The 20th Observance of His Assassination: Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)

DEVLYN BROOKS [Editor’s note: The title is mine. At the time of the crash, I was being interviewed in my office on the Duluth Campus of the University of Minnesota, when we heard the news. The reporter said, “Well, the black box should tell us what happened”, to which I replied, “There won’t be one!” And even though it was legally required, the black box did not survive, which I infer may have been why the FBI was there on the scene with preternatural speed, where, by my calculations, they…