", "Whether certain foreign agents figured that they were about to be exposed, whether G-men on the plane tangled with Lundeen in flight, or whether it was an act of God-and-the-weather may never be known.". Besides these records that directly relate the topic of Flight 19, there may be other series in record groups that are overlooked because they are not as well known and somewhat difficult to use. And so you have to scratch your head. Transcript Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra Episode 1: Trip 19 It started with a plane crash. And he didn't just keep it for a day, he kept it the whole rest of his life. If they could advance their career by playing footsy with Nazis, so be it. As it is these series have been processed with container lists, so they are more accessible. And the flight that he was about to board also happened to include multiple Justice Department personnel who would be flying alongside him. She races to the scene of the crash. Flannery: I think that the coincidence defies the probabilities. 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That speech was also a speech against America getting into the war. Hart: When the FBI agents who are sent to the scene recover his body, they find a draft of the speech that he was going to give just a few days later. Speculation, but no proof, one way or another. Alabama by U.S.S. What do you make of that? In this particular case, a decision was made, based on the evidence on hand, but deferred the final decision to the Board of Investigation to be held later. WebThe Mission Transcript Collection includes scanned transcripts from recorded air-to-ground transmissions and from tapes recording the words of the astronauts while onboard the Mercury through Apollo missions. On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy bombers collectively known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for what should have Lundeen: We are being urged on by insane hysteria. There was no evidence that the plane had been struck by lightning. Maddow: Historian Nancy Beck Young has done extensive research on this fight in Congress, and in the streets. There is another copy of the Board of Investigation in file units, Type of Command, Training, Naval Air Advanced Training Command, Jacksonville, FL Board of Investigation into Missing TBMs and PBM Airplanes December 7, 1945 Part I, Ships, Stations, Units, And Incidents Casualty Information Records. Some people went into the field, younger people, and then were discovering things they could never forget. Young: Angry crowds came out to protest him and his safety was in question on more than one occasion. When Senator Lundeen boarded that doomed Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane in August 1940, remember that his final destination was back home in Minnesota, where he was slated to deliver a speech on Labor Day weekend. Formerly Security Classified Correspondence, 1940-1946. , which are arranged using the Navy Filing Manual, so the suggested filing designations are a good place to start. Efforts were made to contact flight by radio & direct to fly course of 270 degrees or into sun. In the Casualty Assistance Branch Ships, Stations, Units, And Incidents Casualty Information Records in the Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel (Record Group 24), there are casualty reports filed under NAS Fort Lauderdale (Box 109) and under NAS Banana River (Box 108). Sound design by Tarek Fouda. Two TBM Avenger aircraft, similar to the Flight 19 aircraft. Violence against government targets. I (part II), Building the Navy's Bases, vol. Degree: meteorology, atmospheric science, or other natural science major that included: At least 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of credit in meteorology/atmospheric science including a minimum of:a. Efforts were made immediately to contact this flight by radio and to direct them to fly a course of 270 degrees or into sun. Something close to confusion over the emerging reports about all these odd circumstances surrounding the crash. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. In many cases, the agency paperwork that came with the records are used as ad hoc finding aids. 3. Flannery: Well, they call that consciousness of guilt, when you deny something that's true. ), Documents, Official and Unofficial, Relating to the Capture and Destruction of the Frigate Philadelphia at Tripoli - 1850, Documents Related to the Resignation of the German Commander in Chief, Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder and to the Decommissioning of the German High Seas Fleet, DoD Rules for Military Commissions - 2006, Elementary Map and Aerial Photograph Reading, Emancipation Proclamation, Navy general Order No. He knows which windy country roads to take in order to find it. Our Senior Executive Producers are Cory Gnazzo and Laura Conaway. And Senator Lundeen, of course, he never delivered that speech. 4 Austrian 6-pounder Howitzer - Sight Cutaway, Captain Raphael Semmes and the C.S.S. If these directions had been heard or carried out we are certain this flight would have returned to base safely. Though 292 (1882) Establishment of the Office of Intelligence, General Order No. 132 (1915) Khaki Dye for White Undress Uniform, General Order No. If these directions had been heard & carried out, we are certain this flight would have been returned to base safely. Fact finding board of investigation DAMAGE DAMAGE DESCRIPTION & REMARKS has been appointed by CNAADTRA to make a detailed AIRCRAFT X AIRCRAFT & ENGINE LOST AT SEA report and determine the cause of the loos of subj a/c ENGINES RECOMMENDATIONS: Added emphasis is being placed on GEN NATURE E-2 importance of proper navigation & lost plane procedure SPEC TYPE ACC (6) LOST-FUEL EXHAUSTION CO: Concur with report of board. Literally on the local railroad. Maddow: Even decades after the fact, eyewitnesses to the crash were just haunted by what they saw that day. Thats when it nosedived. O. John Rogge: I was told that I could make public any evidence of Nazi penetration that I might find, and why did he change his mind? It started with a plane crash. 4, USS Pittsburgh, A Forgotten Enemy: PHS's [Public Health Service] Fight Against the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Support for that movement among serving members of Congress who prove willing and able to use their share of American political power to defend the extremists, to protect themselves, to throw off the investigation. But there was even more that was strange about "Trip 19," as it came to be known. No explanation. There are few events in U. S. history that spark the imagination to what happened than the disappearance of Flight 19 on December 5, 1945. They let him out of the cold car. Both series are arranged by the Navy Filing Manual. 1953], Pt. He hung onto that tooth until his death as a contemplation of the duality between the notion of immortality and the death that was everywhere contradicting it. Maddow: Perhaps most importantly, this is also the story of the Americans mostly now lost to history who picked up the slack in this fight, who worked themselves to expose what was going on, to investigate it, to report on it, ultimately to stop it. 244 [1934] Alcoholic Liquors, General Order No. Always ask, Does this phone have coverage for my community?. Senator Lundeen was 62 years old. 3 0 obj Their jobs and possessions. Results negative. And he managed to stand out even from his other peers who voted no like he did. What could have been happening on board the plane that made her know the plane was "going down?. Maddow: What were those FBI and Justice Department personnel doing on board that flight? And Ernest Lundeen threw himself headlong into the effort to try to stop that, too. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. Young: as a way to end Lundeen's life unnaturally. That piece of gold, that became like a talisman, I think for him. It's absolutely an incredible artifact. Admiral William B. Caperton of the 1918 Influenza on Armored Cruiser No. Consumers can buy, sell and service vehicles digitally or through our 188 coast to coast locations. He's slumped there. The Watkins Glen State Park is located in upstate New York, within , and it is named after the nearest town. Help for civilians and veterans seeking information and military records, past and present. Landing Craft From Troy to Tokio, Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish, Slapton Sands: The Cover-up That Never Was, Smith, Melancton Rear Admiral USN A Memoir, Smoker Sat., July 27, 1918 U.S.S. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is a production of MSNBC and NBC News. The microfilmed series is a collection of materials that was eventually used in the Navys Board of Investigation including weather observations, the history of the aircraft and engine logs, a rough crash log, radio station logs, preflight forms, communication logs, incident reports, air/sea rescue plans, maps of the search area. He's got his head down on his desk, his head is buried in his arms. Its engines certainly werent knocked out. Radio Reporter: Good morning all. Six, relatively small, planes proved to be impossible to locate in churning waters of the Atlantic and in among the miles of shore lines of Florida, Grand Bahamas, and elsewhere. It's one thing to be not-excited about the U.S. fighting Nazi Germany, this really was something else. Desiderio: When we talk about the DOJs response after the crash, in addition to saying those agents were on the plane by coincidence, they also deny that Lundeen was under investigation at all. 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Battleships, Carriers, Cruisers and Destroyers 17 October, 1941 to 7 December, 1942, USS Birmingham CL62 War Damage Report No. stream Our Web Producer is Will Femia. 56 (1901) Puget Sound, Naval Station to Navy Yard, General Order No. Our Technical Director is Bryson Barnes. Flight 19, five Grumman Avengers with 14 aviators aboard, lumbered out of the Navy base at what today is the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a The transcripts provide additional details to the information summarized in the 9/11 Commission Report. 9 (1863) Observance of Paroles, General Order No. Headline: "G-MEN WERE SHADOWING LATE SENATOR." 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But another thing that Drew Pearson was definitely right about in his reporting was his prediction that the Justice Department was going to deny that Senator Lundeen was under investigation. On the other side of the story, not only were trained personnel lost, but so were several planes. When Lundeens secretary raced to the scene of the crash that afternoon to learn the fate of her boss, one report from the time says she met a policeman at the scene of the crash who told her something strange. At approx 1600, radio messages THOMPSON, HOWELL O SGT, USMCR-A MISSING A that led us to believe flight was lost in vicinity of PAONESSA, GEORGE R SGT, USMCR-A MISSING A Bahama Islands. Maddow: Lundeen's political career had a bit of a bumpy start. 544 (1900) Establishment of the General Board, General Order No. 38, USS North Carolina BB55 War Damage Report No. Maddow: Just as the journalist Drew Pearson predicted, the cause of the crash of Trip 19 has remained a mystery, indefinitely. Maddow: In his first stint in Washington, Lundeen had opposed the U.S. getting involved in World War I. Now, do you think thats sufficient basis to keep these facts from the American public? 52, [USS] Joseph Hewes APA22 War Damage Report No. Locked him in. In addition to the records at the National Archives in College Park, there may be other relevant records relating to Flight 19 that were created by local naval air stations and the regional naval district. And be aware contracts can be in writing or spoken. WebFlight 19 (Part 3) - full transcript | Podcast9. And I asked his surviving younger brother, Mr. Painter, why do you think he did that? So, Ernest Lundeen knew the cost of taking an unpopular stance in elected office. Maddow: Sitting Senators just dont drop dead on a regular basis. A reporter for the Winchester Evening Star in Virginia filed a story from the crash scene that day for the Associated Press. Goddard Space Flight Center. 29, USS San Francisco CA38 War Damage Report No. His presence on the flight and the strange circumstances surrounding the crash would end up revealing threats to American democracy itself. 4 h 55 m UNKOWN - UNKNOWN PREVIOUS ACCIDENT RECORD Pilot was member of scheduled, routine, day navigation INJURIES TO PILOT flight which took off from NAS FT LAUDERDALE MISSING A 5 dec 1945 at 1408. 456 (1919) Observance of the Sabbath Day, General Order No. There is some evidence that the Mariner may have exploded in mid-air because there were reports from vessels at sea near the Mariners patrol area saying they saw a fireball approximately around the time another ship lost RADAR contact with the plane. Immediate protest will block the way to militarizing our nation. Radio Reporter: He thinks reporters and newspapers who have helped to indict the defendants are engaged in a dirty business, and predicted that the day will soon come when they will all regret it. 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He pressed his case on the radio, and on the senate floor, and at home with his constituents. 98 (1914) Movement of the Rudder, General Order No. <> <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 11 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R 17 0 R 18 0 R 20 0 R 21 0 R 22 0 R 23 0 R 24 0 R 25 0 R 26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R 34 0 R 35 0 R 36 0 R 37 0 R 38 0 R 39 0 R 40 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> 83 (1867) Proclamation Issued by President Johnson, General Order No. 4 h 55 m UNKNOWN -UNKNOWN PREVIOUS ACCIDENT RECORD INJURIES TO PILOT Pilot was member of scheduled, routine, day MISSING A navigation flight which took off from NAS Ft. - NAME AND RANK OF OTHER PERSONNEL INJ Lauderdale, 5 DEC at 1408. Might not have been. IE 11 is not supported. GEN NATURE Y SPEC TYPE EXPLODED AT SEA- CAUSE ANALYSIS TALLY UNKNOWN D R A-B O AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT D R A-B OTHER CLASSIFICATION OF ACCIDENT CAUSES CARD NAVAIR 339C D R, DANFS - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Permitting Policy and Resource Management, The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: 20 Years Later, "Ex Scientia Tridens": The U.S. Most immediately, in Washington, there was shock and grief from Senator Lundeens colleagues in the capital. But there was a passenger manifest from the airline. 1 0 obj But John Flannery has lived in the area for almost 20 years. Archival radio material is from NBC News, via our beloved Library of Congress, with additional sound from CBS News. This is a moment of great political danger, I think, for these men. Naval Anecdotes Relating to HMS Leopard Versus USS Chesapeake, 24 June 1807. Dont feel shame. Training Dept has been directed to intensify training in CAUSE M-1 POOR NAVIGATION lost plane procedure & stress with all pilots the ANAYLISIS Z POOR NAVIGATION necessity for carring out correct procedure when lost. 4 h 55 m UNKNOWN - UNKNOWN SPEED PREVIOUS ACCIDENT RECORD INJURIES TO PILOT Pilot was leader of scheduled, routine, day navigation MISSING A flight which took off from NAS FT LAUDERDALE NAME AND RANK OF OTHER PERSONNEL INJ 5 DEC 1945 at 1408. DAMAGE DAMAGE DESCRIPTION & REMARKS Fact finding board of investigation has been appointed AIRCRAFT A/C & ENGIN LOST AT SEA by CNAADTRA to make detailed report on & if possible ENGINES determine cause of loss of subj a/c. NBC Radio Anchor: In Washington, the flags are at half staff today. A/C MODEL & NUMBER PARACHUTE 53. Maddow: One local farmer told a wire service that the human remains, quote: "were so badly mangled, I don't see how they could ever be recognized.". The recording of the tape taken from the flight's cockpit voice recorder, as played to the court at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. 00:29:51 - Molotov Cocktails, stealth skiing, and a ruined Birthday party for Stalin? John Flannery didn't only talk to the surviving witnesses to the plane crash, he's also made a real study of the aeronautics board report into the crash. Senator, gone in an instant. He's still planning to travel. But it is not unprecedented. That's the speech Lundeen was heading home to give on Labor Day weekend, when his flight crashed on its first leg out of Washington. Navy investigators could not determine the exact cause of the loss of Flight 19, but more than 50 years on, aviation expert Peter Leffe claimed he cracked the case. Than an out report was received my NAS BANANA RIVER MENENDEZ, JOHN THOMAS AOM USN MISSING A from PBM5 59225, Ron 49 at 1930 5 DEC 1945 and no NEEMAN, PHILIP BIRD SLC(ARM) USN MISSING A further communications received from PBM5 59255 Ron9. Senator Lundeen's secretary will later tell the FBI that they didn't talk at all for the whole ride. Narration: My name is Compton James Tucker, and I am a scientist at the. The designated route was to depart 081352 AA 11 Lost Contact. The Battles of Cape Esperance 11 October 1942 and Santa Cruz Islands 26 October 1942, Battles of Savo Island and Eastern Solomons, Boat Pool 15-1 Manila, P.I. A short of list of select filing designations are A17-9 (Naval Courts and Boards), A17-24 (Court of Inquiry), A17-25 (Board of Investigations), L11-1 (Material Loss), the different aircraft types, VTBM1 and VPBM5, and the different naval air stations NA29 - Jacksonville NAS, NA59 - Cocoa and Banana River NAS, and NA106 - Fort Lauderdale NAS. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas to Orlando was diverted to an airport in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery from a passenger's item caught fire in an overhead bin, | March 2, 2023 CVR Database - 160+ 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. But he still wanted more. 93-16], Riverine Warfare: The US Navy's Operations on Inland Waters, Rocks and Shoals: Articles for the Government of the U.S. Navy, The Recruitment of African Americans in the US Navy 1839, The Role of COMINT in the Battle of Midway, The Role of the United States Navy in the Formation and Development of the Federal German Navy, 1945-1970, Royal Works USS Lexington [Crossing the Line 1936], Rules for the Regulation of the Navy - 1775, The Russian Navy Visits the United States, A Sampling of U.S. When she hears the news, Senator Lundeen's secretary decides shes gonna go there, to try to find him. For Training Command, Atlantic Fleet are the Confidential, Restricted and Secret General Administrative Files, 1944-1945 and the Confidential and Unclassified General Administrative Files, 1941-46. Lucky for us, the largely forgotten Americans who fought these fights before us, they have stories to tell. The U. S. Navy was baffled by the loss of both the Avengers and the Mariner, and so they investigated. Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane. They drive to the airfield for him to catch his flight. It means they know something they don't want us to know. And they didn't just run him out of Congress, they ran him out of town on a rail. Starting around 3 PM, transmissions from the lost planes began to be received. In a plane crash that, from the very start, was a real mystery. I said I gotta get out of here, I cant take anymore of this. On 19 February 1985, a Boeing 727-200 operating the flight crashed into a television antenna on the summit of Mount Oiz in Biscay near Bilbao. Maddow: John Flannery is giving us a tour of the exact location where Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 met its end. Claim: A secret tape recorded aboard the doomed space shuttle Challenger captured the final panic-stricken moments of the crew. They let him ride in the caboose to the next station. As an example of this method, using the information from the Board of Investigation, it references the Gulf Sea Frontier and Commander, Training Command, Atlantic Fleet as being contributors of reports in the investigation and recipients of copies of the investigation. WebA database containing CVR transcripts of aviation accidents and incidents Scroll 15 January 2009 - US Airways 1549 29 October 2018 - Lion Air 610 CVR Database - 160+ transcripts 10 March 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines 302 25 July 2000 - Air France 4590 31 January 2000 - Alaska Airlines 261 17 April 2018 - Southwest 1380 10 April 2010 - Polish In addition to these records, there are related records in other series that have not been digitized in the custody of the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference. Steven J. Ross: They dont call themselves right-wing fanatics. 47 (1935) Precedence of Forces in Parades, General Orders for the Regulation of the Navy Yard Washington, D.C. - 1833-1850, German Commanders Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl on the Invasion of Normandy in 1944, German Report on the Allied Invasion of Normandy, German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast, Glossary of U.S. He wanted to search for the When he ran for re-election after his first term, they voted him out. Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, that manifest showed and the press soon reported that the other passengers on-board Trip 19 included a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Washington hears Senator Pat McCarren of Nevada, mourning the death of his senatorial colleague Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, who died in that crash. What he appears to be is emotionally distraught. You can see it in Ernest Lundeens archives at Stanford University. Because these are administrative files, they are arranged using the Navy Filing Manual 4th Edition, 1941. Flannery: I think that the coincidence defies the probabilities, Lundeen: Reason? Lead Stories, April 19, Fact Check: NO Known Transcript Exists Of Call Between 9/11 Victim Todd Beamer And Phone Operator Thank you for supporting our journalism. Young: This group of people, if they were anything first, it was their own political success and careers first. Part of the file addresses the aircrews status as missing versus being declared dead. As it is these series have been processed with container lists, so they are more accessible. 62, USS Quincy CA39, Astoria CA34 & Vincennes CA44 War Damage Report No. The accident reports for the aircraft can be located in the series titled General Correspondence, 1943-45 in the Records of the Bureau of Aeronautics (Record Group 72). Radio Announcer: This is the National Broadcasting Company. The Senator's secretary stays to make sure that hes safely boarded the plane and then she leaves to drive back to D.C. Then as she makes it back to the Capitol, the news comes through. You MUST meet the following requirements: EDUCATION: A. He's due to fly that day to Pittsburgh. The records of the 7th Naval District (Florida) and the naval air stations that were involved in the incident are in the custody of the, of the 7th Naval District. A violent, ultra-right authoritarian movement, weirdly infatuated with foreign dictatorships. Senator Ernest Lundeen: Fellow Americans, America prepares to take the last step before entering another World War. We tried to confirm those reports one way or the other. 4 (1863) Emancipation Proclamation, General Order No. Evidence that Senator Lundeen was involved in a criminal conspiracy, a conspiracy to subvert American democracy on behalf of a hostile foreign power. Ghost-written by a senior, paid agent of Hitler's government operating in America, a man to whom Senator Lundeen had grown very close. In the, that are part of the Records of the Chief of Naval Operations (Record Group 38), there is a file unit titled, Shore Establishments, Jacksonville Naval Air Station Board of Investigation 5 TBM Avengers 7 December 1945, that includes a copy of the findings of the Board of Investigation (Box 419). And the good people of Minnesota forgave him, apparently. That speech had been ghost-written for Senator Lundeen. 226 (1877) Importance of Complete Reports and Logs, General Order No. That PBM-5 59255, Ron 9 departed from NAS BANANA ZWICKI, ALFRED JOSEPH S1C(AOM)USNR MISSING A RIVER on Air Sea Rescue Mission at about 1927 5DEC1945 OSTERHELD, JAMES FREDERICK AOM3C USN MISSING A 2. in the Records of the Bureau of Aeronautics (Record Group 72). We're very interested to improve. CO: Concur with report of board. 4 h 55 m PREVIOUS ACCIDENT RECORD INJURIES TO PILOT Pilot was member of scheduled, routine day navigation MISSING A flight which took off from NAS FT LAUDERDALE NAME AND RANK OF OTHER PERSONNEL INJ 5 DEC 1945 at 1408. Theres a note pinned to the front describing how the pages of the speech were found 100 yards away from the epicenter of the plane crash site. Influenza at the United States Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C. Maddow: Hidden away in a refrigerated train car. Now, the reason his secretary had come into work that Saturday of the holiday weekend is because the senator had asked her to drive him to the airport. 41, USS O'Brien DD415 War Damage Report No. GEN NATURE E-2 RECOMMENDATIONS: Added emphasis is being placed on SPEC TYPE ACC (6) LOST-FUEL EXHAUSTION importance of proper navigation & lost plane procedure. Desk, his head is buried in his arms steven J. Ross: they dont call themselves right-wing.... 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