ETHEL KENNEDY'S BROTHER KILLED WITH 4 OTHERS IN IDAHO AIR CRASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400460047-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: September 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

SEP 2 5 1966
Sanitized - Approved For ReIe'FO~l
TRDP75-0
'f in the area.whcre. Senator Ken-l'dress this afternoon at the New
'`helKennedy Brother 1(1/led nedy and -sonic of his children 1i state Democratic
i~ g r participated in a rubber raft convention, to speak at a Dem.
fr' if.h 4 &thers in Idaho Air Crash trip on the Salm:rn River lastj'ocratic fund-raising dinner in
summer, Burlington, . Vt., tonight, and
C P Y RGIt4 led Prase Internatlonsl
Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy's broth-
er and four other persons were
killed last night wlien a plane
;carrying them on a hunting
'trip crashed in a narrow'canyon.
The plane, a single-engine
Cessna 185, became trapped by
the nearly vertical walls' of
Crooked Creek- Canyon and
crashed while the pilot was
making a desperate, 1ast?min-
ute attempt to turn.
In addition to Senator Ken
nedy's brother-in-law, George
Skakel -Jr., who was the owner
of the Great Lakes Carbon Com-
pany of New York, the dead
were:
Lewis ,,Werner 2d, St'. Louis,
a member of a socially promi-
nent family and operator of an
inver#tment business.
Dean P. Markham, 47, Mac-
Lean, Va., an.assistant to Mr.
Skakel and a former White
.House aide during President
City, a member of the 20-mom-{ "r``"ue wmorrow.
,,~? _ He had no sooner
on an earlier plane and saw aides summoned him to an of-
the Skakel plane try to land. ',face in the. terminal. After a
lengthy telephone conversation
" -ie overshot the runway,".
. Kennedy in Wash-
Mr. Wyman said, "and came with Mrs.
ington, the Senator announced
on the runway and then
took off again." The runway that he was returning to thnl
capital.
s } ~~ ,, ` was on the Shepp guest ranch
An intermediate stop was'
~ where the party was planningl
planned at Bradley Field, sere-~
to hunt elks,
!hg Springfield, ' Mass., and
a k *' Mr. Wyman and Hartford, Conn., where Mr,i
other friends
nr of the victims went into, the
Kennedy was to pick up twos
^;t Crooked Creek. Canyon during
Children of Dean P: Markham,;
# fi r~ a, the night and found the wreck- a
pe sonal friend whq Was also
age, They had heard the plane
k..}Ilgc~;..irl,,the~
Idaho crash
crash after the pilot decided to
a~ Y abort his landing and try aggain
gf j to put it down on the airstrip,
Falls Into Creek r
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f s a~ '' All five occupants of the
' ' s^ plane, Mr. Wyman said, were,
thrown clear of the wreckage
t 4 ,# N He said the plane hit very few
trees and crashed into the bank; a.
Associated Press of crooked creek and fell into
George Skali;el Jr. :the water.
"It did more than telescope,'
Mr. Skakel; whose home waSMr, Wyman said, It disin
in Greenwich,, Conn., was thctegrated." He said the party' owner of the plane,' had flown west yesterday in a'
the White House Commission'on I involving Ethel Kennedy's fam?to spend-1U days at the ranch.'i
,Narcotics Abuse. luly.'Her parents? Mr. and Mrs A helicopter was sent into'
Ear' lfanft, Jersey city, pres. George Skakel Sr? were killed the area today to pick up the
'idcnt 'of Drawbar Haulage. in a small plane crash in Oklaibodies and take them to Rig-)
-Home Air Force . Base, Idaho;l '-Yesterdy??, ry~s SCe~lg,;,W89mles east of Riggins.
the pilot. State Aeronautics Directors
a[Chet Moulton blamed the crash
on pilot Inexperience In the back'
country,
"If they'd have used some
schooled pilot who had known`
the strip It wouldn't have hap-
pened," he said, t
The pilot, he said, committed
the "one unpardonable sin" in.
attempting to land on the ranch'
strip by changing his mind and'
trying to fly out for another
pass at it. I
The plane crash was the sec
`end in Idaho's primitive area
'this month. On ' Sept. 14 a'
small plane crashed near Stan-'
ley, killing Idaho's Democratic;
nominee for Governor, Charles.
Herndon, and two other men.
Kennedy Flies Honig'
Special to The New YorkTimes MANCHESTER, N. H.,'Sept;
24-Senator Robert F. ' Ken-i
two-day New' England ' cam=
,paign swing today, when word
!reached him that his brothers
In-latkr had . been killed in and
airplane crash In Idaho.
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.
The Senator had been sched
,Kennedy's Administration, He
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