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Helicopter crash had huge impact on independence of Oregon journalism

Published: March 11, 2020, 2 p.m.

A few days before Christmas in 1947, a young ex-Navy flier, looking to kill a little time before dinner, invited a friend to come out for a quick spin around a nearby golf course in his new helicopter. An hour later, the two young men were both dead in the burning wreckage of the helicopter, and the future course of journalism in Portland had been forever changed — and not for the better.... (Portland, Multnomah County; 1947) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1801b.sam-jackson-helicopter-crash-journal-478.html)