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Yet the crash of the plane, which departed Chicago en route to Los Angeles with a Kansas City stop, largely was forgotten as time passed, families moved on and more horrific airline incidents came to dominate history. Now, as the result of efforts by a local historian and an aviation blogger, fam- ilies who carried memories of the crash and residents who remembered that awful night are talking about it again. They include the chil- dren of auto executives and engineers who were on board and who are now in touch with others affected by the disaster. A few weeks ago, more than 100 people gathered for a 50th anniver- sary observance in Unionville, Mo., where an updated memorial that de- scribes the crash was un- veiled on the downtown courthouse square. The monument first was put up two years ago, although only with the names of flight 11’s eight crew members and 37 passengers. Until recently, “folks here put it aside, more or less,” Cook said. “It was some- thing that happened. Life went on. We just didn’t talk about it.” But the new atten- tion, he said, “was some- thing that should have been done a long time ago.” Initial reports blamed a severe thunderstorm for the crash on May 22, 1962. But investigators soon deter- mined that passenger Thomas Doty, a suburban Kansas City salesman facing armed robbery charges, was responsible for the explo- sion. He detonated six sticks of dynamite in the plane’s rear bathroom as part of a botched plan for his wife, 5-year-old daughter and un- born son to collect on a life insurance policy he pur- chased before takeoff. The FBI investigation was led by Kansas City spe- cial agent in charge W. Mark Felt, who later would earn acclaim as the Watergate whistleblower known as Deep Throat. Some believed the bomb- ing helped lead to tightened airport security measures a decade later and partly in- spired author Arthur Hai- ley’s 1968 book “Airport.” Previous incidents had targeted propeller planes. An October 1933 bombing of a Boeing 247 plane flying cross country from Newark, N.J., to northern California killed all seven people on board. And in November 1955, Jack Gilbert Graham of Denver planted a bomb in his mother’s luggage on a United Airlines flight to the West Coast, killing all 39 pas- sengers and five crew mem- bers. He, too, was motivated to cash in recently pur- chased life insurance policies. Local historian Duane Crawford began resurrect- ing interest in flight 11 about a decade ago. His efforts caught the attention of avia- tion blogger Andrew Rus- sell, a 26-year-old New Zealander whose website at- tracted the children of flight 11’s passengers and crew. Those who came to this observance included Rior- dan, who said her family never considered going to the scene of the accident earlier because “it wasn’t something you did in those days.” Bob Gray, a 66-year-old Denver-area resident, came to honor his uncle, Fred Gray, the plane’s pilot. Capt. Fred Gray’s death hit his nephew especially hard. The 50-year-old pilot had taken Bob Gray on his first flight as a student pilot and for his first flattop hair- cut. Bob Gray, who later earned his pilot’s license and worked as an aviation engineer, named his own son after his uncle. “A lot of people felt a kin- ship that they just didn’t even fathom could exist, 50 years later,” said Gray.
