The Incident That Could Have Killed Pittsburgh - Softcover

Robert H. Johns

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9781558564954: The Incident That Could Have Killed Pittsburgh

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ISBN 10: 1558564950 ISBN 13: 9781558564954

Publisher: Closson Press, 2008

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Looking Back into Pittsburgh History...Man's quest to solve a mystery results in a manuscript published seventeen years after his death, but not an end to the mystery. Conclusions point to a deception intended for the great good in the true story of the infamous B-25 bomber that crash-landed and then vanished in the Monongahela River on January 31, 1956. Witnesses claim that the plane was secretly recovered. Fifty-two years later the story is still a mystery. The book is borne out of Johns' writing. Published with minimal changes by Robert E. Cole, editor, this book presents the facts behind the incident just as Mr. Johns encountered them, bit-by-bit and surprising piece-by-piece. Johns says in his notes that those facts, when assembled, present a picture inescapably different from what we were intended to accept. Without this deception, he asserts, Pittsburgh might very well have disappeared. What happened to the B-25 bomber that crashed in the Mon in 1956 -- then vanished? The Search - The Failures - The Research -The Incident. Read Robert Johns' quest for answers and see for yourself how baffling, how compelling, and ultimately how revealing The Incident That Could Have Killed Pittsburgh is. This book is not the end of the story. Robert A. Goerman, close friend and investigative consultant to the author, has reopened the cold case investigation. Another book may be in the making.

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A Senior Research Technologist at the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation's laboratories, Robert Johns, of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, had his research posthumously published in THE INCIDENT That Could Have Killed Pittsburgh. Mr. Johns is the only investigator to apply his knowledge of flight procedures and combine it with interviews and document research to analyze the whole story of the B-25 incident. Mr. Johns passed away on December 22, 1991 but his words live on. In 1976 he wrote in his Preface: Nothing about this incident is as ordinary as the officials involved would have us believe. It becomes obvious that the real mystery behind the confusing disappearance of this aircraft was, as with a magician's trick, the result of a cunning deception. Here for the first time the lies necessary to perpetrate that deception are exposed. Not only do we see how the deception was accomplished but also why it was essential in the first place. We see the obvious modifications of the facts about the true cause of the crash in a close examination of the official statements of the pilots and the Air Force. We encounter CIA and FBI involvement. We see new censorship and find that critical evidence related to the events of that day has either disappeared or been destroyed. All of this was because there was no real choice in the matter. Without this deception Pittsburgh might very well have disappeared.

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