Hale Boggs
Re: Hale Boggs
Cokie Roberts is Boggs' daughter. For those unfamiliar with his history:In April 1971 he made a speech on the floor of the House in which he strongly attacked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the whole of the FBI. This led to a conversation on April 6, 1971, between then-President Richard M. Nixon and the Republican minority leader, Gerald R. Ford, Jr., in which Nixon said that he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress. In the recording of this call, Nixon is heard to ask Ford to arrange for the House delegation to include an alternative to Boggs. Ford speculates that Boggs is on pills as well as alcohol.[8]Disappearance in Alaska[edit]Disappearance and search[edit]As Majority Leader, Boggs often campaigned for others. On October 16, 1972, he was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 with Representative Nick Begich of Alaska, who was facing a possible tight race in the November 1972 general election against the Republican candidate, Don Young, when it disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Also on board were Begich’s aide Russell Brown and the pilot, Don Jonz;[9] the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich. (Begich won the 1972 election posthumously with 56 percent to Young's 44 percent, though Young would win the special election to replace Begich and won every subsequent election through and including 2012.)Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force planes searched for the party. On November 24, 1972, after thirty-nine days, the search was abandoned. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's and passengers' remains were ever found. The accident prompted Congress to pass a law mandating Emergency Locator Transmitters in all U.S. civil aircraft.Both Boggs and Begich were re-elected that November. House Resolution 1 of January 3, 1973, officially recognized Boggs's presumed death and opened the way for a special election.Speculation, suspicions, and theories[edit]The events surrounding Boggs's death have been the subject of much speculation, suspicion, and numerous conspiracy theories. These theories often center on his membership on the Warren Commission. Boggs dissented from the Warren Commission's majority who supported the single bullet theory. Regarding the single-bullet theory, Boggs commented, "I had strong doubts about it."[10] In the 1979 novel The Matarese Circle, author Robert Ludlum portrayed Boggs as having been killed to stop his investigation of the Kennedy assassination.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Boggs
Re: Hale Boggs
Freddy Janes wrote:I doubt that driving them to the airport makes him a part of a big conspiracy of any sort. Was it pre-planned in 1972 that he was going to go on to Gov of Arkansas and then POTUS? If it is so we are all "pissing in the wind" trying to find out about JFK or anything else for that matter...Well the odds seem to be in our favor everybody seems to get a forever job when they are involved in some sort, Ford gets to be president years later Spector gets a life time job, Nixon gets to be president, Bill Clinton gets to be governor and president it seems like everyone is awarded for there assistance in a big way. Even Young wins every election up to date 40 years later. I do not find Young and Clinton's winnings a coincidence or even good luck it seems more than luck was on there side.