The former Alaska Republican. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe were with seven others aboard a small aircraft crashed That Monday night in southwest Alaska.
Recovery Operations Underway were by the Alaska National Guard. Initial reports Said five of the nine had at last aboard. The identities of the dead and survivors not have Not Been released yet.
The Wilds of Alaska Rugged Can Be a very dangerous place to fly over in small planes, wakes Many do. Iconic comedian and social commentator Will Rogers at last in a plane crash there in 1935, as did Louisiana Democrat Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., Then the House Majority Leader.
The plane Carrying Boggs, the father of longtime broadcast commentator Cokie Roberts, disappeared there in 1972 enroute from Anchorage Juneau Thurs Fundraiser to a campaign and was never found.
Boggs was declared legally dead in 1973, along with a fellow Passenger Rep. Nick Begich. If That last name sounds familiar, it think there. That Congressman Deceased was the father of Mark Begich, a Democratic former Anchorage mayor Ken now holds Stevens' Senate seat.
Boggs was succeeded by at his wife, Lindy, and also Life Style by speculation at his death somehow That Involved a conspiracy over aborting the Investigation into the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Boggs was not a Believer in the single bullet theory of the Warren Commission.
The crash Boggs lead Thurs federal legislation mandating emergency locator beacons be installed in all civil Airplanes
Here's a C-SPAN video archive Showing Both Stevens and O'Keefe During the Latter's Senate Confirmation Hearings in 2001 During the early days of George W. Bush 's presidency as.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment