He elaborated: "Walter Reuther became a dove in the middle of the Hubert Humphrey - NIXON election. 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. Eight investigators from the. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. The crash was a head-scratcher. 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. him, testimonials, and details about Reuthers funeral rites. 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. In recent decades, organized labor has endured a serious battering from conservative interests in both government and the corporate world. 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. 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. 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. Investigators said after that, the pilots were only passengers aboard the plane. The cause of the mysterious crash was never resolved. and other parties may have been involved in Walter Reuthers death? 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. (WTC 7 collapse comes to mind as a similar official determinationunprecedented event). 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. After Rogge made public appearances to discuss those findings, he was fired. The jet engines were immediately stopped by the branches. The assailants were caught and acquitted in a trial that. The struggles of Walter Reuther's life should cause us to give more than cursory attention to the questionable circumstances of his death. 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." 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 . They shot through the both the regular, window and the storm window in the kitchen, and I just lay there on the, floor until they came and took me to the hospital. He suffered chest and, arm wounds that never allowed him to recover the full use of his right arm, 3) Victor Reuther was almost killed in 1949 by what appeared to be law, enforcement officials. Their murders were just as, politically motivated as the others. 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. My parents explained that there was nowhere for their families, to go for justice, because they feared reprisals from whites. The unit was exposed to 10,000 ft. pressure altitude, then the return scale error readings were recorded.". http://www.google.com/search?q=secretary+lundeen+weeping&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a#q=secretary+lundeen+weeping&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=7694d34fae9de011&biw=790&bih=476, Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history, Nathaniel Weyl - 1950 - 491 pages - Snippet view. In fact, the FBI has never officially closed the books on its investigation into the possibility that sabotage might have caused what was then the nation's worst aviation disaster. 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. Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names. Len, my responses to your questions appear lower in this post. . Men came to his home and took him away. ), Copyright 2023 Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum. It was only three sentences long. 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. FBIs Robert Mueller Still Engaging in an Anthrax Cover-Up, By: emptywheel Sunday November 1, 2009 6:55 am. In 1937 Walter Reuther became the leader of a United Automobile Workers insurgent faction that included Communists. 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. 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 February 25, 1942, Wednesday http://query.nytimes.com/beta/search/query.&submit=sub SIDELIGHTS OF THE WEEK Lend-Lease for example passed 60 31, with Lundeens successor voting in favor so it would have gone 59 32 if he lived. The same, author of the previous article, Edwin Pip, covered the ruling. Senate probe Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia. 10) The News in Brief. Christian Science Monitor. ', 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. [7] Also on board were "a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from Criminal . Twenty minutes on the ground gave the saboteur enough time to change an altimeter. He was on his way to address an all-state picnic of Minnesota Townsend Clubs when his career ended abruptly in an airplane crash near Lovettsville, Virginia, in August 1940. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen's story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. 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, 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. Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950. The doomed plane reported all well at 2:31 p.m., then headed into a squall. The mechanism construction isolated the unit to one of three major types, each of which had numerous variations, none of which were TSO certified. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. 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. Ham Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office. And many of the released documents-some of them forty years old-are totally inked out. Reuther was on friendly terms with several Democratic presidents who submitted his name for positions on presidential boards and commissions. Why would a regional paper totally ignore the president of the, largest labor union in the country? The certainty of this claim was seriously challenged by both the National Academy of Sciences report and subsequent reporting on several grounds. There it disintegrated completely. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. In 1949, he played a key role in the expulsion of eleven unions accused of being communist-led. (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. 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. 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. Suddenly the plane--flying on visual rules, not ground, controlledwas lower than it should have been. No evidence of a fire or an explosion or engine trouble. newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (CSM), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit News (DN), Michigan Chronicle (MC), and New York Times (NYT). It was, in effect, an exercise in trade union colonialism.". Some may have felt that he had become too powerful and had to be, stopped! 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. . 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. At the time, it was the highest death toll of any airplane accident in the United States. 4) A ring jewel within the mechanism was installed off center. There was an indentation adjacent to the missing set screw hole. Member, American Bar Association . This was why it popped out. However, Ball could not hold off Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey in 1948, and retired to live the life of a country squire in Virginias Blue Ridge mountains, not far from where Lundeen met his untimely death. 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 DEAD This new facility had been designed by Oscar Stonorov and was due to be, opened to the membership within a few weeks of the crash. The technical part of the report was like a foreign language to me. Minnesota Journal of the House, April 23, 1941, p. 1985-1987. Victor Reuther conceded that this was true. 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. (Many thanks to Judy Virts-Beard Fox, Lovettsville Historical Society Board member, for donating this copy of LIFE Magazine to the LHS Museum. The Wonderful Life and Strange, ###################################OOOOOOOO###############################++++, The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther, THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND STRANGE DEATH OF WALTER REUTHER. All of these types were essentially military." The crash occurred because the pilot thought he was flying higher than was indicated by the altimeter readings. It was the first fatal accident in the airlines history and it shattered the proud safety mark set by the nations Commercial Airlines which had flown one and a quarter billion miles since March 26, 1939 without a single passenger fatality. . In the future he probably would have, he was a wonderful guy and it's too bad he didn't come around earlier. The Kollsman Report stated: "The link from shaft A to the capsule is the unit which had the improper link pin in the spring clip on the capsule.". The left engine ingested, wood from the trees and flamed out. JOHN HEINZ CRASH Officials place a body bag on a stretcher next to the wreckage of the plane carrying U.S. 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?' 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 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. 9, PDF pg 11, The National Transportation Safety Board report stated that "while all systems were irreparably damaged [including the co-pilot's altimeter], information was nevertheless obtained from a few units. suffered the loss of part of his right eye and parts of his jaw. Checking into such things is no easy task. The plots also included plans for a violent overthrow of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to impose a fascist dictatorship in the United States. 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. The Kollsman report stated: "One of the pivots which supports the rear of the rocking shaft was incorrect in that it is intended for a ring stone application only. The Kollsman Instrument's report stated: "No identification was present to trace the specific instrument type and date of manufacture. 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. The captain's altimeter showed a reading of 1400 feet M.S.L. This article was printed on May 11, 1970. Of the Vietnam war, Walter Reuther had stated: "It has divided this nation. 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. A . 25 memorials. 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. My grandfathers lived. A. HOLLOWAY, interstate commerce commission, Washington. Private. 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. MISS DOROTHY BEER, secretary in war department, Washington, D. C. Vietnam soured the relationship between Johnson and my brother.". A National Assembly information official declined to comment on the possible meeting. Victor Reuther wrote: "Like others, I have been haunted continually by the question, 'Was the crash accidental?' 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. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. [NY Journal American 6.5.63]. LOVETTSVILLE, VA. Paul Wellstone wasnt the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. But when he did come around, it was great, and who knows what he would have developed into. For the industrialists, financiers, and leading politicos, it made little difference whether their wealth and power was challenged by "communist subversives" or "loyal Americans?' metal from the airplane and also flamed out. German ancestry. 1) Dewey, James. 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. Walter Reuther, his wife May, the architect Oscar Stonorov, a, bodyguard, the pilot and co-pilot were killed in a chartered Lear jet while. MISS EVELYN GOLDSMITH, of Pittsburgh and 1200 Euclid St., Washington. He was constantly a thorn in Reuthers side and Reuther could do, nothing without Hoover documenting the details.14, As if Walter Reuthers stance on business, political, and social policies, 1) Reuther ran ads in the national media and appeared before congressional, committees to denounce the war and call for drastic cuts in the military, 2) In January of 1970, three months before the crash, President Richard. 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. He had recently announced his candidacy for, president on March 16, 1968 and had just finished giving a speech to his, All of these men were heavily involved in civil rights and the move toward, social justice for all Americans. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. 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. In 1985, when Detroit newsman William Gallagher asked why Nixon had wanted the file, Krogh was evasive, claiming a lack of memory.). . The spores in the attack came from RMR-1029 and Ivins controlled access to that flask. 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. An even bigger problem is the complete lack of attention on what happened to the anthrax after it came from Ivins flask, if it did. He died in a plane crash, just west of Washington D.C. near Lovettsville, Virginia, before his term expired in the United States Senate. By nature shrewd, and brilliant, he developed a fiery oratorical style that captured the, imagination of millions of supporters. addressed the possibility that he may have been murdered. Taxing telephone facilities and narrow roads around the little upcountry hamlet here, swarms of police, federal inspectors and curious quickly threw the countryside into confusion. Click HERE to see this. 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 ad warned: "Walter Reuther is already within reach of controlling your Congress. If so why do it when 2 FBI agents were aboard? Braden gave Walter Reuther the money in $50 bills. He. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot, St. Paul Winter Carnival organizers intentional about inclusion, Not sitting this out: Minnesota Medical Association votes to support decriminalization of illicit drugs, Minnesota GOP stops bail out for Cleveland-Cliffs as part of mining unemployment extension bill, Program supporting Black mothers through pregnancy adds cultural component to maternal care, With or without court ruling, Minnesota lawmakers seek to restore ex-offender voting rights, D.C. 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]." He notes that witnesses saw the planes, bright landing lights wink on as it approached the field. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in the 1922 election and the 1923 special election. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery. The plane hit . The National Transportation Safety Board report stated that "while all systems were irreparably damaged [including the co-pilot's altimeter], information was nevertheless obtained from a few units. I've now shared with you, everything I know about this incident. 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. The account posted above contains several distortions: The screw was in place up to the point the altimeter was disassembled, the suspected it might have been loosened by the fire, but a test was inconclusive: http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR71-03.pdf pg. Instrument Landing System, ILS, is a separate instrument you are viewing that had the cross-hairs. BBC Radio 5 Live. Rogges campaign succeeded in a way his attempts to send the seditionists to jail did not. 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). A recent government report found it to be "outmoded" and "overloaded.". An examination of the reports by Barfield and Kollsman Instruments, on which the National Transportation Safety Board based their findings, told a different story. Massey Managers Believed Coal Company Was Target of Obama Conspiracy, By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson - May 24, 2011 5:20 PM ET. Inman, a former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was unequivocal in his assertions in pre-trial depositions that mine regulators, union officials, plaintiffs lawyers and President Obama himself harbored a secret agenda to destroy Massey, and that the large numbers of safety violations Massey received were proof of the conspiracy, according to the lawyers. 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. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. So just what are you insinuating, that FDR and/or Hoover killed a planeload of people just to eliminate the senator? No one received material from that flask without going through Dr. Ivins. He felt that, violence towards those that would do him and his supporters harm was, 3) Martin Luther King was murdered on April 4, 1968. 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. 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. Walter finally opposed the war, but he never made it into a crusade. His remains were spread about the area of impact. 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. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. Its engines burst from theirnacelles. This and is republished here under a Creative Commons license., Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. The article suggests that the two incidents in 1948 and 1949, were, similar because they had been committed by hidden assailants who stood, behind house-side bushes, and fired shotgun blasts through a window. And what did she do with the tooth, I asked. Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois, USA . ), 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. . 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. Further microscopic examination leads to the belief that this was due to causes other than upset by staking, due to the lack of upset material adjacent to the depression, and hole shape. Why is, that? 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. 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. How could the public, understand the ramifications of Walter Reuthers death without all of the. My interest in Walter, Reuther arose in part from my experiences as a member of the United Auto, Workers. It said action is urgently needed to overhaul the system . 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. What would be the motive? Senator Ernest Lundeen Plane Crash 1940. Albert Eisele is founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress. It was not uncommon for Reuther to, hold an audience mesmerized for three or more hours1. Steve Schlossberg told this researcher: "It's not my field. DR. C. D. COLE, 5305 41st St., NW., Washington, bound for Lansing. Schlossberg was sent a copy of this analysis and contacted. That afternoon, Lundeen was killed in a Virginia . The plane was in a 45 degree dive. 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. 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. In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked him, Victor, and Joseph Rauh, an attorney for the UAW, to investigate the ultra-Right. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, ###################################################OOOOOOOO##########################################++++. He took the technicians' word there was no evidence of sabotage. 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. 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