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UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 553 — CBS correspondent Michelle Clark was on this plane interviewing Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent E. Howard Hunt. Mrs. Hunt was carrying at least $10,000 in cash as part of a payoff to silence some of the Watergate plumbers. The two women died along with 41 others on the plane and two on the ground. Attempting to land at Chicago’s Midway airport, the flight was waved off and requested to go around for another try. Of course, I didn’t know any of this at the time. Looking back, I didn’t have any real difficulty getting this close. But now, given all the security, it would have been impossible to make this picture. If you Google Dorothy Hunt you can find a raft of intriguing conspiracy stories. She used to be a CIA agent herself, probably a better one than her husband. (Gary Settle © 1972 THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY) MARINE FUNERAL — Marine Corporal Jerry Hanrahan, age 22, was killed on Hill 881 North in Vietnam April 30, 1967. Four weeks later, his mother, Mary Hanrahan, grieved at his funeral in Chicago. About half of Corporal Hanrahan’s unit, Marine H Company, 2nd Battalion, 3d Marine Regiment, were either killed or wounded before finally taking the hilltop. It’s sad, what it takes to make a hero who can’t come home. (Gary Settle © 1997 THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS) YOUNG BILL CLINTON — Bill Clinton, campaigning here at a county fair in Clarksville, Ark., during his first political campaign for Congress, ended up losing the election. (Gary Settle © 1974 THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY) SURVEYING THE GRAND CANYON, — Cartographer Bradford Washburn was helicoptered down to Dana Butte inside the Grand Canyon to establish another reference point with a laser, as part of his producing a highly accurate map for hikers. My chopper ride was thrilling, especially when I scrambled up to briefly stand beside him. (Gary Settle © 1972 THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY) WYOMING MUSTANGERS — Meanwhile in Wyoming near Oshoto, cowboys Bob Brislawn and his son Emmett toast with a shot of mid-morning whiskey before heading out to check on their charges, wild mustangs which have been roaming for generations. (Gary Settle © 1970 THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY)
