T

O

p

X
X

Links

For more information about Phyllis A. Brauner, you may visit the following web pages:

Brauner Book Award
http://www.wheatonma.edu/
News/pr20020808a.html

The Northeastern Section
of the American Chemical Society
Phyllis A Brauner 1916-2000
http://www.nesacs.org/business/
news_member.htm

Person of the Week: Phyllis Brauner
http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/
brauner.html

Wellesley Science Alumnae: Alumnae of the Past
http://www.wellesley.edu/ScienceCenter/
Alumnae/past.html

In 1948, Phyllis' husband, William Brauner, a physicist and electrical engineer was killed in an airplane crash while on a mission for the U.S. Army. The U.S. Air Force B-29 bomber crashed in southern Georgia and all three engineers aboard were killed. Their widows sued for negligence, but were never able to prove their case, because the Air Force refused to turn over the accident report, saying it could not do so without violating national security. A half a century later this case is re-opened. Relatives of the men who died in the 1948 U.S. Air Force plane crash say the Air Force committed fraud against the U.S Supreme Court in the original case. In a petition filed with the court, they claim the Air Force lied to the court and caused it to come to the wrong decision in the case surrounding the crash. Information about this case can be found at the links below.

Supreme Court Petition Seeks Justice,
A Half CenturyLater Harwich Port Woman
Lost Father In 1948 Bomber Crash
http://www.capecodchronicle.com/feature
_030603.htm


Unearthed military secret brings new life to old case
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/
local/5316568.htm

DrinkerBiddle
Victim's daughter says US lied about crash --
Ruling from 1948 accident shapes national security law.
http://www.dbr.com/media/mc
_2003_03.htm

DrinkerBiddle
The Star-Ledger
Case of the wronged kin and the misled justices --
Grown daughter reopens history of a B-29 crash.
http://www.drinkerbiddle.com/media/mc
_2003_09.htm

The Legal Intelligencer
Drinker Biddle Digs Into Archives to Find Justice.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=
1046833544347

DrinkerBiddle
The National Law Journal
New Light on Old Defense of 'Secrets' Writ attacks
a 1953 high court ruling.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=
1046833530020

NPR Radio Program
BOSTON, MA (2002-08-29)
Search for a Father and Truth After 50 Years.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/
news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE
_ID=388589

NPR Radio Program
BOSTON, MA (2003-02-27)
A Case to Shake the Foundation of National Security Law.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/
news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE
_ID=460305