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This FBI file concerns the November 16, 1959 crash of National Airlines Flight 967 in the Gulf of Mexico near the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana. The Bureau investigated the possibility that the aircraft's destruction involved criminal conduct, with particular attention to passenger Dr. Robert Vernon Spears, his wife Frances Louise Spears, and William Allen Taylor. Dallas and Miami reports from January and February 1960 document interviews, searches of the Spears home and automobile, financial and insurance inquiries, travel and luggage leads, background checks, and efforts to identify any explosives connection. The records also include a detailed chronology of the Spearses' activities, correspondence between Spears and Taylor, and leads involving other passengers and associates.

FBI file number: 149-832 | Documents span: 1959-1960 | Released in 2 parts
Names in this file: Robert Vernon Spears, Frances Louise Spears, William Allen Taylor, Alice Mae Taylor, Frank P. Griffee, Emmet J. Murphy, Patricia Hires, Joel F. Miller, Samuel C. Woolvin, Janie Nunnally, George Hoskins, Ronald C. Harrison
Subjects: National Airlines Flight 967, aircraft crash, aviation sabotage investigation, insurance fraud, explosives investigation, FBI investigation