The Fatal Crash: Some Disturbing Evidence. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? 14) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. I'm not following you. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. 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. 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. On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashed into farm fields near Lovettsville in Loudoun County during a storm. 14 March 2000. Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. Senator, and two FBI agents, because it is not what you think. 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. Page 1. (WTC 7 collapse comes to mind as a similar official determinationunprecedented event). JOHN. 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 . 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. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". I found it strange, that the CSM had one very brief paragraph mentioning Reuthers death, three, days after the deadly crash. Viereck provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across the United States. 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. [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." One can see instances of false consciousness all about us. 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 was deeply saddened to learn that . You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. The plane crashed while on a flight to Iceland during WWII. If the screw was. I'm convinced there was tampering with the altimeter and, although the plane was on the ground for only a short time, it was time enough. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. H. J. HOLLERITH, Chicago. The victims of the problem are seen as the cause, while the perpetrators are depicted as innocent or even beneficial. 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. Maddows podcast reveals some of those plots Viereck and Hitlers government fomented. Luckily for the Reuther brothers, the sky was, clear and the pilots realized the plane was too low and the altimeter was, malfunctioning. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. Wind shear, a sudden and powerful change in the direction of the wind, was given as one probable cause. However, the Civil Aeronautics Board, created only a year earlier after Sen. Bronson Cutting of New Mexico was killed in a plane crash ironically, Lundeen pushed for the legislation that created it raised further doubts in November when it issued an 87-page report of its investigation into the accident, even while concluding that the accident probably was caused by an extraordinary lightning effect., 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. 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., Whatever the actual cause of the accident, Lundeens death had far-reaching political repercussions, just as Wellstones death did when Republican Norm Coleman defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, who was a last-minute stand-in for Wellstone just 12 days before the election, and led eventually to Colemans defeat by Democrat Al Franken last November after a marathon vote recount. 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. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. . These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. 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. 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 . Lundeen was a senator from Minnesota and was a Farmer-Labor. ", Said Maloney: "I think the American people have been insulted. The correct link pin ends were flat, while the incorrect one was tapered on one end. The plane hit . Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. It was worse than a fog., The plane was broken to bits and so were the bodies of the people in it., We stumbled on toward it. David Halberstam related the President Kennedy planned to replace John McCone as CIA Director with Jack Conway, Walter Reuther's chief political lobbyist. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. They don't put them in Lear Jets. 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. 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. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" Fairview Cemetery. 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. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . Walter Reuther admitted having taken the money, and said that Braden had tried to recruit his brother Victor as a CIA agent: "Victor was contacted by Tom Braden at the U.S. Embassy in Paris and asked to become a CIA agent, using as a 'front' his position [with the CIO]." He joined the CIA in 1950 as Special Assistant to Allen Dulles. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. So were the bodies. He took it like a man who was loyally suppressing a big secret. The plane refueled at Akron and went on to Detroit's City Airport, then on to Detroit's Metro Airport. 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. My maternal grandfather was thrown in, front a moving train. He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. Walter Reuther is Dead and the Nation. 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. The last time that a former US Senator was killed in a plane crash was in April 1991 when former Texas Senator John Tower was one of the 23 passengers and crew members killed in the crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines Embraer Brasilia near . Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". 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. Click HERE to see this. 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. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. That afternoon, Lundeen was killed in a Virginia . union in America provided him with many resources to promote his agenda. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. Sharon Bonter, said I saw a huge light from our house. The communist label was used in attempts to smear and delegitimate Reuther. The Wonderful Life and Strange, ###################################OOOOOOOO###############################++++, The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther, THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND STRANGE DEATH OF WALTER REUTHER. Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? 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. One can imagine that this was not well received by the Nixon White House. This is a list of prominent American politicians killed in plane crashes. The bodies were burned beyond recognition except for dental records. I, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. . 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. All such details had faded into a fog. Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. 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. 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. 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. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. In 1948 Braden married the former Joan Ridley, whom he met when she was on Nelson Rockefeller's staff. This letter was distributed to political leaders, corporate. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. 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 report seemed to focus on the, altimeter found in the wreckage. None of the hearers, however, were able to determine whether the plane had motor trouble. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. MISS M. TURNER, Huddleston, Va., bound for Cleveland. 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. The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. ', They added that Viereck frequently came to Lundeens office to inquire if certain speeches which had a pro-dictatorship slant had been inserted in the Congressional Record by Lundeen and his staff. . My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. The seditious lawmakers said the Justice Department and the FBI were embarked on politically motivated prosecutions. Roll with it, David, instead of trying to endorse the "serious" people. . The $50,000 was obviously an attempt to silence us", In 1960 NIXON called Walter Reuther "a labor leader-turned- radical politician." 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. It was not uncommon for Reuther to, hold an audience mesmerized for three or more hours1. 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." Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. 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. loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. It was the first fatal accident in the airlines history and it shattered the proud safety mark set by the nations Commercial Airlines which had flown one and a quarter billion miles since March 26, 1939 without a single passenger fatality. In each instance, Hoover successfully blocked Reuther's appointment by secretly circulating disinformation packets to the White House and members of Congress, featuring the doctored "For a Soviet America" letter and testimony by individuals falsely accusing Walter of communist affiliations. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. I didn't come here to be insulted. 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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. facts? 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 Wonderful Life and Strange, 15) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Ironically, the crash occurred almost exactly one year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, touching off World War II. Text searches and my skim of the NTSB report turned up no hits for: angus, barfield, military (armed, air force), trace or tso. in the world. The set screw, which was missing from the rocking shaft, was recovered from within the case. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. and other parties may have been involved in Walter Reuthers death? If you have questions, emaileditors@minnpost.com. His role was to use his talents as an orator in 1905 he was University of Minnesotas champion of debate and oratory to help the German government. Walter finally opposed the war, but he never made it into a crusade. It certainly does and in mass marketed quantities. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. that it is basically the same environment that allowed the deaths of JFK, Malcolm X, RFK and MLK. Provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across United. Wonderful Life and Strange death, 5 ) Mollison, Andrew August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central DC-3. 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