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[[Image:USAF CT-43A crash 1996.jpg|thumb|right|USAF [[MH-53 Pave Low|MH-53J Pave Low]] helicopter over wreckage of the USAF CT-43A approximately 3 kilometers north of the Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, 4 April 1996.]] |
[[Image:USAF CT-43A crash 1996.jpg|thumb|right|USAF [[MH-53 Pave Low|MH-53J Pave Low]] helicopter over wreckage of the USAF CT-43A approximately 3 kilometers north of the Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, 4 April 1996.]] |
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On [[April 3]], [[1996]], while on an official trade mission, the Air Force [[Boeing T-43|CT-43]] (a modified Boeing [[Boeing 737|737]]) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including ''New York Times'' Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in [[Croatia]]. While attempting an instrument approach to [[Dubrovnik Airport|Čilipi airport]], the airplane crashed into a mountainside killing everyone on board except for Shelley Kelley |
On [[April 3]], [[1996]], while on an official trade mission, the Air Force [[Boeing T-43|CT-43]] (a modified Boeing [[Boeing 737|737]]) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including ''New York Times'' Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in [[Croatia]]. While attempting an instrument approach to [[Dubrovnik Airport|Čilipi airport]], the airplane crashed into a mountainside killing everyone on board except for Shelley Kelley (true but needs citation); the final Air Force investigation attributed this to pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach.<ref>[http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=40796 Department of Defense news article]</ref> Ron Brown's crash was part of a string of mysterious circumstances and scandals that plagued the Clinton administration by speculation as to the circumstances surrounding the plane crash that caused Brown's death regarding whether the Clintons had him murdered, i.e. the speculation on Vince Foster's death, whose papers were shredded [http://books.google.com/books?id=WGVkBEvdfe4C&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=Vince+Foster+paper+shredding&source=web&ots=oLRLSCc1rv&sig=j48f3spUT_VHX6w3tOCm6M1QkBc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result][http://www.newsweek.com/id/116351/output/print] , and the deaths of Clinton's bodyguards who worked for Clinton when he was Governor of Arkansas, and the investigations into supposed Government drug trafficking through Mena, Arkansas.<ref>[http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.html Ron Brown<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Speculation stemmed in part from the fact that Brown was under investigation by [[independent counsel]] for [[political corruption|corruption]] and had agreed to come to a deal with the investigator to tell him all he knew, and the fact that Bill Clinton suddenly volunteered him to go to Bosnia for a highly unusual, and celebrated trade mission to a war torn part of the world. The decision to send him was as sudden as his death. Because all of the commerce staff was on board the plane and were killed, the investigation of misappropriations was ground to a stop. Shelley Kelley did survive the crash and was reported well, but suddenly died 3 hours later from what the coroner stated was a laceration to her femural artery, something which normally kills in minutes and which he stated happened three hours later than the rest of her injuries. X-rays of Brown's skull showed injuries consistent of a bullet wound.<ref name=browninvestigation>Frieden, Terry, [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9611/14/ron.brown/index.shtml "Independent Counsel: No Conclusions On Brown Probe"], CNN.com, [[November 14|Nov. 14]], [[1996]]</ref> Official cause for the accident in the final Air Force investigation attributed it to pilot error and poorly designed landing approach. A very different cause of the accident was published in The Wall Street Underground by [[Nicholas A. Guarino]] who has left the country in fear of his life after what happened to [[Gary Webb]] and [[Bobby Seal]]. |
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==Legacy== |
==Legacy== |
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Revision as of 19:31, 12 September 2008
Ronald Harmon Brown | |
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| 30th United States Secretary of Commerce | |
| In office January 22, 1993 – April 3, 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Barbara Hackman Franklin |
| Succeeded by | Mickey Kantor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | right August 1, 1941 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | April 3, 1996 (aged 54) near Dubrovnik, Croatia Photo of Ron Brown |
| Resting place | right thumb Photo of Ron Brown |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 – April 3, 1996), was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He was the first African American to hold this position.
Early life and political career
He was born in Washington, D.C., and was raised in Harlem, New York, in a middle-class family. He was a member of the African-American social and philanthropic organization, Jack and Jill of America, where he met many African-American friends. Brown attended Hunter College Elementary School and Rhodes Preparatory School. His father managed the Theresa Hotel in Harlem, where he lived growing up and even best friend John R. Nailor moved into the penthouse while a student at Rhodes. Nailor was one of the other few black students who attended Rhodes Prep. As a child, he appeared in an advertisement for Pepsi-Cola, one of the first to be targeted specifically towards the African-American community.[1]
While at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, Ron Brown became the first African-American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, a national men's collegiate fraternity. Brown joined the army in 1962, after graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont, and served in South Korea and Europe, the same year he married Alma Arrington. After being discharged in 1967, Brown joined the National Urban League, a leading economic equality group in the United States. Meanwhile, Brown enrolled in law school at St. John's University and obtained a degree in 1970.
Rising star in the Democratic Party
By 1976, Brown had been promoted to Deputy Executive Director for Programs and Governmental Affairs of the National Urban League. However, he resigned in 1979 to work as a deputy campaign manager for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Brown was hired in 1981 by the Washington, D.C., law firm Patton, Boggs & Blow as a lawyer and a lobbyist.
In May, 1988, Brown was named by Jesse L. Jackson to head Jackson's convention team at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. Brown was named along with several other experienced party insiders to Jackson's convention operation. By June, it was apparent that Brown was also running Jackson's campaign.
Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1989, and played an integral role in running a successful 1992 Democratic National Convention and in Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential run. President Clinton then appointed Brown to the position of Secretary of Commerce in 1993.
Death
On April 3, 1996, while on an official trade mission, the Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. While attempting an instrument approach to Čilipi airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside killing everyone on board except for Shelley Kelley (true but needs citation); the final Air Force investigation attributed this to pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach.[2] Ron Brown's crash was part of a string of mysterious circumstances and scandals that plagued the Clinton administration by speculation as to the circumstances surrounding the plane crash that caused Brown's death regarding whether the Clintons had him murdered, i.e. the speculation on Vince Foster's death, whose papers were shredded [1][2] , and the deaths of Clinton's bodyguards who worked for Clinton when he was Governor of Arkansas, and the investigations into supposed Government drug trafficking through Mena, Arkansas.[3] Speculation stemmed in part from the fact that Brown was under investigation by independent counsel for corruption and had agreed to come to a deal with the investigator to tell him all he knew, and the fact that Bill Clinton suddenly volunteered him to go to Bosnia for a highly unusual, and celebrated trade mission to a war torn part of the world. The decision to send him was as sudden as his death. Because all of the commerce staff was on board the plane and were killed, the investigation of misappropriations was ground to a stop. Shelley Kelley did survive the crash and was reported well, but suddenly died 3 hours later from what the coroner stated was a laceration to her femural artery, something which normally kills in minutes and which he stated happened three hours later than the rest of her injuries. X-rays of Brown's skull showed injuries consistent of a bullet wound.[4] Official cause for the accident in the final Air Force investigation attributed it to pilot error and poorly designed landing approach. A very different cause of the accident was published in The Wall Street Underground by Nicholas A. Guarino who has left the country in fear of his life after what happened to Gary Webb and Bobby Seal. [3][[4]]
Legacy
President Clinton established the Ron Brown Award for corporate leadership and responsibility. The Conference Board administers the privately funded award. S. C. Johnson & Son, Bayer Corporation, and Johnson & Johnson received the 2006 awards.
The U.S. Department of Commerce also gives out the annual Ronald H. Brown American Innovator Award in his honor.
The largest ship in the NOAA fleet, the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, was named in honor of his public service not long after his death.
The California Black Chamber of Commerce, every August, holds the Ron Brown Business Economic Summit.
External links
References
- ^ a b Martin, Douglas (May 6 2007). "Edward F. Boyd Dies at 92; Marketed Pepsi to Blacks". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Department of Defense news article
- ^ Ron Brown
- ^ Frieden, Terry, "Independent Counsel: No Conclusions On Brown Probe", CNN.com, Nov. 14, 1996
- Clinton, Bill (2005). My Life. Vintage. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X.
Bibliography
- Jack Cashill, Ron Brown's Body (WND Books, 2004) ISBN 0-7852-6237-7
- United States Secretaries of Commerce
- Cause of death disputed
- Clinton Administration cabinet members
- Democratic National Committee chairs
- American campaign managers
- American lobbyists
- Clinton administration controversies
- Middlebury College alumnin
- African American politicians
- People from Manhattan
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents
- Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
- 1941 births
- 1996 deaths