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The altimeter looked intact, even though it had been tampered with. He stated that as he understood it, the cause of the crash was a faulty altimeter. See our full republication guidelines for more information. ", HEMMING commented: "Sabotage of the altimeters would not do the job. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. The struggles of Walter Reuther's life should cause us to give more than cursory attention to the questionable circumstances of his death. You assert your main cred. you're a CT who believes you had success in "breaking through" with your particular theory, and now, you want to define (restrict) where the boundaries are. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . He stated: "I've had very strong suspicions from the day the accident occurred. J. P. MOORE, co-pilot, Washington, D. C. David Halberstam related the President Kennedy planned to replace John McCone as CIA Director with Jack Conway, Walter Reuther's chief political lobbyist. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. [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." . 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. Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. When the United States entered the war, he served in the OSS. CRASH KILLING 25 LAID TO LIGHTNING; CAA Reports Bolt Disabled Pilots of Plane Carrying Senator Lundeen DISCOUNTS TURBULENT AIR Jump-Seat Occupant, Thrown Into Control Cockpit, Might Have Disrupted . On August 31, 1940, his secretary found him near collapse. As his spawn and wanna-bes . The Barfield Report, which was based on the primary examination of the unit, agreed: "One of the set screws was out of the rocking shaft, allowing the calibration arm assembly to be loose in the shaft. It was only three sentences long. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. Nancy Beck Young, a historian specializing in 20th century American politics at the University of Houston who is featured in the podcast, said Viereck was on the lookout for members of Congress who were susceptible to his pitch, which included splitting the money Berlin was paying for the operation. It was pointed out to Victor Reuther that no mafia figures had offered valid information on the plane crash. The right engine ingested wood and. It is frequently swept by wind and rain driven in cross currents through the Shenandoah mountains that loom on either side. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. too low for this hilly country. And we could see what had happened as soon as we got on top of the hill. It was the first fatal airline accident in 17 months and the worst in all U.S. airline history. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. 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 written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. He served from 1937 to 1940. 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. Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. D. P. JAMES, interstate commerce commission, Des Moines, Iowa. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." Stassen appointment When we plowed our garden, we found pieces of the airplane and even a human tooth, she said. I found 31 articles on the, subject of Walter Reuthers death. Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. The plane was in a 45 degree dive. However, a bright spot on the arm in the area indicated (ref D) was in position in line with the set screw hole at the time the mechanism was removed from the case.". [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. In fact, the FBI has never officially closed the books on its investigation into the possibility that sabotage might have caused what was then the nations worst aviation disaster. The resulting report warned of radical right elements inside the military and urged the president to dismiss generals and admirals who engaged in rightist political activities. The Civil Aeronautics Board had the last word in the matter, and it came up with a different theory. Telegraph-Herald - Sep 1, 1940 Milwaukee Journal. The lawmakers involved with Viereck all lost their seats in their next election. While at the Walter and May Reuther Educational and Recreational, Center at Black Lake, I saw a film that depicted much about the life of, Walter Reuther and I was fascinated. One can also assume that this was not well received by any of the, corporations providing material for the American war machine. All such details had faded into a fog. 14 May. A. H. ELLIOT, 5757 McKinley St., Washington, D. C. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. I had just made that step and the dish in, my hand just flew into a thousand pieces. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. . The cause of the mysterious crash was never resolved. It certainly does and in mass marketed quantities. 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. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Ray_Inman. One victim was a NASA astronaut and another was the president-elect of a large physicians' group. They asserted that Lundeens speeches were bitterly anti-British and vigorously against American preparedness.. You don't file with just one clue. The account posted above contains several distortions: The screw was in place up to the point the altimeter was disassembled, the suspected it might have been loosened by the fire, but a test was inconclusive: http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR71-03.pdf pg. It was not uncommon for Reuther to, hold an audience mesmerized for three or more hours1. Certainly in the context of the rest of the post the message being comported was that you suspected the crash was not accidental. Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. 2) Delisle, Tom and James Dewey. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". Lundeen was a senator from Minnesota and was a Farmer-Labor. The effects of the problem are taken as the problem itself. 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. 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. 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. Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. On the opposite end of the same rocking shaft the end stone was missing and the ring jewel was pushed off center. All 25 on board were killed, including US Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. The Senate threatened an investigation, for on the plane was Ernest Linden of Minnesota, the second U.S. 14) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. The plane was flying low . A Yonkers gang member who set off a vicious attack by more than a dozen people when he knocked a man unconscious with a tequila bottle was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in state prison. When US Attorney Jeff Taylor announced FBI was closing the investigation in February 2010, he gave the following 7 pieces of evidence that Ivins was the culprit. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". The last communication from the plain's captain or co-pilot was their report of reaching 6,000 ft. . 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. board to walk away without injury. For this he earned the wrath of powerful corporate and political interests. 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 Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. his home. 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. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. 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." On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashed into farm fields near Lovettsville in Loudoun County during a storm. Polis. Not so lucky was Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz III, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that investigated Iran-contra and one of Tower's supporters in the confirmation vote for Secretary of Defense. By That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. The correct pivot was conical, the incorrect pivot was flat. The worst disaster in the history of U. S. Commercial aviation occurred near here late today what all 25 persons aboard a Pennsylvania Central airliner crashed to their deaths at the height of a terrific rainstorm. .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." Steve Schlossberg told this researcher: "It's not my field. And what did she do with the tooth, I asked. (Reuther was a close friend and advisor to the Kennedys.) The loose set screw could not be explained. 10) The News in Brief. Christian Science Monitor. A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal's . THE DEAD Eight months before his death, Reuther reflected on the broader dimensions of labor's struggle: "The labor movement is about changing society . one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. 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. Those included being able to mail out thousands of copies of speeches written by Viereck at taxpayer expense thanks to the Congress franking, or paid postage, privileges. Steven Spielbergs production company, Amblin Entertainment, has recently purchased the movie rights to Maddows podcast. 14 March 2000. Those which were still whole were so badly mangled I dont see how they could ever be recognized.. 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. The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. He joined the CIA in 1950 as Special Assistant to Allen Dulles. JOHN. 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. 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. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. Maloney asked him whether he referred to Viereck. 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. On the evening of May 9, 1970, Reuther, along with his wife. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. 2 min read. Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. This and is republished here under a Creative Commons license., Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. He had recently announced his candidacy for, president on March 16, 1968 and had just finished giving a speech to his, All of these men were heavily involved in civil rights and the move toward, social justice for all Americans. This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. Whether Reuther's death was part of a broader agenda to decapitate and demoralize the mass movements of that day, or whether such an agenda existed at all, are questions that go beyond the scope of our inquiry. However, the Civil Aeronautics Board, created only a year earlier after Sen. Bronson Cutting of New Mexico was killed in a plane crash ironically, Lundeen pushed for the legislation that created it raised further doubts in November when it issued an 87-page report of its investigation into the accident, even while concluding that the accident probably was caused by an extraordinary lightning effect., 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. 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., Whatever the actual cause of the accident, Lundeens death had far-reaching political repercussions, just as Wellstones death did when Republican Norm Coleman defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, who was a last-minute stand-in for Wellstone just 12 days before the election, and led eventually to Colemans defeat by Democrat Al Franken last November after a marathon vote recount. Although he and his brother were from a, very wealthy and affluent family, he sought to promote social change and, justice for the victims of discrimination in this country.6, 2) Malcolm X was murdered on February 21, 1965. News accounts at the time reported that it was the worst disaster in U.S. commercial aviation history. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. I, found it strange that only one of the five newspapers discussed the murder, attempts. In early 1968 the UAW withdrew from the AFL-CIO and joined forces with the Teamsters and two smaller unions to form the Alliance for Labor Action (ALA), with a membership totaling over four million. The screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. 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. A reader who was exposed to the facts printed by the newspapers at, that time, were not given enough information. A. MOCK, Washington, D. C. Many thanks to Stu Beitler athttp://www3.gendisasters.com/virginia/2406/lovettsville-va-air-disaster-aug-1940?page=0,0, Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. I found this to be true. 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. 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. Note that: i) it had been in the plane for AT LEAST 3 532.3 flight hours before the crash ii) was last reinstalled almost 500 flight hours before the crash and iii) its entire history from manufacture till crash seems to be known. On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a passenger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington, D.C. to Detroit. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. It was explained to Victor Reuther that an intelligence agency was often involved in sabotage of a sophisticated nature. A wonderful guy, but he was for the war. Republican. 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. The altimeter, however, had only been partially opened by crash events and the rocking shaft in question was still shielded by the altimeter's case. Fairview Cemetery. Employes of the line at Pitts burgh said another of their planes was flying about eight miles from the scene The company report ed the pilot of that plane report1 ed the weather wasroutine at 3,000 feet and the visibility was good. 1940 air crash took a toll not soon forgotten. The lack of a distress call is interesting but fits with what many pilots said about the Wellstone crash, that the pilots would have prioritized saving the plane over making a radio call. The unit was exposed to 10,000 ft. pressure altitude, then the return scale error readings were recorded.". The plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air A100, was apparently in good condition when it hit the ground and exploded into flames about two miles from the Eveleth-Virginia airport in the. LUNDEEN NOTED AS ISOLATIONIST; WRECKAGE AND TWO OF VICTIMS IN AIR CRASH Times Wide World Wired Photo Sept. 1, 1940 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from. He and his brother Victor had not made things easy for themselves when they, went to Russia in 1932. Chuck Todd told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to go back on his "partisan cable cocoon" during a heated interview after the Republican railed about Hunter Biden on Sunday (You can watch the two go back-and-forth below).. 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