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John Tower was killed in a plane crash new New Brunswick, Georgia, on 5th April, 1991. According to the ''[[New York Times]]'' the “failure of a severely worn part in the plane’s propeller control unit caused the aircraft to spin out of control.” This was a day after his friend, [[John Heinz III]], was killed when his Piper Aerostar PA60 came down after colliding with a helicopter in Montgomery County.<ref name=sp/> He and his daughter (also killed in the crash)<ref>http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/10/03/encyclopedia-of-domestic-assassinations/#Tower</ref> had just cooperated in the publishing of Tower’s memoir. They were collaborating on a second “tell-all” book about [[Iran-contra]] that was reportedly going to “name names” including that of [[George W. Bush]].<ref>http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Madsen-on-Tower.pdf</ref> | John Tower was killed in a plane crash new New Brunswick, Georgia, on 5th April, 1991. According to the ''[[New York Times]]'' the “failure of a severely worn part in the plane’s propeller control unit caused the aircraft to spin out of control.” This was a day after his friend, [[John Heinz III]], was killed when his Piper Aerostar PA60 came down after colliding with a helicopter in Montgomery County.<ref name=sp/> He and his daughter (also killed in the crash)<ref>http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/10/03/encyclopedia-of-domestic-assassinations/#Tower</ref> had just cooperated in the publishing of Tower’s memoir. They were collaborating on a second “tell-all” book about [[Iran-contra]] that was reportedly going to “name names” including that of [[George W. Bush]].<ref>http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Madsen-on-Tower.pdf</ref> | ||
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| Born | John Goodwin Tower 1925-09-29 Houston, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| Died | 1991-04-05 (Age 65) Brunswick, Georgia, U.S. | |||||||||||||
Cause of death | plane crash | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Southwestern University, London School of Economics | |||||||||||||
| Religion | United Methodism | |||||||||||||
| Children | • Penny Marian • Jeanne | |||||||||||||
| Spouse | Joza Lou Bullington | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Church Committee, PIAB | |||||||||||||
| Victim of | assassination? | |||||||||||||
| Party | Democratic, Republican | |||||||||||||
Influential Senator who died in a plane a day after a friend of his.
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John Tower was a US Senator and Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board until he died in a plane crash in 1991, one day after his friend, John Heinz III, was killed in an airplane incident.
Contents
Background
Tower was the son of a Methodist minister, born in Houston, Texas on 29th September, 1925.[1]
![A May 1989 report of a meeting aboard Robert Maxwell's yacht, including John Tower, John Lehman, Tom Bolan, Mort Janklow, Thomas Pickering, Peter Kalikow, Ghislaine Maxwell, Helene Atkin and Donald Trump[2]](/wiki/File:1989_report_of_Ghislaine_Maxwell,_Robert_Maxwell_and_others_on_his_yacht.jpg)
Career
In 1990 George H. W. Bush appointed Tower as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Tower published his autobiography, Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir in 1991.
Death
John Tower was killed in a plane crash new New Brunswick, Georgia, on 5th April, 1991. According to the New York Times the “failure of a severely worn part in the plane’s propeller control unit caused the aircraft to spin out of control.” This was a day after his friend, John Heinz III, was killed when his Piper Aerostar PA60 came down after colliding with a helicopter in Montgomery County.[1] He and his daughter (also killed in the crash)[3] had just cooperated in the publishing of Tower’s memoir. They were collaborating on a second “tell-all” book about Iran-contra that was reportedly going to “name names” including that of George W. Bush.[4]
References
- ↑ a b http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKtowerJ.htm
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9383143/donald-trump-and-ghislaine-maxwell-on/
- ↑ http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/10/03/encyclopedia-of-domestic-assassinations/#Tower
- ↑ http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Madsen-on-Tower.pdf
