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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 03:28 PM Mar 2012

I did not know this about Walter Reuther:

>>>On May 9, 1970, Reuther, his wife May, architect Oscar Stonorov, and also a bodyguard, the pilot and co-pilot were killed when their chartered Lear-Jet crashed in flames at 9:33 P.M. Michigan time. The plane, arriving from Detroit in rain and fog, was on final approach to the Pellston, Michigan, airstrip near the union's recreational and educational facility at Black Lake, Michigan.[9]
In October 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. Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in the fatal crash was believed to have malfunctioned. When Victor Reuther was interviewed many years after the fatal crash he said "I and other family members are convinced that both the fatal crash and the near fatal one in 1968 were not accidental." The FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents pertaining to Walter Reuther's death, and correspondence between field offices and J. Edgar Hoover.[citation needed]
Walter Reuther appears in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.>>>>

From Wiki.


Weird. I remember virtually every other significant political event of that year. But .... of this, I have no memory.


So.... whattaya suppose is in those 200 FBI pages?

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I did not know this about Walter Reuther: (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Mar 2012 OP
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