flight 19 transcript

Boston Sector: American 11, climb, maintain flight level three five zero. Flight 19 was a group of aircraft that mysteriously went missing off the coast of Florida in 1945. This is in part why these series in RG 313 are often overlooked. Maddow: Lundeen's political career had a bit of a bumpy start. 16, USS Liscome Bay CVE56 War Damage Report No. 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. Nancy Beck Young: He was on the run for not only his political life, but his actual life. 55 (1901) Decorations for Philippine Islands and Boxer Rebellion, General Order No. He pours months of effort into this speech. Because 24 congressmen are mentioned in this report that I prepared. This was crusading, controversial columnist Drew Pearson. You can see it in Ernest Lundeens archives at Stanford University. If these directions had been heard & carried out, we are certain this flight would have been returned to base safely. Senator Ernest Lundeen: Fellow Americans, America prepares to take the last step before entering another World War. The documents were released in their entirety to the National Security Archive and were received directly from the NTSB. 51 (1865) Announcing Death President Abraham Lincoln, General Order No. In fact, they did deny it. 9 (1863) Observance of Paroles, General Order No. There had been 25 people on board that plane, including the crew. As it is these series have been processed with container lists, so they are more accessible. Hart: They're both trying to figure out how much reporters have found out about what's going on. He kept it for himself. But what she finds there leaves no room for hope. 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. Our Senior Executive Producers are Cory Gnazzo and Laura Conaway. But there was even more that was strange about "Trip 19," as it came to be known. Results negative. 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. That one term he served in Congress back in 1917, it was a political disaster. Maddow: Sitting Senators just dont drop dead on a regular basis. 2 0 obj 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. Lieutenant C. C. Taylor, USNR - Leader of flight. Young: as a way to end Lundeen's life unnaturally. 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). He didn't ever try to get money for it. Maddow: Beyond the apparent indestructability in that speech surviving a plane crash, beyond its pretty remarkable content, there was something else notable about that speech. Bullseye 131 (1869) Economizing the Use of Coal, General Order No. Telling him the whole thing was, quote, "a witch hunt". Senator Lundeen is planning to see his wife and get some home time. Is that an argument? For the Gulf Sea Frontier, there are the Unclassified Correspondence, 1940-1946 and 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. 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. And the good people of Minnesota forgave him, apparently. The tragic, mysterious crash of a commercial airliner in the summer of 1940 left a scene of devastation in rural Virginia -- and a series of unanswered questions. 4 0 obj They are violently committed to this mission. On that Saturday morning of the Labor Day weekend, despite the fact that he is so visibly upset, that he is inconsolably crying in his office, the trip is still on. Its powerful stuff. I wanted to say I would recommend this page as a good starting off point for anyone seriously interested in research the Flight-19 saga. His presence on the flight and the strange circumstances surrounding the crash would end up revealing threats to American democracy itself. Training Dept has been directed to intensify training in lost plane CAUSE M-1 POOR NAVIGATION procedure & stress with all pilots necessity of ANAYLISIS Z POOR NAVIGATION carrying out correct procedure when lost. Great Flu Crisis at Mare Island Navy Yard. Ernest Lundeen, 62 years old, had been on board that flight and he was among the dead. His followers are, are armed. 129 (1903) Surplus Provisions, General Order No. Muddying the waters is the fact that researchers found Navy records that 32, USS Lexington CV2 War Damage Report No. stream Approx 1600, radio THELANDER, Arther H., S1C, USNR Missing A messages intercepted that led us to believe this BALUK, Burt E., Jr., S1C, USNR Missing A flight was lost in vicinity of Bahamas. The sudden, tragic nature of Lundeens death was just shocking to the whole Congress, to all of Washington. 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. Fact finding TBM-1C 73209 USED board of investivation has been appointed by CNAADTRA DAMAGE DAMAGE DESCRIPTION & REMARKS to make a detailed report and if possible determine AIRCRAFT X AIRCRAFT AND ENGINE LOST AT SEA cause of loss of subj a/c. 127 (1869) List of Types of Officers to Mess in Second Ward Room, General Order No. Located at the National Archives in College Park and in the regional branches like the National Archives in Atlanta, this record group is divided into naval commands, and there may be several entries per command that cover World War II through the late 1950s. 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). 41, USS O'Brien DD415 War Damage Report No. in the Records of the Bureau of Aeronautics (Record Group 72). 38, USS North Carolina BB55 War Damage Report No. Maddow: Even decades after the fact, eyewitnesses to the crash were just haunted by what they saw that day. And he managed to stand out even from his other peers who voted no like he did. A plot to end it. The investigation found that there was no evidence of a fire on board the plane, no evidence of an explosion. Maddow: The evidence of human loss across the hundreds of yards of the debris field from the crash, it was just devastating. He's got his head down on his desk, his head is buried in his arms. The people should make known their protest. 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. He's crying. CO: Concur with report of board. Something close to confusion over the emerging reports about all these odd circumstances surrounding the crash. Flannery: Why did this plane go down with these experienced pilots in a seemingly good airplane, in a storm that planes go through? Most immediately, in Washington, there was shock and grief from Senator Lundeens colleagues in the capital. Flannery: Mr. Painter's older brother walked into the field and he saw teeth and there was a gold tooth in there and he threw it at the ground and broke out the gold tooth and he kept it. In a letter sent to the Senator's widow, the Attorney General wrote that law enforcement officials were on that plane with the Senator by pure coincidence.. And Senator Lundeen is at work, even though it's Labor Day Weekend. 3 0 obj 56, USS Houston CL81 War Damage Report No. 1918 Influenza by Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander of Convoy Operations in the Atlantic, 1917-1919. There was no evidence that the plane had been struck by lightning. The designated route was to depart Hart: You can imagine how this strikes the country, that this man who had been seen already as an outspoken anti-war figure, allegations already circulating that he might be pro-German, if not pro-Nazi, has suddenly died dramatically. And to him, something about it doesnt add up. 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. WebThe last transmission from Flight 19 took place at 19:04 when Lt. Cox was on air communicating with Flight 19, until their signal got weaker. Maddow: So, the Senator seems to have been in a near-panic about being exposed in the days leading up to him stepping on board that flight a flight in which he, quite literally, was carrying a speech that was written for him by a Nazi agent who had just been exposed in the press. She races to the scene of the crash. He's still planning to travel. Now, do you think thats sufficient basis to keep these facts from the American public? Radio Reporter: In this country now, in the nations capitol at Washington. And Ernest Lundeen threw himself headlong into the effort to try to stop that, too. What exactly happened in the Winter War of 1939-40 between Russia and Fin But John Flannery has lived in the area for almost 20 years. ), 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. Alabama by U.S.S. Hart: There's a publication called PM, which is a left-wing tabloid, a muckraking left-wing paper in New York city, which happens to do incredible reporting. Book your Ticket with Delta Airlines for Picnic Place. 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. The reason for him to be concerned was that there was a good chance the feds were onto him, onto his relationship with that Nazi agent. 135 (1911) Definitions of Well-known Naval Terms, General Order No. Among the dozens of people killed was a sitting U.S. senator. 081352 AA 11 Lost Contact. 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. Young: Angry crowds came out to protest him and his safety was in question on more than one occasion. And I asked his surviving younger brother, Mr. Painter, why do you think he did that? That Walter G Jeffrey, LTJG, USN 329291 volunteer ARCENEAUX, CHARLES D. ENS USNR MISSING A to act as patrol plane commander of PBM-5 59225 CONE, HARRY GRIMES LTJG USNR MISSING A Squadron Training 49, on night of 5 DEC 1945 & in so ALLEN, ROGER MURRAY ENS USNR MISSING A doing displayed sense of duty & spirit. In addition to these records, there are related records in other series that have, been digitized in the custody of the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference. Maddow: It wasnt just the length of time it took to prepare the speech that set it apart. 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. Ghost-written by a senior, paid agent of Hitler's government operating in America, a man to whom Senator Lundeen had grown very close. 1 Austrian 6-pounder Howitzer - Plaque, No. 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. And the mystery of what caused that crash, that mystery has endured. Drew Pearson plays this incredibly important role in blowing the lid off of this. 57, Wartime Diversion of US Navy Forces in Response to Public Demands for Augmented Coastal Defense-CNA, Wartime Instructions for United States Merchant Vessels 1942, Washington Navy Yard: History of the Naval Gun Factory, 1883-1939, Washington Navy Yard - Pay Roll of Mechanics and Labourers, c1819-1820, WAVE QUARTERS D STATION RULES FOR LIFE AT D, [UPDATED] Washington Navy Yard Station Log November 1822 - December 1889, The Story Behind Names of Different Ranks, History of Warrant Officers in the US Navy, Women's Uniform Regulations, Yeoman (F), US Naval Reserve Force, 1918, Women's Winter Uniform Regulations, Yeoman (F), US Naval Reserve Force, 1919, World War I British and German Naval Messages (1918), World War II Invasion of Normandy 1944 Interrogation of Generalleutnant Rudolf Schmetzer, Yangtze River Patrol and Other US Navy Asiatic Fleet Activities in China, Z-grams: A List of Policy Directives Issued by Admiral Zumwalt. Locked him in. Lundeen very clearly starts sweating about this, this sort of relationship. 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. 4. Now, of course, there were no survivors of the crash to tell anyone anything about what had happened on board the plane. Thats when it nosedived. Recollections of Lieutenant Commander William Leide, Recollections of Lieutenant Wilton Wenker and Lieutenant Elby Concerning the Crossing of the Rhine River in 1945, Recollections of USS Pampanito's rescue of prison ship survivors by Lieutenant Commander Landon Davis, Recollections of Vice Admiral Alan G. 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In the weeks after the crash, the Attorney General emphatically rejected the suggestion that Lundeen was under active investigation when he died. Our Associate Producer is Janmaris Perez. Maddow: The plane that crashed was a new DC-3. A/S rescure unit 4 alerted all stations and everything possible was done to get whis flight back safely. 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Company Highlights: Lithia Motors, Inc. is one of the largest providers of personal transportation solutions in the United States and is among the fastest growing companies in the Fortune 500. Senator Lundeen was 62 years old. [CinCPOA Bulletin 93-45, 1945], The Diary of Michael Shiner Relating to the History of the Washington Navy Yard 1813-1869, Digest Catalogue of Laws and Joint Resolutions: The Navy and the World War, Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Maxie Brashear, USN (Ret. Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19, a brand new Douglas DC-3, had come down with such velocity that its engines were driven six feet down into the earth. He lay in state at the state capitol. Young: The question has never been put to rest. The full episode transcript for Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | Episode 1: Trip 19. 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