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== Bombing == [[United Airlines Flight 629]] was using a [[Douglas DC-6B]] airliner (named "Mainliner Denver") piloted by [[World War II]] veteran Lee Hall on the evening of November 1, 1955. The flight had originated at [[New York City]]'s [[LaGuardia Airport]], making a stop in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] before continuing to Denver; it then took off from [[Denver, Colorado]]'s [[Stapleton Airfield]], bound for [[Portland, Oregon]], with continuing service to [[Seattle]]. Minutes after the plane's departure from Denver, the DC-6B exploded, the flaming wreckage falling into farmland near [[Longmont, Colorado]]. There were no survivors.<ref name=FBI>{{cite web |url= https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/jack-gilbert-graham |publisher= Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) |title= Jack Gilbert Graham |work= Famous Cases & Criminals |date= |access-date= January 30, 2015 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150215232408/http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/jack-gilbert-graham |archive-date= February 15, 2015 }}</ref> Graham's mother had been a passenger on Flight 629, and was traveling to [[Alaska]] to visit her daughter, Graham's half-sister. At the time, flight insurance could be routinely purchased in vending machines at airports, until changes to the system in the 1980s.<ref name="ACrime" /><ref name="Mom">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/justice-story-son-bomb-mom-luggage-kills-44-flight-article-1.1335372|date=4 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505050818/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/justice-story-son-bomb-mom-luggage-kills-44-flight-article-1.1335372|archive-date=5 May 2013|title=Justice Story: Son plants bomb in mom's suitcase, killing her and 43 others during flight|first=Mara|last=Bovsun|newspaper=NY Daily News}}</ref> Graham's apparent motive for the bombing was to claim $37,500 ({{Inflation|US|37500|1955|r=-4|fmt=eq}}) worth of life insurance money from policies he had purchased in the airport terminal just moments before the aircraft's departure.
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