Visibility was so bad and the terrain so hilly in the triangle between the two rivers, that any desperate hunt for a haven for the big ship was foredoomed to failure from the start, aerial experts conceded. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. There were five editorials, one, obituary, one article on the National Transportation Safety Boards initial, report. The full story was not told. See our full republication guidelines for more information. In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. So were the bodies. 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 was pointed out to Victor Reuther that no mafia figures had offered valid information on the plane crash. 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. 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. If nothing, else, my beliefs have been strengthened by the total disreguard for, responsible reporting that I found. 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.. [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." 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 Does Rep. Pete Stauber know the difference between the agencies he oversees? The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. 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. 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. 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. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. MISS M. TURNER, Huddleston, Va., bound for Cleveland. (Reuther was a close friend and advisor to the Kennedys.) 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. . In the latter case who do think did it and why? 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. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (CSM), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit News (DN), Michigan Chronicle (MC), and New York Times (NYT). This article originally appeared on St. Page of 2. 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. 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. 14) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. Why were the newspapers so unwilling to give it to them? BBC Radio 5 Live. (Mondales loss gave him the unhappy distinction as the only person ever to lose a statewide election in all 50 states, after having lost all but Minnesota to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.). Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. 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. Walter Reuther was characterized as a Communist mole within the labor movement. The article suggests that the two incidents in 1948 and 1949, were, similar because they had been committed by hidden assailants who stood, behind house-side bushes, and fired shotgun blasts through a window. 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. Click HERE to see this. Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. Stassen appointment He was a fine player of the politics of subversion until he discovered the FBI was on to him, she said. On May 9, 1970, Walter and May Reuther, Oskar Stronorov, William Wolfman, George Evans and Joseph Karrafa were killed when their Executive Jet Aviation M43EJ Lear Jet crashed at Emmet County Airport in Pellston, Michigan. 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." 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. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. 9, PDF pg 11, 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. His remains were spread about the area of impact. 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. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. 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. I've gone too far to turn back," he said. The forward jewel for this shaft was damaged (oval recess) but not cracked. Ham Fish's memory went dead. MISS MILDRED CHESSER, 1738 M. St., NW., Washington, D. C. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. . As his spawn and wanna-bes . 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. Walter Reuther died at the age of 62 in a plane crash. The Detroit Police claimed that neighbors had been, complaining about his barking dog. Victor Reuther wondered if organized crime or the Communist Party was involved. Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' Why did the other, newspapers remain silent about the possibility that Walter Reuther was, Walter Reuther had made many enemies in both the political arena and in the, world of business through his negotiations for the UAW, and his social, agenda. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system. 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. Inman held this post until 1981. 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. . The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. Click HERE to see this. 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. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. None of the hearers, however, were able to determine whether the plane had motor trouble. 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. To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. 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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. This letter was distributed to political leaders, corporate. 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? 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. In the wreckage was his pro-Nazi Labor Day speech written by an agent of Hitler's government who paid him to promote Nazi propaganda. The plots also included plans for a violent overthrow of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to impose a fascist dictatorship in the United States. 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. Newspapers Snub the Specter of Assassination: In this paper I am going to discuss the death of Walter Reuther and the, suspicious way that the newspapers covered it. 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. . Don Jonz, 38, the owner of Pan Alaska, piloted the plane. AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. (Victor believes the attempt against him was intended as a message to Walter.) Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. Although he switched party affiliations several times, Lundeen remain an isolationist and opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. On Aug. 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane carrying Sen. Ernest Lundeen, along with 20 other passengers and four crew members, went down in a heavy rainstorm near Lovettsville, Virginia. Again, there was no indication from the crew over the radio that any problem, Officials at Executive Jet Aviation in Columbus, Ohio, where the jet was, based, said Evans was probably one of the most experienced Lear Jet pilots. Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. 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. They said it appeared the big ship was in trouble and the pilot had been trying to find a field large and flat enough for a forced landing. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982. Death of senator from Minnesota still shrouded in mystery, By Albert Eisele | Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. "I was deeply saddened to learn that . There were three, witnesses who heard the plane before it crashed and then were subsequently, at the scene. 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." 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. Lundeen was not a part of the efforts to commit violence. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. Lawyer ; Judge, Missouri St. Louis Court of Appeals, 1916-40; defeated, 1940; mayor of St. Louis, Mo., 1941-43; died in office 1943. She later told federal officials the file had been lost in a burglary of her home. At 2:41 it crashed at top speed into a field of alfalfa, ricocheted 50 yards into a cornfield. WILLIAM GARBOSE, department of justice, Washington. They were first put on the market in 1965, but during the first few years. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. The information contained in those German files leaked anyway. 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. and that this was the question that faced them. . Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. 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. M. P. MAHAN, 1788 Lender Place, Washington, D. C. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. The plane was flying low . 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. Jonas was born in 1856. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions (one short of a Nathan Peterman) and the Chargers took a . Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. The momentum of the plane took it 269 feet farther, cutting through the trees; then it exploded into a ball of fire. From what little was left of the plane it was hard to tell what had happened. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? anything Soviet Russia might do to America. 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. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. There it disintegrated completely. The jury was packed with Ford supporters and the lawyer for the defense, claimed that Ruether had staged the event.4, 2) In April 1948, they tried to kill Walter Reuther with shotgun blasts in. 25 memorials. The DNs Aerospace Writer, Edwin Pip, wanted to, know how a time-proven airplane, flown by an experienced pilot in reasonable, weather, could suddenly plunge to the ground. 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? The crash was a head-scratcher. Had this altimeter been constructed and tested so that it would fail at a specific, critical time during the flight? JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. too low for this hilly country. 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. FDR had a strong majority in both houses of congress. 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 . He was Johnson's biggest supporter. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. The report seemed to focus on the, altimeter found in the wreckage. family. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. He leaned forward, shouted: "The man who made that statement lies." Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. 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. Ernest Lundeen Memorial. It had never had a fatal crack-up in 13 years of operation. Lundeen, a South Dakota native who served in the Army during the Spanish American War, served one term in the 65th Congress as a Republican from 1917-19, and two terms as a Farmer-Laborite in the 73rd and 74th Congresses from 1933-37 before being elected to the Senate in 1936. 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." Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. Eight months before his death, Reuther reflected on the broader dimensions of labor's struggle: "The labor movement is about changing society . Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". 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. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. Braden stated: "Victor spent the money, mostly in West Germany, to bolster labor unions there. Fairview Cemetery. After Rogge made public appearances to discuss those findings, he was fired. He stated that as he understood it, the cause of the crash was a faulty altimeter. ", 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. 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. WASHINGTON When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice. And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. The investigators at Kollsman agreed with those at Barfield that the set screw was in place during the crash. They don't put them in Lear Jets. Polis. So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." 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. Page 1. . Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York . Lundeen was a senator from Minnesota and was a Farmer-Labor. Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. Not so lucky was Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz III, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that investigated Iran-contra and one of Tower's supporters in the confirmation vote for Secretary of Defense. I believe. 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