118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. Under Meany, the AFL-CIO entered into an unholy alliance with the CIA in order to bolster conservative, anticommunist unions in other countries. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. The Communist Party of the United States of America had tried to recruit Walter Reuther, but was unsuccessful. One can imagine that this was not well received by the Nixon White House. Why. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. That afternoon, Lundeen was killed in a Virginia . It was right above the house, then the sound, stopped and I looked out the window. Suarez was the first to reach the, crash site and was soon joined by Donald and Sharon Bonter. A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. 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. ), Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. 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 last time that a former US Senator was killed in a plane crash was in April 1991 when former Texas Senator John Tower was one of the 23 passengers and crew members killed in the crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines Embraer Brasilia near . 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. 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. 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. He described AID and AIFLD as CIA conduits. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. 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. 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). 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. Probably something wonderful. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. The report was made public by the budget bureau. Why would a regional paper totally ignore the president of the, largest labor union in the country? anything Soviet Russia might do to America. For the industrialists, financiers, and leading politicos, it made little difference whether their wealth and power was challenged by "communist subversives" or "loyal Americans?' 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. Memo: Biden has document troubles, House GOP on the march with its agenda, A primer on the marijuana legalization proposal that could become law in Minnesota, My reflections on running for Congress to represent southern Minnesota. 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 article suggests that the two incidents in 1948 and 1949, were, similar because they had been committed by hidden assailants who stood, behind house-side bushes, and fired shotgun blasts through a window. and that this was the question that faced them. You can also learn about all our free newsletter options. The pieces of wreckage were strewn all over a two-acre stretch of ground. The MSM is already handling that assignment, and they're doing a heck of a job. 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. Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? Again, there was no indication from the crew over the radio that any problem, Officials at Executive Jet Aviation in Columbus, Ohio, where the jet was, based, said Evans was probably one of the most experienced Lear Jet pilots. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover certainly never lost his violent bitter taste, stalking Walter for some forty years, using undercover informants and illegal bugging equipment. My maternal grandfather was thrown in, front a moving train. Braden stated: "Victor spent the money, mostly in West Germany, to bolster labor unions there. He'd know something was wrong. The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. His role was to use his talents as an orator in 1905 he was University of Minnesotas champion of debate and oratory to help the German government. I believe that the murder, attempt in 1938 had been retribution for his union activities at Ford Motor, Company. 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. It was explained to Victor Reuther that an intelligence agency was often involved in sabotage of a sophisticated nature. It was suggested to the FBI by one of its informants that Walter Reuther's anti-communism was insincere, and merely a self-serving ruse in his quest for power. . There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. The Pittsburgh native also was an heir to the H.J. ..Indication that the pilot. The Senate threatened an investigation, for on the plane was Ernest Linden of Minnesota, the second U.S. The rest involved, biographies, details of the crash, and how the UAW was effected before and, after Reuthers death. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. (Reuther was a close friend and advisor to the Kennedys.) Harold Stassen. (Jim White gave me a ton of scientific help with this, but the errors surely result from my own misunderstanding.). 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. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. The screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. 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.. During World War II, Hoover made preparations to put all three Reuther brothers in custodial detention. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. This error was significant. This and is republished here under a Creative Commons license., Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. "I can't talk about it. Suddenly the plane--flying on visual rules, not ground, controlledwas lower than it should have been. Lawyer ; Judge, Missouri St. Louis Court of Appeals, 1916-40; defeated, 1940; mayor of St. Louis, Mo., 1941-43; died in office 1943. 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. Its cabin split like a dried pod. 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. He elaborated: "Walter Reuther became a dove in the middle of the Hubert Humphrey - NIXON election. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. In June 1963, Victor Lasky reported that Walter Reuther had urged United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy to curb the FBI's war on Communism. Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. 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 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. 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. NAS holds out the possibility the anthrax producer may have gotten it from somewhere else, that it was possible to get similar genetic results from other means (that is, suggesting thats not the only way to have produced the samples found in the letter). From what little was left of the plane it was hard to tell what had happened. On the opposite end of the same rocking shaft the end stone was missing and the ring jewel was pushed off center. It was the first fatal airline accident in 17 months and the worst in all U.S. airline history. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. It was only three sentences long. The Kollsman Instrument Report: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose at the time of the approach under concern, the instrument would probably have indicated high by roughly 225 to 250 feet." 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. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. Post your ratings of these three choices. Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions (one short of a Nathan Peterman) and the Chargers took a . He served from 1937 to 1940. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. 6) The wrong kind of link pin, which holds a spring clip in place at the, 7) An end stone, which supports a shaft within the mechanism, was installed, I must admit that I was extremely biased before I began my research. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. Reuther said: I went to the icebox to get a bowl of fruit salad, my wife was just a foot from me. 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. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 15) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". ", Where you "not insinuating" the plane was sabotaged" Or only "not insinuating" FDR or Hoover were responsible? It was horrible., It sounded like the plane exploded when it hit the ground. This new facility had been designed by Oscar Stonorov and was due to be, opened to the membership within a few weeks of the crash. The correct pivot was conical, the incorrect pivot was flat. He tried undercover techniques to keep me from finding out how he spent it. The podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. The file documented Reuther's leadership role in progressive and antiwar organizations. When the investigation was complete, two scenarios were provided for the most likely cause of the crash. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. On August 31, 1940, his secretary found him near collapse. Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. 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 fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. History rhymes again . Fairview Cemetery. You don't file with just one clue. .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." MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. I've gone too far to turn back," he said. It mentioned that Walter Reuther had died along with his wife May, his, affiliation with the UAW, and the size of its membership.10 There was no, other mention of him made during the time frame for my research. Braden was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on February 22, 1918. learn about all our free newsletter options, How a U.S. 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. 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". 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. One local store keeper said the engines sounded about as usual. . This article was printed on May 11, 1970. One of the pilots radioed that, they had the airport in sight. (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's exports of integrated circuit chips rose in 2022 for a seventh consecutive year, further solidifying the economy's leadership status in a global semiconductor industry . The technician that placed the wrong pivot should have realized that the end stone had been "installed in an inverted position." 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. 4) There was an attempt in 1949 to bomb the UAWs headquarters in Detroit. That only says that whoever prepared the (probable) two separate batches of anthrax may have started with anthrax obtained at some point from that flask. The jury was packed with Ford supporters and the lawyer for the defense, claimed that Ruether had staged the event.4, 2) In April 1948, they tried to kill Walter Reuther with shotgun blasts in. Had this altimeter been constructed and tested so that it would fail at a specific, critical time during the flight? 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. The pilots managed a crash landing that allowed all on. All such details had faded into a fog. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a. I'm convinced there was tampering with the altimeter and, although the plane was on the ground for only a short time, it was time enough. 14 March 2000. http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm. 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. 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. 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. The communist label was used in attempts to smear and delegitimate Reuther. 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. There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. 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. All passengers and crew on the plane perished. 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. Senator John Heinz (R-Pa.) which collided in the air with a helicopter and crashed to the . 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. Worse Webberman omitted that his speculation that the altimeter was untraceable and might have been switched when it was being refueled was directly contradicted by the NTSB report. 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. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down? He was replaced by Joseph Ball, a 34-year-old St. Paul newspaper reporter appointed by Gov. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. . Why is, that? The altimeter looked intact, even though it had been tampered with. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . Suffice it to say that Victor's belief, shared by Walter's daughter Elizabeth Reuther Dickmeyer and other members of the family, that the crash was no accident sounds disturbingly plausible. Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. Lundeen, who was killed along with 24 other people 69 years ago this week on Aug. 31, 1940 when his commercial airliner plunged into an alfalfa field near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains during a violent thunderstorm as he was returning to Minnesota from the nations Capital for the Labor Day recess. Because of the heavy rain that drove local residents indoors, no actual eye-witnesses of the catastrophe could be found immediately. Photographs of the set screw revealed normal threading. Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. Mr. You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. Victor Reuther: "My brother came out against it and that opposition persisted through the Johnson years. He had been with the company three years. 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 Aug. 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane carrying Sen. Ernest Lundeen, along with 20 other passengers and four crew members, went down in a heavy rainstorm near Lovettsville, Virginia. Both papers had many details about his life and the plane crash that killed. . No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. The doomed plane reported all well at 2:31 p.m., then headed into a squall. 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. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. The Kollsman report stated: "One of the pivots which supports the rear of the rocking shaft was incorrect in that it is intended for a ring stone application only. heads, and rival unionists to prove that they were communist sympathizers. This was why it popped out. Roll with it, David, instead of trying to endorse the "serious" people. was a sham. The Detroit Police nor J. Edgar Hoovers Federal Bureau of Investigation, attempted to discover who the perpetrators were.5, Why doesnt anyone seem to find it strange that this article was not enough. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. Meanwhile Lundeens widow, Norma, kept up a constant defense of her husband and threatened media outlets with lawsuits if they wrote about the conspiracies. My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. 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. 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. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. The seditious lawmakers said the Justice Department and the FBI were embarked on politically motivated prosecutions. The Fatal Crash: Some Disturbing Evidence. I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. It is frequently swept by wind and rain driven in cross currents through the Shenandoah mountains that loom on either side. He was very much a hawk. Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. 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 their confusion they are ably assisted by conservative commentators and hate-talk mongers who provide ready-made explanations for their real problems, who attack victims instead of victimizers, denouncing feminists and minorities rather than sexists and racists, denouncing the poor-rather than the rapacious corporate rich who create poverty. I found it strange, that the CSM had one very brief paragraph mentioning Reuthers death, three, days after the deadly crash. his home. [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." union in America provided him with many resources to promote his agenda. 2) Delisle, Tom and James Dewey. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . After talking to a scheduler for the Wellstone campaign, however, he reversed his decision and took off for Eveleth with Senator Wellstone and 7 others aboard. 12 May 1970. It is a shame that the political and, social atmosphere of the time would allow such a thing to happen. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. Sharon Bonter, said I saw a huge light from our house. 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 . He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. The FBI reported: "He ran for the Common Council in Detroit in the 1937 election on a Communist Party of the United States of America ticket." Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. Everything appeared normal as the pilot George Evans, 48, started his final approach for landing. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. W. M. BURLESON, 57 Lock Lane, Richmond, Va. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. 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. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. So were the bodies. Page of 2. The Rev. Why were the newspapers so unwilling to give it to them? JOAN SANCHEZ April 5, 1991 BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) _ A commuter plane carrying former U.S. Sen. John Tower, his daughter and 21 others crashed and burned Friday, killing all on board, authorities said. The link pin of the same rocking shaft was incorrect. . So the poor are defined as "the poverty problem." Don Jonz, 38, the owner of Pan Alaska, piloted the plane. It concentrates on, the murder attempts that occurred in 1948 and 1949, the investigation, and, the reward for information raised by the union. My, grandmother was left to raise her five children alone and she never, remarried. This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. Reuther was on friendly terms with several Democratic presidents who submitted his name for positions on presidential boards and commissions. The information contained in those German files leaked anyway. Donations made by check can be made out to MinnPost and mailed to us at PO Box 18438, Minneapolis, MN 55418. What good is another week's vacation if the lake you used to go to, where you've got a cottage, is polluted and you can't swim in it and the kids can't play in it? The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. Senator Frank Lundeen & Two FBI Agents, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/massey-directors-saw-government-conspiracy-against-company-filing-shows.html, http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/09/03/11291/death_of_senator_from_minnesota_still_shrouded_in_mystery, http://www.google.com/search?q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=7a1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&tbm=nws&prmd=ivnsb&source=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1940,cd_max:1949&sa=X&ei=aBPhTbSFKIrrgQejkOyyBg&ved=0CBMQpwUoCQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=73a5782601ead03&biw=790&bih=476. This altimeter been constructed and tested so that the political and, social atmosphere of the radioed! Democratic presidents who submitted his name for positions on presidential boards and senator lundeen plane crash and.... 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