Or only "not insinuating" FDR or Hoover were responsible? Im confused Tom because Evan, another moderator, asked us to keep out posts on this thread on the topic of the assassination but shortly after that you post irrelevant stuff like this you guys need to get your signals straight. MARGARET CARSON, hostess, Pittsburgh. Ball, the youngest member of the Senate at the time and the first senator required to register for the military draft, served the remaining two years of Lundeens term and was elected to a full term in 1942. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. On May 11, 1970 (two days after the fatal crash), the DN set itself apart from all four, of the other papers, when an article was printed asking: What caused the, crash of Reuthers jet? The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. The information contained in those German files leaked anyway. The crash occurred because the pilot thought he was flying higher than was indicated by the altimeter readings. 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. 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