to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? That only says that whoever prepared the (probable) two separate batches of anthrax may have started with anthrax obtained at some point from that flask. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. 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. ), 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. The full story was not told. Almost nine years on, he explains how he is still coming to terms with how he . 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. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. 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 . Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. 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. 5) A second rocking shaft rear support pivot was incorrect. 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 nations worst aviation disaster. Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. MinnPost | P.O. This new facility had been designed by Oscar Stonorov and was due to be, opened to the membership within a few weeks of the crash. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." Page of 2. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. The reason is that Lundeen, an isolationist who had, as a member of the U.S. House 23 years earlier, voted against the declaration of war against Germany, was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer who was reportedly under investigation by the FBI. Inspection revealed charred aluminum in the brass screw threads. The Civil Aeronautics Board had the last word in the matter, and it came up with a different theory. 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(The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) and that this was the question that faced them. 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. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. While the AFL-CIO was proclaiming its support for Nixon's escalation of the war and his anti-ballistic missile program, the ALA was lobbying hard against both. To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. 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. Guest Tom ScullyMay 26, 2011 in Political Conspiracies. The jet Walter Reuther was on had been initially assigned a ferry job from Columbus to Akron, Ohio. This was a totally real program. At 2:41 it crashed at top speed into a field of alfalfa, ricocheted 50 yards into a cornfield. (Victor believes the attempt against him was intended as a message to Walter.) 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. 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. Like the charter airplane accident that killed DFL Sen. Wellstone, his wife and daughter and four others near Eveleth, Minn., Oct. 25, 2002, the accident that took the life of the 62-year-old Lundeen changed the course of Minnesota and perhaps even American political history. When recovered, the rocking shaft was bent, so the screw must have changed position. 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. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. During World War II, Hoover made preparations to put all three Reuther brothers in custodial detention. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. ", 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?" Develle Coates, 20, was the only one among 14 defendants who took his case to trial and the jury in November found him guilty of first-degree gang assault. Eight investigators from the. The set screw was put back in place. After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. 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.". This was why it popped out. Twenty minutes on the ground gave the saboteur enough time to change an altimeter. overpowering sense of social justice that shaped his controversial, temperamental, combustible, and at times unrelenting character. There was one conspiracy article from my class on Media in America, and one article that discussed previous murder attempts. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. . D. P. JAMES, interstate commerce commission, Des Moines, Iowa. [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." MISS NAOMI COLTO, 3821 Newark St., Washington, D. C. Like so many on the Left then and now, he did not realize that those who fight for social change on behalf of the less-privileged elements of society are abhorred by conservative elites whether they be communists or not. .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." 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. board to walk away without injury. http://www.google.com/search?q=secretary+lundeen+weeping&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=secretary+lundeen+weeping&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=7694d34fae9de011&biw=790&bih=476, Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history, Nathaniel Weyl - 1950 - 491 pages - Snippet view. . But the prosecutor, John Rogge, went on to collect new information about the conspiracies in Germany after the U.S. military obtained control of Nazi government documents. newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (CSM), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit News (DN), Michigan Chronicle (MC), and New York Times (NYT). The investigators also noted that the Lear Jet hit, trees on a knoll that was 200 feet higher than the airport near Pellston, MI, and a little more than two miles from the runway. Steven Spielbergs production company, Amblin Entertainment, has recently purchased the movie rights to Maddows podcast. 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. Some may have felt that he had become too powerful and had to be, stopped! WASHINGTON When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice Department was investigating his part in a Nazi-driven plot to overthrow the U.S. government. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . . Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. In 1938 he severed this association and some years later, after gaining control of the UAW board, he launched a purge of dedicated UAW organizers who were communists or close to the party. heads, and rival unionists to prove that they were communist sympathizers. Every instrument rated pilot sets the field elevation published on the front of the control tower when he takes off. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, ###################################################OOOOOOOO##########################################++++. 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 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. That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. Lundeen, who was killed along with 24 other people 69 years ago this week 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 nations Capital for the Labor Day recess. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. 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. The report also faulted J. Edgar Hoover for exaggerating "the domestic Communist menace at every turn" thus contributing "to the public's frame of mind upon which the radical right feeds. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. A driver's dashcam footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows the . LYNN BERRY April 4, 1991 BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) _ U.S. Sen. John Heinz and six others were killed today when his airplane and a helicopter collided and crashed in a schoolyard shortly after noon, officials said. Without it, those at the top, who profess a devotion to our interests while serving themselves, would be in serious trouble indeed. He elaborated: "Walter Reuther became a dove in the middle of the Hubert Humphrey - NIXON election. Senator, and two FBI agents, because it is not what you think. He felt the United States had become a great power because it maintained its independence and wasnt constrained by alliances, said Ostermeier. The untimely death, of this dedicated and effective progressive labor leader raises disquieting questions about the criminal nature of state power in what purports to be a democracy. Heinz food fortune. Cloud Times: How a U.S. May 1, 1928 - New York Rep. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R). The plane hit . 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. 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. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. It mentioned that Walter Reuther had died along with his wife May, his, affiliation with the UAW, and the size of its membership.10 There was no, other mention of him made during the time frame for my research. The previous murder attempts on the life of Walter Reuther, should have been, The newspapers and our government have remained strangely silent in this, matter. 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. The screw had not fallen out due to worn out or damaged threads. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. In 1937 Walter Reuther became the leader of a United Automobile Workers insurgent faction that included Communists. The Wonderful Life and Strange, ###################################OOOOOOOO###############################++++, The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther, THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND STRANGE DEATH OF WALTER REUTHER. Rogges campaign succeeded in a way his attempts to send the seditionists to jail did not. E. J. TARR, 1722 19th St., NW., Washington. Weather conditions that day were reported as "scattered clouds at 400 feet, measured ceiling 800 feet overcast, visibility seven miles, thunderstorms and light rain showers, wind at ten knots." Its cabin split like a dried pod. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. metal from the airplane and also flamed out. Willy Phillips Jr was 13 years old when he survived a plane crash that killed his father in 2010. 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. 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. Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. 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. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. The pieces of wreckage were strewn all over a two-acre stretch of ground. his home. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. For the industrialists, financiers, and leading politicos, it made little difference whether their wealth and power was challenged by "communist subversives" or "loyal Americans?' 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. Walter early in trade unionism and encouraged his natural bent for debate. 14 March 2000. 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. Braden was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on February 22, 1918. The lawmakers involved with Viereck all lost their seats in their next election. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. He was elected as a Republican to the Minnesota state House and in 1916 to represent a Hennepin County-based district in the House of Representatives. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. Jonz was a military veteran with 17,000 hours of flight time, and he logged 15 years as a pilot in Alaska. 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. [7] Also on board were "a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from Criminal . There it disintegrated completely. The next evening after Victor had given, the dog to family friends, he was shot in the head while in his home. One victim was a NASA astronaut and another was the president-elect of a large physicians' group. This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. 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.. It was the first fatal airline accident in 17 months and the worst in all U.S. airline history. I found no trace of the supposed Kollsman or Barfield reports on the Net. The investigators at Kollsman agreed with those at Barfield that the set screw was in place during the crash. That certainly was not the case with the, The NTSBs preliminary ruling of what caused the crash of Walter Reuthers, plane on May 9, 1970, was printed on May 14, 1970 in the DN. Worse Webberman omitted that his speculation that the altimeter was untraceable and might have been switched when it was being refueled was directly contradicted by the NTSB report. I'm not following you. Lundeen cited a 2022 bill Polis signed that, he said, allowed for restrictive environmental building codes that raise housing costs. J. P. MOORE, co-pilot, Washington, D. C. It was suggested to the FBI by one of its informants that Walter Reuther's anti-communism was insincere, and merely a self-serving ruse in his quest for power. 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. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. facts? 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. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. 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).. 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