Kennedy, Malcolm X, MLK, Kennedy -- and Reuther?

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6. I wonder what the ratio of private plane wrecks taking out progressives/liberals is...

...to those taking out rightwingers?

We have to add Dag Hammerskjold's plane "accident" to the list as well. Of course, for years that was considered too "far out" as speculation (and would have met by scorn by this site's own right-tilted posters). Until enough evidence surfaced to warrant a new investigation, as ordered by the UN:


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/14/un-inquiry-1961-dag-hammarskjold-air-crash

A 1962 report by the British colonial authorities in Rhodesia blamed the crash on pilot error but offered no proof. A UN inquiry returned an open verdict. Since then new evidence has come to light, including the testimony of local people that was downplayed or ignored in the original report.

The new material was published in a 2011 book, Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa, by a British academic, Susan Williams, who argued that Hammarskjöld was shot down by mercenaries fighting for Katanga. The Guardian also published a report the same year, based in part on the research of a Swedish diplomat, Göran Björkdahl, which cast doubt the official version of events, and pointed to the possibility a second plane had been close to the UN aircraft.