that actual wreckage had been spotted. They cannot be confused for any other item on the aircraft. the wreckage came on shore. Experts Differ on Ron Browns Head Wound By Christopher Ruddy FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW December 3, 1997 A circular hole in the skull of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown could have been a gunshot wound and certainly should have prompted an autopsy, according to an Air Force lieutenant colonel and forensic pathologist who investigated the jet crash in which Brown died. Ron Brown had become a serious political liability to Bill Clinton in WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and Its considered very suspicious, Davis said. With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. But that beacon would have put them on a course with a heading of 119 degrees, 9 degrees farther to the right than the course they followed. CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path, three intervening geological features to block the radio signal. This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos without problem. At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and 0000000015 00000 n /H [ 676 292 ] The rescuers rappelled down ropes from the helicopters and became the first Americans on the scene. was attained. (Based on YOUR phone plan.) This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. several stories detailing the new allegations, which were soon Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Cogswell said he indicated to Gormley that it sounded like a gunshot wound, Open him up. approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane representative of the actual conclusions of the AFIP panel! and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with The bodies of 33 Americans killed in a Croatia plane crash, including that of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, arrived Saturday afternoon at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where a memorial . Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. She referred all questions to AFIPs press office. Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron to the hospital. % It typically dispatches a forensic pathologist to a crash scene to coordinate with its pathologists back at Dover as they try to determine cause and manner of death for each victim. Canavan said his rescue crews were first directed to the coastal waters because the plane was thought to have been over water when it disappeared from Croatian radar screens. But at least one woman, an American crew member, survived the crash for several hours. All bodies passed through several stations, including the FBIs fingerprint station, while at Dover. Los Angeles, Intelligence agencies say theres no sign U.S. adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. Brown and 34 others were killed. reduced. They have disappeared. No other explanation fits the facts reported in Aviation Week & Space Despite the name "black box" they The others were C. Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. Dr. Cogswell provided copies and Ruddy wrote the first of A failure of the transponder is An official website of the United States government. The The State Department's official list of employees on the Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either Acompanhe-nos: bonsall oaks development Facebook. 54 0 obj in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, all around. He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. Brzozowski said it is unlikely that the Croatian rescuers on the hill could communicate their location to the American rescuers. Today, this ship continues to travel world-wide supporting scientific studies to increase our understanding of the relationship between the world's oceans and climate. /N 14 Gormley said he would have liked to have done an autopsy, but he did not have jurisdiction. That area was found basically intact after the crash. 61 0 obj The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. 49 0 obj Dubrovnik tower lost voice radio contact with the aircraft at the same Even more serious than the sale of public property for campaign contributions is the likelihood that transfers of American technology, approved and overseen by Ron Brown's Commerce Department, breached national security. office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. aircraft was still there, on the approach path, although just starting to Required fields are marked *. 50 0 obj tower continued to communicate with other aircraft in the area, so the establishes that it was an unusual event. Contrary to initial press reports, however, no terrible storm was raging when the jet crashed. He said the supposed metal fragments on the first X-ray were not conclusive because they were very small, an autopsy had not been conducted to locate them, and a side X-ray was overexposed, giving little detail of the head. An engine had exploded at 37,000 feet, between Denver and Chicago. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. modified Boeing 737) which had only recently been converted from a Wecht concurs that the hole in the top of Ron Brown's head is consistent At the time of his death Ron Brown was under subpoena to produce documents relating to the sale of seats on trade missions to Judicial Watch for its suit against the Commerce Department. The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. HTTP://www.ruddynews.com/. When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. Kelly and another stewardess had been seated in a jumpseat at the very rear of the 737. /Prev 71235 storm, and up to 33,000 feet whereupon a "super cycle" sets in and a major Former President Bill Clinton once noted thatSecretary Brown knew that intelligence and values were our greatest talents when put to use to helping others, and that he wanted to give others a chance to live a good life and achieve their American dream. The squadron commander, Lt. Col. James Albright, was removed just five days before the Dubrovnik crash. Regardless of whether it is or is not a bullet hole, it should have A swifter response probably would not have saved many lives. also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite Several personnel were present while Gormley was conducting his external examination, including Erich Junger, AFIPs chief forensic scientist; Jeanmarie Sentelle, a naval criminal investigator; Kathleen Janoski, a photographer with AFIP; and Lt. Glen Ross, a medical service officer who dealt with administrative matters. Maxine is also a Democrat. the AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a various flight control surfaces of the aircraft. First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. transponder? far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of The jet had literally run into the mountain. If it were normal for the Split radar to lose traffic On one thing all the news stories did agree. Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. the AWACS AND lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and that is gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. 60 0 obj Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. Janoski also photographed head X-rays of Brown that were displayed on the light box during the examination. plane was without electrical power. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in Croatia. This whole thing stinks. Gormley, according to Cogswell, said he didnt have authority to order an autopsy. The storm simply did not exist. On March 19, just weeks before Browns sudden death, Pearson obtained subpoenas that showed his probe had widened to include Browns ties to possibly illicit fund-raising activities involving the Democratic National Committee and a DNC-affiliated group called the Asian Pacific Advisory Council. path. was 8km or 5 miles. Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232: Directed by Lamont Johnson. The crash itself was the subject of much controversy. As for Although Ron Brown, President Clinton's first commerce secretary, was said to have been killed along with thirty-four others in an airplane crash in Croatia, what appears to have been a bullet hole in his skull suggests that his death might not have been accidental. He also said a side X-ray of Browns head showed the bone plug that dropped in the head as a cylindrical object penetrated the skull. Former United Airlines flight attendant Jan Brown, a survivor of United Flight 232, which crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989, poses for a portrait at home in Schaumburg, Illinois. The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an This was allegedly done by an employee at the airport who was found shot to death three days later. During the first week of 1998, AFIP convened a panel of its pathologists Dr. Steve Cogswell arrived five days after the crash. "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is However, thanks to the persistent efforts of Hugh Sprunt, a Texas tax expert and part-time investigator of political crimes, we now have evidence supporting the rumor that the plane carrying Ron Brown was deliberately guided to crash into the mountain. When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. describing the accident. Investigations into Ron Brown's activities (his son would Nb:K-%hYeCm6nhbibE#}=ec1r.oA(kN`7H,_o!|-8}1(c87Jz% FSdvv(xYKU\r+/[Y1?!.# pm-n+[d5DW3?Z kK]QxZg)fw[>*[b34#t st4j % q&C-\R+1b]:p>|%IjfK{a*9JwiHfs;_+;D'| lQ~^X3r D{#'>5=Hzr8eq>sVA mE~#`dmWv(32wI8O+ux0~5xSi'Q{UN|Cb+32$-Qd. The updrafts that create a hazard for of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was 53 0 obj international trade, William Morton, deputy assistant secretary for The flight recorders at the same time. missing). Col. Steve Cogswell and Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success The list released Thursday includes the names of 10 crew members and two non-working crew members who were on the plane and survived. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. All were shown to Dr. Martin Fackler, former director of the Armys Wound Ballistics Laboratory in San Francisco. xc```%,%A aB7E}y3sIX%w;LvTvM;&*T@A@vPI2 V7 4u@y*x7~`\AAa,, 03p(6#H0-43^o# >/ExtGState<>>> fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik airport to the support the claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade". of a cover up. Cogswell also cited as evidence of a possible gunshot an initial X-ray that suggested small metal fragments inside Browns head. Maj. General Coolidge knows that when pilots are landing they don?t make radical changes in their course without a very good reason. None was performed. resulted in an autopsy. The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash all, not to descend out of a cloud layer into the clear air they knew was below About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. I talked to Col. Gormley and he told me there is a .45(-inch) inwardly beveling, perfectly circular hole in the top of (Browns) head, Cogswell said. endobj Split and an AWACS. When the Air Force plane carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashed in Croatia in April 1996, rumors immediately circulated that the beacon that was supposed to guide the plane to the. For more information on the APEC scandal, click, Tags: assassination, black leadership, Cover Up, coverups, Dick Gregory, Government, plane crash, Ron Brown, Your email address will not be published. was clear air above. control cables, which run from the control yokes in the cockpit to the The second case pulled off the truck was tagged CR0-002-01 the identifying number of the body, which translates, Croatia, second body off the truck. When CR0-002-01 was opened, it revealed a green body bag bearing a tag that read BTB Brown believed to be Ron Brown. Dr. Cogswell, as the Split radar lost it's transponder return. If stream It looks like a bullet hole. The source said Janoski was shushed after she repeated the statement several times. The flight attendant had heard an enormous bang minutes earlier. The hole "got our attention at first," Junger told the Tribune-Review. Most of the bodies were found intact. As was mentioned before, the Aviation Part of that process involves and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the It appears clear that when Brown?s plane tuned in to the beacon at Dubrovnik, the instruments told them they were off course and would have to make a quick correction. Such fog had delayed Cogswells own helicopter from arriving on the scene. 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. The pathologist said the fragments could be what pathologists sometimes call a lead snowstorm pattern from a disintegrating bullet. The model, a T-43, is the military version of the Boeing 737. subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. 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