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. Harold Stassen. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York . Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. But when he did come around, it was great, and who knows what he would have developed into. 2. So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." I, found it strange that only one of the five newspapers discussed the murder, attempts. ..Indication that the pilot. 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. Sort By. 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. 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. But miraculously, a copy of the speech Lundeen planned to give at a Labor Day event in Minnesota was found unscathed in the Virginia countryside, which was scattered with body parts and debris from the crash. German ancestry. Suspicion was that Sen. Lundeen was under FBI surveillance because of his association with a known Nazi, and because of what was learned, later. 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. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. E. G. BOWER, department of internal revenue, Washington, D. C. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. Who knows what evidence may have been found to either support or. The other passenger victims included a number of government employes and minor federal officials, among them being at least three agents of the department of justice. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. 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. In 1966 Victor Reuther told Drew Pearson and The Los Angeles Times that many of the AFL/CIO's overseas operations were conduits for the CIA. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in the 1922 election and the 1923 special election. 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. Under Meany, the AFL-CIO entered into an unholy alliance with the CIA in order to bolster conservative, anticommunist unions in other countries. The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. 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. The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. addressed the possibility that he may have been murdered. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. 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. Many of the released documents, are well over forty years old, and the pages were totally inked out!16 Is, there some matter of national security involved where our FBI and CIA would, still want to keep so many secrets about the life and death of Walter, Reuther? 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. Lundeen was also enlisted by German agent George Sylvester Viereck, because of his status as a senator and the perks that came with the job. 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. Can you point to Senate votes on aid to the allies or sanctions against the Axis where shift of 1 or 2 votes would have made a difference? It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". 4) There was an attempt in 1949 to bomb the UAWs headquarters in Detroit. The plane refueled at Akron and went on to Detroit's City Airport, then on to Detroit's Metro Airport. I'm not following you. 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. 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. U.S. army investigators approach the wreckage of a Air Force T-43 plane on April 6, 1996, near the Dubrovnik airport. 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. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. 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. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. Lundeen's father, C.H. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. 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." Were used to hearing it come over at just about that time, around 2:30 oclock, in the afternoon., Today we heard the roar of the motors much louder than usual. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. The correct pivot was conical, the incorrect pivot was flat. 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. By nature shrewd, and brilliant, he developed a fiery oratorical style that captured the, imagination of millions of supporters. 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. Airport, Pellston, Michigan, May 9, 1970, Report No. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. There it disintegrated completely. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. He was a black civil, rights activist who advocated change through non-violent means.8, 4) Senator Robert Francis Kennedy former Attorney General under JFKs, administration died on June 6, 1968, one day after he was shot at point, blank range to the head. Thats just part of the story that MSNBCs Rachel Maddow tells in an eight-part podcast called Ultra that uncovers a series of seditious plots to sow discord in the United States 80 years ago. Victor Reuther: "My brother came out against it and that opposition persisted through the Johnson years. 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. DR. C. D. COLE, 5305 41st St., NW., Washington, bound for Lansing. Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. . 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. The, picture that emerged was quite unsettling. time (of the crash). Passengers: If it had crashed into the sea, this theoretically could have disrupted the signal of the plane's emergency transmitter, and sinking to the bottom in the frigid water could have made sure it was kept hidden . 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 plane was in a 45 degree dive. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. Walter Reuthers position as the president of the largest labor. During World War II, Hoover made preparations to put all three Reuther brothers in custodial detention. 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 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.". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, ###################################################OOOOOOOO##########################################++++. I found no trace of the supposed Kollsman or Barfield reports on the Net. 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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." that it is basically the same environment that allowed the deaths of JFK, Malcolm X, RFK and MLK. facts? Because of the remoteness of the district and lack of communication, news of the tragedy did not even reach Lovettsville for nearly an hour. Senator to be killed in an airline crash within five years. This personality tranformation, called once famously a "trance-formation," was induced by the hyper-raumatizing, savage rape, torture and murder of innocent children in front of other children such as myself. I, had always viewed the information given by our media with a great deal of, skepticism, but now I know more than ever that we must find as many sources, as possible to seek the truth for ourselves. (Jim White gave me a ton of scientific help with this, but the errors surely result from my own misunderstanding.). My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. He was labeled a radical, black civil rights activist with ties to the Nation of Islam. Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. That high-profile stance drew Vierecks attention. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. 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. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. 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. 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. suffered the loss of part of his right eye and parts of his jaw. "I was deeply saddened to learn that . Member, American Bar Association . On August 31, 1940, his secretary found him near collapse. Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. Some, 1) In April 1938, two masked gunmen forced their way into Walter Reuthers, home and tried to abduct him. I excerpted portions of the 1940 crash article I thought showed that the investigating panel contradicted its own findings as to the cause of the crash, in that they admitted their determination, a lightening strike, was a low probability event, or possibly unprecedented. In the former case why were the only parts you posted from the article. Victor Reuther now believes that sabotage was involved in his brother's death; however, he did not believe it was the CIA: "What I did not garner from the material you sent me was that it was the CIAthere are all kinds of wing groups, who could hire sophisticated people; there was a history of right-wing attacks on us." 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.". Because of the heavy rain that drove local residents indoors, no actual eye-witnesses of the catastrophe could be found immediately. It was coming down so thick then you couldnt see more than a quarter of a mile. 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. But there was no fire. E. J. TARR, 1722 19th St., NW., Washington. He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. This error was significant. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. 9) Robert F. Kennedy Biography. 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.". LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. 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?' 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'. 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