Thankfully, Graham was quickly identified as the United Airlines bomber responsible for killing 44 people. 6 Jack Gilbert Graham 06.pdf.
2 Jack Gilbert Graham 02.pdf. Approximately 11 minutes after the plane took off, the bomb detonated, killing all of the passengers and crew members onboard the aircraft.However, he blew up the plane not because he was a domestic terrorist with a vendetta against the United State's government, but because he was a small-time criminal who wanted to end the life of just one of the passengers onboard Flight 629.
And just minutes after the plane took off from Denver, the bomb The bomb and the ensuing plane crash killed everyone aboard Flight 629, ending the lives of 44 people, including Graham's mother, 38 passengers, and five crew members.
After Graham's father died in 1937, King was unable to care for her five-year-old son without her husband's help, so she placed the young boy in an orphanage. Investigators discovered that Graham had a criminal record for embezzlement by check forgery, and illegal transport of whiskey for which he had served 60 days in a Texasprison.
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4 Jack Gilbert Graham 04.pdf. Graham had insured the restaurant and collected on the Graham's mother had been a passenger on Flight 629, and was traveling to Graham's apparent motive for the bombing was to claim $37,500 (equivalent to $360,000 in 2019) worth of life insurance money from policies he had purchased in the airport terminal just moments before the aircraft's departure.
After Graham's arrest, Denver radio station KDEN owner Gene Amole and The FBI, United Airlines and the district attorney wanted Graham tried, found guilty, and executed promptly as a "deterrent to others who might plan copycat murders", Amole wrote in a 1995 column in the The case was the basis for the 1960 "Fire in the Sky" episode of The case was the basis for the 1959 "Flight 169--Mass Murder" episode of The case is the subject of the episode titled "Time Bomb" of the 2013 However, when King married her third husband in 1941 - a union that greatly improved her financial situation - she left Graham at the orphanage instead of arranging for the boy to live with her and her new spouse.In addition to wanting to kill his mother due to years of anger and resentment, Graham stood to gain thousands of dollars from an insurance policy he purchased on her shortly before Flight 629 took off.
Graham was convicted only of the murder of his mother due to a lack of laws against bombing aircraft at the time. Jack Gilbert Graham Item Preview 1 Jack Gilbert Graham 01.pdf. John "Jack" Gilbert Graham was an American mass murderer who, on November 1, 1955, killed 44 people aboard United Airlines Flight 629 near Longmont, Colorado using a dynamite time bomb.
He was sentenced to John Gilbert Graham was born on January 23, 1932, in In 1955, shortly before the aircraft bombing, King's restaurant was destroyed in a suspicious gas explosion, believed to have been deliberately caused by Graham. At the airport, Graham gained access to his mother's luggage by telling her he wanted to put a surprise gift in her bag for her to open for Christmas.Graham made the bomb using 25 sticks of dynamite, a six-volt battery, a timer, and two primer caps. remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. His true target was From the time he was a child, Graham and his mother had a contentious relationship. …
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