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. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI would plague Walter Reuther for almost forty, years. However, Ball could not hold off Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey in 1948, and retired to live the life of a country squire in Virginias Blue Ridge mountains, not far from where Lundeen met his untimely death. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. He described AID and AIFLD as CIA conduits. 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. Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions (one short of a Nathan Peterman) and the Chargers took a . Among such leaders looms the great figure of Walter Reuther. There were five editorials, one, obituary, one article on the National Transportation Safety Boards initial, report. He felt the United States had become a great power because it maintained its independence and wasnt constrained by alliances, said Ostermeier. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, ###################################################OOOOOOOO##########################################++++. Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. African-Americans could not seek justice in a society dominated by whites. facts? It is wasting our resources that we need at home and it is tarnishing our moral credentials in the world." The screw hole shaft had its threads "torn," or drilled out. 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. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in the 1922 election and the 1923 special election. 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. 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. United States Senator. 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. JOAN SANCHEZ April 5, 1991 BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) _ A commuter plane carrying former U.S. Sen. John Tower, his daughter and 21 others crashed and burned Friday, killing all on board, authorities said. that it is basically the same environment that allowed the deaths of JFK, Malcolm X, RFK and MLK. Lundeen wasnt even doing the bulk of the work, Viereck was writing the speeches.. Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. 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?' 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. He joined the CIA in 1950 as Special Assistant to Allen Dulles. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. 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. 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. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. The Kollsman Instrument Report: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose at the time of the approach under concern, the instrument would probably have indicated high by roughly 225 to 250 feet." The podcast describes an event in which angry constituents pushed Lundeen into a refrigerated rail car. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. [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. History rhymes again . Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. Click HERE to see this. 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. His failure to mention that there had been previous problems with the exact same altimeter and that there were problems with other altimeters repaired by the same company were intolerable omissions by a dishonest crank with an agenda. . This article first appeared on MinnPost and is republished here under a Creative Commons license., Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. . Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? What would be the motive? But when he did come around, it was great, and who knows what he would have developed into. 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. This is a list of prominent American politicians killed in plane crashes. Because of the heavy rain that drove local residents indoors, no actual eye-witnesses of the catastrophe could be found immediately. Stassen appointment The Barfield Report never addressed itself to where the drill mark came from, or how the threads had been torn out. 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. When US Attorney Jeff Taylor announced FBI was closing the investigation in February 2010, he gave the following 7 pieces of evidence that Ivins was the culprit. Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. 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. 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." His father, Valentine, a socialist, trained. 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. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. 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.". 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. Whether certain foreign agents figured that they were about to be exposed, whether G-men on the plane tangled with Lundeen on the flight, or whether it was an act of God and the weather may never be known, they declared. When we plowed our garden, we found pieces of the airplane and even a human tooth, she said. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. Maddow: The widow of Senator Ernest. There was also a radar altimeter. 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. 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. "I was deeply saddened to learn that . with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. 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? (Many thanks to Judy Virts-Beard Fox, Lovettsville Historical Society Board member, for donating this copy of LIFE Magazine to the LHS Museum. Brand-new Douglas DC-3. The Kollsman Report speculated that the damaged threads, and loose screw, might have been caused by heat damage: "Examination of a similar rocking shaft exposed to 1100 degrees Fahrenheit, believed to be higher than that which the subject instrument was exposed to, showed that with a thread which is unabused, and with a properly tightened screw: a) the screw did not come out due to high temperature exposure: letter b= there is an aluminum deposit on the brass screw threads under load: c) the thread in the shaft tapped hole, Photo 39, is not damaged to the extent shown on Photos 24, 25, 26 and 27.". 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. The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. Both papers had many details about his life and the plane crash that killed. Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Walter Reuther is Dead and the Nation. in rural Alabama during the most racist era in American history. 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 . On August 31 [1940] the weather was stormy. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. 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." The spores in the attack came from RMR-1029 and Ivins controlled access to that flask. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. How could the public, understand the ramifications of Walter Reuthers death without all of the. 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. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. 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. I found 31 articles on the, subject of Walter Reuthers death. I couldnt get up, and I lay there flat, on my back for a second or two. Without it, those at the top, who profess a devotion to our interests while serving themselves, would be in serious trouble indeed. 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. It is frequently swept by wind and rain driven in cross currents through the Shenandoah mountains that loom on either side. 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. 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. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. 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. I didn't come here to be insulted. 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. 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.". He was a fine player of the politics of subversion until he discovered the FBI was on to him, she said. loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. Senator, and two FBI agents, because it is not what you think. His role was to use his talents as an orator in 1905 he was University of Minnesotas champion of debate and oratory to help the German government. On April 4, 1991, the day before Tower died in the plane crash in Georgia, Heinz was killed in a freakish mid-air crash . If the screw was loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. The Rev. The information contained in those German files leaked anyway. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. It carries a crew of two and six passengers at nearly 600 miles per hour. THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, September 1, 1940 * Lovettsville, Virginia Air Disaster * Douglas DC-3 airplane crash (1st report) This 30+ page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "25 PERSONS KILLED IN PLANE WRECK" with subheads that include: "SENATOR LUNDEEN ON PASSENGER LIST AND BELIEVED LOST" and more. . In the . 14 May. He was very confident in his talent as a public speaker, Ostermeier said. 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. The struggles of Walter Reuther's life should cause us to give more than cursory attention to the questionable circumstances of his death. E. W. CHAMBERS, 17 Craighead St., Pittsburgh. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. union in America provided him with many resources to promote his agenda. The Civil Aeronautics Board had the last word in the matter, and it came up with a different theory. He was Johnson's biggest supporter. . The crash that aviation officials deemed a " senseless accident " occurred when a helicopter flew too close to inspect the landing gear of the plane carrying Heinz. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, Jeremy Renner's 'Mayor of Kingstown' poster altered after snowplow accident, Jinger Duggar Vuolo describes the awakening that changed her faith: 'Fear was a huge part of my childhood', Lisa Marie Presley's cause of death deferred amid ongoing investigation, Pamela Anderson says Tommy Lee divorce was 'most difficult' time in her life: 'I was crushed', 'Buffy' star Sarah Michelle Gellar addresses the show's complicated legacy: 'I'll never tell my full story'. There were several unusual defects noted, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. The investigators at Kollsman agreed with those at Barfield that the set screw was in place during the crash. H. J. HOLLERITH, Chicago. Mr. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. Rogges campaign succeeded in a way his attempts to send the seditionists to jail did not. The technician that placed the wrong pivot should have realized that the end stone had been "installed in an inverted position." It was a dark and rainy night on May 9, 1970 near Pellston, Michigan. Many of us believe that our media is, the last bastion of truth and freedom. My study was confined to the following. 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. You said you don't know much about the crash and think the report contradicted itself but I see no sign you actually read the report even though I posted a link to it several days ago. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. his home. There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA There is a lot of crossover. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. 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. The FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents regarding Reuther's death, including the copious correspondence between field offices and Hoover. 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