U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. The plane hit . LUNDEEN NOTED AS ISOLATIONIST; WRECKAGE AND TWO OF VICTIMS IN AIR CRASH Times Wide World Wired Photo Sept. 1, 1940 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from. For these, things he earned the enmity of people in high places. Men came to his home and took him away. The Barfield Report, which was based on the primary examination of the unit, agreed: "One of the set screws was out of the rocking shaft, allowing the calibration arm assembly to be loose in the shaft. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. . Without it, those at the top, who profess a devotion to our interests while serving themselves, would be in serious trouble indeed. I'm not following you. Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York . The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. 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 . 2) Delisle, Tom and James Dewey. The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. The rocking shaft screw hole was inspected and found to have the threads torn out. The investigators recovered an altimeter believed to be the pilot, s and took it back to Washington, DC for analysis.12, The DFR, DN, MC, and NYT all printed the initial findings of the National, Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), but the final report that was released, on December 22, 1970 was totally ignored. I found no trace of the supposed Kollsman or Barfield reports on the Net. I've gone too far to turn back," he said. 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. 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. Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. 14 March 2000. The $50,000 was obviously an attempt to silence us", In 1960 NIXON called Walter Reuther "a labor leader-turned- radical politician." 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. Walter early in trade unionism and encouraged his natural bent for debate. He felt that, violence towards those that would do him and his supporters harm was, 3) Martin Luther King was murdered on April 4, 1968. Walter finally opposed the war, but he never made it into a crusade. He was very confident in his talent as a public speaker, Ostermeier said. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. Steven Spielbergs production company, Amblin Entertainment, has recently purchased the movie rights to Maddows podcast. 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. The victims of the problem are seen as the cause, while the perpetrators are depicted as innocent or even beneficial. This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. . There it disintegrated completely. 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. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. (Equally ironic is the fact that Rep. Larry McDonald, the Georgia Democrat who headed the anti-communist John Birch Society, was killed on Sept. 1, 1983, along with 268 others whentheir Korean Air jetliner was shot down by Soviet interceptors after it strayed into Soviet air space enroute to Seoul from Alaska. [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. As his spawn and wanna-bes . Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died in a single-engine plane crash in southwest Alaska that killed four other people, including one of his former congressional aides, officials said Tuesday. 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. Harold Stassen. As a member of the, UAW, I now enjoy many of the same benefits that Reuther obtained for its, There are some who believe that Reuther was murdered, most especially his. It sliced off the top of a. 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. ", Where you "not insinuating" the plane was sabotaged" Or only "not insinuating" FDR or Hoover were responsible? The FBI reported: "He ran for the Common Council in Detroit in the 1937 election on a Communist Party of the United States of America ticket." A Born Battler for Labors Causes. Detroit Free Press. This means that the spores used in the attacks were taken from that specific flask, regrown, purified, dried and loaded into the letters. How could the public, understand the ramifications of Walter Reuthers death without all of the. He was previously the representative for Minnesota 's 3 rd congressional district as a Farmer-Labor from 1935 to 1936; the representative for Minnesota 's at-large district as a Farmer-Labor from 1933 to 1934; and the . Click HERE to see this. Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. 2. 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. Whether Reuther's death was part of a broader agenda to decapitate and demoralize the mass movements of that day, or whether such an agenda existed at all, are questions that go beyond the scope of our inquiry. In his early Detroit days, Walter had formed an alliance with communists within the union in order to combat conservative labor factions and company bosses. This is a list of prominent American politicians killed in plane crashes. Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? 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. My son put it under his pillow, she said. The screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. Cemetery Visibility: Public. The last communication from the plain's captain or co-pilot was their report of reaching 6,000 ft. . At one point he does try to visit the troops and is turned away by the military because hes seen as a, an almost unpatriotic figure.. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. One of the pilots radioed that, they had the airport in sight. The doomed plane reported all well at 2:31 p.m., then headed into a squall. The altimeter, however, had only been partially opened by crash events and the rocking shaft in question was still shielded by the altimeter's case. This was a totally real program. 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. The altimeter looked intact, even though it had been tampered with. However, he had to temporarily step aside because his appointment expired the day of the election rather than at the end of Lundeens term. Considering the fact that the DFP and the DN operate within the sphere of, the UAWs World Headquarters, you would expect for them to have the most. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. It was coming down so thick then you couldnt see more than a quarter of a mile. 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. 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. Lawyer ; Judge, Missouri St. Louis Court of Appeals, 1916-40; defeated, 1940; mayor of St. Louis, Mo., 1941-43; died in office 1943. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. If so why do it when 2 FBI agents were aboard? 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 National Transportation Safety Board report in the plane crash that killed Senator Paul Wellstone last October says the Chief pilot initially decided not to fly after receiving a weather briefing that morning. The next evening after Victor had given, the dog to family friends, he was shot in the head while in his home. He took it like a man who was loyally suppressing a big secret. in Episode one, features Senator Lundeen, the plane crash, and more. There was an indentation adjacent to the missing set screw hole. 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. 14 March 2000. http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" 4) A ring jewel within the mechanism was installed off center. The sensational charges prompted the Senate to order an investigation into the crash a month later, even though FBI director J. Edgar Hoover denied that the two agents killed in the crash had Lundeen under surveillance, and a coroners inquest in the county where the crash occurred concluded it was the result of a violent thunderstorm, a possible lightning strike on the plane, and possibly pilot error. Arthur Nelson, who won a special election to fill the remaining two months of Lundeens term, filled the seat until Ball took office again as a freshman on Jan. 3, 1943, Even though Ball opposed President Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, unlike Lundeen, he supported FDRs foreign policy, voting for the Lend Lease program as a way of helping Great Britain serve as a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent.. Minnesota Journal of the House, April 23, 1941, p. 1985-1987. The screw had not fallen out due to worn out or damaged threads. was a sham. The set screw, which was missing from the rocking shaft, was recovered from within the case. Lundeens secretary, who was tasked with driving the senator to the airport for that ill-fated trip, testified to the FBI that she found Lundeen in his Capitol Hill office crying inconsolably. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. Post your ratings of these three choices. Lundeen's father, C.H. 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. 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. 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.. 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. Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. Does Rep. Pete Stauber know the difference between the agencies he oversees? Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. . The Fatal Crash: Some Disturbing Evidence. According to Victor Reuther: "It was on the ground only 20 minutes, taxiing in and out before it loaded Walter and his party at 8:44 p.m. J. P. MOORE, co-pilot, Washington, D. C. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? The certainty of this claim was seriously challenged by both the National Academy of Sciences report and subsequent reporting on several grounds. Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. While Lundeen lost reelection, he did not stop pursuing political office, running for state Legislature, governor, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice, U.S. Senate and other offices. In June 1963, Victor Lasky reported that Walter Reuther had urged United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy to curb the FBI's war on Communism. The momentum of the plane took it 269 feet farther, cutting through the trees; then it exploded into a ball of fire. It said action is urgently needed to overhaul the system . When Senator Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist, was killed in a plane crash, Stassen appointed Ball to fill the remaining two years of Lundeen's term. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. So just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover killed a planeload of people just to eliminate the senator? That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. Another webpage written by Webberman* has what purports to be links to images of the Kollsman Report but they are dead and there is no trace of them on the Internet Archive (as if they never existed). too low for this hilly country. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. A. H. ELLIOT, 5757 McKinley St., Washington, D. C. 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. But it landed short of the airport, and crashed into 50-foot elm trees. During World War II, Hoover made preparations to put all three Reuther brothers in custodial detention. The plane crashed while on a flight to Iceland during WWII. . Both the CIA and the FBI monitored Reuther's foreign travel, taking note of public comments of his that "might be construed as contrary to the foreign policy of the United States?' It is not only that [people] can be unconscious of their situations; they are often falsely conscious of them.". Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. I was impressed with the honesty of the people who were doing this." Nearest to the scene, apparently, was LESTER MASON, whose farm home is on the opposite side of a knoll from which the plane flowed into the ground. It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. 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 plane refueled at Akron and went on to Detroit's City Airport, then on to Detroit's Metro Airport. Those included being able to mail out thousands of copies of speeches written by Viereck at taxpayer expense thanks to the Congress franking, or paid postage, privileges. [7] Also on board were "a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from Criminal . Some, 1) In April 1938, two masked gunmen forced their way into Walter Reuthers, home and tried to abduct him. . Im confused Tom because Evan, another moderator, asked us to keep out posts on this thread on the topic of the assassination but shortly after that you post irrelevant stuff like this you guys need to get your signals straight. Page of 2. I believe. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. My maternal grandfather was thrown in, front a moving train. 3) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Victor Reuther wondered if organized crime or the Communist Party was involved. loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. 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. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. Airport, Pellston, Michigan, May 9, 1970, Report No. It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." The plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air A100, was apparently in good condition when it hit the ground and exploded into flames about two miles from the Eveleth-Virginia airport in the. 12 May 1970. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. The podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. Walter Reuther was characterized as a Communist mole within the labor movement. 9) Robert F. Kennedy Biography. 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. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' History rhymes again . Both pilots and three other passengers, including the Senator's first wife, were killed in the crash. The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. Mrs. Dickmeyer stated that her father was going up to Black Lake almost every weekend, and that information would not have been hard to discern. Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. . He described AID and AIFLD as CIA conduits. 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. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, St. Paul Winter Carnival organizers intentional about inclusion, Not sitting this out: Minnesota Medical Association votes to support decriminalization of illicit drugs, Minnesota GOP stops bail out for Cleveland-Cliffs as part of mining unemployment extension bill, Program supporting Black mothers through pregnancy adds cultural component to maternal care, With or without court ruling, Minnesota lawmakers seek to restore ex-offender voting rights, D.C. .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." 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. The plane was flying low . 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. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. 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. 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 MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. 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. It also included thousands of inoffensive, innocent American adults. Inman held this post until 1981. There were three, witnesses who heard the plane before it crashed and then were subsequently, at the scene. You can also learn about all our free newsletter options. When recovered, the rocking shaft was bent, so the screw must have changed position. 13) National Transportation Safety Board, Aircraft Accident Report, Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. Lear Jet L23A N434EJ Near the Emmet County. Cloud Times: How a U.S. The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. 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. What good is another week's vacation if the lake you used to go to, where you've got a cottage, is polluted and you can't swim in it and the kids can't play in it? Any part that comes into contact with the altitude capsule itself is critical. Both papers had many details about his life and the plane crash that killed. . In C. Wright Mill's words: "What people are interested in is not always what is to their interest; the troubles they are aware of are not always the ones that beset them. Ernest Lundeen 62, Minnesota U.S. That high-profile stance drew Vierecks attention. Among such leaders looms the great figure of Walter Reuther. 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. 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. A Yonkers gang member who set off a vicious attack by more than a dozen people when he knocked a man unconscious with a tequila bottle was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in state prison. 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. I must also admit that after reading all of the, articles involved in my research, my feelings have not changed. The communist label was used in attempts to smear and delegitimate Reuther. E. G. BOWER, department of internal revenue, Washington, D. C. There were five editorials, one, obituary, one article on the National Transportation Safety Boards initial, report. AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN. Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. Fairview Cemetery. The jet Walter Reuther was on had been initially assigned a ferry job from Columbus to Akron, Ohio. This was why it popped out. I found this to be true. He'd know something was wrong. In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. Rogges campaign succeeded in a way his attempts to send the seditionists to jail did not. Wind shear, a sudden and powerful change in the direction of the wind, was given as one probable cause. I found 31 articles on the, subject of Walter Reuthers death. He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. 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.". The loose set screw could not be explained. The report seemed to focus on the, altimeter found in the wreckage. [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." With Nixon in the White House and the bombings in Indochina escalating to unprecedented levels, Reuther ran ads in the national media and appeared before congressional committees to denounce the war and call for drastic cuts in the military budget.

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