daughter of William Sylvester Wright & Gertrude M. Britt
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Excerpt from the Hartford (CT) Courant published 20 Nov 1955, page 25
Ever since early summer, Gerald G. Lipke, a Pittsburgh sales manager, had delayed his vacation so he and his wife could combine their holiday with a business trip to Portland.
The day before they left, he dropped into the Commonwealth Trust Company and signed his will, leaving his $25,000 home, insurance and personal effects to his three children--Gerald Jr., 11, Robert, 9, and John, 7.
This week the children went west to make their home with the Portland aunt their parents had planned to visit.
At St. Gabriel's Parochial School in Pittsburgh before they departed, the three Lipke boys said a prayer of forgiveness "for the man who put the dynamite in the plane."
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SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
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Excerpt from the Hartford (CT) Courant published 20 Nov 1955, page 25
Ever since early summer, Gerald G. Lipke, a Pittsburgh sales manager, had delayed his vacation so he and his wife could combine their holiday with a business trip to Portland.
The day before they left, he dropped into the Commonwealth Trust Company and signed his will, leaving his $25,000 home, insurance and personal effects to his three children--Gerald Jr., 11, Robert, 9, and John, 7.
This week the children went west to make their home with the Portland aunt their parents had planned to visit.
At St. Gabriel's Parochial School in Pittsburgh before they departed, the three Lipke boys said a prayer of forgiveness "for the man who put the dynamite in the plane."
____________________
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
daughter of William Sylvester Wright & Gertrude M. Britt
____________________
Excerpt from the Hartford (CT) Courant published 20 Nov 1955, page 25
Ever since early summer, Gerald G. Lipke, a Pittsburgh sales manager, had delayed his vacation so he and his wife could combine their holiday with a business trip to Portland.
The day before they left, he dropped into the Commonwealth Trust Company and signed his will, leaving his $25,000 home, insurance and personal effects to his three children--Gerald Jr., 11, Robert, 9, and John, 7.
This week the children went west to make their home with the Portland aunt their parents had planned to visit.
At St. Gabriel's Parochial School in Pittsburgh before they departed, the three Lipke boys said a prayer of forgiveness "for the man who put the dynamite in the plane."
____________________
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
____________________
Excerpt from the Hartford (CT) Courant published 20 Nov 1955, page 25
Ever since early summer, Gerald G. Lipke, a Pittsburgh sales manager, had delayed his vacation so he and his wife could combine their holiday with a business trip to Portland.
The day before they left, he dropped into the Commonwealth Trust Company and signed his will, leaving his $25,000 home, insurance and personal effects to his three children--Gerald Jr., 11, Robert, 9, and John, 7.
This week the children went west to make their home with the Portland aunt their parents had planned to visit.
At St. Gabriel's Parochial School in Pittsburgh before they departed, the three Lipke boys said a prayer of forgiveness "for the man who put the dynamite in the plane."
____________________
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
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