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E. W. CHAMBERS, 17 Craighead St., Pittsburgh. The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. African-Americans could not seek justice in a society dominated by whites. MISS DOROTHY BEER, secretary in war department, Washington, D. C. 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. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. Men came to his home and took him away. 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. And we could see what had happened as soon as we got on top of the hill. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. Senator Frank Lundeen & Two FBI Agents, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/massey-directors-saw-government-conspiracy-against-company-filing-shows.html, http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/09/03/11291/death_of_senator_from_minnesota_still_shrouded_in_mystery, http://www.google.com/search?q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=7a1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&tbm=nws&prmd=ivnsb&source=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1940,cd_max:1949&sa=X&ei=aBPhTbSFKIrrgQejkOyyBg&ved=0CBMQpwUoCQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=73a5782601ead03&biw=790&bih=476. The story, unearthed while the nation is still trying to grapple with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is a reminder that democracy in the United States has been under threat before. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. 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. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. I wanted to know more about him and, this paper gave me the opportunity to do just that. Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. 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. too low for this hilly country. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. Victor Reuther wondered if organized crime or the Communist Party was involved. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. This error was significant. ', 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. Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. Page of 2. THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, September 1, 1940 * Lovettsville, Virginia Air Disaster * Douglas DC-3 airplane crash (1st report) This 30+ page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "25 PERSONS KILLED IN PLANE WRECK" with subheads that include: "SENATOR LUNDEEN ON PASSENGER LIST AND BELIEVED LOST" and more. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. Why were the newspapers so unwilling to give it to them? political enemies and bents toward social justice who have preceded him. You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? 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He felt the United States had become a great power because it maintained its independence and wasnt constrained by alliances, said Ostermeier. 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. W. M. BURLESON, 57 Lock Lane, Richmond, Va. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. E. G. BOWER, department of internal revenue, Washington, D. C. The plane hit . Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. 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. ", 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?" The worst disaster in the history of U. S. Commercial aviation occurred near here late today what all 25 persons aboard a Pennsylvania Central airliner crashed to their deaths at the height of a terrific rainstorm. 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. 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." A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal's . The Kollsman Instrument Report: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose at the time of the approach under concern, the instrument would probably have indicated high by roughly 225 to 250 feet." It said action is urgently needed to overhaul the system . If so why do it when 2 FBI agents were aboard? 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. 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." Achievements Lundeen was recognized for his service in the state legislature, the United States Congress and the United States Senate. Again, their story seems to support the view, that political murders are quite common in the USA. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" On August 31 [1940] the weather was stormy. The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. I believe. I found it strange, that the CSM had one very brief paragraph mentioning Reuthers death, three, days after the deadly crash. In fact, the FBI has never officially closed the books on its investigation into the possibility that sabotage might have caused what was then the nation's worst aviation disaster. The speech extolled the great contributions of German culture to American life, and argued that Americans had more in common with the fascist German government than it did with the democracies Germany was busy invading. It was right above the house, then the sound, stopped and I looked out the window. Suarez was the first to reach the, crash site and was soon joined by Donald and Sharon Bonter. Why is it that no one seems to find it, curious that some of the major voices for social change were silenced within, When I consider what happened to these men, I cannot help thinking about the, death of two of my relatives. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. Many of the newspapers went through the process of trying to explain, something about the life and times of Walter Reuther. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. He was very much a hawk. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . He eventually won a seat in the U.S. House again, as a Farmer Laborite, and was accused by Republican rivals of being a Communist sympathizer for sponsoring the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and addressing a meeting of Friends of the Soviet Union at Madison Square Garden. I found 31 articles on the, subject of Walter Reuthers death. If you have questions, emaileditors@minnpost.com. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. This article was printed on May 11, 1970. The results of the genetic analyses of the repository samples were consistent with the finding that the spores in the attack letters were derived from RMR-1029, but the analyses did not definitively demonstrate such a relationship. 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." He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. 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. Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. 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. 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. Polis. 2. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. in rural Alabama during the most racist era in American history. Click HERE to see this. Senator Ernest Lundeen Plane Crash 1940. 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. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. . 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. JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". Heinz food fortune. The certainty of this claim was seriously challenged by both the National Academy of Sciences report and subsequent reporting on several grounds. Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. Walter Reuther, his wife May, the architect Oscar Stonorov, a, bodyguard, the pilot and co-pilot were killed in a chartered Lear jet while. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. 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. A Born Battler for Labors Causes. Detroit Free Press. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. 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. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. He was replaced by Joseph Ball, a 34-year-old St. Paul newspaper reporter appointed by Gov. There was one conspiracy article from my class on Media in America, and one article that discussed previous murder attempts. 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? Rhodes said, because a note dropped by the stewardess, Margaret Carson of Pittsburgh, was found on a farm three miles from the spot where the plane went down.Rhodes said the note asked that whoever found it notify the Pitts burgh office. There are a number of posts already on this thread telling you this, but you don't seem to be replying to the opinion of many who take issue with the tone and the hypocrisy some of his perceive as an "opening shot" in your thread opener. Its wings flew off. If nothing, else, my beliefs have been strengthened by the total disreguard for, responsible reporting that I found. They were first put on the market in 1965, but during the first few years. Ham Fish's memory went dead. By I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. 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. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. 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. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. A staked depression would deform the adjacent holes and shaft as noted in Photo 45 which was purposely done on an equivalent shaft at room temperature." 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. ", Where you "not insinuating" the plane was sabotaged" Or only "not insinuating" FDR or Hoover were responsible? 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. (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 . In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. News accounts at the time reported that it was the worst disaster in U.S. commercial aviation history. The correct pivot was conical, the incorrect pivot was flat. 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. 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. 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 next evening after Victor had given, the dog to family friends, he was shot in the head while in his home. One can imagine that this was not well received by the Nixon White House. In 1962, Walter Reuther, a member of the Tractors for Freedom Committee, helped conduct negotiations to release the Bay of Pigs Brigade prisoners from Cuba. It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." Why. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. Senator John Heinz (R-Pa.) which collided in the air with a helicopter and crashed to the . Although he and his brother were from a, very wealthy and affluent family, he sought to promote social change and, justice for the victims of discrimination in this country.6, 2) Malcolm X was murdered on February 21, 1965. I had just made that step and the dish in, my hand just flew into a thousand pieces. Times of Walter Reuther was murdered so unwilling to give it to them a serious battering from interests. 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