It was reported this morning that Lewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, was killed in a plane crash at Hanscom Field in Massachusetts. Confirmation came from his attorney, Richard Sprague, formerly chief counsel and director of the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations investigating the murders of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (From the Mary Ferrell Foundation on "The Last Investigation": "The Church Committee's unfinished business fell to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which got off to a rocky start. Shortly after Chief Counsel Richard Sprague declined to sign CIA secrecy oaths and began asking pointed questions about Oswald's visit to Mexico City, he began to be denounced in the press and even by his own committee chairman, Henry Gonzalez. The committee was almost terminated before it really got started, rescued only by the dual resignations of Gonzalez and Sprague, and the untimely apparent suicide of key witness George DeMohrenschildt on the eve of a refunding vote. Justice Department organized crime expert G. Robert Blakey replaced Sprague, worked out secrecy agreements with the CIA, and the Committee was re-launched. …")

Katz, legally supported by his CIA-crossed attorney, had recently walked away with ownership of the Inquirer after controversial court debacles with former co-owner George Norcross, an extremely powerful Democratic power-broker in New Jersey (and obviously a man without principles, not to mention party loyalty), an ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie) who, in the story posted below entitled "The Man Who Destroyed Democracy," brags on a secret tape recording of dealing harshly with his enemies:

If the investigation of the Machiavellian George Norcross had not been bungled, it's likely that he would be sitting in a penitentiary at the current moment.

The Norcross corruption profile and his own threatening statements have led me to entertain the possibility that the ball of fire at Hansom Field an Air Force Base that killed Katz may not have been so accidental, after all. Odds are that itwas just an accident I'm no conspiracy theorist but given the adversity, personalities and politics behind the scenes, it has to be asked if the plane was perhaps sabotaged to "punish" and "crush" a Norcross adversary.

The Boston Globe reports that "the private jet that crashed on takeoff at Hanscom Field Saturday night, killing seven people, left the runway and continued rolling through the grass, colliding with an antenna and bursting through a chain-link fence before it came to rest in a gully, where it was consumed by fire, a federal crash investigator said today."

No certainty here, but I think that any objective observer who reviews the facts can only come away with a nagging suspicion that there may well be more to the fatal crash in Massachusetts than meets the eye. Alex Constantin
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