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. 1940 Airplane Crash Killed U.S. You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. ', 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. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. In the former case why were the only parts you posted from the article. So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." The information contained in those German files leaked anyway. Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. . Mr. "I was deeply saddened to learn that . Capt. 1A+. 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. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. That certainly was not the case with the, The NTSBs preliminary ruling of what caused the crash of Walter Reuthers, plane on May 9, 1970, was printed on May 14, 1970 in the DN. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. DR. C. D. COLE, 5305 41st St., NW., Washington, bound for Lansing. 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. There were several unusual defects noted, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. While the AFL-CIO was proclaiming its support for Nixon's escalation of the war and his anti-ballistic missile program, the ALA was lobbying hard against both. He was very confident in his talent as a public speaker, Ostermeier said. 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? They were first put on the market in 1965, but during the first few years. If the screw was. Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. The pieces of wreckage were strewn all over a two-acre stretch of ground. JOAN SANCHEZ April 5, 1991 BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) _ A commuter plane carrying former U.S. Sen. John Tower, his daughter and 21 others crashed and burned Friday, killing all on board, authorities said. The altimeter looked intact, even though it had been tampered with. Maloney asked him whether he referred to Viereck. The investigators at Kollsman agreed with those at Barfield that the set screw was in place during the crash. Suddenly the plane--flying on visual rules, not ground, controlledwas lower than it should have been. M. P. MAHAN, 1788 Lender Place, Washington, D. C. The link pin of the same rocking shaft was incorrect. 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. He described AID and AIFLD as CIA conduits. http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1941/March/0308/0309/?action=view¤t=0309-allcurbsr.jpg, For your edification heres the crash report, http://www.baesel.net/capaccidents/1940.08.31_PennsylvaniaCentralAirlinesCorp_DouglasDC-3-A.pdf, As for the part about Inman I have no idea what you were going on about and doubt David or anyone else did either. I found 31 articles on the, subject of Walter Reuthers death. Fish replied: "I am referring to you. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. It was explained to Victor Reuther that an intelligence agency was often involved in sabotage of a sophisticated nature. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI would plague Walter Reuther for almost forty, years. ), Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. The crash that aviation officials deemed a " senseless accident " occurred when a helicopter flew too close to inspect the landing gear of the plane carrying Heinz. H. J. HOLLERITH, Chicago. political enemies and bents toward social justice who have preceded him. 25 memorials. 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 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. 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. Its pretty stark just how much the events of those times rhymes with what we live through now, and continue to live through, Young said. The seditious lawmakers said the Justice Department and the FBI were embarked on politically motivated prosecutions. one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) . The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. In the latter case who do think did it and why? 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." But unlike the Wellstone tragedy, the cause of the crash that killed the first-term Farmer-Labor senator remains shrouded in mystery nearly three quarters of a century later. The jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. On the evening of May 9, 1970, Reuther, along with his wife. 25 DEAD IN CRASH OF AIR TRANSPORT; LUNDEEN IS KILLED; IN VIRGINIA STORM Crash Near Mountain in Fog and Rain Startles Village Dwellers BODIES WIDELY SCATTERED Debris Spread Over Hundreds of. Attempts to destabilize and even overthrow the U.S. government, as conversely efforts to fight fascism by the Justice Department and ordinary citizens like Los Angeles attorney Leon Lewis, who with his friends infiltrated the American brownshirt movements and uncovered violent plots, may soon come to the big screen. Telegraph-Herald - Sep 1, 1940 Milwaukee Journal. The American Labor movement has now become a political movement with the objective of establishing a socialist labor government in control of the economic and social life of this nation.". He leaned forward, shouted: "The man who made that statement lies." We knew that right away, MASON said. Achievements Lundeen was recognized for his service in the state legislature, the United States Congress and the United States Senate. Victor Reuther conceded that this was true. Victor Reuther now believes that sabotage was involved in his brother's death; however, he did not believe it was the CIA: "What I did not garner from the material you sent me was that it was the CIAthere are all kinds of wing groups, who could hire sophisticated people; there was a history of right-wing attacks on us." From what little was left of the plane it was hard to tell what had happened. He notes that witnesses saw the planes, bright landing lights wink on as it approached the field. 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. 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. In 1933 Victor and Walter Reuther had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. A reader who was exposed to the facts printed by the newspapers at, that time, were not given enough information. .. Heres what remains of each of these 7 pieces of evidence: 1. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. Heinz food fortune. My grandfathers lived. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, How a U.S. The effects of the problem are taken as the problem itself. 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. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." 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. The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. A . The podcast describes an event in which angry constituents pushed Lundeen into a refrigerated rail car. I found the actual NTSB crash report of the Ruether crash. 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. This new facility had been designed by Oscar Stonorov and was due to be, opened to the membership within a few weeks of the crash. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. 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. THANKS sg, #########################oooooooo##############################++++. The fatal plane crash of Walter Reuther, a liberal who was head of the United Automobile Workers union on May 9, 1970, also raised questions. He had been with the company three years. Sharon Bonter, said I saw a huge light from our house. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. All such details had faded into a fog. 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. I, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. I found this to be true. Can you point to Senate votes on aid to the allies or sanctions against the Axis where shift of 1 or 2 votes would have made a difference? 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." A Born Battler for Labors Causes. Detroit Free Press. At the time, it was the highest death toll of any airplane accident in the United States. Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. learn about all our free newsletter options, How a U.S. The removal of Hitler and Mussolini and a few of their collaborators does not mean that fascism is dead, Rogge said in a New York city speech in 1946. Airport, Pellston, Michigan, May 9, 1970, Report No. Our newspapers seem to have. It is hard to fathom what national security concern is involved or why the FBI and CIA still keep so many secrets about Walter Reuther's life and death. There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. It is wasting our resources that we need at home and it is tarnishing our moral credentials in the world." Member, American Bar Association . (In this context, it might be noted that in January 1970, only three months before the fatal plane crash, the Nixon White House requested Reuther's FBI file The call came from Egil Krogh, a Nixon staff member who was later arrested as a Watergate burglar. (Victor believes the attempt against him was intended as a message to Walter.) 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." Thats just part of the story that MSNBCs Rachel Maddow tells in an eight-part podcast called Ultra that uncovers a series of seditious plots to sow discord in the United States 80 years ago. MISS DOROTHY BEER, secretary in war department, Washington, D. C. Aside from the fact it had no past, there were many other strange things about the captain's altimeter: A report from the Barfield Instrument Corporation dated May 19, 1970, stated: "One of the set screws was out of the rocking shaft, allowing the calibration arm assembly to be loose in the shaft. That high-profile stance drew Vierecks attention. It also included thousands of inoffensive, innocent American adults. 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. "I can't talk about it. 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." [NY Journal American 6.5.63]. He was on his way to address an all-state picnic of Minnesota Townsend Clubs when his career ended abruptly in an airplane crash near Lovettsville, Virginia, in August 1940. What would be the motive? Does false consciousness exist? After completing my, research, I feel that the newspapers engaged in a conspiracy of silence, while reporting on the death of Walter Reuther: they presented information, about the plane crash along with biographical data, but only one paper. So just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover killed a planeload of people just to eliminate the senator? There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. 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. All of these types were essentially military." Sort By. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. I was impressed with the honesty of the people who were doing this." 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. A recent government report found it to be "outmoded" and "overloaded.". The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. Taxing telephone facilities and narrow roads around the little upcountry hamlet here, swarms of police, federal inspectors and curious quickly threw the countryside into confusion. It was on page two and it appeared in a. regular section called The News-Briefly. The other passenger victims included a number of government employes and minor federal officials, among them being at least three agents of the department of justice. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. 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. 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. African-Americans could not seek justice in a society dominated by whites. Any part that comes into contact with the altitude capsule itself is critical. .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." Memo: Biden has document troubles, House GOP on the march with its agenda, A primer on the marijuana legalization proposal that could become law in Minnesota, My reflections on running for Congress to represent southern Minnesota. 12 May 1970. But from the intensive FAA investigation, the facts seem to say clearly that it was caused by human error, not neglect" The FAA/NTSB found "no indication of sabotage." Among such leaders looms the great figure of Walter Reuther. I, had always viewed the information given by our media with a great deal of, skepticism, but now I know more than ever that we must find as many sources, as possible to seek the truth for ourselves. 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. Is it such a stretch to assume that our government. In view of that agency's track record, "case closed" could mean, "case open". Because of the heavy rain that drove local residents indoors, no actual eye-witnesses of the catastrophe could be found immediately. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. ), 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. He tried undercover techniques to keep me from finding out how he spent it. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. It was horrible., It sounded like the plane exploded when it hit the ground. Men came to his home and took him away. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. The plane refueled at Akron and went on to Detroit's City Airport, then on to Detroit's Metro Airport. 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. The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. A. H. ELLIOT, 5757 McKinley St., Washington, D. C. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. The full story was not told. The momentum of the plane took it 269 feet farther, cutting through the trees; then it exploded into a ball of fire. If nothing, else, my beliefs have been strengthened by the total disreguard for, responsible reporting that I found. The pilot had his engines wide open. With all of, this information being public knowledge and not to mention a sensational, story, why did only one of the newspapers (DFP), provide any in-depth, reporting into the possibility of assassination? Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. "Pin installed was a P/N 371-80 (should be 1357-37)." 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. time (of the crash). 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. It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". The technician that placed the wrong pivot should have realized that the end stone had been "installed in an inverted position." After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in the 1922 election and the 1923 special election. 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.". In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. 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. I've gone too far to turn back," he said. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. The report seemed to focus on the, altimeter found in the wreckage. There were five editorials, one, obituary, one article on the National Transportation Safety Boards initial, report. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. Consider the assassinations of the following individuals: 1) John Fitzgerald Kennedy our 35th president was murdered on November 22, 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas. 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. Its cabin split like a dried pod. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. MISS M. TURNER, Huddleston, Va., bound for Cleveland. 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. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. . It was not uncommon for Reuther to, hold an audience mesmerized for three or more hours1. was a sham. MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. He was labeled a radical, black civil rights activist with ties to the Nation of Islam. Ironically, the crash occurred almost exactly one year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, touching off World War II. Private. A South Dakota native who graduated from Carleton College and the University of Minnesota Law School, Lundeen had a passion for politics. The, picture that emerged was quite unsettling. The Detroit Police nor J. Edgar Hoovers Federal Bureau of Investigation, attempted to discover who the perpetrators were.5, Why doesnt anyone seem to find it strange that this article was not enough. That afternoon, Lundeen was killed in a Virginia . 3) One day before the fatal crash, Walter Reuther sent a telegram to the, White House condemning the war, the invasion, and the bankruptcy of our, policy of force and violence in Vietnam.15. Visibility was so bad and the terrain so hilly in the triangle between the two rivers, that any desperate hunt for a haven for the big ship was foredoomed to failure from the start, aerial experts conceded. My, grandmother was left to raise her five children alone and she never, remarried. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. Click HERE to see this. The podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. 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. Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. It was coming down so thick then you couldnt see more than a quarter of a mile. Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. On April 4, 1991, the day before Tower died in the plane crash in Georgia, Heinz was killed in a freakish mid-air crash . Victor Reuther wondered if organized crime or the Communist Party was involved. Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. 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.. 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