Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". Were used to hearing it come over at just about that time, around 2:30 oclock, in the afternoon., Today we heard the roar of the motors much louder than usual. 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. 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. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, How a U.S. Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . But in court last week, Hill admitted that: He had served as handy man of a propaganda ring managed by Viereck and Prescott Dennett, Washington publicist. The last communication from the plain's captain or co-pilot was their report of reaching 6,000 ft. . In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked him, Victor, and Joseph Rauh, an attorney for the UAW, to investigate the ultra-Right. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. By nature shrewd, and brilliant, he developed a fiery oratorical style that captured the, imagination of millions of supporters. Brand-new Douglas DC-3. At the time, it was the highest death toll of any airplane accident in the United States. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 15) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. He was labeled a radical, black civil rights activist with ties to the Nation of Islam. 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." But his memory was in bad shape. Probably something wonderful. You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. 12) Pip, Edwin G. Reuther plane had a flame out. Detroit News. All of these types were essentially military. That isolationist view did not cause much of a stir before the United States entered the war, but Lundeens refusal to support the U.S. war effort in any way when Americas young men were fighting overseas eventually did not bode well with Minnesota voters. The jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. This article originally appeared on St. 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. 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 Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. 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.. 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. He was elected as a Republican to the Minnesota state House and in 1916 to represent a Hennepin County-based district in the House of Representatives. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. But the prosecutor, John Rogge, went on to collect new information about the conspiracies in Germany after the U.S. military obtained control of Nazi government documents. Lowell Scroggins of Washington, may have become lost in the cloud burst and fog came from report of Paul Rogers lumberman who lives near Hillsboro VA and wha told Rhodes he saw the plane heading east not west few minutes before the crash. Having succeeded in partnering with Lundeen, Viereck eventually enlisted another two dozen or so U.S. Senate and House members to help him establish a mass-mailing Nazi propaganda effort run out of the U.S. Capitol. metal from the airplane and also flamed out. Senator John Heinz (R-Pa.) which collided in the air with a helicopter and crashed to the . Ham Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office. Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. Walter Reuthers position as the president of the largest labor. THE DEAD . In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . 11 May 1970. 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. heads, and rival unionists to prove that they were communist sympathizers. My grandfathers lived. The Fatal Crash: Some Disturbing Evidence. But five years earlier, a question: was the 1940 plane crash and the death of Senator Lundeen linked to the creation of the atomic bomb? . The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. 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. 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, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. I believe. He was very confident in his talent as a public speaker, Ostermeier said. 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. 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. Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' I've gone too far to turn back," he said. 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. Develle Coates, 20, was the only one among 14 defendants who took his case to trial and the jury in November found him guilty of first-degree gang assault. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. The correct link pin ends were flat, while the incorrect one was tapered on one end. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. (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. United States Senator. 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. 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. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." 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. Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. W. M. BURLESON, 57 Lock Lane, Richmond, Va. 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. MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. It was on page two and it appeared in a. regular section called The News-Briefly. Braden stated: "Victor spent the money, mostly in West Germany, to bolster labor unions there. programs that he advocated for the poor did not endear him to his enemies. Prosecutor William Power Maloney asked suavely whether it was a coincidence that Viereck's views as a Nazi propagandist "coincide so closely with your views as a Congressman at this time." The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. After Rogge made public appearances to discuss those findings, he was fired. You're going up against an instrument pilot who's been through partial panel training, where you have a failure of half your critical instruments. Page of 2. . 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. . 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. Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. ), The sensational charges against Lundeen, which were never proven or disproven were first raised by muckracking syndicated columnists Drew Pearson and Robert Allen, who reported two weeks later that the rabid pro-German isolationist was under investigation at the time of his death., According to the columnists, Suspicion had been directed in Senator Lundeens direction after many mysterious visits to his office on the part of George Sylvester Viereck, famous German propagandist and a self-avowed friend of Adolph Hitlers Germany. The seditious lawmakers said the Justice Department and the FBI were embarked on politically motivated prosecutions. 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. 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. 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. The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal's . They were first put on the market in 1965, but during the first few years. The report was made public by the budget bureau. . With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. I had just made that step and the dish in, my hand just flew into a thousand pieces. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. A Kollsman Instrument Report attempted to explain the indentation: "Examination of the shaft indicated physical damage adjacent to the questionable screw hole in the shaft. He notes that witnesses saw the planes, bright landing lights wink on as it approached the field. My son put it under his pillow, she said. The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. 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. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. him, testimonials, and details about Reuthers funeral rites. 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. It was a dark and rainy night on May 9, 1970 near Pellston, Michigan. .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." I'm not following you. 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. They were favorably impressed with pre-Stalinist Marxist-Leninism. A reader who was exposed to the facts printed by the newspapers at, that time, were not given enough information. The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. The crash occurred because the pilot thought he was flying higher than was indicated by the altimeter readings. Former Senator for Minnesota. The FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents regarding Reuther's death, including the copious correspondence between field offices and Hoover. 25 memorials. This article was printed on May 11, 1970. 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. A. 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