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4.8 • 31.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It started with a plane crash. The tragic, mysterious crash of a commercial airliner in the summer of 1940 left a scene of devastation in rural Virginia -- and a series of unanswered questions. The cause of the crash was unclear. Among the dozens of people killed was a sitting U.S. senator. His presence on the flight and the strange circumstances surrounding the crash would end up revealing threats to American democracy itself.

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0:00.0	Good morning all.
0:03.9	This is the NBC Newsroom in New York.
0:06.6	His name is Ernest Lundin.
0:09.8	He's a United States Senator from Minnesota, and Senator Lundin is at work, even though
0:15.4	it's Labor Day weekend.
0:17.3	Today Saturday, August 31st, 1940.
0:23.9	Senator Lundin gets to work early that day, even before his secretary arrives.
0:28.4	When she gets in, she finds him already there already at his desk, but something is definitely
0:32.6	wrong.
0:34.6	He's not sitting at his desk like usual.
0:37.0	He's slumped there.
0:38.6	He's got his head down on his desk, his head is buried in his arms.
0:41.6	He doesn't appear to be sick though.
0:45.3	What he appears to be is emotionally distraught.
0:49.4	He's crying.
0:51.4	Secretary asks him what's wrong.
0:53.5	He won't explain.
0:54.8	He's got tears streaming down his face, but all he'll say to her is, I can't talk about
0:59.6	it.
1:00.6	And I've gone too far to turn back.
1:04.6	She doesn't know what this means.
1:05.8	She doesn't know what has made him so upset.
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