. That high-profile stance drew Vierecks attention. The bodies were burned beyond recognition except for dental records. The report was made public by the budget bureau. 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? The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. 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. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. Lundeen was a senator from Minnesota and was a Farmer-Labor. Braden was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on February 22, 1918. He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. The Lear Jet is. A small plane crashed on a highway northwest of Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday morning, shutting down traffic, authorities said. I must also admit that after reading all of the, articles involved in my research, my feelings have not changed. 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." Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. All such details had faded into a fog. 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." The loose set screw could not be explained. The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. Because of the heavy rain that drove local residents indoors, no actual eye-witnesses of the catastrophe could be found immediately. The fact that the screw was still in place after the crash, and was in a virtually pristine condition, while the threads that surrounded it had been obliterated was, furthermore, never addressed. He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. 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. Member, American Bar Association . 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. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. 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. News accounts at the time reported that it was the worst disaster in U.S. commercial aviation history. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." Newspapers Snub the Specter of Assassination: In this paper I am going to discuss the death of Walter Reuther and the, suspicious way that the newspapers covered it. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. 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. Does false consciousness exist? Joe Karaffa, 41, was the co-pilot and had only recently joined the charter firm after his Air, Force career; both men were retired military jet pilots. There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. D. P. JAMES, interstate commerce commission, Des Moines, Iowa. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. 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. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. The screw hole shaft had its threads "torn," or drilled out. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. Guest Tom ScullyMay 26, 2011 in Political Conspiracies. In 1933 Victor and Walter Reuther had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. Lundeen cited a 2022 bill Polis signed that, he said, allowed for restrictive environmental building codes that raise housing costs. Our newspapers seem to have. It is possible that, despite Jonz's experience, the plane could have crashed into a mountain or even into the Prince William Sound. Steven Spielbergs production company, Amblin Entertainment, has recently purchased the movie rights to Maddows podcast. facts? JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. You can also learn about all our free newsletter options. 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. ", HEMMING commented: "Sabotage of the altimeters would not do the job. Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. 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. 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. 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. Walter Reuther died at the age of 62 in a plane crash. . Roll with it, David, instead of trying to endorse the "serious" people. A. HOLLOWAY, interstate commerce commission, Washington. 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. Everything appeared normal as the pilot George Evans, 48, started his final approach for landing. 5) A second rocking shaft rear support pivot was incorrect. suffered the loss of part of his right eye and parts of his jaw. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. 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.". The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? It said action is urgently needed to overhaul the system . Pittsburgh, Aug. 31 (INS) The 25 persons aboard the Pennsylvania-Central Airlines transport which crashed in Virginia tonight killing all on board were, according to PCA: LOWELL SCROGGINS, pilot, Washington, D. C. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. I don't see a sabotage or assassination scenario, but apparently the FBI has never let go of its suspicions. too low for this hilly country. Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. He was the dynamic, and charismatic leader of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Walter Reuther presented a very real threat to our political establishment. The Barfield Report never addressed itself to where the drill mark came from, or how the threads had been torn out. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. In the former case why were the only parts you posted from the article. It carries a crew of two and six passengers at nearly 600 miles per hour. The podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. He was an extraordinarily effective proponent of socioeconomic equality and an outspoken critic of the military-industrial complex, the arms race, the CIA, the national security state, and the Vietnam war. 14 March 2000. http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm. 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." with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. Inspection revealed charred aluminum in the brass screw threads. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. 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. As his spawn and wanna-bes . He elaborated: "Walter Reuther became a dove in the middle of the Hubert Humphrey - NIXON election. Im confused Tom because Evan, another moderator, asked us to keep out posts on this thread on the topic of the assassination but shortly after that you post irrelevant stuff like this you guys need to get your signals straight. It also included thousands of inoffensive, innocent American adults. He felt that, violence towards those that would do him and his supporters harm was, 3) Martin Luther King was murdered on April 4, 1968. 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. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Ray_Inman. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. In each of these instances, state and federal law-enforcement agencies showed themselves at best lackadaisical in their investigative efforts, suggesting the possibility of official collusion or at least tolerance for the criminal deeds. A man who had been courted and, consulted by the politically powerful and the corporate worlds elite? Click HERE to see this. Again, their story seems to support the view, that political murders are quite common in the USA. Republican. Does Rep. Pete Stauber know the difference between the agencies he oversees? Heinz food fortune. 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. The technician that placed the wrong pivot should have realized that the end stone had been "installed in an inverted position." 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. 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 jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. The crash occurred because the pilot thought he was flying higher than was indicated by the altimeter readings. The set screw was put back in place. "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. 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. I, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. The pilot had his engines wide open. On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a p*enger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington, D.C. to Detroit. 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. Fairview Cemetery. He had been with the company three years. 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. Walter Reuther was born into the labor movement and during his 35, years as a labor leader, he was instrumental in bringing it to its greatest, expansion in American History. What would be the motive? . May 1, 1928 - New York Rep. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R). In 1985, when Detroit newsman William Gallagher asked why Nixon had wanted the file, Krogh was evasive, claiming a lack of memory.). He was Johnson's biggest supporter. Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. So were the bodies. MISS DOROTHY BEER, secretary in war department, Washington, D. C. 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. family. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. They had no power to, recover. This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. 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. Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. 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. Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names. Walter Reuther was characterized as a Communist mole within the labor movement. This was consistent with the indentation mark near the screw hole, that looked like a mark a left by a high speed drill bit that had drilled in the wrong area, then quickly withdrawn. The file documented Reuther's leadership role in progressive and antiwar organizations. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. 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. Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., October 23, 1876 . Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . MARGARET CARSON, hostess, Pittsburgh. Cemetery Visibility: Public. 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. (WTC 7 collapse comes to mind as a similar official determinationunprecedented event). The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. It is the mainstay of the conservative reactionism of the 1980s and 1990s. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. there were a number of fatal accidents. Some may have felt that he had become too powerful and had to be, stopped! It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. However, Ball could not hold off Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey in 1948, and retired to live the life of a country squire in Virginias Blue Ridge mountains, not far from where Lundeen met his untimely death. Former Senator for Minnesota. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. Senate probe Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. The effects of the problem are taken as the problem itself. 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