Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. The senator would not say why. "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. African-Americans could not seek justice in a society dominated by whites. 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. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. This error was significant. Former Senator for Minnesota. He leaned forward, shouted: "The man who made that statement lies." learn about all our free newsletter options, How a U.S. 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. The forward jewel for this shaft was damaged (oval recess) but not cracked. 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. Certainly, the fact is mentioned that before, during, and after 1940, Herr H*tler ran Nazi operations on US soil. refute those who believe that Walter Reuther was murdered? 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. The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. On August 31, 1940, his secretary found him near collapse. He eventually won a seat in the U.S. House again, as a Farmer Laborite, and was accused by Republican rivals of being a Communist sympathizer for sponsoring the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and addressing a meeting of Friends of the Soviet Union at Madison Square Garden. facts? Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. Why were the newspapers so unwilling to give it to them? to spur local or national attention nor any debate in the other newspapers? An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Ironically, the crash occurred almost exactly one year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, touching off World War II. The Lear Jet is. Washington The death of 128 persons in Saturday's tragic two-plane crash points up weaknesses in the nation's 21-year-old air traffic control system. You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. The rocking shaft screw hole was inspected and found to have the threads torn out. The only report mentioned was the boards own preliminary one of the crash. http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1941/March/0308/0309/?action=view¤t=0309-allcurbsr.jpg, For your edification heres the crash report, http://www.baesel.net/capaccidents/1940.08.31_PennsylvaniaCentralAirlinesCorp_DouglasDC-3-A.pdf, As for the part about Inman I have no idea what you were going on about and doubt David or anyone else did either. 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 Just as I started to look out the window I heard a terrific noise., We ran outside without even thinking of raincoats. Victor Reuther named CIA labor operatives and CIA-founded unions. Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. Ron Brown and 34 others were . AFC Wild Card Playoffs - Los Angeles Chargers v Jacksonville Jaguars | Douglas P. DeFelice/GettyImages The Jacksonville Jaguars had a nightmare first half against the Los Angeles Chargers in the NFL Wild Card round. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. It also included thousands of inoffensive, innocent American adults. It is a shame that the political and, social atmosphere of the time would allow such a thing to happen. This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. The correct link pin ends were flat, while the incorrect one was tapered on one end. 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. 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. 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. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 5) Mollison, Andrew. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. WILLIAM GARBOSE, department of justice, Washington. Reuther, developed his passion for social justice from his father. 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. The podcast describes an event in which angry constituents pushed Lundeen into a refrigerated rail car. The Kollsman report concluded: "Considerable reinspection of altimeters of same repair history is recommended to ensure that the altimeters in service are in accordance with the manufacturer's recommended standards regarding parts used, assembly techniques, and calibration/compensation." MISS C. POST, 1739 Kilborn Place, NW., Washington. Probably something wonderful. Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died in a single-engine plane crash in southwest Alaska that killed four other people, including one of his former congressional aides, officials said Tuesday. During World War II, Hoover made preparations to put all three Reuther brothers in custodial detention. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. What would be the motive? The voters exacted their retribution even if the Justice Department did not, Young said. 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. Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. Inspection revealed charred aluminum in the brass screw threads. Heinz food fortune. He was very much a hawk. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. 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. He. I decided to focus my research on May 9, 1970 (the day of Reuthers death), through the end of that month. 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. 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. did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. 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. The plane should, have been flying at about 130 miles per hour, only seconds away from, touchdown, but two and three quarter miles short of the airport something, happened. The file documented Reuther's leadership role in progressive and antiwar organizations. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. MISS DOROTHY BEER, secretary in war department, Washington, D. C. It involved Lundeens passionate embrace of isolationism. 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. Donations made by check can be made out to MinnPost and mailed to us at PO Box 18438, Minneapolis, MN 55418. Vaccine Linked to Strokes in Preliminary DataThe Apartment Market Is About to Get UglyAt Least 68 Dead as Nepal Plane Crashes Seconds Before LandingThis Isn't Your Mom and Dad's Recession, Says BofA's Sub. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe's son, Perry Inhofe, a Tulsa orthopedic surgeon, died Sunday in a plane crash, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed late Monday. 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. 2 min read. 25 memorials. Victor Reuther wrote: "I was still in Paris when the transfer of the $50 bills took place. 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. (Reuther was a close friend and advisor to the Kennedys.) The communist label was used in attempts to smear and delegitimate Reuther. 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." Among such leaders looms the great figure of Walter Reuther. It carries a crew of two and six passengers at nearly 600 miles per hour. And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. At 2:41 it crashed at top speed into a field of alfalfa, ricocheted 50 yards into a cornfield. 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. 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. They were first put on the market in 1965, but during the first few years. 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. Telegraph-Herald - Sep 1, 1940 Milwaukee Journal. The next evening after Victor had given, the dog to family friends, he was shot in the head while in his home. It had never had a fatal crack-up in 13 years of operation. 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. If the screw was. 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.". The plane crashed while on a flight to Iceland during WWII. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. He was not rescued until the train had traveled for 20 miles down the track. In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. 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. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. But his memory was in bad shape. 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. It certainly does and in mass marketed quantities. 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. Read the recent article on a mysterious airplane crash that killed a Minn. U.S. It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitlers government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda. The other passenger victims included a number of government employes and minor federal officials, among them being at least three agents of the department of justice. (Jim White gave me a ton of scientific help with this, but the errors surely result from my own misunderstanding.). TOM, YES I agree with your ideas presented in your post and add this in context. 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. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. The report also faulted J. Edgar Hoover for exaggerating "the domestic Communist menace at every turn" thus contributing "to the public's frame of mind upon which the radical right feeds. ', They added that Viereck frequently came to Lundeens office to inquire if certain speeches which had a pro-dictatorship slant had been inserted in the Congressional Record by Lundeen and his staff. Luckily for the Reuther brothers, the sky was, clear and the pilots realized the plane was too low and the altimeter was, malfunctioning. [Reuther, Victor The Brothers Reuther Houghton-Mifflin 1976; NYT 5.8.67, 5.11.1970; Kollsman and Barfield reports; NTSB records], In April 1993, Victor Reuther received documentation of the preceding information. on august 31, 1940, there was a plane crash, a dc3a, near lovettsville, virginia carrying senator lundeen who was a nazi sympathizer; the question remains today whether the crash was sabotage or a horrendous weather system; this is the story of the crash and a community's reaction to the event and the national spotlight thrust upon its people, Attempts to destabilize and even overthrow the U.S. government, as conversely efforts to fight fascism by the Justice Department and ordinary citizens like Los Angeles attorney Leon Lewis, who with his friends infiltrated the American brownshirt movements and uncovered violent plots, may soon come to the big screen. 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. 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. "Pin installed was a P/N 371-80 (should be 1357-37)." ", A report from the Kollsman Instrument Company stated: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose". So with the current anti-democracy campaign intended to Nazify America (and you know which orange figurehead and faithless political party this involves, as with Republican Senator Lundeen in 1940), Rachel Maddow 's new podcast Ultra (which premiered today!) 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 . However, a bright spot on the arm in the area indicated (ref D) was in position in line with the set screw hole at the time the mechanism was removed from the case.". My grandfathers lived. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. Both men were, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. The, picture that emerged was quite unsettling. It was pointed out to Victor Reuther that no mafia figures had offered valid information on the plane crash. 12 May 1970. Fairview Cemetery. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". 2) Delisle, Tom and James Dewey. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota killed. It was coming down so thick then you couldnt see more than a quarter of a mile. A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal's . Minnesota Journal of the House, April 23, 1941, p. 1985-1987. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia, Hammonds Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia. If nothing, else, my beliefs have been strengthened by the total disreguard for, responsible reporting that I found. Some may have felt that he had become too powerful and had to be, stopped! 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. And we could see what had happened as soon as we got on top of the hill. She later told federal officials the file had been lost in a burglary of her home. "I was deeply saddened to learn that . Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. board to walk away without injury. Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, of Minnesota. 1A+. Airport, Pellston, Michigan, May 9, 1970, Report No. A Kollsman Instrument Report attempted to explain the indentation: "Examination of the shaft indicated physical damage adjacent to the questionable screw hole in the shaft. Second, in the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor. 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. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. 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