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An Eastern Airlines stewardess, tentatively identified as
Collette Watson of College Part, Ga., is lead to safety by
an employee of Eastern. Miss Watson was unhurt in the
crash. (UPI)
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Jet was making
radar approach
before it crashed
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) -
The sleek, silver, white and
blue jetliner exploded in a
fireball on impact, hurling
chunks of metal and bodies
through the air. The noise of
the roaring fire and the
screams of the dying broke the
morning stillness.
Seat cushions, baggage, cloth
ing and other debris littered the
field and the adjacent woods.
The singed pages of a book —
poet Archibald Rutledge’s “The
Woods and Wild Things I
Remember” —fluttered beside
the foam-covered tail section.
Sixty-nine of the 82 persons
aboard the Eastern Airlines jet
that was starting to land at
Douglas Municipal Airport
died in the crash Wednesday.
One of the survivors, Robert
Bumham of Charleston, S.C.,
spoke from his hospital bed:
“We were coming in and the
pilot seemed to pick up power.
It was real foggy. I felt one
wing dip down, then we hit
some trees and I felt heat.
“I must have been thrown out
of the plane. I got up and
looked around, and started
running toward the woods.”
The plane came to rest about
300 yards behind the farm
Mass amnesty ruled out
for Watergate figures
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Ford “never, ever
planned to give mass amnesty”
for any other Watergate figures
besides former President Nixon
and “it was never under
study,” Acting Press Secretary
John W. Hushen said Wednes
day.
Hushen had said the day
before that Ford authorized
him to answer a question about
the possibility that other
Watergate defendants might be
pardoned with the words, “The
entire matter is under study.”
Asked about the previous
statement, Hushen said news
reports that Ford actively was
considering pardons for all
Watergate defendants were “a
complete distortion of what I
said.”
Hushen also said the White
House staff was studying
presidential pardon authority in
several areas, including draft
dodgers, Watergate defendants
—and Nixon.
One presidential aide who
declined to be identified for
publication said the public
outcry over the hardon for the
ex-president —the White House
home of Barbara Cox, who said
one badly burned survivor
wandered up and collapsed on
her front porch.
“We asked him if he had
parachuted,” said Mrs. Cox.
“He said ‘No, I jumped.’ We
gave him a drink of water and
covered him with a blanket. I
wish I could have done more.”
The DC-9 was making a
routine radar approach when it
slammed into a tree-lined
ravine about two and one-half
miles south of the runway.
Despite patches of fog, Jack
Barker, an FAA spokesman,
said, “The weather was not a
problem. I’m not going to say it
was not a factor, because I
don’t know.”
He said that several other
flights had landed just ahead of
the DC-9 on the same runway.
Officials of the National
Transportation Safety Board
sifted through the smoldering
wreckage for some clue to the
crash, but said it would be
several days before they would
have any indication of the
cause.
The plane, Eastern Flight
212, was en route to Chicago
from Charleston, S.C., via
Charlotte.
The dead included Rear Adm.
switchboard is still clogged
with calls — had caused
“panic” in the presidential
staff.
The promise of further
pardons, he went on, “may
have been a trial balloon.”
“If this is just a trial balloon,
then it isn’t mercy,” said one
lawyer defending the six Nixon
aides who go on trial Sept. 30
on charges arising from the
cover-up. “It would be cruel to
raise our hopes and then decide
not to do it.”
Wednesday’s announcements
held up the filing of formal
motions by lawyers for the six,
who are seeking a dismissal of
the indictments on grounds they
should not be punished if Nixon
has been pardoned.
One motion was filed on
behalf of H. R. Haldeman,
Nixon’s first chief of staff, who
argued that locking up the
jurors to protect them from
publicity would be useless,
since “the debate regarding the
propriety of the grant of pardon
to President Nixon likely will
continue for the indefinite
future.”
Attempts to nullify Ford’s
pardon of Nixon or restrain
further grants of amnesty
percolated through Congress
Wednesday.
Rep. Wayne Owens, D-Utah,
said he would introduce a
resolution urging prosecutors to
keep investigating and release
any evidence which would lead
to an indictment.
Rep. Peter W. Rodino, D-
N.J., said he has instructed his
staff to “start a study of the
entire question of presidential
pardons.”
Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.,
Edward Brooke, R-Mass., and
Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said
they would try to put the
Senate on record urging Ford
to grant no further Watergate
pardons until the individuals
went through the trial process.
As these pressures started to
build Wednesday morning, the
congressional leadership went
to the White House. “It was
direct,” said Rep. John Ander
son, R-111. “There was no
pussyfooting.”
Anderson said the leaders
“simply acquainted the Presi
dent with the facts that in both
the House and the Senate there
was intense opposition that
there be any blanket pardon.”
Senate GOP leader Hugh
Scott emerged and read a
statement to reporters which he
said was authorized by Ford.
He said Hushen’s Tuesday
statement referred to inquiries
about a statement from John
W. Dean Ill’s wife, saying that
the President should consider
pardons for those who told the
truth to investigators.
“Such a study is, of course,
made for any requests concern
ing pardon of any individual,”
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A fireman at the crash scene of an Eastern DC-9 covers
bodies thrown clear of the wreckage. The plane was
Charles M. Cummings, the
newly named commandant of
the 6th Naval District in
Charleston, S.C.; John Mer
riman, editor of the CBS
Evening News from New York,
and Wayne Seal, a former aide
to South Carolina Gov. Robert
McNair and news director of
WCIV-TV in Charleston, S.C.
Three of the 13 injured were
Scott quoted the President.
“However, no inference should
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listed in critical condition
today, including two women
with third degree bums over 90
per cent of their bodies.
One of two stewardesses
aboard, Collette Watson of
College Park, Ga., walked
away practically unscathed.
Eastern officials quickly spirit
ed her away and refused to
allow newsmen to talk with her.
be drawn as to the outcome of
such studies in any case.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 12,1974
making an approch to the Douglas airport when It went
down. (UPI)
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