Didn’t Alaska lose a Senator in the Russian shoot down of Flight 007?
It was a Georgia congressman.
But Stevens was in a crash in 1978 that killed his wife.
I didn’t realize they had gotten a conviction under false pretenses, got him removed from office, and then the case was thrown out. Ay God, I swear there is only ONE THING that these communists understand.
Out of 435 congressmen in the House, Larry McDonald, GA, was the most conservative and the biggest thorn in the side of the USSR. He along with John Ashbrook, Phil Crane, Steve Symms, and Jesse Helms were the most influential conservatives of the 1970s-80s era.