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. 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. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . [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." Theme by AcademiaThemes, Formation of the Lovettsville Historical Society, Lovettsville Historic District Listed On the National Register of Historic Places, The History of Lovettsvilles Oktoberfest Celebration, History of the Potomac River Crossing at Berlin/Brunswick, Street Names of Lovettsville and Their Meanings, African-American Methodist Episcopal Church, Lovettsville, Virginia, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, Virginia, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church from WPA Historical Inventory Project, 1938, Providence Primitive Baptist Church (former site of Old Presbyterian Church), Lovettsville, Virginia, Reformed Church (now St. James United Church of Christ), Lovettsville, Virginia, St. James Reformed Church from WPA Historical Inventory Project, 1938, Brown Funeral Home, Lovettsville, Virginia, Freedom Masonic Lodge No. 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. He was Johnson's biggest supporter. After Rogge made public appearances to discuss those findings, he was fired. This article originally appeared on St. A wonderful guy, but he was for the war. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free under anAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons licenseas long as you follow ourrepublishing guidelines. It is frequently swept by wind and rain driven in cross currents through the Shenandoah mountains that loom on either side. Achievements Lundeen was recognized for his service in the state legislature, the United States Congress and the United States Senate. His failure to mention that there had been previous problems with the exact same altimeter and that there were problems with other altimeters repaired by the same company were intolerable omissions by a dishonest crank with an agenda. A . 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. lundeen, ernest, 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 was a sham. 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. Why is, that? As a member of the, UAW, I now enjoy many of the same benefits that Reuther obtained for its, There are some who believe that Reuther was murdered, most especially his. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." The plane was flying low . I, believe that Walter Reuther was murdered. Its wings flew off. 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. I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. "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. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. He described AID and AIFLD as CIA conduits. 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]." There were several unusual defects noted, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. If Walter Reuther was indeed murdered or assassinated, there are others with. Does false consciousness exist? I found it strange, that the CSM had one very brief paragraph mentioning Reuthers death, three, days after the deadly crash. What would be the motive? He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. As the court documents allege, the parent material of the anthrax spores used in the attacks was a single flask of spores, known as RMR-1029, that was created and solely maintained by Dr. Ivins at USAMRIID. All such details had faded into a fog. He was replaced by Joseph Ball, a 34-year-old St. Paul newspaper reporter appointed by Gov. 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). In 1962, Walter Reuther, a member of the Tractors for Freedom Committee, helped conduct negotiations to release the Bay of Pigs Brigade prisoners from Cuba. 12 May 1970. 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. Checking into such things is no easy task. 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. 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. 14 May. 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. This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. Although funding non-communist labor unions was a common practice, had Walter Reuther misappropriated any of these funds, the CIA would have been able to get a handle on him. and other parties may have been involved in Walter Reuthers death? 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. Ron Brown dies in plane crash, April 3, 1996. Like so many on the Left then and now, he did not realize that those who fight for social change on behalf of the less-privileged elements of society are abhorred by conservative elites whether they be communists or not. Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York . WHEN MINNESOTA SENATOR ERNEST LUNDEEN WAS KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH over Virginia on August 31, 1940, the Republican governor was able, according to the rules, to appoint a fellow Republican to fill the senator's seat. overpowering sense of social justice that shaped his controversial, temperamental, combustible, and at times unrelenting character. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. DR. C. D. COLE, 5305 41st St., NW., Washington, bound for Lansing. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. 2) Delisle, Tom and James Dewey. Prosecutor William Power Maloney asked suavely whether it was a coincidence that Viereck's views as a Nazi propagandist "coincide so closely with your views as a Congressman at this time." The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. 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.". 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. What good is another $100 pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke?" "I was deeply saddened to learn that . He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. Why. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". It is a shame that the political and, social atmosphere of the time would allow such a thing to happen. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. .. Heres what remains of each of these 7 pieces of evidence: 1. As progressives in the AFL-CIO try to rally their forces, they would do well to remember those few especially dedicated and gifted union leaders who understood the broader social and political dimensions of the labor struggle. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. Ironically, the crash occurred almost exactly one year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, touching off World War II. She later told federal officials the file had been lost in a burglary of her home. Walter early in trade unionism and encouraged his natural bent for debate. 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. You suspect "the MSM has not shown the integrity or accuracy in its reporting and choices of what to cover" re:the crash (among other incidents) but I see no signs you looked at more than 1 or 2 articles. The Lear Jet is. He'd know something was wrong. That afternoon a Pennsylvania CentralAirlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. 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. Post your ratings of these three choices. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. In the . 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. 3) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Click HERE to see this. First, we were able to identify in early 2005 the genetically-unique parent material of the anthrax spores used in the mailings. A Born Battler for Labors Causes. Detroit Free Press. Does Rep. Pete Stauber know the difference between the agencies he oversees? 11 May 1970. Victor Reuther conceded that this was true. Almost nine years on, he explains how he is still coming to terms with how he . My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. But his memory was in bad shape. Under Meany, the AFL-CIO entered into an unholy alliance with the CIA in order to bolster conservative, anticommunist unions in other countries. The proper hole was located, and the threads were drilled out. 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. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. When, Victor Reuther was interview many years after the fatal crash he said I, and other family members are convinced that both the fatal crash and the, near fatal one in 1968 were not accidental.3, There was only one article in the Detroit Free Press that detailed some of, the previous murder attempts on the lives of Walter and Victor Reuther. 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. Text searches and my skim of the NTSB report turned up no hits for: angus, barfield, military (armed, air force), trace or tso. One victim was a NASA astronaut and another was the president-elect of a large physicians' group. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. Heinz food fortune. 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. It carries a crew of two and six passengers at nearly 600 miles per hour. If the screw was. LUNDEEN TOOK VIERECK DATA; Former Secretary to Senator Testifies That Widow "Stripped' Files of Records TELLS OF SPEECH-WRITING Witness Asserts Joint Effort Produced Anti-British Attack -- Viereck Paid by Nazi February 25, 1942, Wednesday http://query.nytimes.com/beta/search/query.&submit=sub SIDELIGHTS OF THE WEEK 3) One day before the fatal crash, Walter Reuther sent a telegram to the, White House condemning the war, the invasion, and the bankruptcy of our, policy of force and violence in Vietnam.15. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. 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 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 FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents regarding Reuther's death, including the copious correspondence between field offices and Hoover. To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. The bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. I found 31 articles on the, subject of Walter Reuthers death. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. A South Dakota native who graduated from Carleton College and the University of Minnesota Law School, Lundeen had a passion for politics. MRS. R. M. HALE, Pittsburgh. Many of the newspapers went through the process of trying to explain, something about the life and times of Walter Reuther. 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. The technician that placed the wrong pivot should have realized that the end stone had been "installed in an inverted position." 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. Former Senator for Minnesota. 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. One of the defendants provided security for Ford Motor Company. 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. Stassen appointment J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI would plague Walter Reuther for almost forty, years. Eight investigators from the. Segregation left African-Americans in the position of feeling both inferior, My paternal grandfather was murdered after he was falsely accused of raping, a white female. This and is republished here under a Creative Commons license., Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. Meanwhile Lundeens widow, Norma, kept up a constant defense of her husband and threatened media outlets with lawsuits if they wrote about the conspiracies. 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. 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. After completing my, research, I feel that the newspapers engaged in a conspiracy of silence, while reporting on the death of Walter Reuther: they presented information, about the plane crash along with biographical data, but only one paper. 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. This letter was distributed to political leaders, corporate. him, testimonials, and details about Reuthers funeral rites. WASHINGTON When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice Department was investigating his part in a Nazi-driven plot to overthrow the U.S. government. Both men were, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. David Halberstam related the President Kennedy planned to replace John McCone as CIA Director with Jack Conway, Walter Reuther's chief political lobbyist. It was a dark and rainy night on May 9, 1970 near Pellston, Michigan. 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 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 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. 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. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. Manuel Suarez, a farmer, said He (the pilot) came over the, house and sounded awful low. 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. It is wasting our resources that we need at home and it is tarnishing our moral credentials in the world." 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 . 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. 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. When we plowed our garden, we found pieces of the airplane and even a human tooth, she said. Fish could still shout. The plots also included plans for a violent overthrow of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to impose a fascist dictatorship in the United States. ..Indication that the pilot. With all of, this information being public knowledge and not to mention a sensational, story, why did only one of the newspapers (DFP), provide any in-depth, reporting into the possibility of assassination? In fact, the impact of the thing, knocked me down on the floor, and I tried to get up and I got my arm tangled, up as thought it had been torn off. If it was placed in the end of the shaft that did not have an end stone, it means that the improper jewel installation in the rocking shaft A was noted." In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked him, Victor, and Joseph Rauh, an attorney for the UAW, to investigate the ultra-Right. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. He served from 1937 to 1940. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. 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 provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across the United States. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. That isolationist view did not cause much of a stir before the United States entered the war, but Lundeens refusal to support the U.S. war effort in any way when Americas young men were fighting overseas eventually did not bode well with Minnesota voters. Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? . The pilot had his engines wide open. 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." A recent government report found it to be "outmoded" and "overloaded.". 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. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. Everything appeared normal as the pilot George Evans, 48, started his final approach for landing. My, grandmother was left to raise her five children alone and she never, remarried. He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. 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. These powerful men were able to use their political influence to prod the Justice Department to remove a competent, ambitious prosecutor from investigating Vierecks operation and the slew of other Nazi-promoted plots to destabilize the U.S. government. The certainty of this claim was seriously challenged by both the National Academy of Sciences report and subsequent reporting on several grounds. ", Said Maloney: "I think the American people have been insulted. The pieces of wreckage were strewn all over a two-acre stretch of ground. . 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. Inman held this post until 1981. Viereck then instructed him to mail out, under frank of Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen, copies of an isolationist speech Lundeen made in the Senate. As the rocking arm rotated, erroneous information would be transmitted to the dials from the altimeter's pressure capsule. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. Its pretty stark just how much the events of those times rhymes with what we live through now, and continue to live through, Young said. 13) National Transportation Safety Board, Aircraft Accident Report, Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. Lear Jet L23A N434EJ Near the Emmet County. Lundeen was also enlisted by German agent George Sylvester Viereck, because of his status as a senator and the perks that came with the job. MinnPost | P.O. I've gone too far to turn back," he said. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. Rising from the ranks to spearhead the creation of the United Auto Workers (UAW), Reuther brought a special blend of unfaltering progressivism and efficacy to the U.S. political scene. Consider the assassinations of the following individuals: 1) John Fitzgerald Kennedy our 35th president was murdered on November 22, 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas. Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., October 23, 1876 . Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. A. HOLLOWAY, interstate commerce commission, Washington. But miraculously, a copy of the speech Lundeen planned to give at a Labor Day event in Minnesota was found unscathed in the Virginia countryside, which was scattered with body parts and debris from the crash. Mr. The unit was exposed to 10,000 ft. pressure altitude, then the return scale error readings were recorded.". The gangling, trumpet-tongued Congressman was on the witness stand in Washington, called there to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, veteran Nazi propaganda agent. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. Cloud Times: How a U.S. One of the pilots radioed that, they had the airport in sight. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. He was very confident in his talent as a public speaker, Ostermeier said. The podcast describes an event in which angry constituents pushed Lundeen into a refrigerated rail car. FBIs Robert Mueller Still Engaging in an Anthrax Cover-Up, By: emptywheel Sunday November 1, 2009 6:55 am. 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. Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. Walter Reuthers position as the president of the largest labor. 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