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John Tower

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(Politician, Bush body count?)
BornJohn Goodwin Tower
September 29, 1925
Houston, Texas, U.S.
DiedApril 5, 1991
Brunswick, Georgia, U.S.
Cause of death
plane crash
Victim ofassassination?
Alma materSouthwestern University, London School of Economics
ReligionUnited Methodism
ChildrenPenny Marian, Jeanne
SpouseJoza Lou Bullington
PartyDemocratic, Republican
Senator who as Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board died in a plane crash a day after a friend of his.

John Tower was a US Senator and Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board until he died in a plane crash in 1991, one day after his friend, John Heinz III, was killed in an airplane incident.

Background

Tower was the son of a Methodist minister, born in Houston, Texas on 29th September, 1925.[1]

A May 1989 report of a meeting aboard Robert Maxwell's yacht, including John Tower, John Lehman, Tom Bolan, Mort Janklow, Thomas Pickering, Peter Kalikow, Ghislaine Maxwell, Helene Atkin and Donald Trump[2]
A May 1989 report of a meeting aboard Robert Maxwell's yacht, including John Tower, John Lehman, Tom Bolan, Mort Janklow, Thomas Pickering, Peter Kalikow, Ghislaine Maxwell, Helene Atkin and Donald Trump[2]

Career

In 1990 George H. W. Bush appointed Tower as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Tower published his autobiography, Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir in 1991.

Death

John Tower was killed in a plane crash new New Brunswick, Georgia, on 5th April, 1991. According to the New York Times the “failure of a severely worn part in the plane’s propeller control unit caused the aircraft to spin out of control.” This was a day after his friend, John Heinz III, was killed when his Piper Aerostar PA60 came down after colliding with a helicopter in Montgomery County.[1] He and his daughter (also killed in the crash)[3] had just cooperated in the publishing of Tower’s memoir. They were collaborating on a second “tell-all” book about Iran-contra that was reportedly going to “name names” including that of George W. Bush.[4]

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