Perhaps Ultra will expound upon such a topic as its episodes go on. Senator Frank Lundeen & Two FBI Agents, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/massey-directors-saw-government-conspiracy-against-company-filing-shows.html, http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/09/03/11291/death_of_senator_from_minnesota_still_shrouded_in_mystery, http://www.google.com/search?q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=Those+aboard+the+plane+realized+they+were+going&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=7a1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&tbm=nws&prmd=ivnsb&source=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1940,cd_max:1949&sa=X&ei=aBPhTbSFKIrrgQejkOyyBg&ved=0CBMQpwUoCQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=73a5782601ead03&biw=790&bih=476. 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. By Albert Eisele Sept. 3, 2009 Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Ernest. LUNDEEN NOTED AS ISOLATIONIST; WRECKAGE AND TWO OF VICTIMS IN AIR CRASH Times Wide World Wired Photo Sept. 1, 1940 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from. The plane hit . TOM, YES I agree with your ideas presented in your post and add this in context. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license. Although funding non-communist labor unions was a common practice, had Walter Reuther misappropriated any of these funds, the CIA would have been able to get a handle on him. In C. Wright Mill's words: "What people are interested in is not always what is to their interest; the troubles they are aware of are not always the ones that beset them. Some may have felt that he had become too powerful and had to be, stopped! 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. 14 March 2000. http://www.americanpredidents.com/kennedy.html, 7) Malcolm X. He had been with the company three years. Who do you think now seems more reasonable and attractive to the MSM, David, you, Fetzer, or Adm. Inman. Again, there was no indication from the crew over the radio that any problem, Officials at Executive Jet Aviation in Columbus, Ohio, where the jet was, based, said Evans was probably one of the most experienced Lear Jet pilots. and other parties may have been involved in Walter Reuthers death? The rest involved, biographies, details of the crash, and how the UAW was effected before and, after Reuthers death. Ham Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office. What I found were newspapers that were very selective about what, version of truth they wished to reveal to the public. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. 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. Here are some things to consider: First, as president of the largest union in the country, Reuther had the resources for advancing his causes on the national scene as did few others. My grandmother was left to raise her six, children alone and never remarried. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. Senate probe I couldnt get up, and I lay there flat, on my back for a second or two. As his spawn and wanna-bes . That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. Lundeen, who was killed along with 24 other people 69 years ago this week 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 nations Capital for the Labor Day recess. Photographs of the set screw revealed normal threading. Because of the remoteness of the district and lack of communication, news of the tragedy did not even reach Lovettsville for nearly an hour. Both the CIA and the FBI monitored Reuther's foreign travel, taking note of public comments of his that "might be construed as contrary to the foreign policy of the United States?' Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. Memo: Biden has document troubles, House GOP on the march with its agenda, A primer on the marijuana legalization proposal that could become law in Minnesota, My reflections on running for Congress to represent southern Minnesota. Meanwhile Lundeens widow, Norma, kept up a constant defense of her husband and threatened media outlets with lawsuits if they wrote about the conspiracies. With Walter Reuther dead, AFL-CIO President George Meany's hawkish views on the Vietnam war went unopposed. For instance, theres the story of Charles Edward Coughlin, a Catholic priest based in Detroit. .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." ernest lundeen, 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 See our full republication guidelines for more information. It was horrible., It sounded like the plane exploded when it hit the ground. 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. The proper hole was located, and the threads were drilled out. But it landed short of the airport, and crashed into 50-foot elm trees. ", Said Maloney: "I think the American people have been insulted. ), The sensational charges against Lundeen, which were never proven or disproven were first raised by muckracking syndicated columnists Drew Pearson and Robert Allen, who reported two weeks later that the rabid pro-German isolationist was under investigation at the time of his death., According to the columnists, Suspicion had been directed in Senator Lundeens direction after many mysterious visits to his office on the part of George Sylvester Viereck, famous German propagandist and a self-avowed friend of Adolph Hitlers Germany. Luckily for the Reuther brothers, the sky was, clear and the pilots realized the plane was too low and the altimeter was, malfunctioning. He was found a, short time later, beaten to death. On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a p*enger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington, D.C. to Detroit. But five years earlier, a question: was the 1940 plane crash and the death of Senator Lundeen linked to the creation of the atomic bomb? did they consider his death to be of so little consequence? The report seemed to focus on the, altimeter found in the wreckage. In the latter case who do think did it and why? He added that he believed the altimeter had been tampered with during the earlier plane crash, and that the two accidents were related. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . He stated: "I've had very strong suspicions from the day the accident occurred. JOSEPH J. PESCI, 213 W. Market St., Blairsville, proctor at Duquesne university, Pittsburgh. The altimeter was sent to Barfield Instruments, and then to James W. Angus at Kollsman Instruments for examination. 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 crash occurred because the pilot thought he was flying higher than was indicated by the altimeter readings. THANKS sg, #########################oooooooo##############################++++. 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. The plane was in a 45 degree dive. There was also a radar altimeter. These unions, as Victor Reuther describes them, were run by people who were "well soaked with both U.S. corporate and CIA juices. Heinz, 52, was in his third term in the U.S. Senate. The investigators at Kollsman agreed with those at Barfield that the set screw was in place during the crash. Cemetery Visibility: Public. Roll with it, David, instead of trying to endorse the "serious" people. Over the years, Reuther denounced communism at every opportunity, seeking thereby to legitimate his own status as a loyal American. 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. too low for this hilly country. 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. 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 So just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover killed a planeload of people just to eliminate the senator? It was right above the house, then the sound, stopped and I looked out the window. Suarez was the first to reach the, crash site and was soon joined by Donald and Sharon Bonter. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982. Death of senator from Minnesota still shrouded in mystery, By Albert Eisele | Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the newly appointed House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman, on Sunday sidestepped multiple questions about why the panel won't investigate former President Trump over his handling of classified documents, despite plans to probe President Biden for similar offenses. Ernest Frank Lundeen was born on month day 1900, at birth place, Iowa, to Jonas ( aka Jonas Michelsson) Lundeen and Ella Fidelia Lundeen (born Johnson). 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. 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. 14) Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. A small plane crashed on a highway northwest of Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday morning, shutting down traffic, authorities said. I posted about the 1940 crash resulting in the death of Sen. Lundeen in an attempt to make a point that none of us are qualified to presume what "serious people" should or should not be suspicious or skeptical about, and that the MSM has not shown the integrity or accuracy in its reporting and choices of what to cover, to have earned the distinction to accord it that privilege. The 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." 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. After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected again from 1933 to 1937 in the Roosevelt landslide. Under Meany, the AFL-CIO entered into an unholy alliance with the CIA in order to bolster conservative, anticommunist unions in other countries. David Halberstam related the President Kennedy planned to replace John McCone as CIA Director with Jack Conway, Walter Reuther's chief political lobbyist. I decided to focus my research on May 9, 1970 (the day of Reuthers death), through the end of that month. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. His remains were spread about the area of impact. Whether this was due, to some form of political subversion or other powerful entities, we may. No matter, in 1936, Lundeen won a special election to the Senate. Viereck provided moral and financial support to a range of virulently anti-Semitic and racist organizations across the United States. was a sham. Will you help us keep it this way by supporting our nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible donation today? Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Muellers responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. 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. I visited the site of the Lundeen plane crash some 36 miles west of Washington on Aug. 25 and spoke with 82-year-old Phyllis Ridgeway, who lives on a 60-acre farm across the road from the crash site. The effects of the problem are taken as the problem itself. 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?' 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