The screw hole shaft had its threads "torn," or drilled out. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. . Why were the newspapers so unwilling to give it to them? So with the current anti-democracy campaign intended to Nazify America (and you know which orange figurehead and faithless political party this involves, as with Republican Senator Lundeen in 1940), Rachel Maddow 's new podcast Ultra (which premiered today!) (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. The accident, investigators said that the twin jet engines of the plane that carried, Walter Reuther and five others to their deaths had flamed out after striking, trees before the crash. MISS MILDRED CHESSER, 1738 M. St., NW., Washington, D. C. Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. Jonz was a military veteran with 17,000 hours of flight time, and he logged 15 years as a pilot in Alaska. 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." 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? None this precludes the possibility that the plane might have be sabotaged, after all Ruether had a lot of powerful enemies but light is not going to be shown on the case by the likes of Weberman, he should stick to ruffling through peoples trash. 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. and that this was the question that faced them. 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. 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. Some, 1) In April 1938, two masked gunmen forced their way into Walter Reuthers, home and tried to abduct him. The plane hit . The Fatal Crash: Some Disturbing Evidence. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. Again, their story seems to support the view, that political murders are quite common in the USA. 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." Braden gave Walter Reuther the money in $50 bills. 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." Eight months before his death, Reuther reflected on the broader dimensions of labor's struggle: "The labor movement is about changing society . All passengers and crew on the plane perished. Does false consciousness exist? J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI would plague Walter Reuther for almost forty, years. All of these types were essentially military. LUNDEEN TOOK VIERECK DATA; Former Secretary to Senator Testifies That Widow "Stripped' Files of Records TELLS OF SPEECH-WRITING Witness Asserts Joint Effort Produced Anti-British Attack -- Viereck Paid by Nazi February 25, 1942, Wednesday http://query.nytimes.com/beta/search/query.&submit=sub SIDELIGHTS OF THE WEEK Airport, Pellston, Michigan, May 9, 1970, Report No. WHEN MINNESOTA SENATOR ERNEST LUNDEEN WAS KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH over Virginia on August 31, 1940, the Republican governor was able, according to the rules, to appoint a fellow Republican to fill the senator's seat. time (of the crash). There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. 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. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. A. H. ELLIOT, 5757 McKinley St., Washington, D. C. In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. [NY Journal American 6.5.63]. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. 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. The jet Walter Reuther was on had been initially assigned a ferry job from Columbus to Akron, Ohio. . For this he earned the wrath of powerful corporate and political interests. Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. 13) National Transportation Safety Board, Aircraft Accident Report, Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. Lear Jet L23A N434EJ Near the Emmet County. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. He was constantly a thorn in Reuthers side and Reuther could do, nothing without Hoover documenting the details.14, As if Walter Reuthers stance on business, political, and social policies, 1) Reuther ran ads in the national media and appeared before congressional, committees to denounce the war and call for drastic cuts in the military, 2) In January of 1970, three months before the crash, President Richard. I posted about the 1940 crash resulting in the death of Sen. Lundeen in an attempt to make a point that none of us are qualified to presume what "serious people" should or should not be suspicious or skeptical about, and that the MSM has not shown the integrity or accuracy in its reporting and choices of what to cover, to have earned the distinction to accord it that privilege. 1940 Airplane Crash Killed U.S. 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. 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. [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." History rhymes again . 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. I found this to be true. 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. 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. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. Compare yourself and your background, attempting to set the boundaries beyond which you perceive, is the unreasonable, irrational, wilderness of thought and research, with the assertion, sworn to in court, of this super serious, establishment intelligence leader, a man who has devoted his career to "keeping us safe". Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. It was a dark and rainy night on May 9, 1970 near Pellston, Michigan. In 1933 Victor and Walter Reuther had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. 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. 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. 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. 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." There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA There is a lot of crossover. The, picture that emerged was quite unsettling. Whether certain foreign agents figured that they were about to be exposed, whether G-men on the plane tangled with Lundeen on the flight, or whether it was an act of God and the weather may never be known, they declared. Lundeen was also enlisted by German agent George Sylvester Viereck, because of his status as a senator and the perks that came with the job. 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. Ironically, the crash occurred almost exactly one year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, touching off World War II. Steve Schlossberg told this researcher: "It's not my field. What would be the motive? 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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.". Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions (one short of a Nathan Peterman) and the Chargers took a . LYNN BERRY April 4, 1991 BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) _ U.S. Sen. John Heinz and six others were killed today when his airplane and a helicopter collided and crashed in a schoolyard shortly after noon, officials said. 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. 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 screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. Its cabin split like a dried pod. 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. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. An even bigger problem is the complete lack of attention on what happened to the anthrax after it came from Ivins flask, if it did. 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. 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. 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. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". The crash was a head-scratcher. For the industrialists, financiers, and leading politicos, it made little difference whether their wealth and power was challenged by "communist subversives" or "loyal Americans?' The Lear Company maintained that it was impossible for anyone but trusted officials of their firm to have known who was to use the plane" Steven I. Schlossberg, who conducted the investigation of the crash for the United Automobile Workers, reported: "In view of the fact that almost no one outside of top officials of Executive Jet could have known the identity of the passengers and there was little, if any, chance for ground tampering of this airplane, it appears to me that further investigation on a private basis is unwarranted." Inspection revealed charred aluminum in the brass screw threads. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . Private. The pilots managed a crash landing that allowed all on. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. He was a black civil, rights activist who advocated change through non-violent means.8, 4) Senator Robert Francis Kennedy former Attorney General under JFKs, administration died on June 6, 1968, one day after he was shot at point, blank range to the head. Achievements Lundeen was recognized for his service in the state legislature, the United States Congress and the United States Senate. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Click HERE to see this. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., October 23, 1876 . First, the NAS study concluded only that the genetic analysis was consistent with the spores being derived from RMR-1029. The reason is that Lundeen, an isolationist who had, as a member of the U.S. House 23 years earlier, voted against the declaration of war against Germany, was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer who was reportedly under investigation by the FBI. 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. Without it, those at the top, who profess a devotion to our interests while serving themselves, would be in serious trouble indeed. The cause of the mysterious crash was never resolved. David O. Norris, a private detective hired by Elizabeth Reuther Dickmeyer, youngest daughter of Walter Reuther, discovered evidence to the contrary: "Just hours after the crash a reporter from the Detroit News talked to the night dispatcher at Butler Aviation who said he knew that Walter Reuther was on the plane." Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. There were five editorials, one, obituary, one article on the National Transportation Safety Boards initial, report. 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 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. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. 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.. Others residents in the district and the tiny town five miles from the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers said they had heard the plane circling for a time before the crash. . 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. 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. Because of the remoteness of the district and lack of communication, news of the tragedy did not even reach Lovettsville for nearly an hour. Donations are crucial to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the genetic analysis was with. 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