After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. him, testimonials, and details about Reuthers funeral rites. Member, American Bar Association . Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. His remains were spread about the area of impact. 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. One can see instances of false consciousness all about us. William Dee Becker (1876-1943) also known as William D. Becker of St. Louis, Mo. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. See our full republication guidelines for more information. 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.". It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." Eight investigators from the. 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. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. . An even bigger problem is the complete lack of attention on what happened to the anthrax after it came from Ivins flask, if it did. Walter Reuther died at the age of 62 in a plane crash. This personality tranformation, called once famously a "trance-formation," was induced by the hyper-raumatizing, savage rape, torture and murder of innocent children in front of other children such as myself. TOM, YES I agree with your ideas presented in your post and add this in context. Republican. The jet Walter Reuther was on had been initially assigned a ferry job from Columbus to Akron, Ohio. . 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. My son put it under his pillow, she said. The rest involved, biographies, details of the crash, and how the UAW was effected before and, after Reuthers death. Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. That afternoon a Pennsylvania CentralAirlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. Rogge was forbidden from making the new intelligence public, presumably because it contained new information about U.S. lawmakers in the pay of the German government. 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. . 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. He did not believe Walter Reuther's death was the result of a conspiracy, nor did he believe CIA had any motive to assassinate him. Senator to be killed in an airline crash within five years. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashed into farm fields near Lovettsville in Loudoun County during a storm. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. Victor Reuther: "My brother came out against it and that opposition persisted through the Johnson years. 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. The National Transportation Safety Board report in the plane crash that killed Senator Paul Wellstone last October says the Chief pilot initially decided not to fly after receiving a weather briefing that morning. It was coming down so thick then you couldnt see more than a quarter of a mile. He notes that witnesses saw the planes, bright landing lights wink on as it approached the field. The Rev. Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. WILLIAM GARBOSE, department of justice, Washington. 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 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. I was impressed with the honesty of the people who were doing this." was a sham. Under Meany, the AFL-CIO entered into an unholy alliance with the CIA in order to bolster conservative, anticommunist unions in other countries. 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. Any part that comes into contact with the altitude capsule itself is critical. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. 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. The report was made public by the budget bureau. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. We thoroughly investigated every other person who could have had access to the flask and we were able to rule out all but Dr. Ivins. Compare yourself and your background, attempting to set the boundaries beyond which you perceive, is the unreasonable, irrational, wilderness of thought and research, with the assertion, sworn to in court, of this super serious, establishment intelligence leader, a man who has devoted his career to "keeping us safe". 25 memorials. 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. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" Senator, and two FBI agents, because it is not what you think. This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. 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. 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. 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. 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. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. One of the pilots radioed that, they had the airport in sight. Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane, was the second member of the United States Senate to die in an airplane crash.. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. 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. The Kollsman report concluded: "Considerable reinspection of altimeters of same repair history is recommended to ensure that the altimeters in service are in accordance with the manufacturer's recommended standards regarding parts used, assembly techniques, and calibration/compensation." 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. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. If so why do it when 2 FBI agents were aboard? The file documented Reuther's leadership role in progressive and antiwar organizations. This was a totally real program. MISS C. POST, 1739 Kilborn Place, NW., Washington. It was worse than a fog., The plane was broken to bits and so were the bodies of the people in it., We stumbled on toward it. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? A wonderful guy, but he was for the war. That is not what my research has, proven. Certainly, the fact is mentioned that before, during, and after 1940, Herr H*tler ran Nazi operations on US soil. 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.". Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. (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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Ray_Inman. Both pilots and three other passengers, including the Senator's first wife, were killed in the crash. The pieces of wreckage were strewn all over a two-acre stretch of ground. 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. He tried undercover techniques to keep me from finding out how he spent it. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. Our reporters are only able to do their work thanks to support at all levels. The pilots managed a crash landing that allowed all on. If it had crashed into the sea, this theoretically could have disrupted the signal of the plane's emergency transmitter, and sinking to the bottom in the frigid water could have made sure it was kept hidden . The plane crashed while on a flight to Iceland during WWII. Passengers: Ernest Lundeen Memorial. 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. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. . To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. 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. The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. The UAW and those in the world who sought social change, lost an incredible, voice for their causes when Walter Reuther was silenced on May 9, 1970. 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. MRS. R. M. HALE, Pittsburgh. It is a shame that the political and, social atmosphere of the time would allow such a thing to happen. J. P. MOORE, co-pilot, Washington, D. C. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. But there was no fire. .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." Ernest Lundeen 62, Minnesota U.S. Steve Schlossberg told this researcher: "It's not my field. Click HERE to see this. 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. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. Ernest Frank Lundeen was born on month day 1900, at birth place, Iowa, to Jonas ( aka Jonas Michelsson) Lundeen and Ella Fidelia Lundeen (born Johnson). Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. 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? Ham Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office. 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. Fairview Cemetery. A reader who was exposed to the facts printed by the newspapers at, that time, were not given enough information. 4) There was an attempt in 1949 to bomb the UAWs headquarters in Detroit. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. I find it hard to believe that the FBI still refuses to turn over, nearly 200 pages of documents involving Reuthers death, and correspondence, between field offices and J. Edgar Hoover. 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. There was one conspiracy article from my class on Media in America, and one article that discussed previous murder attempts. One local store keeper said the engines sounded about as usual. M. P. MAHAN, 1788 Lender Place, Washington, D. C. At the time, it was the highest death toll of any airplane accident in the United States. MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". Walter Reuther was first and foremost a labor organizer, with an. Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. MinnPost | P.O. MARGARET CARSON, hostess, Pittsburgh. He stated: "I've had very strong suspicions from the day the accident occurred. The certainty of this claim was seriously challenged by both the National Academy of Sciences report and subsequent reporting on several grounds. facts? 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. The plane was flying low . The seditious lawmakers said the Justice Department and the FBI were embarked on politically motivated prosecutions. ), Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. 14 March 2000. (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 is based at Detroit, and flies regularly in the companys northern division, from Detroit to Minneapolis and St. Paul, and to Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh. 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. Despite the limited investigation there is enough evidence to suggest that foul play was involved. The next evening after Victor had given, the dog to family friends, he was shot in the head while in his home. Another Justice Department prosecutor failed to convict the accused seditionists after a wild trial that featured 22 defense attorneys filing thousands of motions and the death of the judge, causing a mistrial. As World War II approached, he enlisted in the British Army. 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 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. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. In 1958, at a GOP fundraiser, Senator Barry Goldwater declared that "Walter Reuther and the UAW-CIO are a more dangerous menace than . 14 May. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. . This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. It is frequently swept by wind and rain driven in cross currents through the Shenandoah mountains that loom on either side. A. H. ELLIOT, 5757 McKinley St., Washington, D. C. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. 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. He was very much a hawk. programs that he advocated for the poor did not endear him to his enemies. 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. It is the mainstay of the conservative reactionism of the 1980s and 1990s. I visited the site of the Lundeen plane crash some 36 miles west of Washington on Aug. 25 and spoke with 82-year-old Phyllis Ridgeway, who lives on a 60-acre farm across the road from the crash site. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? The Detroit Police claimed that neighbors had been, complaining about his barking dog. Lundeen wasnt even doing the bulk of the work, Viereck was writing the speeches.. He described AID and AIFLD as CIA conduits. As his spawn and wanna-bes . The sensational charges prompted the Senate to order an investigation into the crash a month later, even though FBI director J. Edgar Hoover denied that the two agents killed in the crash had Lundeen under surveillance, and a coroners inquest in the county where the crash occurred concluded it was the result of a violent thunderstorm, a possible lightning strike on the plane, and possibly pilot error. 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. They were favorably impressed with pre-Stalinist Marxist-Leninism. U.S. army investigators approach the wreckage of a Air Force T-43 plane on April 6, 1996, near the Dubrovnik airport. H. J. HOLLERITH, Chicago. 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. Senator John Heinz (R-Pa.) which collided in the air with a helicopter and crashed to the . 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. 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).. Johnson diverted the discussion from the discovery of President Joe Biden's classified documents to a familiar GOP talking point about investigating Hunter Biden's laptop . A drawing of this shaft and its jeweled bearings pointed out several areas of "possible interference" with the altimeter's accuracy as a result of these mismatches. http://www.google.com/search?q=secretary+lundeen+weeping&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=secretary+lundeen+weeping&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=7694d34fae9de011&biw=790&bih=476, Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history, Nathaniel Weyl - 1950 - 491 pages - Snippet view. 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 was labeled a radical, black civil rights activist with ties to the Nation of Islam. Reuther said: I went to the icebox to get a bowl of fruit salad, my wife was just a foot from me. 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. . The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. Twenty minutes on the ground gave the saboteur enough time to change an altimeter. 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. 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. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. The senator would not say why. Ron Brown and 34 others were . 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. Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State University prompted Reuther-the day before his death-to send a telegram to the White House condemning the war, the invasion, and "the bankruptcy of our policy of force and violence in Vietnam?' He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in the 1922 election and the 1923 special election. AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN. THANKS sg, #########################oooooooo##############################++++. So were the bodies. You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system. They had no power to, recover. 4) A ring jewel within the mechanism was installed off center. It is wasting our resources that we need at home and it is tarnishing our moral credentials in the world." This article first appeared on MinnPost and is republished here under a Creative Commons license., Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. The struggles of Walter Reuther's life should cause us to give more than cursory attention to the questionable circumstances of his death. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982. Death of senator from Minnesota still shrouded in mystery, By Albert Eisele | Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. 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. Viereck provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across the United States. 1) Dewey, James. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. ED BATEMAN, son of MRS. MARY H. BATEMAN, of 948 Adair Avenue, has been a pilot with Pennsylvania-Central for some time. An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Harold Stassen. "AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN" The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. 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. In the latter case who do think did it and why? I'm not following you. 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. 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. MISS MILDRED CHESSER, 1738 M. St., NW., Washington, D. C. The screw had not fallen out due to worn out or damaged threads. 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. Lundeen was a senator from Minnesota and was a Farmer-Labor. 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. The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA There is a lot of crossover. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. Walter Reuther admitted having taken the money, and said that Braden had tried to recruit his brother Victor as a CIA agent: "Victor was contacted by Tom Braden at the U.S. Embassy in Paris and asked to become a CIA agent, using as a 'front' his position [with the CIO]." A wonderful guy and it 's too bad he did n't come around earlier were spread about area. Report was made public by the budget bureau presented in your post and add this in.! His hands and he was shot in the British Army was installed off center and... 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