I decided to focus my research on May 9, 1970 (the day of Reuthers death), through the end of that month. (Reuther was a close friend and advisor to the Kennedys.) 2) An incorrect pivot was installed in one end of a rocking shaft. 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. [NY Journal American 6.5.63]. (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 . 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. 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. 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." This letter was distributed to political leaders, corporate. anything Soviet Russia might do to America. United States Senator. 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. 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.. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. One of the pilots radioed that, they had the airport in sight. It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. 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. There was a quid pro quo on the table, Young said. I wanted to know more about him and, this paper gave me the opportunity to do just that. Braden gave Walter Reuther the money in $50 bills. Lowell Scroggins of Washington, may have become lost in the cloud burst and fog came from report of Paul Rogers lumberman who lives near Hillsboro VA and wha told Rhodes he saw the plane heading east not west few minutes before the crash. . Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. Walter early in trade unionism and encouraged his natural bent for debate. Certainly, the fact is mentioned that before, during, and after 1940, Herr H*tler ran Nazi operations on US soil. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. . 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. union in America provided him with many resources to promote his agenda. This and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
, Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. in the world. Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. He was the dynamic, and charismatic leader of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Employes of the line at Pitts burgh said another of their planes was flying about eight miles from the scene The company report ed the pilot of that plane report1 ed the weather wasroutine at 3,000 feet and the visibility was good. 1940 air crash took a toll not soon forgotten. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. 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. 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The crew was experienced: Captain Evans with 7760 flight hours and his copilot, Karaffa, with 6533. in Episode one, features Senator Lundeen, the plane crash, and more. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. 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. Lundeen, a South Dakota native who served in the Army during the Spanish American War, served one term in the 65th Congress as a Republican from 1917-19, and two terms as a Farmer-Laborite in the 73rd and 74th Congresses from 1933-37 before being elected to the Senate in 1936. Note that: i) it had been in the plane for AT LEAST 3 532.3 flight hours before the crash ii) was last reinstalled almost 500 flight hours before the crash and iii) its entire history from manufacture till crash seems to be known. NTSB were said to be at the crash site probing the wreckage from the plane. 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 bodies of a passenger and the stewardess were flung 1,500 feet from the crash. Rogges campaign succeeded in a way his attempts to send the seditionists to jail did not. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. .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. Ernest Lundeen casting his ballot in the 1936 election. On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashed into farm fields near Lovettsville in Loudoun County during a storm. 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. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. The right engine ingested wood and. that it is basically the same environment that allowed the deaths of JFK, Malcolm X, RFK and MLK. Maloney asked him whether he referred to Viereck. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. Reuther was on friendly terms with several Democratic presidents who submitted his name for positions on presidential boards and commissions. Suspicion was that Sen. Lundeen was under FBI surveillance because of his association with a known Nazi, and because of what was learned, later. 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. 9) Robert F. Kennedy Biography. Under Meany, the AFL-CIO entered into an unholy alliance with the CIA in order to bolster conservative, anticommunist unions in other countries. I am not insinuating anything related Hoover or FDR involvement in The Lundeen crash, Len. A. HOLLOWAY, interstate commerce commission, Washington. It was on page two and it appeared in a. regular section called The News-Briefly. 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. When I wrote my book I had not seen these files. 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. 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 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. Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., October 23, 1876 . Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. He had been with the company three years. 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. Former Senator for Minnesota. Inman held this post until 1981. For the industrialists, financiers, and leading politicos, it made little difference whether their wealth and power was challenged by "communist subversives" or "loyal Americans?' Its cabin split like a dried pod. Polis. Walter finally opposed the war, but he never made it into a crusade. 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. . Donations made by check can be made out to MinnPost and mailed to us at PO Box 18438, Minneapolis, MN 55418. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. If so why do it when 2 FBI agents were aboard? The only mention of Kollsman or any variation of the word manufacture was: * http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/nodule23.htm. Develle Coates, 20, was the only one among 14 defendants who took his case to trial and the jury in November found him guilty of first-degree gang assault. 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. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. Like the charter airplane accident that killed DFL Sen. Wellstone, his wife and daughter and four others near Eveleth, Minn., Oct. 25, 2002, the accident that took the life of the 62-year-old Lundeen changed the course of Minnesota and perhaps even American political history. U.S. WITNESS SAYS HILL USED LUNDEEN FRANK; Mrs. Spielman Testifies Viereck Wrote Speeches for Senator, HILL LINKS FISH WITH VIERECK ACTS; Convicted Secretary Reverses Testimony in Telling of His Introduction to Nazi Agent MAILED SPEECH ON 'FRANK' Witness Says 125,000 Copies Were Sent Out and He Got 'Tip' of $100 From Defendant, SAYS MRS. 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, http://query.nytimes.com/beta/search/query&submit=sub, One implicated legislator was the late Senator Ernest Lundeen, Minnesota isolationist, who, it was said, had inserted speeches prepared by Mr. Viereck into March 8, 1942, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/,773070,00.html. 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. Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. FBIs Robert Mueller Still Engaging in an Anthrax Cover-Up, By: emptywheel Sunday November 1, 2009 6:55 am. Everything appeared normal as the pilot George Evans, 48, started his final approach for landing. 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. There was a natural path that took Lundeen from a progressive Midwestern politician to a key player in Hitlers propaganda war. 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. He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. Twenty minutes on the ground gave the saboteur enough time to change an altimeter. 12 May 1970. He was elected as a Republican to the Minnesota state House and in 1916 to represent a Hennepin County-based district in the House of Representatives. 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. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. overpowering sense of social justice that shaped his controversial, temperamental, combustible, and at times unrelenting character. THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, September 1, 1940 * Lovettsville, Virginia Air Disaster * Douglas DC-3 airplane crash (1st report) This 30+ page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "25 PERSONS KILLED IN PLANE WRECK" with subheads that include: "SENATOR LUNDEEN ON PASSENGER LIST AND BELIEVED LOST" and more. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. Luckily for the Reuther brothers, the sky was, clear and the pilots realized the plane was too low and the altimeter was, malfunctioning. 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. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. Roll with it, David, instead of trying to endorse the "serious" people. . Experienced pilot with a spotless record. . "I was deeply saddened to learn that . A staked depression would deform the adjacent holes and shaft as noted in Photo 45 which was purposely done on an equivalent shaft at room temperature." At the same time, Reuther was critical of right-wing radicalism. learn about all our free newsletter options, How a U.S. The Civil Aeronautics Board had the last word in the matter, and it came up with a different theory. with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. I'll say it again, on behalf of a lot of us, sorry, David, you don't get to be "that" guy. Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. He was replaced by Joseph Ball, a 34-year-old St. Paul newspaper reporter appointed by Gov. to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? 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. Having succeeded with Lundeen, Viereck expanded the number of congressional collaborators, which included former Rep. Hamilton Fish, R-N.Y., and former Sen. Burton Wheeler, D-Mont. At Pittsburgh, headquarters of the Pennsylvania Central, http://www2.dailyprogress.com/lifestyles/cdp-lifestyles/2009/mar/01/1940_air_crash_took_a_toll_not_soon_forgotten-ar-67718/, http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/01/fbis-robert-mueller-still-engaging-in-an-anthrax-cover-up/, http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm, http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR71-03.pdf, http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/nodule23.htm. In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked him, Victor, and Joseph Rauh, an attorney for the UAW, to investigate the ultra-Right. It is possible that, despite Jonz's experience, the plane could have crashed into a mountain or even into the Prince William Sound. 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. 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. 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. 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. Sen. Ernest Lundeen (D-MN) was killed 80 years ago today along with 24 other people 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 nation's Capital for the Labor Day recess. 2. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? 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. board to walk away without injury. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. 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. Although he and his brother were from a, very wealthy and affluent family, he sought to promote social change and, justice for the victims of discrimination in this country.6, 2) Malcolm X was murdered on February 21, 1965. A man who had been courted and, consulted by the politically powerful and the corporate worlds elite? Many of the released documents, are well over forty years old, and the pages were totally inked out!16 Is, there some matter of national security involved where our FBI and CIA would, still want to keep so many secrets about the life and death of Walter, Reuther? Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. This was a totally real program. The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. 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 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 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. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. In his early Detroit days, Walter had formed an alliance with communists within the union in order to combat conservative labor factions and company bosses. 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. 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.
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