Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs was killed while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska. Also killed in the accident was Nick Begich, a member of the House of Representatives. Despite a thirty-nine-day search by the Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard, no trace of the twin-engine plane on which Boggs was traveling has ever been found. No bodies were ever found. In 1973 his wife, Lindy Boggs, was elected in her husband’s place.
October 16, 1972