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. 2. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. In 1985, when Detroit newsman William Gallagher asked why Nixon had wanted the file, Krogh was evasive, claiming a lack of memory.). 3) An end stone was missing from the opposite end of the rocking shaft. [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." The Wonderful Life and Strange, 16) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. They were favorably impressed with pre-Stalinist Marxist-Leninism. On the opposite end of the same rocking shaft the end stone was missing and the ring jewel was pushed off center. Again, their story seems to support the view, that political murders are quite common in the USA. en route to the unions recreational and educational facility at Black Lake. At the same time, Reuther was critical of right-wing radicalism. I had to make a conscious effort, to remain objective. Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. Dorothy M. Beer 24 Feb 1913 - 31 Aug 1940. The ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. Nixon requested the FBIs files on Walter Reuther. One can imagine that this was not well received by the Nixon White House. It said action is urgently needed to overhaul the system . Ernest Lundeen 62, Minnesota U.S. 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. His father, Valentine, a socialist, trained. (Equally ironic is the fact that Rep. Larry McDonald, the Georgia Democrat who headed the anti-communist John Birch Society, was killed on Sept. 1, 1983, along with 268 others whentheir Korean Air jetliner was shot down by Soviet interceptors after it strayed into Soviet air space enroute to Seoul from Alaska. TOM, YES I agree with your ideas presented in your post and add this in context. Lundeen wasnt even doing the bulk of the work, Viereck was writing the speeches.. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. Chuck Todd told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to go back on his "partisan cable cocoon" during a heated interview after the Republican railed about Hunter Biden on Sunday (You can watch the two go back-and-forth below).. Johnson diverted the discussion from the discovery of President Joe Biden's classified documents to a familiar GOP talking point about investigating Hunter Biden's laptop . A Born Battler for Labors Causes. Detroit Free Press. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, ###################################################OOOOOOOO##########################################++++. 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. 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. M. P. MAHAN, 1788 Lender Place, Washington, D. C. Among the 21 passengers on the capacity filled plane was Senator ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. 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. See our full republication guidelines for more information. Although he switched party affiliations several times, Lundeen remain an isolationist and opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. The screw was tightened prior to the drilling-out of its base threads, so that the screw left the proper mark on the shaft. 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 . there were a number of fatal accidents. heads, and rival unionists to prove that they were communist sympathizers. 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 Teamsters gave Reuther a free hand on political and social issues. Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State University prompted Reuther-the day before his death-to send a telegram to the White House condemning the war, the invasion, and "the bankruptcy of our policy of force and violence in Vietnam?' Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. (In this context, it might be noted that in January 1970, only three months before the fatal plane crash, the Nixon White House requested Reuther's FBI file The call came from Egil Krogh, a Nixon staff member who was later arrested as a Watergate burglar. Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. Senator John Heinz (R-Pa.) which collided in the air with a helicopter and crashed to the . The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. ", A report from the Kollsman Instrument Company stated: "If the questionable calibration arm set screws were loose". Had an untraceable altimeter been substituted for the original? An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. 2 min read. I had just made that step and the dish in, my hand just flew into a thousand pieces. If the screw was. My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. He was a fine player of the politics of subversion until he discovered the FBI was on to him, she said. Polis. DR. C. D. COLE, 5305 41st St., NW., Washington, bound for Lansing. Lundeens secretary, who was tasked with driving the senator to the airport for that ill-fated trip, testified to the FBI that she found Lundeen in his Capitol Hill office crying inconsolably. ", NIXON called Walter Reuther's death "a deep loss." Ella was born on May 14 1860, in Judson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. Jerry Falwell and other conservative leaderscharged the Sovietsshot down the planein order to kill McDonald. . I decided to focus my research on May 9, 1970 (the day of Reuthers death), through the end of that month. Almost nine years on, he explains how he is still coming to terms with how he . This finding was based on a test during which the rocking shaft "calibration arm set screw was loosened. It had never had a fatal crack-up in 13 years of operation. Don Jonz, 38, the owner of Pan Alaska, piloted the plane. Stassen appointment Pip mentions that there was absolutely no sign of trouble reported at the. First, the NAS study concluded only that the genetic analysis was consistent with the spores being derived from RMR-1029. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . He was the dynamic, and charismatic leader of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Braden was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on February 22, 1918. You're going up against an instrument pilot who's been through partial panel training, where you have a failure of half your critical instruments. 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. Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. It was more likely caused by high heat and pressure of a part laying in contact. "Pin installed was a P/N 371-80 (should be 1357-37)." Fish replied: "I am referring to you. All of these types were essentially military." 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. Or is there was, it had been put out immediately by the rain. Click HERE to see this. 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.". Pennsylvania Central flies between Norfolk, Virginia and Milwaukee. 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. Despite the limited investigation there is enough evidence to suggest that foul play was involved. Killed and mangled were . Click HERE to see this. The only mention of Kollsman or any variation of the word manufacture was: * http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/nodule23.htm. He stated that as he understood it, the cause of the crash was a faulty altimeter. Lundeen was not a part of the efforts to commit violence. The full story was not told. Suffice it to say that Victor's belief, shared by Walter's daughter Elizabeth Reuther Dickmeyer and other members of the family, that the crash was no accident sounds disturbingly plausible. "You got to pick your priority," said Lundeen. The Rev. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. Fairview Cemetery. The plane hit . Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a. 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. 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. Click HERE to see this. However, he had to temporarily step aside because his appointment expired the day of the election rather than at the end of Lundeens term. Those aboard the plane realized they were going to crash. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. 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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. Meanwhile Lundeens widow, Norma, kept up a constant defense of her husband and threatened media outlets with lawsuits if they wrote about the conspiracies. The aircraft was part of the 228th Squadron RAF. Text searches and my skim of the NTSB report turned up no hits for: angus, barfield, military (armed, air force), trace or tso. Harold Stassen. My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. He leaned forward, shouted: "The man who made that statement lies." Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? 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 jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. His remains were spread about the area of impact. Perhaps Ultra will expound upon such a topic as its episodes go on. You check if what the tower just gave you is correct. As World War II approached, he enlisted in the British Army. Lundeen's candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husband's name than in actually winning his Senate seat. He was an extraordinarily effective proponent of socioeconomic equality and an outspoken critic of the military-industrial complex, the arms race, the CIA, the national security state, and the Vietnam war. . . Its engines burst from theirnacelles. family. The podcast said President Harry Truman was involved in that decision. Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. Norma Lundeen: I am the widow of Ernest Lundeen, United States senator from Minnesota, who was killed in an airplane crash on August 31, 1940. He. 14 March 2000. http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcomx.htm. However, the Civil Aeronautics Board, created only a year earlier after Sen. Bronson Cutting of New Mexico was killed in a plane crash ironically, Lundeen pushed for the legislation that created it raised further doubts in November when it issued an 87-page report of its investigation into the accident, even while concluding that the accident probably was caused by an extraordinary lightning effect., The report noted the fact that all-metal airplanes are frequently struck by lightning with no injurious results, and that the character of the lightning discharge, as well as its effect on the airplane and crew, in the present instance must be regarded as an extremely unusual occurrence. 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., Whatever the actual cause of the accident, Lundeens death had far-reaching political repercussions, just as Wellstones death did when Republican Norm Coleman defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, who was a last-minute stand-in for Wellstone just 12 days before the election, and led eventually to Colemans defeat by Democrat Al Franken last November after a marathon vote recount. newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (CSM), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit News (DN), Michigan Chronicle (MC), and New York Times (NYT). 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. Walter Reuther was born into the labor movement and during his 35, years as a labor leader, he was instrumental in bringing it to its greatest, expansion in American History. Probably something wonderful. But Rogges continued warnings of the fascist threat to the United States had an impact. The bodies were burned beyond recognition except for dental records. The Senator's head was buried in his hands and he was weeping. On the evening of May 9, 1970, Reuther, along with his wife. Some, 1) In April 1938, two masked gunmen forced their way into Walter Reuthers, home and tried to abduct him. Heinz, 52, was in his third term in the U.S. Senate. It is the mainstay of the conservative reactionism of the 1980s and 1990s. This letter was distributed to political leaders, corporate. I found it strange, that the CSM had one very brief paragraph mentioning Reuthers death, three, days after the deadly crash. There was one conspiracy article from my class on Media in America, and one article that discussed previous murder attempts. 12) Pip, Edwin G. Reuther plane had a flame out. Detroit News. J. Edgar Hoovers FBI doctored a letter that Victor, Reuther sent back to the United States to make it seem as if they were, communists. Former Senator for Minnesota. For this he earned the wrath of powerful corporate and political interests. . 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. You can also learn about all our free newsletter options. 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!) with an altimeter setting 29.75 inches" This was similar to the altimeter reading uncovered after the crash of October 1964. And what did she do with the tooth, I asked. That afternoon a Pennsylvania CentralAirlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. 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. 8) Martin Luther King-A Historical Examination. Weather conditions that day were reported as "scattered clouds at 400 feet, measured ceiling 800 feet overcast, visibility seven miles, thunderstorms and light rain showers, wind at ten knots." 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. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. one of the first jets designed and built specifically for business flying. The investigators also noted that the Lear Jet hit, trees on a knoll that was 200 feet higher than the airport near Pellston, MI, and a little more than two miles from the runway. 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. To republish, copy the HTML at right, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to MinnPost. in-depth reports involving Walter Reuthers death. and other parties may have been involved in Walter Reuthers death? The Lear Jet is. that it is basically the same environment that allowed the deaths of JFK, Malcolm X, RFK and MLK. 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. According to Victor Reuther: "It was on the ground only 20 minutes, taxiing in and out before it loaded Walter and his party at 8:44 p.m. .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. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. THE DEAD If the screw was loose, it would have left the high by 200-300 feet. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death, 4) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. 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." The technician that placed the wrong pivot should have realized that the end stone had been "installed in an inverted position." 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. In 1937 Walter Reuther became the leader of a United Automobile Workers insurgent faction that included Communists. suffered the loss of part of his right eye and parts of his jaw. Walter Reuther's jet had been cleared for an instrument landing and broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet. He was Johnson's biggest supporter. The set screw was put back in place. He did not believe Walter Reuther's death was the result of a conspiracy, nor did he believe CIA had any motive to assassinate him. 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. Suspicion was that Sen. Lundeen was under FBI surveillance because of his association with a known Nazi, and because of what was learned, later. 14 May. . He was ultimately dissuaded from doing so by John Bugas, chief FBI agent in Detroit. On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashed into farm fields near Lovettsville in Loudoun County during a storm. Reuthers stance on civil rights for African-Americans and the social. 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? For the industrialists, financiers, and leading politicos, it made little difference whether their wealth and power was challenged by "communist subversives" or "loyal Americans?' ", HEMMING commented: "Sabotage of the altimeters would not do the job. Certainly, the fact is mentioned that before, during, and after 1940, Herr H*tler ran Nazi operations on US soil. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. The Wonderful Life and Strange, 15) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. Guest Tom ScullyMay 26, 2011 in Political Conspiracies. By nature shrewd, and brilliant, he developed a fiery oratorical style that captured the, imagination of millions of supporters. For these, things he earned the enmity of people in high places. Those included being able to mail out thousands of copies of speeches written by Viereck at taxpayer expense thanks to the Congress franking, or paid postage, privileges. We knew that right away, MASON said. 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.. . The cause of the mysterious crash was never resolved. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI would plague Walter Reuther for almost forty, years. I heard a couple of small booms, In October of 1968, a year and a half before the fatal crash, Reuther and, his brother Victor were almost killed in a small private plane as it, approached Dulles Airport. It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". A man who had been courted and, consulted by the politically powerful and the corporate worlds elite? He served from 1937 to 1940. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport dived full speed into a field near Lovettsville, Virginia. The speech extolled the great contributions of German culture to American life, and argued that Americans had more in common with the fascist German government than it did with the democracies Germany was busy invading. 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. This ruled out heat damage as being responsible for the threads being torn out. U.S. army investigators approach the wreckage of a Air Force T-43 plane on April 6, 1996, near the Dubrovnik airport. 1) Dewey, James. Viereck provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across the United States. Many of the newspapers went through the process of trying to explain, something about the life and times of Walter Reuther. There are people with legitimate grievances as employees, taxpayers, and consumers who direct their wrath against welfare mothers but not against corporate welfarism, against the inner city poor not the outer city rich, against human services that are needed by the community rather than regressive tax systems that favor the affluent. When Senator Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist, was killed in a plane crash, Stassen appointed Ball to fill the remaining two years of Lundeen's term. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. 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. 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. 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. On Oct. 16, 1972, a Cessna 310C with the tail number N1812H, operated by Pan Alaska Airways, disappeared somewhere between Anchorage and Juneau, Alaska. Even if there were tension, the screw would have left traces of movement on the shaft. The removal of Hitler and Mussolini and a few of their collaborators does not mean that fascism is dead, Rogge said in a New York city speech in 1946. A small plane crashed on a highway northwest of Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday morning, shutting down traffic, authorities said. 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. 50-foot elm tree, and slammed into the ground in a ball of flame. Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. 2) Delisle, Tom and James Dewey. FDR had a strong majority in both houses of congress. 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. Young also said Lundeen was a dupe and a fool but wasnt ready to fall on his sword for the fascists he was helping. Republican. 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. R. STAIRE, PCA observer, Washington. Inman held this post until 1981. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. Can you point to Senate votes on aid to the allies or sanctions against the Axis where shift of 1 or 2 votes would have made a difference? 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. NIXON called this "submission to blackmail.". A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal's . Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. 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. H. J. HOLLERITH, Chicago. The fact it was a war surplus altimeter is strange. 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. Reuther's demise appears as part of a truncation of liberal and radical leadership that included the deaths of four national figures: President John Kennedy, Malcolm X Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert Kennedy, and dozens of leaders m the Black Panther Party and in various community organizations. But when he did come around, it was great, and who knows what he would have developed into. That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. 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