what I find really disturbing about this whole thing is that we cannot find a
plaque anywhere for this site this was a forty four innocent people are
gone and there's not a plaque to be found on any of the roads that
were going up and down there's really should be a memorial to the people that
lost their lives
I wish I wish indeed that my mother who's that memory I chase across the
veil of years could have been here Italy
you
this is one of the most famous cases of the FBI and at the time the FBI was very
young and still to this day on their site that tells the history of the FBI
they tell this very story because this was one of the most horrific crashes of
their history on November 1st 1955 United Airlines flight six to nine left
Stapleton Airport in Denver Colorado eleven minutes after takeoff at 7:03
p.m. the douglas dc-6 b aircraft exploded just east of Longmont Colorado
killing all 44 people on board which included 39 passengers and five crew
members after a short investigation it was found that the airplane was blown up
with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage of Daisy Walker King
investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for
bombing the airplane to kill his mother Daisy King as revenge for his childhood
his in addition his motive was that he was to receive a large life insurance
payout and inheritance from the tower behind me is the
Stapleton Tower the airport is not here anymore but the tower does still exist
and they looked off to the north when they were up in this tower and they
could actually see the explosion looking north and they knew something was
terribly wrong so all around me is where the airplane went down I am standing on
Colorado Road 11 and just north of me is highway 66 so on November 1st 1955 the
plane took off from Stapleton and unbeknownst to them wrapped in a
Christmas present in a suitcase was a dynamite bomb and the timer that was
connected to the dynamite was set for one hour so from the time they left
their house to the time they got on the plane to the time that it took off from
Stapleton Airport and reached this spot was an hour so eyewitnesses say that all
in these fields that still exist today was debris including the tail that came
down in this area but when it took off and exploded in the sky the tower at
Stapleton said that they could see the two flashes and knew something happened
because they could not contact the airplane after that so one of the
eyewitnesses was a young man at the time he said that many of the houses and
barns still exist that were there at that time and so many of the airplane
seats came down around the barn that was his house at the time so a lot of the
eyewitnesses say that from a long time afterwards and still to this day that
when they plow these fields that they still find wreckage in the soil things
such as pins
metal debris combs hair combs and writing pens
things that you would find in somebody's luggage they're still fighting today
back in those days these things weren't commonplace like unfortunately they are
today the people were in shock in this nation
that this something like this could have happened once they figured out it was
Graham he was sentenced to death very quickly and sent down to Canyon City and
he was killed in the gas chamber it is said that it took 11 minutes to execute
him the time that it took the plane to come
from Stapleton to this spot that I'm standing at now oddly enough he was
cremated and his ashes were spread near his mother at Fairmont Cemetery very
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