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. Lundeen wasnt even doing the bulk of the work, Viereck was writing the speeches.. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, St. Paul Winter Carnival organizers intentional about inclusion, Not sitting this out: Minnesota Medical Association votes to support decriminalization of illicit drugs, Minnesota GOP stops bail out for Cleveland-Cliffs as part of mining unemployment extension bill, Program supporting Black mothers through pregnancy adds cultural component to maternal care, With or without court ruling, Minnesota lawmakers seek to restore ex-offender voting rights, D.C. (Mondales loss gave him the unhappy distinction as the only person ever to lose a statewide election in all 50 states, after having lost all but Minnesota to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.). He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. He joined the CIA in 1950 as Special Assistant to Allen Dulles. 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. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. According to Victor Reuther: "It was on the ground only 20 minutes, taxiing in and out before it loaded Walter and his party at 8:44 p.m. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. Reuther was the kind of labor leader who unsettled the higher circles: militant, incorruptible, and dedicated both to the rank-and-file and a broad class agenda. Viereck provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across the United States. I, found it strange that only one of the five newspapers discussed the murder, attempts. On August 31 [1940] the weather was stormy. . Don Jonz, 38, the owner of Pan Alaska, piloted the plane. Ball, the youngest member of the Senate at the time and the first senator required to register for the military draft, served the remaining two years of Lundeens term and was elected to a full term in 1942. [Reuther, Victor The Brothers Reuther Houghton-Mifflin 1976; NYT 5.8.67, 5.11.1970; Kollsman and Barfield reports; NTSB records], In April 1993, Victor Reuther received documentation of the preceding information. ..Indication that the pilot. I couldnt get up, and I lay there flat, on my back for a second or two. It was more likely caused by high heat and pressure of a part laying in contact. Further microscopic examination leads to the belief that this was due to causes other than upset by staking, due to the lack of upset material adjacent to the depression, and hole shape. So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." 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. 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. 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. That afternoon a Pennsylvania CentralAirlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. All passengers and crew on the plane perished. It certainly does and in mass marketed quantities. 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." Despite the limited investigation there is enough evidence to suggest that foul play was involved. As a reader who knew about the appearance of a, conspiracy in this case, I was left with more questions than I had before I, started. 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. 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? Coughlin had a huge following through his popular radio program and was a virulent anti-Semite and defender of the Nazi government. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. 12 May 1970. A wonderful guy, but he was for the war. Every instrument rated pilot sets the field elevation published on the front of the control tower when he takes off. Fish replied: "I am referring to you. This error was significant. 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. Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. A driver's dashcam footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows the . Consider the assassinations of the following individuals: 1) John Fitzgerald Kennedy our 35th president was murdered on November 22, 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas. Jonz was a military veteran with 17,000 hours of flight time, and he logged 15 years as a pilot in Alaska. 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. 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. On April 4, 1991, the day before Tower died in the plane crash in Georgia, Heinz was killed in a freakish mid-air crash . Why did the other, newspapers remain silent about the possibility that Walter Reuther was, Walter Reuther had made many enemies in both the political arena and in the, world of business through his negotiations for the UAW, and his social, agenda. (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. 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. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. 3) An end stone was missing from the opposite end of the rocking shaft. . He was very much a hawk. 14 March 2000. http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm. 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 other parties may have been involved in Walter Reuthers death? The Detroit Police claimed that neighbors had been, complaining about his barking dog. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. 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." Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a. The Pittsburgh native also was an heir to the H.J. 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. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. 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. J. Edgar Hoovers FBI doctored a letter that Victor, Reuther sent back to the United States to make it seem as if they were, communists. The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. He felt the United States had become a great power because it maintained its independence and wasnt constrained by alliances, said Ostermeier. (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. I wanted to know more about him and, this paper gave me the opportunity to do just that. One of the youngest persons ever to become a U.S. senator, Ball, at thirty-five, was also the first senator to be required to register for conscription. Reuther's demise appears as part of a truncation of liberal and radical leadership that included the deaths of four national figures: President John Kennedy, Malcolm X Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert Kennedy, and dozens of leaders m the Black Panther Party and in various community organizations. Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. 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. 1940 Airplane Crash Killed U.S. She also said that parallels could be drawn between the attempts of Nazi Germany to undermine American democracy and in the 1930s and 1940s and the efforts of Russia and other nations to sow discord in the U.S. political system now. The file documented Reuther's leadership role in progressive and antiwar organizations. 11) Pip, Edwin G. What caused the crash of Reuthers jet? Detroit News. When Senator Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist, was killed in a plane crash, Stassen appointed Ball to fill the remaining two years of Lundeen's term. In Brooklyn, N.Y., members of the Christian Front, a national organization inspired by Coughlins broadcasts, planned an armed para-military coup of the U.S. government. The spores in the attack came from RMR-1029 and Ivins controlled access to that flask. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. MISS C. POST, 1739 Kilborn Place, NW., Washington. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. Walter Reuthers position as the president of the largest labor. The FAA/NTSB found "no indication of sabotage." After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. 5) A second rocking shaft rear support pivot was incorrect. 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. Jonas was born in 1856. Walter Reuther presented a very real threat to our political establishment. 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. Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. 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!) None of the hearers, however, were able to determine whether the plane had motor trouble. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. 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 not uncommon for Reuther to, hold an audience mesmerized for three or more hours1. The last communication from the plain's captain or co-pilot was their report of reaching 6,000 ft. . The loose set screw could not be explained. 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. A Born Battler for Labors Causes. Detroit Free Press. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. Meanwhile Lundeens widow, Norma, kept up a constant defense of her husband and threatened media outlets with lawsuits if they wrote about the conspiracies. A . 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. I didn't come here to be insulted. 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. was a sham. As the court documents allege, the parent material of the anthrax spores used in the attacks was a single flask of spores, known as RMR-1029, that was created and solely maintained by Dr. Ivins at USAMRIID. one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. 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. These powerful men were able to use their political influence to prod the Justice Department to remove a competent, ambitious prosecutor from investigating Vierecks operation and the slew of other Nazi-promoted plots to destabilize the U.S. government. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. The technician who assembled the altimeter had made too many mistakes in the same area, to have done so innocently. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. .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." Senate probe Walter Reuther was characterized as a Communist mole within the labor movement. 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. The voters exacted their retribution even if the Justice Department did not, Young said. But his memory was in bad shape. in rural Alabama during the most racist era in American history. 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? This article originally appeared on St. Braden stated: "Victor spent the money, mostly in West Germany, to bolster labor unions there. The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. 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. Telegraph-Herald - Sep 1, 1940 Milwaukee Journal. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. 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. See our full republication guidelines for more information. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. 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. It was on page two and it appeared in a. regular section called The News-Briefly. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the newly appointed House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman, on Sunday sidestepped multiple questions about why the panel won't investigate former President Trump over his handling of classified documents, despite plans to probe President Biden for similar offenses. Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names. 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. Ernest Lundeen 62, Minnesota U.S. 13) National Transportation Safety Board, Aircraft Accident Report, Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. Lear Jet L23A N434EJ Near the Emmet County. 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. 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. There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. There was an indentation adjacent to the missing set screw hole. So just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover killed a planeload of people just to eliminate the senator? 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. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. From what little was left of the plane it was hard to tell what had happened. Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. By nature shrewd, and brilliant, he developed a fiery oratorical style that captured the, imagination of millions of supporters. All such details had faded into a fog. 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 . Ron Brown and 34 others were . I had just made that step and the dish in, my hand just flew into a thousand pieces. The lawmakers involved with Viereck all lost their seats in their next election. Walter Reuther was first and foremost a labor organizer, with an. 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. 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. For this he earned the wrath of powerful corporate and political interests. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. overpowering sense of social justice that shaped his controversial, temperamental, combustible, and at times unrelenting character. Mrs. Dickmeyer stated that her father was going up to Black Lake almost every weekend, and that information would not have been hard to discern. 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.". No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. I found the actual NTSB crash report of the Ruether crash. ", 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?" He was a fine player of the politics of subversion until he discovered the FBI was on to him, she said. The set screw, which was missing from the rocking shaft, was recovered from within the case. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" 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. 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. Nixon requested the FBIs files on Walter Reuther. 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. He notes that witnesses saw the planes, bright landing lights wink on as it approached the field. German ancestry. family. Pennsylvania Central flies between Norfolk, Virginia and Milwaukee. But there was no fire. David Halberstam related the President Kennedy planned to replace John McCone as CIA Director with Jack Conway, Walter Reuther's chief political lobbyist. Willy Phillips Jr was 13 years old when he survived a plane crash that killed his father in 2010. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. 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. On May 11, 1970 (two days after the fatal crash), the DN set itself apart from all four, of the other papers, when an article was printed asking: What caused the, crash of Reuthers jet? . programs that he advocated for the poor did not endear him to his enemies. . 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. Lovettsville Game Protective Association, Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville High School (1910), Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Library, Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Post Office (1937-1961), Lovettsville, Virginia, Lovettsville Town Hall, Lovettsville, Virginia, McClains Grocery, Lovettsville, Virginia, Historical Photographs of Lovettsville, Virginia, 1940 Lovettsville Airline Disaster Archive, Revolutionary War Veterans of Lovettsville. 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. 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. I found no trace of the supposed Kollsman or Barfield reports on the Net. This allegation angered former CIA Staffer Thomas Braden and he revealed that in 1967, that some time between 1950, and 1954, he gave the Reuther brothers $50,000 of CIA funds. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. My grandfathers lived. ", A report from the Kollsman Instrument Company stated: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose". The Wonderful Life and Strange, 15) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. 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 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 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.". Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. 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. Heinz food fortune. It was pointed out to Victor Reuther that no mafia figures had offered valid information on the plane crash. This means that the spores used in the attacks were taken from that specific flask, regrown, purified, dried and loaded into the letters. It was the first fatal airline accident in 17 months and the worst in all U.S. airline history. Post your ratings of these three choices. 6) Kennedy, John F. American Presidents. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. However, he had to temporarily step aside because his appointment expired the day of the election rather than at the end of Lundeens term. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule.
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