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in rural Alabama during the most racist era in American history. The Senate threatened an investigation, for on the plane was Ernest Linden of Minnesota, the second U.S. Mr. The crash occurred because the pilot thought he was flying higher than was indicated by the altimeter readings. This article originally appeared on St. So with the current anti-democracy campaign intended to Nazify America (and you know which orange figurehead and faithless political party this involves, as with Republican Senator Lundeen in 1940), Rachel Maddow 's new podcast Ultra (which premiered today!) 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." Cemetery Visibility: Public. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. and that this was the question that faced them. The rest involved, biographies, details of the crash, and how the UAW was effected before and, after Reuthers death. It is the mainstay of the conservative reactionism of the 1980s and 1990s. E. J. TARR, 1722 19th St., NW., Washington. 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. I, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. It sliced off the top of a. 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. 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. Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. The jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. 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. 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. 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. Suddenly the plane--flying on visual rules, not ground, controlledwas lower than it should have been. There was one conspiracy article from my class on Media in America, and one article that discussed previous murder attempts. My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. . She later told federal officials the file had been lost in a burglary of her home. Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. On April 4, 1991, the day before Tower died in the plane crash in Georgia, Heinz was killed in a freakish mid-air crash . . 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. 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. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. But there was no fire. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. . D. P. JAMES, interstate commerce commission, Des Moines, Iowa. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. 14 March 2000. http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm. Twenty minutes on the ground gave the saboteur enough time to change an altimeter. My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. 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. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. The lack of a distress call is interesting but fits with what many pilots said about the Wellstone crash, that the pilots would have prioritized saving the plane over making a radio call. 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." He and his brother Victor had not made things easy for themselves when they, went to Russia in 1932. (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's exports of integrated circuit chips rose in 2022 for a seventh consecutive year, further solidifying the economy's leadership status in a global semiconductor industry . 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. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. ", 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?" 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 . Who knows what evidence may have been found to either support or. This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. Nancy Beck Young, a historian specializing in 20th century American politics at the University of Houston who is featured in the podcast, said Viereck was on the lookout for members of Congress who were susceptible to his pitch, which included splitting the money Berlin was paying for the operation. But unlike the Wellstone tragedy, the cause of the crash that killed the first-term Farmer-Labor senator remains shrouded in mystery nearly three quarters of a century later. 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 left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." M. P. MAHAN, 1788 Lender Place, Washington, D. C. The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. 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. Lundeen's father, C.H. 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.". It is hard to fathom what national security concern is involved or why the FBI and CIA still keep so many secrets about Walter Reuther's life and death. Walter Reuthers position as the president of the largest labor. 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. A man who had been courted and, consulted by the politically powerful and the corporate worlds elite? [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. in Episode one, features Senator Lundeen, the plane crash, and more. The plane refueled at Akron and went on to Detroit's City Airport, then on to Detroit's Metro Airport. 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. Why is, that? Fairview Cemetery. 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. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . 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. 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. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. If it was placed in the end of the shaft that did not have an end stone, it means that the improper jewel installation in the rocking shaft A was noted." ..Indication that the pilot. 11) Pip, Edwin G. What caused the crash of Reuthers jet? Detroit News. 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. Odd that if the NTSB based their findings on the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments that not only is there no independent confirmation of their existence but the safety boards report made no mention of the them or the first company and the second was only mentioned in passing. 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. 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. 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. 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. to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? On Oct. 16, 1972, a Cessna 310C with the tail number N1812H, operated by Pan Alaska Airways, disappeared somewhere between Anchorage and Juneau, Alaska. All of these types were essentially military." Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. 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. He was replaced by Joseph Ball, a 34-year-old St. Paul newspaper reporter appointed by Gov. What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down? When, Victor Reuther was interview many years after the fatal crash he said I, and other family members are convinced that both the fatal crash and the, near fatal one in 1968 were not accidental.3, There was only one article in the Detroit Free Press that detailed some of, the previous murder attempts on the lives of Walter and Victor Reuther. I'll say it again, on behalf of a lot of us, sorry, David, you don't get to be "that" guy. He tried undercover techniques to keep me from finding out how he spent it. "I can't talk about it. (WTC 7 collapse comes to mind as a similar official determinationunprecedented event). A. MOCK, Washington, D. C. Many thanks to Stu Beitler athttp://www3.gendisasters.com/virginia/2406/lovettsville-va-air-disaster-aug-1940?page=0,0, Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. It was more likely caused by high heat and pressure of a part laying in contact. Jonz was a military veteran with 17,000 hours of flight time, and he logged 15 years as a pilot in Alaska. "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. The fact that were two FBI agents on the plane with him when it hit the ground full speed at 300 mph gave some credence to the reports. 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. When I wrote my book I had not seen these files. The Lear Jet is. The next evening after Victor had given, the dog to family friends, he was shot in the head while in his home. Checking into such things is no easy task. Walter Reuther is Dead and the Nation. 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. In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. 6) The wrong kind of link pin, which holds a spring clip in place at the, 7) An end stone, which supports a shaft within the mechanism, was installed, I must admit that I was extremely biased before I began my research. After completing my, research, I feel that the newspapers engaged in a conspiracy of silence, while reporting on the death of Walter Reuther: they presented information, about the plane crash along with biographical data, but only one paper. He served from 1937 to 1940. ", Where you "not insinuating" the plane was sabotaged" Or only "not insinuating" FDR or Hoover were responsible? Ernest Frank Lundeen was born on month day 1900, at birth place, Iowa, to Jonas ( aka Jonas Michelsson) Lundeen and Ella Fidelia Lundeen (born Johnson). 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 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 Detroit Police claimed that neighbors had been, complaining about his barking dog. It is a shame that the political and, social atmosphere of the time would allow such a thing to happen. was a sham. AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. MISS DOROTHY BEER, secretary in war department, Washington, D. C. His father, Valentine, a socialist, trained. 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. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. This article was printed on May 11, 1970. ", HEMMING commented: "Sabotage of the altimeters would not do the job. . 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. The podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. Fish could still shout. The Rev. THANKS sg, #########################oooooooo##############################++++. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in the 1922 election and the 1923 special election. 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. You don't file with just one clue. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. I couldnt get up, and I lay there flat, on my back for a second or two. ", A report from the Kollsman Instrument Company stated: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose". During World War II, Hoover made preparations to put all three Reuther brothers in custodial detention. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. 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. He. The National Transportation Safety Board report stated that "while all systems were irreparably damaged [including the co-pilot's altimeter], information was nevertheless obtained from a few units. So just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover killed a planeload of people just to eliminate the senator? Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. THE DEAD He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. 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. The FAA/NTSB found "no indication of sabotage." This means that the spores used in the attacks were taken from that specific flask, regrown, purified, dried and loaded into the letters. . A driver's dashcam footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows the . If the screw was. 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. The correct pivot was conical, the incorrect pivot was flat. Evening after Victor had not made things easy for themselves when they, went to Russia 1932. Reprisals from whites, C.H just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover a! To pick your priority, & quot ; you got to pick your priority &. 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