The spores in the attack came from RMR-1029 and Ivins controlled access to that flask. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. Attempts to destabilize and even overthrow the U.S. government, as conversely efforts to fight fascism by the Justice Department and ordinary citizens like Los Angeles attorney Leon Lewis, who with his friends infiltrated the American brownshirt movements and uncovered violent plots, may soon come to the big screen. The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. This article originally appeared on St. Pittsburgh, Aug. 31 (INS) The 25 persons aboard the Pennsylvania-Central Airlines transport which crashed in Virginia tonight killing all on board were, according to PCA: LOWELL SCROGGINS, pilot, Washington, D. C. . 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). I decided to focus my research on May 9, 1970 (the day of Reuthers death), through the end of that month. 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. It was not uncommon for Reuther to, hold an audience mesmerized for three or more hours1. 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. My grandfathers lived. Brand-new Douglas DC-3. 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. He was labeled a radical, black civil rights activist with ties to the Nation of Islam. Telegraph-Herald - Sep 1, 1940 Milwaukee Journal. 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. Walter Reuther was first and foremost a labor organizer, with an. Is it such a stretch to assume that our government. "Pin installed was a P/N 371-80 (should be 1357-37)." In the former case why were the only parts you posted from the article. 1A+. Norma Lundeen: I am the widow of Ernest Lundeen, United States senator from Minnesota, who was killed in an airplane crash on August 31, 1940. I heard a couple of small booms, In October of 1968, a year and a half before the fatal crash, Reuther and, his brother Victor were almost killed in a small private plane as it, approached Dulles Airport. FBIs Robert Mueller Still Engaging in an Anthrax Cover-Up, By: emptywheel Sunday November 1, 2009 6:55 am. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) 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. The report seemed to focus on the, altimeter found in the wreckage. to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? The crash was a head-scratcher. This was why it popped out. Suspicion was that Sen. Lundeen was under FBI surveillance because of his association with a known Nazi, and because of what was learned, later. . On the opposite end of the same rocking shaft the end stone was missing and the ring jewel was pushed off center. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. Many of the newspapers went through the process of trying to explain, something about the life and times of Walter Reuther. WILLIAM GARBOSE, department of justice, Washington. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. Despite the limited investigation there is enough evidence to suggest that foul play was involved. . But in court last week, Hill admitted that: He had served as handy man of a propaganda ring managed by Viereck and Prescott Dennett, Washington publicist. U.S. army investigators approach the wreckage of a Air Force T-43 plane on April 6, 1996, near the Dubrovnik airport. Lundeen's father, C.H. Both men were, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions (one short of a Nathan Peterman) and the Chargers took a . He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. 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. ernest lundeen, 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 Steve Schlossberg told this researcher: "It's not my field. One local store keeper said the engines sounded about as usual. Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. Both papers had many details about his life and the plane crash that killed. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. 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. No one received material from that flask without going through Dr. Ivins. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. Senate probe The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. My maternal grandfather was thrown in, front a moving train. In early 1968 the UAW withdrew from the AFL-CIO and joined forces with the Teamsters and two smaller unions to form the Alliance for Labor Action (ALA), with a membership totaling over four million. There are people with legitimate grievances as employees, taxpayers, and consumers who direct their wrath against welfare mothers but not against corporate welfarism, against the inner city poor not the outer city rich, against human services that are needed by the community rather than regressive tax systems that favor the affluent. Senator Frank Lundeen & Two FBI Agents, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/massey-directors-saw-government-conspiracy-against-company-filing-shows.html, http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/09/03/11291/death_of_senator_from_minnesota_still_shrouded_in_mystery, http://www.google.com/search?q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=7a1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&tbm=nws&prmd=ivnsb&source=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1940,cd_max:1949&sa=X&ei=aBPhTbSFKIrrgQejkOyyBg&ved=0CBMQpwUoCQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=73a5782601ead03&biw=790&bih=476. MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Jonz was a military veteran with 17,000 hours of flight time, and he logged 15 years as a pilot in Alaska. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. Here are some things to consider: First, as president of the largest union in the country, Reuther had the resources for advancing his causes on the national scene as did few others. in rural Alabama during the most racist era in American history. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? The pilot had his engines wide open. The plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air A100, was apparently in good condition when it hit the ground and exploded into flames about two miles from the Eveleth-Virginia airport in the. In C. Wright Mill's words: "What people are interested in is not always what is to their interest; the troubles they are aware of are not always the ones that beset them. 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. The Pittsburgh native also was an heir to the H.J. When we plowed our garden, we found pieces of the airplane and even a human tooth, she said. In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. 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. This was a totally real program. Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into which it had apparently plunged full tilt. (Jim White gave me a ton of scientific help with this, but the errors surely result from my own misunderstanding.). Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. At one point he does try to visit the troops and is turned away by the military because hes seen as a, an almost unpatriotic figure.. The correct pivot was conical, the incorrect pivot was flat. Whether Reuther's death was part of a broader agenda to decapitate and demoralize the mass movements of that day, or whether such an agenda existed at all, are questions that go beyond the scope of our inquiry. These powerful men were able to use their political influence to prod the Justice Department to remove a competent, ambitious prosecutor from investigating Vierecks operation and the slew of other Nazi-promoted plots to destabilize the U.S. government. In each instance, Hoover successfully blocked Reuther's appointment by secretly circulating disinformation packets to the White House and members of Congress, featuring the doctored "For a Soviet America" letter and testimony by individuals falsely accusing Walter of communist affiliations. He stated that as he understood it, the cause of the crash was a faulty altimeter. Lundeen's husband, who had been tragically killed in a plane crash near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia two years earlier, was reportedly under investigation by the FBI at the time of his death. You don't file with just one clue. 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." There was one conspiracy article from my class on Media in America, and one article that discussed previous murder attempts. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. The Kollsman report stated: "One of the pivots which supports the rear of the rocking shaft was incorrect in that it is intended for a ring stone application only. First, the NAS study concluded only that the genetic analysis was consistent with the spores being derived from RMR-1029. 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." Killed and mangled were . Muellers answers make it clear the FBI wasand is stilltrying to cover up details about its investigation of the anthrax attack. http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/05/25/the-circumstantial-case-against-bruce-ivins-gets-weaker/, The Circumstantial Case against Bruce Ivins Gets Weaker, By: emptywheel Wednesday May 25, 2011 2:12 pm, So heres my summary of the circumstantial case against Bruce Ivins. . There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA There is a lot of crossover. The Wonderful Life and Strange, ###################################OOOOOOOO###############################++++, The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther, THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND STRANGE DEATH OF WALTER REUTHER. Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. 14) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. MISS C. POST, 1739 Kilborn Place, NW., Washington. The Lear Company maintained that it was impossible for anyone but trusted officials of their firm to have known who was to use the plane" Steven I. Schlossberg, who conducted the investigation of the crash for the United Automobile Workers, reported: "In view of the fact that almost no one outside of top officials of Executive Jet could have known the identity of the passengers and there was little, if any, chance for ground tampering of this airplane, it appears to me that further investigation on a private basis is unwarranted." 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. The speech extolled the great contributions of German culture to American life, and argued that Americans had more in common with the fascist German government than it did with the democracies Germany was busy invading. The worst disaster in the history of U. S. Commercial aviation occurred near here late today what all 25 persons aboard a Pennsylvania Central airliner crashed to their deaths at the height of a terrific rainstorm. He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. The report was made public by the budget bureau. I, found it strange that only one of the five newspapers discussed the murder, attempts. Mourns. Detroit Free Press. 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. He was Johnson's biggest supporter. 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. . ", A two-page ad in the Wall Street Journal (9/22/58) ran an inch-high headline: "WILL YOU LET REUTHER GET AWAY WITH IT?" The gangling, trumpet-tongued Congressman was on the witness stand in Washington, called there to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, veteran Nazi propaganda agent. Achievements Lundeen was recognized for his service in the state legislature, the United States Congress and the United States Senate. He served from 1937 to 1940. Capt. As his spawn and wanna-bes . 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. Nearest to the scene, apparently, was LESTER MASON, whose farm home is on the opposite side of a knoll from which the plane flowed into the ground. He notes that witnesses saw the planes, bright landing lights wink on as it approached the field. The plane was in a 45 degree dive. The screw had not fallen out due to worn out or damaged threads. His remains were spread about the area of impact. 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. 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. It is possible that, despite Jonz's experience, the plane could have crashed into a mountain or even into the Prince William Sound. But there was no fire. One can imagine that this was not well received by the Nixon White House. The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. It was explained to Victor Reuther that an intelligence agency was often involved in sabotage of a sophisticated nature. It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. . 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. 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. In view of that agency's track record, "case closed" could mean, "case open". 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. I believe that the murder, attempt in 1938 had been retribution for his union activities at Ford Motor, Company. Prosecutor William Power Maloney asked suavely whether it was a coincidence that Viereck's views as a Nazi propagandist "coincide so closely with your views as a Congressman at this time." The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. The Senate threatened an investigation, for on the plane was Ernest Linden of Minnesota, the second U.S. Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. 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. ", A report from the Kollsman Instrument Company stated: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose". This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. At 2:41 it crashed at top speed into a field of alfalfa, ricocheted 50 yards into a cornfield. learn about all our free newsletter options, How a U.S. For this he earned the wrath of powerful corporate and political interests. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the newly appointed House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman, on Sunday sidestepped multiple questions about why the panel won't investigate former President Trump over his handling of classified documents, despite plans to probe President Biden for similar offenses. WHEN MINNESOTA SENATOR ERNEST LUNDEEN WAS KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH over Virginia on August 31, 1940, the Republican governor was able, according to the rules, to appoint a fellow Republican to fill the senator's seat. JOHN. ", Said Maloney: "I think the American people have been insulted. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. 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. He was the dynamic, and charismatic leader of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Segregation left African-Americans in the position of feeling both inferior, My paternal grandfather was murdered after he was falsely accused of raping, a white female. 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? The assailants were caught and acquitted in a trial that. This error was significant. en route to the unions recreational and educational facility at Black Lake. Rogges campaign succeeded in a way his attempts to send the seditionists to jail did not. If the screw was. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. There are a number of posts already on this thread telling you this, but you don't seem to be replying to the opinion of many who take issue with the tone and the hypocrisy some of his perceive as an "opening shot" in your thread opener. After Rogge made public appearances to discuss those findings, he was fired. In 1933 Victor and Walter Reuther had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. The questionable calibration arm set screw is reasoned to have been in position at the time the X-ray pictures were taken (analysis of the X-ray, Photo 10, and Photo 5 NTSB picture) and Photos 11 - 14 allow the conclusion that the questionable calibration arm set screw was in the shaft at the time the X-ray was taken and the stains on the calibration arm indicate that the arm position was reasonably correct." Walter Reuther is Dead and the Nation. Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? I relied on the then-General Counsel of the United Automobile Workers, Steve Schlossberg, who I know from later experience was not too eager to make the investigation terribly thoroughHe was more interested in passing the reigns of power to the new president, Leonard Woodcock, and getting the Reuther years behind him, so I felt he was too quick to accept the findingshe is now in Washington as the official representative of the ILO [international Labor Organization]", Schlossberg had made reference to a faulty altimeter in his report: "This possibility is discounted because there were two altimeters in this particular Lear Jet, but the instrumentation is still being checked." Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names. Everything appeared normal as the pilot George Evans, 48, started his final approach for landing. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a. Luckily for the Reuther brothers, the sky was, clear and the pilots realized the plane was too low and the altimeter was, malfunctioning. None of the hearers, however, were able to determine whether the plane had motor trouble. 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. It was pointed out to Victor Reuther that no mafia figures had offered valid information on the plane crash. Why would a regional paper totally ignore the president of the, largest labor union in the country? As a reader who knew about the appearance of a, conspiracy in this case, I was left with more questions than I had before I, started. This letter was distributed to political leaders, corporate. Braden stated: "Victor spent the money, mostly in West Germany, to bolster labor unions there. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. One can see instances of false consciousness all about us. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. Memo: Biden has document troubles, House GOP on the march with its agenda, A primer on the marijuana legalization proposal that could become law in Minnesota, My reflections on running for Congress to represent southern Minnesota. ', 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. The jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. A reader who was exposed to the facts printed by the newspapers at, that time, were not given enough information. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. The plane was flying low . My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. However, he had to temporarily step aside because his appointment expired the day of the election rather than at the end of Lundeens term. 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. (In this context, it might be noted that in January 1970, only three months before the fatal plane crash, the Nixon White House requested Reuther's FBI file The call came from Egil Krogh, a Nixon staff member who was later arrested as a Watergate burglar. The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. 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. 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?' THANKS sg, #########################oooooooo##############################++++. On Oct. 16, 1972, a Cessna 310C with the tail number N1812H, operated by Pan Alaska Airways, disappeared somewhere between Anchorage and Juneau, Alaska. On August 31 [1940] the weather was stormy. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. News accounts at the time reported that it was the worst disaster in U.S. commercial aviation history. Experienced pilot with a spotless record. The momentum of the plane took it 269 feet farther, cutting through the trees; then it exploded into a ball of fire. But when he did come around, it was great, and who knows what he would have developed into. 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 . Walter Reuther was born into the labor movement and during his 35, years as a labor leader, he was instrumental in bringing it to its greatest, expansion in American History. Minnesota Journal of the House, April 23, 1941, p. 1985-1987. that it is basically the same environment that allowed the deaths of JFK, Malcolm X, RFK and MLK. Senator: Near Lovettsville, Virginia: Pennsylvania Central Airlines Douglas DC-3 NC21789 cn:2188: Flying through a thunderstorm in turbulence the plane nosed over and plunged to earth. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. 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? The rest involved, biographies, details of the crash, and how the UAW was effected before and, after Reuthers death. Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. [Reuther, Victor The Brothers Reuther Houghton-Mifflin 1976; NYT 5.8.67, 5.11.1970; Kollsman and Barfield reports; NTSB records], In April 1993, Victor Reuther received documentation of the preceding information. According to Victor Reuther: "It was on the ground only 20 minutes, taxiing in and out before it loaded Walter and his party at 8:44 p.m. 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. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. 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 altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. Inspection revealed charred aluminum in the brass screw threads. I was impressed with the honesty of the people who were doing this." With Nixon in the White House and the bombings in Indochina escalating to unprecedented levels, Reuther ran ads in the national media and appeared before congressional committees to denounce the war and call for drastic cuts in the military budget. 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. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. He and his brother Victor had not made things easy for themselves when they, went to Russia in 1932. Employes of the line at Pitts burgh said another of their planes was flying about eight miles from the scene The company report ed the pilot of that plane report1 ed the weather wasroutine at 3,000 feet and the visibility was good. 1940 air crash took a toll not soon forgotten. The Rev. Although funding non-communist labor unions was a common practice, had Walter Reuther misappropriated any of these funds, the CIA would have been able to get a handle on him. Jonas was born in 1856. Inman held this post until 1981. The removal of Hitler and Mussolini and a few of their collaborators does not mean that fascism is dead, Rogge said in a New York city speech in 1946. It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." He was very confident in his talent as a public speaker, Ostermeier said. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked him, Victor, and Joseph Rauh, an attorney for the UAW, to investigate the ultra-Right. Reuther, developed his passion for social justice from his father. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. When American troops are actually in combat, virtually every member of Congress, every politician sort of makes a show of supporting the troops and even goes over to visit the trenches of the Western front and things like that, historian Bradley Hart says in the podcast. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. In fact, the FBI has never officially closed the books on its investigation into the possibility that sabotage might have caused what was then the nation's worst aviation disaster. 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. The story also shows how the Justice Department failed in its effort to punish most of those involved, and it was the American people at the ballot box who removed many conspirators from power. Those included being able to mail out thousands of copies of speeches written by Viereck at taxpayer expense thanks to the Congress franking, or paid postage, privileges. 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. But it landed short of the airport, and crashed into 50-foot elm trees. In Brooklyn, N.Y., members of the Christian Front, a national organization inspired by Coughlins broadcasts, planned an armed para-military coup of the U.S. government. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. Vaccine Linked to Strokes in Preliminary DataThe Apartment Market Is About to Get UglyAt Least 68 Dead as Nepal Plane Crashes Seconds Before LandingThis Isn't Your Mom and Dad's Recession, Says BofA's Sub. Some, 1) In April 1938, two masked gunmen forced their way into Walter Reuthers, home and tried to abduct him. ..Indication that the pilot. It was horrible., It sounded like the plane exploded when it hit the ground. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover certainly never lost his violent bitter taste, stalking Walter for some forty years, using undercover informants and illegal bugging equipment. 12 May 1970. 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. My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. The doomed plane reported all well at 2:31 p.m., then headed into a squall. The effects of the problem are taken as the problem itself. The Barfield Report never addressed itself to where the drill mark came from, or how the threads had been torn out. The pieces of wreckage were strewn all over a two-acre stretch of ground. Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. LUNDEEN NOTED AS ISOLATIONIST; WRECKAGE AND TWO OF VICTIMS IN AIR CRASH Times Wide World Wired Photo Sept. 1, 1940 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. Rogge was forbidden from making the new intelligence public, presumably because it contained new information about U.S. lawmakers in the pay of the German government. 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. Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane, was the second member of the United States Senate to die in an airplane crash.. One of the dinner guests managed to escape, and call for help. AFC Wild Card Playoffs - Los Angeles Chargers v Jacksonville Jaguars | Douglas P. DeFelice/GettyImages The Jacksonville Jaguars had a nightmare first half against the Los Angeles Chargers in the NFL Wild Card round. ", 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. 2) An incorrect pivot was installed in one end of a rocking shaft. Private. 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. Senator Ernest Lundeen Plane Crash 1940. Lundeen wasnt even doing the bulk of the work, Viereck was writing the speeches.. How could the public, understand the ramifications of Walter Reuthers death without all of the. Senator, and two FBI agents, because it is not what you think. When the United States entered the war, he served in the OSS. He was very much a hawk. I've gone too far to turn back," he said. ), Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. Maloney asked him whether he referred to Viereck. Compare yourself and your background, attempting to set the boundaries beyond which you perceive, is the unreasonable, irrational, wilderness of thought and research, with the assertion, sworn to in court, of this super serious, establishment intelligence leader, a man who has devoted his career to "keeping us safe". 14 March 2000. http://pages.prodigy.net/kpmcclave/RFKbio.htm. Airline with no accidents in its history. The altimeter looked intact, even though it had been tampered with. Perhaps Ultra will expound upon such a topic as its episodes go on. 10) The News in Brief. Christian Science Monitor. Because of the remoteness of the district and lack of communication, news of the tragedy did not even reach Lovettsville for nearly an hour. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. 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. 11 May 1970. THE DEAD Checking into such things is no easy task. 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 jet Walter Reuther was on had been initially assigned a ferry job from Columbus to Akron, Ohio. 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. The previous murder attempts on the life of Walter Reuther, should have been, The newspapers and our government have remained strangely silent in this, matter. One victim was a NASA astronaut and another was the president-elect of a large physicians' group. I, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. Any part that comes into contact with the altitude capsule itself is critical. The cause of the mysterious crash was never resolved. The plane hit . 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. By nature shrewd, and brilliant, he developed a fiery oratorical style that captured the, imagination of millions of supporters. Eight months before his death, Reuther reflected on the broader dimensions of labor's struggle: "The labor movement is about changing society . Almost nine years on, he explains how he is still coming to terms with how he . 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 podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. The Lear Jet is. 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? R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. 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. Reuther's demise appears as part of a truncation of liberal and radical leadership that included the deaths of four national figures: President John Kennedy, Malcolm X Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert Kennedy, and dozens of leaders m the Black Panther Party and in various community organizations. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Mrs. Ridgeway, who was born in the area and moved to the farm with her late husband in 1950, said they found evidence of the violent crash years later. 3) An end stone was missing from the opposite end of the rocking shaft. . In 1937 Walter Reuther became the leader of a United Automobile Workers insurgent faction that included Communists. . One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. MRS. R. M. HALE, Pittsburgh. The full story was not told. This article was printed on May 11, 1970. The FAA/NTSB found "no indication of sabotage." The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. As World War II approached, he enlisted in the British Army. The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. time (of the crash). 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. The forward jewel for this shaft was damaged (oval recess) but not cracked. 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 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. They shot through the both the regular, window and the storm window in the kitchen, and I just lay there on the, floor until they came and took me to the hospital. He suffered chest and, arm wounds that never allowed him to recover the full use of his right arm, 3) Victor Reuther was almost killed in 1949 by what appeared to be law, enforcement officials. If the screw was loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. We thoroughly investigated every other person who could have had access to the flask and we were able to rule out all but Dr. Ivins. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. Braden gave Walter Reuther the money in $50 bills. 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. The screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. J. Edgar Hoovers FBI doctored a letter that Victor, Reuther sent back to the United States to make it seem as if they were, communists. 2. Why is, that? The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. However, a bright spot on the arm in the area indicated (ref D) was in position in line with the set screw hole at the time the mechanism was removed from the case.". Many of us believe that our media is, the last bastion of truth and freedom. Fish replied: "I am referring to you. If so why do it when 2 FBI agents were aboard? U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashed into farm fields near Lovettsville in Loudoun County during a storm. In June 1963, Victor Lasky reported that Walter Reuther had urged United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy to curb the FBI's war on Communism. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. The technician who assembled the altimeter had made too many mistakes in the same area, to have done so innocently. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. See our full republication guidelines for more information. When the investigation was complete, two scenarios were provided for the most likely cause of the crash. 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 Barfield Report, which was based on the primary examination of the unit, agreed: "One of the set screws was out of the rocking shaft, allowing the calibration arm assembly to be loose in the shaft. German ancestry. He was constantly a thorn in Reuthers side and Reuther could do, nothing without Hoover documenting the details.14, As if Walter Reuthers stance on business, political, and social policies, 1) Reuther ran ads in the national media and appeared before congressional, committees to denounce the war and call for drastic cuts in the military, 2) In January of 1970, three months before the crash, President Richard. All 25 on board were killed, including US Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. family. Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York . There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. (Equally ironic is the fact that Rep. Larry McDonald, the Georgia Democrat who headed the anti-communist John Birch Society, was killed on Sept. 1, 1983, along with 268 others whentheir Korean Air jetliner was shot down by Soviet interceptors after it strayed into Soviet air space enroute to Seoul from Alaska. Right after her husband died in the crash, Norma Lundeen traveled to Washington, D.C. to remove a file that contained all the correspondence between Lundeen and Viereck from her husbands Capitol Hill office. Its cabin split like a dried pod. 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. . My, grandmother was left to raise her five children alone and she never, remarried. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. If you have questions, emaileditors@minnpost.com. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. He was a fine player of the politics of subversion until he discovered the FBI was on to him, she said. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. The unit was exposed to 10,000 ft. pressure altitude, then the return scale error readings were recorded.". I visited the site of the Lundeen plane crash some 36 miles west of Washington on Aug. 25 and spoke with 82-year-old Phyllis Ridgeway, who lives on a 60-acre farm across the road from the crash site. "I was deeply saddened to learn that . .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." I had just made that step and the dish in, my hand just flew into a thousand pieces. He stated: "I've had very strong suspicions from the day the accident occurred. At the same time, Reuther was critical of right-wing radicalism. It also included thousands of inoffensive, innocent American adults. Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. 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. You can also learn about all our free newsletter options. FDR had a strong majority in both houses of congress. The Kollsman Report stated: "The link from shaft A to the capsule is the unit which had the improper link pin in the spring clip on the capsule.". him, testimonials, and details about Reuthers funeral rites. . The right engine ingested wood and. 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. It is wasting our resources that we need at home and it is tarnishing our moral credentials in the world." Men came to his home and took him away. May 1, 1928 - New York Rep. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R). They asserted that Lundeens speeches were bitterly anti-British and vigorously against American preparedness.. In each of these instances, state and federal law-enforcement agencies showed themselves at best lackadaisical in their investigative efforts, suggesting the possibility of official collusion or at least tolerance for the criminal deeds. There was also a radar altimeter. his home. 6) Kennedy, John F. American Presidents. . The sensational charges prompted the Senate to order an investigation into the crash a month later, even though FBI director J. Edgar Hoover denied that the two agents killed in the crash had Lundeen under surveillance, and a coroners inquest in the county where the crash occurred concluded it was the result of a violent thunderstorm, a possible lightning strike on the plane, and possibly pilot error. 4) There was an attempt in 1949 to bomb the UAWs headquarters in Detroit. 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. 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. A man who had been courted and, consulted by the politically powerful and the corporate worlds elite? The Detroit Police claimed that neighbors had been, complaining about his barking dog. In the latter case who do think did it and why? Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. Again, their story seems to support the view, that political murders are quite common in the USA. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. ", Where you "not insinuating" the plane was sabotaged" Or only "not insinuating" FDR or Hoover were responsible? 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. So were the bodies. The resulting report warned of radical right elements inside the military and urged the president to dismiss generals and admirals who engaged in rightist political activities. On August 31, 1940, his secretary found him near collapse. U.S. [FBI 61-9556-283, p8] In 1940 J. Edgar Hoover stated: "Walter Reuther was one of the Reuther brothers of the CIO, an avowed Communist, who was educated at the propaganda college in Moscow; was sent to this country eight or nine years ago, and was active in the Detroit area." A . But his memory was in bad shape. Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. Don Jonz, 38, the owner of Pan Alaska, piloted the plane. I'll say it again, on behalf of a lot of us, sorry, David, you don't get to be "that" guy. I found it strange, that the CSM had one very brief paragraph mentioning Reuthers death, three, days after the deadly crash. Click HERE to see this. He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. The only report mentioned was the boards own preliminary one of the crash. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. 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. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. That afternoon, Lundeen was killed in a Virginia . ), The sensational charges against Lundeen, which were never proven or disproven were first raised by muckracking syndicated columnists Drew Pearson and Robert Allen, who reported two weeks later that the rabid pro-German isolationist was under investigation at the time of his death., According to the columnists, Suspicion had been directed in Senator Lundeens direction after many mysterious visits to his office on the part of George Sylvester Viereck, famous German propagandist and a self-avowed friend of Adolph Hitlers Germany. Aside from the fact it had no past, there were many other strange things about the captain's altimeter: A report from the Barfield Instrument Corporation dated May 19, 1970, stated: "One of the set screws was out of the rocking shaft, allowing the calibration arm assembly to be loose in the shaft. The Civil Aeronautics Board had the last word in the matter, and it came up with a different theory. Walter Reuther presented a very real threat to our political establishment. 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. Mr. MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. Inman, a former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was unequivocal in his assertions in pre-trial depositions that mine regulators, union officials, plaintiffs lawyers and President Obama himself harbored a secret agenda to destroy Massey, and that the large numbers of safety violations Massey received were proof of the conspiracy, according to the lawyers. 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. 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. Walter early in trade unionism and encouraged his natural bent for debate. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. Ham Fish's memory went dead. Another webpage written by Webberman* has what purports to be links to images of the Kollsman Report but they are dead and there is no trace of them on the Internet Archive (as if they never existed).
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