1 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,079 Speaker 1: Good evening. Search planes and fishing boats hunted along the 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: Alaska coast today for a small plane that disappeared yesterday 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. On that plane 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: four men, one of them the Democratic Leader of the 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: House of Representatives, hay O Boggs of Louisiana. The fifty 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: eight year old Louisiana congressman, was in Alaska campaigning for 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: the re election of that state's only Congressman, Nick Beggitt. 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: Boggs spoke Sunday night at a dinner for baggage at 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: an Anchorage hotel before leaving with him and others yesterday 10 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: morning on the flight to You know, it was a 11 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: warm reception, but then the next day trouble. Somewhere along 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: the five hundred and fifty mile planned flight path, the 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: plane disappeared in a rain store. Close your eyes, picture Alaska. 14 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: What do you see? Mountains, snow, waves, Do you feel cold? Alone? 15 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: Somewhere in that expanse lies the wreckage of a missing 16 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: cessna and the bodies of four men, including two US Congressmen. 17 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: Their disappearance on October six two prompted the largest search 18 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: in American history, a search that spanned thirty nine days 19 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: and covered three and twenty five thousand square miles. Yet 20 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: no sign of the men or they're plane ever surfaced, 21 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: No oil slick, no wreckage, nothing. Ever. This story is 22 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: one of the great mysteries of American history. But you've 23 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: probably never heard of it, and that's okay. Even in 24 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, it vanished from the headlines within weeks. 25 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: A nation consumed with Watergate and Vietnam quickly moved on. 26 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: For the families of the men of Congressman Hail Bogs 27 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: and Nick Beggett, pilot Don John's, and political aid Russ Brown, 28 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: it was a slower process without a wreck. There were 29 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: no definitive answers, no closure. Eleven children, including the journalist 30 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: Coke Roberts and future U. S. Senator Mark Begets, lost 31 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: their fathers. The weather that day in two was turbulent, 32 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: the skies a violent gray. The plane was last heard 33 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: from near a rugged mountain pass. It was presumed to 34 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: have iced up and crashed, perhaps crumpled into a glacier 35 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: or submerged in frigid water. That presumption that the plane 36 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: was felled by ice explains in part why so little 37 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: attention has been paid to this story during the past 38 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: fifty years. Alaska, bad weather, a small plane, nothing special. Sure, 39 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: there were two congressmen on board, so what right? But 40 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: the story that was never told, the story I uncovered 41 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: during a nine year investigation, is much more complex. My 42 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: name is John Wallzac. I'm an investigative journalist based in 43 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: New Orleans, and since I've obtained thousands of pages of 44 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: government documents, interviewed dozens of people, and traveled all over 45 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: the nation researching the disappearance. What I learned is bizarre 46 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: and until now largely untold. Nearly fifty years after the 47 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: plane vanished, people are dying and time is running out. 48 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: This mystery will be solved now or will likely never 49 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: be solved. And to be honest, I'm exhausted, but I'm 50 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: making one final push to solve this case. I'm not 51 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: giving up yet, but I need your help. One last thing. 52 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: I struggled with whether or not I should even tell 53 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: this story or just let it be publishing It will 54 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: hurt people, It will drag out allegations of affairs and murder. 55 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: A few people, including FBI agents, journalists, and politicians, end 56 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: up looking good at the end. If you're in Alaska, 57 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: and you're hearing this for the first time. Ask yourself why, 58 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: because well connected people in your state no significant parts 59 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: of this story and they're not telling it to you. 60 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: But first some background. Let's flash back to October fift 61 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: n two. The only thing I remember was dead. My 62 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: husband tell me we were reception and expecting I don't 63 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: know people or something. That's Susan Millish. She and her 64 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: husband Donald, hosted a cocktail fundraiser for the congressman in 65 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: Anchorage the night before they disappeared. Donald remembers that Boggs, 66 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: who had just flown in from d C, was jet 67 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: lagged but jovial as he spoke to a small crowd 68 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,559 Speaker 1: in front of a fireplace, was having a good time, 69 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: and they talked about their trip, and you know, Bobs 70 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: was excited about going down to southeast and country. And 71 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: that's about it. After the reception, the Congressman drove to 72 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: a dinner fundraiser in a packed hotel ballroom. Their final 73 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: public event. Alan Dodds Frank was a young reporter who 74 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: covered it for the Anchorage Daily News. Energetic, thoughtful speaker 75 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: who pumped up the crowd. He's got everybody is on 76 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: their feet and more important he was he was a 77 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: big attraction to raise money for Vegas and draw a 78 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: big crap box. Was indeed a v I p His 79 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: visit to Alaska was a big deal. He been friends 80 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: with the presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Was 81 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: expected to be elected the next Speaker of the House, 82 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: and in the nineteen sixties, during a pivotal moment in 83 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: American history, he had supported civil rights legislation, something which 84 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: almost cost him his seat in nine because I come 85 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: from a deep ship, but I have consistently believed in 86 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights, and I have voted for civil rights, 87 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: and I have voted for voting rights. Des I didn't 88 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: think the people of the territory of Alaska shouldn't be 89 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: second class citizens. I didn't think that the people who 90 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: have had a color of skin that was open from mine, 91 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: who lived in my community community, shouldn't be second class. 92 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: So I voted that boy. But perhaps what Boggs is 93 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: best known for war is his service on the Warrant Commission, 94 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: which investigated JFK's assassination. Inevitably, when people here I'm working 95 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: on this story, they ask whether or not I think 96 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: the congressman's disappearance had anything to do with Kennedy's death. 97 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: My answer is emphatically no. In private letters and public remarks, 98 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: Box expressed confidence in the commission's findings. The Warrant Commission 99 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: took testimony from many, many witnesses, well over a thousands uh. 100 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: The testimony runs in twenty six bound volumes and many, 101 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: many millions of words. It had its disposal, the complete 102 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: resources of the FBI, the Secret Service, c i A, 103 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: the Intelligence of the Army, Navy, Air Force, the State Department. 104 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: The only admonition we had was to find the truth, 105 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: and we sought the truth, and I my own conviction 106 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: is that we found it. I have my my own 107 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: conviction is it. There's no doubt about it. Even though 108 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: I found nothing indicating Box's disappearance had anything to do 109 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: with the Kennedy assassination, I did uncover serious allegations of 110 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,119 Speaker 1: a different conspiracy. I'll get to that in due time. 111 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: For now, though, let me say this, it's amazing what 112 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: you can dig up with the Freedom of Information Act 113 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: request or a deep dive in an archive. Here are 114 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: two quick examples. One, on the night of July nineteen seventy, 115 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: someone in a late model Lincoln Continental forced Bogs off 116 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: the road in d C near the intersection of Woodley 117 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: Road and thirty fourth Street. Boggs gave chase and took 118 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: down a license plate number. Beyond that, I don't know 119 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: much the incident, which picture it a congressional car chase, 120 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: was only documented on a single sheet I obtained from 121 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,599 Speaker 1: the FBI. Two. While digging through documents at Tulane University, 122 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: I found a letter dated December nineteen sixty three indicating 123 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: Bogg's plan to keep a diary while serving on the 124 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: Warrant Commission. That diary, if it existed, would obviously be 125 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: of immense interest to historians and conspiracy buffs alike behind 126 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: the scenes account of the investigation into the Kennedy assassination. Sadly, 127 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: though I found no proof Bogs followed through and actually 128 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: kept one, a member of his family told me they 129 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: were unaware of the existence of any diary. If Bogs 130 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: wasn't murdered because of his service on the Warren Commission, 131 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: some people say maybe he was killed because of his 132 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: feud with j Edgar Hoover, the infamous FBI director. I 133 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: don't buy it, but the feud was real. In April, 134 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: Bogs had taken to the floor of Congress to slam 135 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: Hoover and the FBI, which he compared to the Gestapo. 136 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: Hail Boggs, the Democratic leader of the House, insists that 137 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: his telephone has been tapped, that the FBI has spying 138 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: on his personal life, and, as he puts it, we 139 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: are living in a police state today. The FBI said 140 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: the charge was, in its words, absolutely and utterly false, 141 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: but Boggs was insistent. He said j Edgar Hoover was 142 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: incompetent and should resign. And he asked the question, if 143 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: this can happen to the majority leader of the House 144 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: of Representatives, what do you think could happen to an 145 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: ordinary citizen. The Nixon administration was piste off, and it 146 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: pushed back. Attorney General John Mitchell accused Boggs of quote 147 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: tap anoia. At the White House. President Nixon was ironically 148 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: caught on tape discussing Bogs with then Congressman Gerald Ford, 149 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: who didn't know he was being recorded. Good morning, the surprise, Jerry, 150 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: are you what's the matter with your opposite number? He's 151 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: not my god. I when I read the spar last night, 152 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: and incidentally, I thought you made fine comment it I uh, 153 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: I said Jesus Key right. Did you know that the 154 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: FBI has not had a tip I don't knowing, not 155 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: only on no congressman or no old senator, but not 156 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,719 Speaker 1: even any place anybody that is ever the moment that 157 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: crossed into that capital for did you know that? I 158 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: didn't know that. But I mean, oh, Hoover has got 159 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: the record. I mean, this is the most ridiculous stamping. 160 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: And but the fellow is uh, it's he's on the sauce, 161 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: isn't it it? Well, I I'm afraid that's right now. 162 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: Is crazy. I mean he's either drinking too much or 163 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: he's taking some pills that that are upsetting him mentally. 164 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: Last Thursday when we were getting the program for the week, 165 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: he was mumbling. He was almost incoherent. It was very 166 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: embarrassing to Carl and to everybody who was on the floor. Yeah, 167 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: Bogs like to drink, sure, but Nickson like to slander people. 168 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: And I have no idea of any of this is true. Regardless, 169 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: as NBC's David Brinkley pointed out, their Bad Blood did 170 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: highlight bitter tensions in the body politic. As Bog said, 171 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: numerous members of Congress believe at least that their phones 172 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: are tapped and they're being spied on, or both. Even 173 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: if they believe this wrongly, the fact they believe it 174 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: at all tells a great deal about the mood and 175 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: temper in Washington these days. Ultimately, there's no evidence Hoover 176 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: had anything to do with Box's disappearance. In fact, Hoover 177 00:12:30,440 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: himself died in May, five months before Bog's vanished. When 178 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: Boggs landed in Alaska on October, he found a state 179 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: undergoing a rapid transformation. Only four years earlier, Alaskans had 180 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: discovered they were sitting on a sea of gold, black gold. 181 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: That's the camp on the first oil well struck on 182 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: the North Slope in Alaska. This country's biggest oil strike 183 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: in a generation, bigger than Texas. This is the shore 184 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: of Prudeo Bay. But it's hard to tell where the 185 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: shore stops in the bay starts, because the so called 186 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: land in summer is two thirds water and one third 187 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: mud tundra it's called In the winter, it's all frozen. 188 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: Since we're well inside the Arctic Circle up toward the 189 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: North Pole. It's so cold here in the winter, sixty 190 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: below zero with the wind blowing. Even the Esquimos left 191 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,719 Speaker 1: a long time ago, and until now the Caribou had 192 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: it all to themselves. But now with the oil strike, 193 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: the oil companies are moving in and drooling and building 194 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: camps for their workers. It's about as rough as in 195 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: the Alaska gold rush of the eighteen nineties, and the 196 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: man are just as tough. But before Alaska could reap 197 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: the benefits of that oil, a pipeline needed to be constructed. 198 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: And before a pipeline could be constructed, there were legal 199 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: and political obstacles to overcome, including demands from Alaska Natives 200 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: that they'd be compensated for their land across which part 201 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: of the pipeline would be built. This is how Nick 202 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: Beggett got a chance to make a massive, lasting impact 203 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: on the state and the nation. In his first and 204 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: only term in Congress, Beggatt's helped pass the Alaska Native 205 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: Claims Settlement Act, or ANKSA, which President Nixon signed into law. 206 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: ANKSA gave Alaska Natives forty four million acres of land 207 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: and nearly one billion dollars, paving the way for pipeline 208 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: construction to eventually begin. Beggatt's raw political talent driven by 209 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: an earnest nerdy charm and infectious laugh and a hard 210 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: charging work ethic through the attention of leaders like hell Bogs. 211 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: By this time I've gotten very fund of him, and 212 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: also admit his wife and I liked it. But if 213 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: any ways, This is the final recording of Bogs, taken 214 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: the night before he disappeared. In it, he discusses the 215 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: turbulent political moment and fears of creeping authoritarianism, but ultimately 216 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: I took chalitarian phone government comes along. Of course, the 217 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: idea of any such thing occurring of necessary in this 218 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: country is ridiculous. The idea that we should have twenty 219 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: five percent of the industrial capacity of the United States 220 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: lying on today, when every city needs rebuilding, when project 221 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: after project after project, cry is out, you're shopping that. 222 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: I reject off that. After Bogs finished speaking, Begette took 223 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: the podium. Though he was expected to easily win re election, 224 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: he didn't want to take victory for granted, that wasn't 225 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: his style. He had a busy few weeks planned, will 226 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: be in the state the next approximate twenty one days 227 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: through the end of making approximately two appearances from now on, 228 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: and we want you to know that Hale says, where 229 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: do you get the energy when you get people turned 230 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: out like this? For you, you you get the energy and return. 231 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: It's spontaneous with me and I sort of lived off 232 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: the match, off the galls of crowds. Anything more than 233 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: two gets me going tonight. We got quite a few tunes, 234 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: so okay, not sleep tonight. This tape rediscovered in fades 235 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: in and out to Carol and Carol, Lonnie and Barbara 236 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: and doctor and mus Lay and A Cram and all 237 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: of you made this affair such a success tonight. This 238 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: is one time I was not too closely associated with 239 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: the event as I have in the past. That too 240 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: many things along the last two the recent and with 241 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: that the video cuts out. Eight days earlier, on October seventh, 242 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: Beggae had given his final recorded interview to Tom Duncan 243 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,959 Speaker 1: of k u a C, a radio station in Fairbanks. 244 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: Congressman Baggage, I'd like to shift the scene from Alaska 245 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: to Washington. Do you feel that the Watergate affair will 246 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 1: have any influence on President Nixon's campaign for re election? Oh? Shared, well, 247 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: I think all of these things. In fact, I call 248 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: that I'm sure you've heard of mission impossible. I call 249 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: that mission incredible, the most incredible thing I've ever imagined. 250 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: When Mr Nixon way back in those days, way way 251 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: ahead points totals, and to get connected with this kind 252 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: of thing and just it was well, it was insulting 253 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 1: to the American system, a fair play. Americans react to that, 254 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 1: and I could see why he's trying to disavow any 255 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: association with that affair. I would if I were in 256 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: his position too, because the most incredible that you'd have 257 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: it tied to the higher ischela that's being tied right now, 258 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: and there's been some real revelations the last couple of days. Baggage, 259 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: a clean, scandal free politician, denounced Nixon's behavior but recognized 260 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: that the president remained popular. He predicted Nixon's Democratic opponent, 261 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: Senator George McGovern, who was down in the polls, would 262 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: come out swinging, and said the race was still unpredictable, 263 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: so it might be an interesting campaign. Yet, don't underestimate 264 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: the American public this year. Nobody can come count what's 265 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: gonna happen. Strange year. Indeed, whoever thought the year ago 266 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: the McGovern would be the cadidate? I didn't be very 267 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: honest about it. Neither did my government. Maybe with six 268 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: percent of the vote. You know, back in Florida, look 269 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: what happened, Congressman beg thank you very much as Begat 270 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: and Bogg's campaign an anchorage. On October, Don John's, a 271 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: thirty eight year old blonde haired, blue eyed bush pilot 272 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: in Fairbanks, three d and sixty miles to the north, 273 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: got an unexpected call. His friend Tom Cora Mettis was 274 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: with him when the phone rang. And I went over 275 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: to Don's place and gave that call, and Don says, Tom, 276 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: let's go. I said, where are we going? He said, 277 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: I got to go to Anchor supply. This guy too 278 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: Beggage and this guy to Juno. I said, I can. 279 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: I left Sandra over at Barry's place. Sandra was Tom's wife, 280 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: and he said, okay, I've got to go, and that's 281 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: when he backed up and took off. But before he 282 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: drove to the airport, John's called one of his mechanics, 283 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: Phil Hugh, who had just finished a hundred hour maintenance 284 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: inspection on the plane. John's wanted to take the anchorage, 285 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: and he called me in the evening about six o'clock 286 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: and nice says, it's sitting in the hangar warm. He says, well, 287 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: could you roll it out? I need that aircraft and 288 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: roll it out and feel it up for me. I says, okay. Well, 289 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: when he got there, the airplane was sitting outside, fueled up, 290 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: ready to go, and I met him. He says he 291 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: was going to anchor each with it and spend spending 292 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: the night. Do you remember the last thing he said 293 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: to you? Goodbye? I will you know? Yeah. He walked 294 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: around the air plane, done a pre flight check, and 295 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: I did most of the talking. I told him about 296 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: the airplane. Everything was button up, everything looked good. It 297 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: was fixed, fueled oils fine, spark plugs are clean. This 298 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: would be the first flight out of it. And he 299 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: went and got an airplane and closed the door, and 300 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: before he did, I said, they have a good flight. 301 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: Fired up the engine. He waved to me out the 302 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: cockpit window and start taxing out and then get kind 303 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: of windy standing in the back of the props. And 304 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: so I turned around and walked to the truck. When 305 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: I walked back to the hangar, which was real close, 306 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: shut the lights out, closed the door, and went home. 307 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: At M John's landed an Anchorage fifty minutes later, as 308 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: Bogs and Beggett spoke only a few miles away, Cheryl James, 309 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: then Cheryl Mitchell met him at the airport. John's and 310 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: James had dated for about a year. I picked him 311 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: up the airport. We went out and we had dinner 312 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: new Um. He wouldn't drink. I think he had one drink, 313 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: and that's it. Because he was flying, he really restricted 314 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: his alcohol intake. I remember during the night he woke 315 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: up like two times and checked the weather forecast because 316 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: he was really concerned about weather, and that back then 317 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: was a matter of picking up a phone landline phone 318 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: and calling. And then I took him to the airport 319 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: the next day. That morning, John's and James arrived at 320 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: the airport sometime before eight am. We went to the 321 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: airport and we had breakfast, and then after breakfast, and 322 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: I think that may have been where he called John's 323 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: who was divorced, placed a brief call to his ten 324 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: year old son, Aaron, and then we um went to 325 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: the aircraft. It was parked below the tower, got in 326 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: the aircraft and we taxied over and got gas, Um 327 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: filled up the plane and then we taxied back That 328 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: probably took maybe half an hour, I'm guessing. When we 329 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 1: got back there were three men standing there waiting for us, 330 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: and uh, he parked the plane and we both got out. 331 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: We kind of introduced ourselves to each other, and um, 332 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: they got him ber the aircraft. Cheryld. James left shortly after. 333 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 1: She didn't see the plane take off. Is it surreal 334 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: to you that you played a small part in history, 335 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: that you were the very last person to see these 336 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: men alive? These men who had families and bogs, who 337 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: was a historic figure, who was on the Warrant Commission 338 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: and played a role in passing civil rights legislation, and 339 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: you were the very last human being on the planet 340 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 1: to see them alive. I it's really hard to believe 341 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,479 Speaker 1: that I was the last person. I mean, it just 342 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: and I don't think of it in that. I just 343 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: think of them all getting on board that airplane and 344 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: that being the end um the last one. It's hard 345 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: to believe. At John's requested permission to taxi down Runaway 346 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: twenty four, R found a drive that four minutes later 347 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: he lifted off. Melvin South, a controlled tower operator, was 348 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: the last person to spot the plane, A white and 349 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: orange cessa of three Tennessee, everything appeared normal. At nine 350 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: o nine, John spoke with Robert Mahoney, an f A, 351 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,719 Speaker 1: a flight service specialist for years. I tried to locate 352 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: a tape of their conversation, but had no luck. The 353 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: f A says it no longer exists. John's estimated the 354 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: flight would take about three and a half hours. Mahoney 355 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: asked whether or not he had emergency gear and a 356 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: locator beacon on board, and John's replied affirmative. Then silence. 357 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: At one pm, forty five minutes after the plane was 358 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: scheduled to land in Juno, word reached the US Air 359 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: Force Rescue Coordination Center that the men were overdue. At three, 360 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: when the plane still hadn't arrived and when it theoretically 361 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,239 Speaker 1: would have run out of fuel, concern ratchet it up. 362 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: It affected everyone in town. It was like wildfire package box. 363 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: The plane didn't arrives baggage, and the whole town was paralyzed. 364 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: It was it was just frozen moment, and of course 365 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: it always is with a plane crash. Um. We in 366 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: the state of Alaska don't have many roads, so our 367 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: means of transportation or airplanes, so it's nothing and we 368 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: don't even think about it. I'm gonna just top the 369 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: plane and go to Juno, go to Anchorage, go to 370 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: non Contibute. It's our means and mode of travel. So 371 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: it's always frightening when you hear the plane didn't derive. 372 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: Ah missing late, and everyone has the same paralysis in 373 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: their brain. Oh my god, where are they? TERSA Gergson 374 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: was a Civil Air Patrol volunteer in Juno. She was 375 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: working at a shoe store when the call came in 376 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: that the plane was overdue. I just remember it was serious. 377 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: It was you know, time stopped. It was very serious. 378 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: People then were just hushed. Everyone was talking. The planet 379 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: is messing out, you know. It was just because then 380 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: people because then activity started happening in the little shoe store. 381 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 1: People were in and out the door, and what would 382 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: soon morph into a massive search operation began simply enough, 383 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: with the help of fishing boats, volunteer pilots, and a 384 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: few military planes. But there was only so much they 385 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: could do. The weather was bad and it was getting 386 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: dark across the country. And besides the Maryland Lyndy Boggs, 387 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,719 Speaker 1: Hale's wife was dozing off at her kitchen table with 388 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: Rowan and Martin's laughing and blaring on the TV. Here 389 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: she is recalling that moment. It was almost asleep. I 390 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: was waiting for hal to come in from the airport 391 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: in Washington, and I I had a telephone call that 392 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: startled me just because I was half asleep, and completely 393 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: startled my little dog. And the dog tried to get 394 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: between me and the telephone. He jumped on to the 395 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: table where the phone was, tried to knock the phone 396 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: out of my hand. Yes, like he knew. And it 397 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: was Carl Albert telling me that he didn't want me 398 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: to hear the ten o'clock news. To the speak of 399 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: the half, I really wanted to interview Lindy, but in July, 400 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: only two weeks before I moved to New Orleans, she 401 00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: died at the age of of course, was shot and 402 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: and apprehensive and all of that. But by the time 403 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: we hung up the phone, of course, and began to 404 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: ring off the hook, and two of the people who 405 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: called were Teddy Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, both of whom 406 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: had been down in planes with the pilot with Don 407 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: Johns on other occasions, and who testified to me in 408 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,479 Speaker 1: glowing terms about what an ingenious and remarkable person, and 409 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: pilot Don was and that I should not lead too 410 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: apprehensive about all of this. Meanwhile, about ten miles away, 411 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: the Beggatte family, Nick's wife, Peggy, and their six young 412 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: kids were watching a cop show called The Rookies when 413 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: their phone rang. Ten year old Mark picked up. It 414 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: was Alaska Governor Bill In Peggy took the phone. When 415 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: she returned to the living room, she abruptly told the 416 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: kids to go to bed. They scurried off, and she 417 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: started calling family and friends to let them know Nick 418 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: was missing. Later that night, several Ham radios crackled to 419 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: life in rural northern California. Operators heard a man a pilot, 420 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: begging for help. Next time on Missing in Alaska, they 421 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: notified of what they heard of the plane going down 422 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: close to some islander land and he out and they 423 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: going down. Before we go, I want to let you 424 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: know that at the end of each episode, I'll be 425 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: giving you a task, something you can do or some 426 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,479 Speaker 1: way you can help move the story forward. And then 427 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: I'll give you our tipline and details on how to 428 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: anonymously send us information or even documents via email. Some 429 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: of these hasks will be interactive and relatively easy. Some 430 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: will be specialized and difficult. The goal is to add you, 431 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: our audience, to our investigative team. This week, you have 432 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: three tasks. First, help me find a recording of the 433 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: final conversation between Don John's, the missing pilot, and Robert Mahoney, 434 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: an f A, a flight service specialist. A tape existed 435 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: at least in nineteen seventy two. So far, the FAA 436 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: has been unable to locate it, saying it was likely destroyed. 437 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: If you know where it might be in some musty box, 438 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: feel free to contact us. Second, help me figure out 439 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: who took the last known photo of the missing congressman. 440 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: It's a black and white image of them getting into 441 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,959 Speaker 1: a car at the Anchorage Airport, probably right after hill 442 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: Bogs arrived from DC on October two. Multiple newspapers around 443 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: the nation published it, crediting the Associated Press, but I'm 444 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: not sure if it was taken by an AP photographer 445 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: or more likely by a photographer for one of the 446 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: anchor's papers. We'll post the photo online for you to see. Finally, 447 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: if you know anyone who attended the congressman's final events, 448 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: the cocktail fundraiser at the Melish's house or the dinner 449 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: at the anchor's Westward Hotel. Check with them to see 450 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: if they have any photos from that night. If so, 451 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: let us know. You can reach us by phone at 452 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: one eight three three m I A tips that's one 453 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: eight three three six four two eight four seven seven 454 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: again one eight three three six four two eight four 455 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: seven seven, Or you can reach us via email at 456 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: tips at iHeart media dot com. 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