Sabotage: The Downing of Flight 629

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This article was written using the sources listed below, as well as visits to the Longmont Museum Center and to the actual crash site of United Airlines flight 629 on the flatlands east of Longmont, Colorado.

Boda, Arlo, resident of Longmont, Colorado, a personal interview August 4, 2003.

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Gaskie, Jack. "Scene of Death and Horror Under Flickering Flames," November 2, 1955, Rocky Mountain News.

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Larsen, Leonard, "Plane Tragedy Reaches All Parts of Nation," November 2, 1955, The DenverPost.

"Local Guard Company Protects Wreck of Airliner," November 3, 1955,

"Secrecy Cloaks Check that Bomb May Have Wrecked Big Airliner," November 4, 1955,

"FBI Lab Expert Here Sifting Airliner Wreckage," November 6, 1955,

"Bomb Blast Evidence is Reported Found," November 7, 1955,

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1. November 1, 1955 6:29 p.m
2. It Blew Up in the Air!
3. The Beet Farm
4. "Out of the Ordinary"
5. The Passengers
6. A Mother's Son
7. A Christmas Present
8. I Confess!
9. Trial TV
10. The Trial
11. "I Want to Die!"
12. Inside the Gas Chamber
13. Bibliography