Why Would Anyone Kill Brown?

Chicago Defender › August 18, 2009

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[Ron Brown] was the first African-American to chair the Democratic National Committee. President Clinton himself credited Brown, the consummate Washington insider powerbroker, as one of the main reasons why he won the White House in 1994. It has been more than a decade since the plane Brown and 34 other passengers were riding in crashed on a mountaintop in Croatia. To this day, the following mysteries still remain:

Shortly after his forthrightness, [Steve Cogswell] told me, "I have been reassigned. I have been demoted because of my reporting on Brown. Sometimes I feel my life is endangered, but people only get 'disappeared' if they are going to tell something, I have already talked and I have no new revelations, so the cat is already out of the bag. Without an autopsy it is just as irresponsible to say the wound was caused by a bullet as to say it was not."

Why would anyone kill Brown? And if someone wanted to kill him, why take 34 innocent people with him. [Jack Cashill] pointed out that Brown, was the man, who knew too much, was heavily involved in alleged illegal fundraising activities for the Clintons and had mouthed off about not going down alone. Moreover, in the light of the then recent suspicions around the so-called suicide of Vince Foster, another suicide might have raised too many suspicions.