One local store keeper said the engines sounded about as usual. 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." You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system. Many of us believe that our media is, the last bastion of truth and freedom. Why is it that no one seems to find it, curious that some of the major voices for social change were silenced within, When I consider what happened to these men, I cannot help thinking about the, death of two of my relatives. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. ", A two-page ad in the Wall Street Journal (9/22/58) ran an inch-high headline: "WILL YOU LET REUTHER GET AWAY WITH IT?" U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. Lundeen doesnt do any of these things. The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. Reuther said: I went to the icebox to get a bowl of fruit salad, my wife was just a foot from me. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. 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. There were three, witnesses who heard the plane before it crashed and then were subsequently, at the scene. It is possible that, despite Jonz's experience, the plane could have crashed into a mountain or even into the Prince William Sound. There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA There is a lot of crossover. MISS M. TURNER, Huddleston, Va., bound for Cleveland. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a. The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. 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 . In 1938 he severed this association and some years later, after gaining control of the UAW board, he launched a purge of dedicated UAW organizers who were communists or close to the party. None of the hearers, however, were able to determine whether the plane had motor trouble. . 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. MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. In the process the perennial candidate switched party allegiances to independent, then became a member of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party, a precursor to the DFL. Among such leaders looms the great figure of Walter Reuther. Both pilots and three other passengers, including the Senator's first wife, were killed in the crash. 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. He took it like a man who was loyally suppressing a big secret. They had no power to, recover. He felt the United States had become a great power because it maintained its independence and wasnt constrained by alliances, said Ostermeier. Eight investigators from the. A. HOLLOWAY, interstate commerce commission, Washington. The fatal plane crash of Walter Reuther, a liberal who was head of the United Automobile Workers union on May 9, 1970, also raised questions. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. en route to the unions recreational and educational facility at Black Lake. 6) Kennedy, John F. American Presidents. I found no trace of the supposed Kollsman or Barfield reports on the Net. The technician who assembled the altimeter had made too many mistakes in the same area, to have done so innocently. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. 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 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. As his spawn and wanna-bes . "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. 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). The podcast describes an event in which angry constituents pushed Lundeen into a refrigerated rail car. Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. The full story was not told. 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. Braden was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on February 22, 1918. There were five editorials, one, obituary, one article on the National Transportation Safety Boards initial, report. Mr. one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. .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. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. 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. This allegation angered former CIA Staffer Thomas Braden and he revealed that in 1967, that some time between 1950, and 1954, he gave the Reuther brothers $50,000 of CIA funds. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. 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. union in America provided him with many resources to promote his agenda. overpowering sense of social justice that shaped his controversial, temperamental, combustible, and at times unrelenting character. Page 1. It is the mainstay of the conservative reactionism of the 1980s and 1990s. The pilots managed a crash landing that allowed all on. 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. 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]." Eric Ostermeier, curator of the Minnesota Historical Election Archives, said Lundeen would have given that pro-Nazi Labor Day speech found among the wreckage of the plane crash with a lot of flair and what not.. David Halberstam related the President Kennedy planned to replace John McCone as CIA Director with Jack Conway, Walter Reuther's chief political lobbyist. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. 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. Despite the limited investigation there is enough evidence to suggest that foul play was involved. (WTC 7 collapse comes to mind as a similar official determinationunprecedented event). This article originally appeared on St. 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." Joe Karaffa, 41, was the co-pilot and had only recently joined the charter firm after his Air, Force career; both men were retired military jet pilots. ", From the first days of the AFL-CIO merger in 1955, irreconcilable political differences existed between Reuther and AFL-CIO president George Meany, a cold-war hawk. It was pointed out to Victor Reuther that no mafia figures had offered valid information on the plane crash. Lundeen cited a 2022 bill Polis signed that, he said, allowed for restrictive environmental building codes that raise housing costs. Apr 4, 2021 Thirty years ago, Republican Sen. John Heinz then Pennsylvania's most popular public figure died in a midair collision in Lower Merion. 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. Its 22 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were all killed. TOM, YES I agree with your ideas presented in your post and add this in context. 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. 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. David O. Norris, a private detective hired by Elizabeth Reuther Dickmeyer, youngest daughter of Walter Reuther, discovered evidence to the contrary: "Just hours after the crash a reporter from the Detroit News talked to the night dispatcher at Butler Aviation who said he knew that Walter Reuther was on the plane." [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." This article was printed on May 11, 1970. 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. time (of the crash). The forward jewel for this shaft was damaged (oval recess) but not cracked. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? The Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. 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. Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., October 23, 1876 . It could not have been caused by "a part laying in contact." And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. The Wonderful Life and Strange, ###################################OOOOOOOO###############################++++, The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther, THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND STRANGE DEATH OF WALTER REUTHER. Lundeen was not a part of the efforts to commit violence. I excerpted portions of the 1940 crash article I thought showed that the investigating panel contradicted its own findings as to the cause of the crash, in that they admitted their determination, a lightening strike, was a low probability event, or possibly unprecedented. The file documented Reuther's leadership role in progressive and antiwar organizations. I decided to focus my research on May 9, 1970 (the day of Reuthers death), through the end of that month. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. 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. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. 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. 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. 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. The Lear Jet is. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. Why did the other, newspapers remain silent about the possibility that Walter Reuther was, Walter Reuther had made many enemies in both the political arena and in the, world of business through his negotiations for the UAW, and his social, agenda. They were first put on the market in 1965, but during the first few years. 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. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's Punjab state has dissolved the local legislature on the advice of the chief minister, an ally of former premier Imran Khan, in a bid to force snap elections.Most Read from BloombergPfizer Bivalent Vaccine Linked to Strokes in Preliminary DataThe Apartment Market Is About to Get UglyAt Least 68 Dead as Nepal Plane Crashes Seconds Before LandingHuge Sanctions Are . ", HEMMING commented: "Sabotage of the altimeters would not do the job. Twenty minutes on the ground gave the saboteur enough time to change an altimeter. 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. I was impressed with the honesty of the people who were doing this." 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. Rhodes said, because a note dropped by the stewardess, Margaret Carson of Pittsburgh, was found on a farm three miles from the spot where the plane went down.Rhodes said the note asked that whoever found it notify the Pitts burgh office. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. . 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. But there was no fire. Senate probe The accident, investigators said that the twin jet engines of the plane that carried, Walter Reuther and five others to their deaths had flamed out after striking, trees before the crash. I relied on the then-General Counsel of the United Automobile Workers, Steve Schlossberg, who I know from later experience was not too eager to make the investigation terribly thoroughHe was more interested in passing the reigns of power to the new president, Leonard Woodcock, and getting the Reuther years behind him, so I felt he was too quick to accept the findingshe is now in Washington as the official representative of the ILO [international Labor Organization]", Schlossberg had made reference to a faulty altimeter in his report: "This possibility is discounted because there were two altimeters in this particular Lear Jet, but the instrumentation is still being checked." 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. 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. Text searches and my skim of the NTSB report turned up no hits for: angus, barfield, military (armed, air force), trace or tso. The assailants were caught and acquitted in a trial that. Ham Fish strode in with majestic dignity. Without it, those at the top, who profess a devotion to our interests while serving themselves, would be in serious trouble indeed. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names. You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. 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. FDR had a strong majority in both houses of congress. By 1970, Reuther was seen more than ever as a threat to the dominant political agenda, earning him top place on Nixon's enemy list. 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.". 14 March 2000. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. . 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. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. A recent government report found it to be "outmoded" and "overloaded.". The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. He was Johnson's biggest supporter. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. The screw had not fallen out due to worn out or damaged threads. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. One of the dinner guests managed to escape, and call for help. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. Because of the heavy rain that drove local residents indoors, no actual eye-witnesses of the catastrophe could be found immediately. 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 four members of the crew killed included Pilot LOWELL SCROGGINS, the Airlines oldest pilot in point of service, who was at the controls of the first ship dispatched from Washington by the company thirteen years ago. 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. Probably something wonderful. 4) A ring jewel within the mechanism was installed off center. 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. 2 min read. No one received material from that flask without going through Dr. Ivins. Fish replied: "I am referring to you. A wonderful guy, but he was for the war. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. The senator would not say why. There had been so many attempts on Walter's life. Inman held this post until 1981. Jonas was born in 1856. 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. 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." In 1937 Walter Reuther became the leader of a United Automobile Workers insurgent faction that included Communists. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. Page of 2. The untimely death, of this dedicated and effective progressive labor leader raises disquieting questions about the criminal nature of state power in what purports to be a democracy. 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. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. I believe. Other seditionists blew up weapon plants in the United States, killing and maiming scores of workers. On the opposite end of the same rocking shaft the end stone was missing and the ring jewel was pushed off center. 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. Some were due to aircraft failures, but most by pilot inexperience. 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." The bodies were burned beyond recognition except for dental records. Pennsylvania Central flies between Norfolk, Virginia and Milwaukee. Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. He. While the AFL-CIO was proclaiming its support for Nixon's escalation of the war and his anti-ballistic missile program, the ALA was lobbying hard against both. 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. 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." Senator to be killed in an airline crash within five years. 1A+. H. J. HOLLERITH, Chicago. MinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access no paywall or subscriptions. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia .. . He joined the CIA in 1950 as Special Assistant to Allen Dulles. MISS MILDRED CHESSER, 1738 M. St., NW., Washington, D. C. Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. I couldnt get up, and I lay there flat, on my back for a second or two. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. Why. The investigators at Kollsman agreed with those at Barfield that the set screw was in place during the crash. 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. What would be the motive? But it landed short of the airport, and crashed into 50-foot elm trees. It was explained to Victor Reuther that an intelligence agency was often involved in sabotage of a sophisticated nature. One of the pilots radioed that, they had the airport in sight. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. Donations made by check can be made out to MinnPost and mailed to us at PO Box 18438, Minneapolis, MN 55418. You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, 1) A brass screw was found loose in the instrument case. It had never had a fatal crack-up in 13 years of operation. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Because of the remoteness of the district and lack of communication, news of the tragedy did not even reach Lovettsville for nearly an hour. The spores in the attack came from RMR-1029 and Ivins controlled access to that flask. German ancestry. in Episode one, features Senator Lundeen, the plane crash, and more. Member, American Bar Association . The correct link pin ends were flat, while the incorrect one was tapered on one end. DR. C. D. COLE, 5305 41st St., NW., Washington, bound for Lansing. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. The only mention of Kollsman or any variation of the word manufacture was: * http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/nodule23.htm. Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 31, 1940. Its wings flew off. My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. 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 screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. 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. 48 Shooting, Still Unsolved, Sent Family into. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' 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