The FBI Story
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- 1959
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Flight number 21.
Flight number 21, leaving at 6: 15,
now boarding at gate 12.
Webster's International Dictionary
defines murder...
...as the unlawful taking of human life
On a November evening in 1955,
the definition became obsolete.
A mass murder was being planned.
The instrument of murder
was hidden in a battered suitcase...
...at a Midwest airport.
There'll be an excess
weight charge of $ 13.
Goodness, I didn't know
it was that heavy.
Only one person in the world knew why
the woman's luggage was so heavy.
Only one man knew
that a time bomb...
...was buried in the contents
of her suitcase.
He knew because he was the man
who had put it there.
He also knew that the suitcase
would be placed...
...in the cargo pit of an airplane.
An airplane scheduled
to carry four crew members...
...and 45 passengers.
- Here you are, Mrs. King.
- Thank you.
- Sign right here, Mother.
- Life insurance?
Yeah, I'm superstitious.
It's only when somebody hasn't got it
that things seem to go wrong.
Oh, my.
Thirty-seven thousand five hundred.
- Maybe you'll be rich.
- I hope not.
Oh, now, don't you worry
about me, son.
These airships fly millions of miles
without an accident.
I'll be dropping you a postcard
from Portland tomorrow.
Your attention, please.
This is the final call
- Flight 21 boarding at gate 12.
- That's us. Come on.
All aboard, please.
Now, you be careful while I'm away.
Don't get into any more trouble.
I won't. Now, you better get aboard.
- Goodbye, darling.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, dear.
- Goodbye, Mother.
Look.
The murder took place at 7:37,
on schedule.
And 49 men, women and children,
who never had anything in common...
...became final companions.
A number of organizations
were immediately involved...
...one of them an agency at 9th
and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.
Thousands of men and women
work for this organization.
Their daily chores
A few hours after
the Colorado airplane disaster...
...FBI agents joined with engineers
and CAB investigators...
...to collect and study the evidence.
The floor of a warehouse
was converted...
...into a scaled-down grid map
of the crash scene.
Each piece of wreckage
was placed on the grid...
...in the exact position
in which it was found.
The next step was to reassemble
the pieces into a rough facsimile...
...of the destroyed plane.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
asked the FBI...
...to begin a sabotage investigation.
In less than three hours, over 100 agents
in 20 different cities went to work...
...digging into the backgrounds
of passengers and crew members.
They were looking
for any stray item...
...which might indicate sabotage...
...or murder.
They talked to everyone concerned:
Relatives, friends and enemies.
I understand that you were
acquainted with Mrs. King.
Yes, sir.
She used to live right next door there
with her kid.
He forged a check once or twice...
...and he was pinched
for bootlegging.
Remember anything else
that might help us?
No, except his mother
didn't seem to mind very much.
She acted like he was just having
a streak of bad manners or something.
That's about all I can recall.
I guess it doesn't amount to much.
But it did amount to something.
It brought into focus the name
and the face of Jack Graham.
It wasn't much, but sometimes
it doesn't take much.
One time, a crowbar
won't bend a cobweb.
Another time, a falling leaf
will start an avalanche.
It was a lead.
Agents in the field collected every available
piece of information on Jack Graham.
From people who knew him.
From people who didn't know
that they knew him.
- Operator.
- It was all relayed to Washington.
It was combined with information
from bureau files.
FBI Headquarters.
and it boiled down to this:
Jack Graham was very sentimental
about insurance.
He'd collected on it twice.
The first time, it was an explosion
in a restaurant his mother owned.
Another time, he stalled a pickup truck
on the railroad tracks.
He seemed very surprised
And finally...
...he'd insured his mother's life.
By now, FBI chemists
A piece of metal taken from the crash
showed traces of sodium carbonate...
...sodium nitrate
and sulfur-bearing compounds.
These are chemicals found
after an explosion of dynamite.
There was now enough evidence
to move forward.
Carefully detailed instructions
went out to the Denver Field Office.
What is your name?
I'm John Gilbert Graham.
- Your address?
- 2750 Pitcher Road.
We want to advise you of your rights.
The door over there is open.
You can walk out any time you wish.
Or there's a telephone.
You can call an attorney.
Because anything you say here...
...can be used against you
in a court of law.
- Is that clear?
- That's clear. I've got nothing to hide.
She did her own packing.
I haven't got the slightest idea
about anything that was in the baggage.
But the next day,
agents talked to a family friend.
A discrepancy showed up.
Yes, Jack had a package for her
to take along on the trip.
It was wrapped like a gift.
I guess he wanted to surprise her.
I guess he did.
Do you know what it was?
Well, yes, it was a set of drills
His mother had a hobby of making
costume jewelry from seashells.
That's what the set of tools was for.
Do you remember anything else?
No, not that I recall.
She said you purchased
a toolkit for your mother.
Don't you remember?
Oh, come to think of it,
I did buy a toolkit last month.
And I put it in her suitcase.
It wasn't important. I'd forgotten it.
We've checked all the stores
in Denver that sell that kind of thing.
Yeah, well...
Well, I didn't buy it in Denver.
But you haven't been out of Denver
for two years. We've checked that too.
Look, we wanna remind you again
that you have certain rights.
You bet I have, and I wanna
get this straight.
Are you insinuating
I blew up that plane?
No. We don't insinuate.
Well, okay, I got nothing
to be afraid of, then.
I didn't do anything.
- Do you mind if we search your home?
- No, I don't care.
You won't find anything.
Sign this waiver, please.
In Graham's house,
the agents found a small coil of wire.
The kind which can be used
to detonate dynamite.
And finally, they found the last link.
A storekeeper verified
that he'd sold material to Jack Graham.
"One timing device,
25 sticks of dynamite."
A medical doctor
attested to the fact...
...that Graham
was in sound mental condition.
Graham formally acknowledged
that he was not speaking under duress.
He acknowledged a lot more too.
So then I slipped the bomb
into her suitcase.
Twenty-five sticks of dynamite...
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