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THREAD # 4:
Hale Boggs's Suspicious Aircrash
DATE/TIME: Jan 31
2005, 05:59 PM
TITLE: Hale Boggs's Suspicious Aircrash
POSTER: Salvador Astucia
THREAD WAS STARTED BY: Shanet Clark
REPLIED TO: Shanet Clark
At the time of Boggs' death, on Oct. 16, 1972, he was House Majority Leader
(58 years old). Boggs had ruffled several feathers in Washington, DC several
months prior to his death when he made speeches on the House floor demanding
the dismissal of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover subsequently died on
May 2, 1972, so the problem resolved itself. Still Boggs' words were quite
harsh, and it is completely realistic to think that many of Hoover's friends
in power might have targeted Boggs for assassination even after Hoover's
death which ended the infamous director's 48-year rule over the FBI.
Author Anthony Summers described Boggs' speeches against Hoover in the 1993
book, "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover."
According to Summers, Boggs "made speeches accusing the FBI of wiretapping
members of Congress and infiltrating the universities." Boggs also compared
Hoover's FBI to the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo. Boggs said the
Attorney General should "ask for the resignation of Mr. Hoover." (Summers,
page 394)
Those were strong words. And frankly, it doesn't surprise me at all that
Boggs' plane disappeared just six months later. Unfortunately, America isn't
as free as many people would like to believe.
Salvador Astucia
DATE/TIME: Jan 31
2005, 06:07 PM
TITLE: Hale Boggs's Suspicious Aircrash
POSTER: Salvador Astucia
THREAD WAS STARTED BY: Shanet Clark
REPLIED TO: N/a (correction)
In my previous comments about Hale Boggs, I forgot to mention that his
speeches against J. Edgar Hoover were made on the House floor in April 1972.
Hoover died on May 2, 1972, and Boggs' plane disappeared on Oct. 16,
1972--six months after making the anti-Hoover speeches.
Salvador Astucia
DATE/TIME: Jan 31
2005, 07:40 PM
TITLE: Hale Boggs's Suspicious Aircrash
POSTER: Salvador Astucia
THREAD WAS STARTED BY: Shanet Clark
REPLIED TO: N/a (correction)
Sorry. Here's another follow-up and correction to my original comment about
Boggs. After re-reading Anthony Summer's description of Boggs' public
criticism of J. Edgar Hoover, the timeline is slightly different than I had
previously thought. Boggs made the criticism of Hoover and the FBI in April
of 1971, not 1972. So here is the actual timeline:
April 1971 - Boggs makes speeches critical of the FBI and Hoover. Boggs
calls for Hoover's dismissal.
May 2, 1972 - Hoover dies.
Oct. 16, 1972 - Boggs' plane disappears in Alaska.
These three events occurred within an 18 month timeframe. Nevertheless,
Boggs had revealed he was not a friend of the FBI, probably the most
powerful force in the history of the American government, then and now.
Salvador Astucia
Salvador
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President John F. Kennedy. Astucia has written a second book, Rethinking
John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars. To read either or
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