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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.

Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.

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Oct 14, 2026

Steve StocktonHOST
331:22
Now, let's delve into some of the more infamous disappearances from the Alaskan Triangle.
Steve StocktonHOST
331:28
First, the disappearance of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich.
Steve StocktonHOST
331:36
In 1972, two prominent politicians, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich, along with aide Russell Brown and Bush pilot Don Jones, mysteriously vanished in the region while on their way back from Anchorage to Juneau while flying in their Cessna 310 aircraft.
Steve StocktonHOST
331:54
An intense search lasted for 39 days, including 400 aircraft, an SR-71 Blackbird, dozens of boats, including 12 from the Coast Guard.
Steve StocktonHOST
332:04
The search area covered over 32,000 square miles, an area about the size of the state of South Carolina.
Rob ClarkHOST
16:13
President, your commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, having completed its assignment in accordance with Executive Order No. 11130 of November 29, 1963, herewith submits its final report.
Rob ClarkHOST
16:29
Respectively signed Earl Warren, signed Richard Russell, signed John Cooper, signed Hale Boggs, signed Gerald Ford, signed Allen Dulles, and signed John J. McCloy.
Rob ClarkHOST
16:44
So what this is, basically, there is a lot of parts to this.
Rob ClarkHOST
17:01
This book consists basically of, let's see, eight different chapters broken down into sections like the protection of the president, Lee Harvey Oswald, background and motives, investigation of possible conspiracy, which they did do, detention and death of Oswald, the assassin, shots from the depository, summary and conclusions, the shots from the school book depository, and the assassination itself, where they look into the planning of the Texas trip, the luncheon site, the motorcade route, Dallas before the visit, arrival at Love Field, the drive through Dallas, Parkland and Memorial Hospital, the race to the hospital, the treatment of Kennedy, the treatment of Connolly, and so on and so forth.
Paul BestallHOST
37:18
Yeah.
Paul BestallHOST
37:18
The year before the infamous Boggs plane crash.
Brennan StorrHOST
37:21
Oh, really? I, I don't know about that.
Brennan StorrHOST
37:22
Tell me about that.
Paul BestallHOST
37:23
Yeah, so it's, it's known as the Hale Boggs plane crash.
Paul BestallHOST
37:26
So at the time, US House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, who was a Democrat, Nick Begich, who was a Democrat, his aide Russell Brown, and pilot Don Jonz, uh, they were in Alaska to do a, um, fundraiser, and on their way back their plane vanished, disappeared.
Paul BestallHOST
37:44
Um, at the time it was the biggest search of any state in American history.
Paul BestallHOST
37:49
They found absolutely nothing, and to this day they are still without any evidence of where the plane came down.
Steve StocktonHOST
279:19
Now let's delve into some of the more infamous disappearances from the Alaskan Triangle.
Steve StocktonHOST
279:25
First, the disappearance of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich.
Steve StocktonHOST
279:32
In 1972, two prominent politicians, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich, along with aide Russell Brown and bush pilot Don Jonz.
Steve StocktonHOST
279:43
Mysteriously vanished in the region while on their way back from Anchorage to Juneau while flying in their Cessna 310 aircraft.
Steve StocktonHOST
279:51
An intense search lasted for 39 days, including 400 aircraft, an SR-71 Blackbird, dozens of boats, including 12 from the Coast Guard.
speaker_3NARRATOR
22:16
Two of them were among the most powerful politicians in the United States.
speaker_3NARRATOR
22:21
Hale Boggs was the House Majority Leader, the second-ranking Democrat in the United States House of Representatives, a Louisiana congressman who had served in the House since 1941 and who had been a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
speaker_3NARRATOR
22:47
Nick Begich was Alaska's sole congressman, a young, energetic Democrat who had won his seat in 1970 and was running for re-election.
speaker_3NARRATOR
22:58
The two men were flying from Anchorage to Juneau for a campaign fundraiser, a routine trip by Alaska standards, a flight of roughly five hundred and sixty miles over some of the most rugged terrain in North America.
speaker_3NARRATOR
27:28
Congress kept the seats of Boggs and Begich open for weeks, waiting, hoping.
speaker_3NARRATOR
27:35
On January 3, 1973, they were declared legally dead.
speaker_3NARRATOR
27:40
Hale Boggs, House Majority Leader of the United States, vanished into the Alaska wilderness as completely as if he had never existed.
speaker_3NARRATOR
27:51
The Cessna 310C has never been found.
Jim BrownHOST
10:50
And, uh, I was just mesmerized by all the activity.
Jim BrownHOST
10:53
In fact, uh, the aide to, uh, to Hale Boggs, the co- the majority leader and speaker of the house, and I were having lunch together.
Jim BrownHOST
11:03
Uh, Ingall Jordan was his name.
Jim BrownHOST
11:05
Ingall was a good friend of mine.
RobHOST
42:19
Um, you might have heard it too, but I'm pretty sure I heard this.
RobHOST
42:23
But coming in number eight is the disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs and Nick Begich.
MonicaHOST
42:30
Yeah.
RobHOST
42:31
And that's, uh, 1972.
RobHOST
42:34
Um, on October 16th of 1972.
RobHOST
42:38
October 16th, a twin engine plane carrying US House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, Congressman Nick Begich, and their pilot vanished flying from Anchorage to Juneau.
MonicaHOST
42:50
Juneau.Mm-hmm
RobHOST
42:51
The military launched the largest search and rescue effort in US history involving 40 military aircraft, 50 civilian planes, and 39 days of searching over 300,000 square miles.
Steve StocktonHOST
349:25
Now, let's delve into some of the more infamous disappearances from the Alaskan Triangle.
Steve StocktonHOST
349:32
First, the disappearance of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich.
Steve StocktonHOST
349:39
In 1972, two prominent politicians, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich, along with aide Russell Brown and bush pilot Don Jonz, mysteriously vanished in the region while on their way back from Anchorage to Juneau while flying in their Cessna 310 aircraft.
Steve StocktonHOST
349:57
An intense search lasted for 39 days, including 400 aircraft, an SR-71 Blackbird, dozens of boats, including 12 from the Coast Guard.
Steve StocktonHOST
350:07
The search area covered over 32,000 square miles, an area about the size of the state of South Carolina.
Steve StocktonHOST
251:14
Now, let's delve into some of the more infamous disappearances from the Alaskan Triangle.
Steve StocktonHOST
251:20
First, the disappearance of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich.
Steve StocktonHOST
251:28
In 1972, two prominent politicians, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich, along with aide Russell Brown and Bush pilot Don Jones, mysteriously vanished in the region while on their way back from Anchorage to Juneau while flying in their Cessna 310 aircraft.
Steve StocktonHOST
251:46
An intense search lasted for 39 days, including 400 aircraft, an SR-71 Blackbird, dozens of boats, including 12 from the Coast Guard.
Steve StocktonHOST
251:56
The search area covered over 32,000 square miles, an area about the size of the state of South Carolina.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
50:55
And it's a true story.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
50:57
My father was the... president i say it's conference of mayors he had just led the effort to get hell box it was a congressman to get off his duff and convinced gerald ford and those folks to bail out new york And there's a big story about him telling Hale Boggs in front of everybody.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
51:14
And Hale Boggs is a great friend of ours.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
51:15
He said, Hale, if you don't have time for me and the other mayors, I don't want to see you back in New Orleans.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
51:20
And the other mayors were like, I can't believe you had the cahooters to say that to Hale Boggs.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
51:24
He's a big shot.
Mitch LandrieuGUEST
51:25
Hale Boggs, by the way,
Jonathan MartinHOST
51:26
who landed the Saints here famously.

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