Records, 1961-1962.

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Records, 1961-1962.

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Included are correspondence, cables, affidavits, maps of Ndola showing the crash site, weather maps, photographs of the crash site and remains of the plane, press clippings, news releases, medical and other reports, statements of witnesses, all gathered or produced by the Commission in its effort to discover the cause of the crash and Hammarskjöld's death. Also included is biographical data on members of the Commission including Dr. Raul A. Quijano (Argentina), Rishikesh Shaha (Nepal), S.B. Jones (Sierra Leone), Alfred Emil Sandstrom (Sweden), and Dr. Nikola Srzentic (Yugoslavia), who was the chair of the Commission.

4.5 cubic ft. (3.8 linear ft.)

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Shaha, Rishikesh

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Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961

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Dag Hammarskjöld served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Africa in September 1961. From the description of Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580969 Dag Hammarskjöld was born on 29 July 1905, in Jönköping, Sweden, and died 18 Sept. 1961, near Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia. He was a Swedish economist and statesman who served as second secretary-general of the ...

Sandström, Alfred

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Quijano, Raul A.

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Jones, S. B., Ph. D.

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Srzentić, Nikola

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United Nations Commission of Investigation into the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General, and Members of his Party.

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Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations, died in a plane crash at Ndola, Zambia, on September 17, 1961. From the description of Records, 1961-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486738 ...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...