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Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972; declared dead December 29, 1972) was an American Democratic Party politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Oct 16, 1972 · Rep. Hale Boggs, the House majority leader and a Warren Commission member, vanished with three others in a campaign flight between Anchorage and Juneau. The search and rescue operation was the largest in U.S. history, but no trace of the plane or survivors was found.
The plane here represents a best-guess depiction of N1812H, a 1959 Cessna 310C that disappeared on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, in 1972 with four aboard, including two U.S. Congressmen, Nick Begich of Alaska and Hale Boggs of Louisiana.
Roberts, who died Tuesday, was 28 when her father, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, boarded a flight from Anchorage to Juneau to help a fellow Democrat campaign.
Oct 9, 2022 · Boggs was U.S. House Majority Leader when his private flight disappeared in Alaska in October 1972. Born in Long Beach, Mississippi in 1914, Thomas Hale Boggs became the youngest member...
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Apr 23, 2017 · THEN: On Oct. 16, 1972, an airplane carrying four people, including House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of New Orleans and U.S. Rep. Nick Begich of Alaska, vanished during a flight between...
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Jun 28, 2022 · The weather between Anchorage and Juneau on October 16, 1972, was less than ideal for flying. But with house majority leader Hale Boggs in town to help freshman congressman Nick Begich retain his seat, they needed to go anyway. Their twin-engine Cessna 310 never arrived in Juneau.
