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 National Cathedral was opened to reporters Thursday for the first time since the Virginia earthquake.
September 1st, 2011
06:27 PM ET
National Cathedral expected to reopen in time for 9/11 anniversaryBy Padmananda Rama, CNN Washington (CNN) – National Cathedral officials intend to reopen its doors in time for 9/11 prayer services, a spokesman said Thursday. The Washington landmark has been closed since parts of its Gothic structure were damaged during last week's earthquake. President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a keynote address at an interfaith service at the cathedral on the evening of September 11. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will also speak during a service Friday, September 9. "I think that if the secretary of defense and President Obama are coming, that means it's safe to be here," cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg told members of the media during a press tour of the cathedral's nave, the first since the 5.8 magnitude earthquake on August 23.
September 1st, 2011
10:24 AM ET
My Faith: Rep. Keith Ellison, from Catholic to MuslimBy Chris Welch, CNN Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask. But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread. “When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House. “But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”  Tina Mucklow, left, in 2010, according to attorney Galen Cook. At right, then-flight attendant Mucklow after the 1971 hijacking.
September 1st, 2011
08:00 AM ET
Secret life of D.B. Cooper hijacking witness includes disappearing to a nunneryBy Thom Patterson, CNN (CNN) - Four decades after the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper jumped from a 727 over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in ransom, the identity of the infamous skydiver in a dark suit and glasses remains a mystery. After he plunged out the rear door of Northwest Flight 305 that cold November night in 1971, the cigarette smoking hijacker was never seen or heard from again. Some amateur investigators believe he died in the jump. Others say he may have survived. Last month, the FBI shot down a woman's claim that her late uncle, L.D. Cooper, pulled off what is the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history. No DNA match for man who was alleged to be D.B. Cooper But Cooper's fate isn't the only unresolved question that lingers from the crime. Lately, buffs who follow and blog about the case have been wondering: What happened to the investigation's most valuable witness, former flight attendant Tina Mucklow? |
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