The Plane Crash that Killed Navajo Leaders Fred Johnson and Don Noble
Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 25, 2025
There was one story that no one would print, during the years that I lived on the Navajo Nation and worked as a news reporter.After being given all the police files on the plane crash by a source in Window Rock, I investigated the plane crash that killed Navajo leaders, Shiprock Councilman Fred Johnson and Don Noble.
They were fighting uranium leases, and the land scheme that would lead to Navajo relocation for Peabody's Coal mining on Black Mesa.
Redhouse's book details the criminals, spies on the Navajo Nation, that were intent on disrupting the government. These criminals were responsible for the car bomb explosion that killed reporter Don Bolles.
In his new book, John Redhouse, tells the facts well, so it is best to read his book.
During my research, I asked the great Annie Wauneka about the deadly flight she planned to be on.
"Someone told me not to get on that plane," Wauneka said during lunch at the Navajo Nation Inn.
"Who?" I asked.
"Something told me not to get on that plane," she said.
As Redhouse describes, the plane crash was linked to the car bomb murder of reporter Don Bolles, and carried out by criminals linked to land grabbing politicians in Arizona.
And there were indications that the crash was intentional, and was intended to be blamed on Chairman Peter MacDonald, in order to discredit him.
Most media failed to report that Bolles was covering Navajo issues at the time. Bolles had written a great deal about Arizona politicians in Phoenix, their land grabs, and criminal gambling enterprises. It all reflects the U.S. government's covert operations, and its way of destabilizing governments in other countries.
Redhouse describes the conflicting plane crash reports, and the independent investigation of the cause of the plane crash.
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1 comment:
I read about John Bolles in the AZ republic when he was murdered. I kept the original article from the original paper. I wondered why Bolles was killed. Then read another article lately from this guy who investigated crime in Phoenix & AZ. He wrote about Bolles. Crime like that_more wide spread than l thought. I was very innocent than other young people at the time. Now I really want to read John Red House's book. Shi Dine.' Ahe' hee.' Thank you
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