Research: Information on Mike's dad's murder

There was a ton of Internet information on the bomb that exploded the plane carrying Russell Parker on September 9, 1949. I knew of the bombing since I first met Mike, but only in recent years has much of what I saw this week made its way to the Internet. In one case, I found a 30 page in depth report by The New Yorker Magazine on the mass murderer J. Albert Guay. Mike said he had never read that report. I thought at first he had forgotten, but then, as we talked I realized at the time of the article- November 14, 1953, his mother could not bear to read anything about it, Ann (sister) was at school in Rome, Patrick (brother) was in a hospital for an extended period and Mike was on a US Army tour of duty in Korea.

It was only the second time anyone had placed a bomb on a plane. Albert Guay was notorious in Canada for the act. Even Guay has a damn Wikipedia page...(really ticking me off) Mike's Dad was a famous mining engineer and explorer...Russell discovered the largest copper field (called the Roan Antelope field) in the world in Rhodesia for Kennecott Copper and titanium fields in Quebec. He was second in line for the presidency of Kennecott at the time of the crash.(Both the President and the President-elect of the company were on the same plane, decapitating the company.) The irony of this crash was that in spite of so many powerful and influential men on board, the bomb was meant to kill Guay's 29 year old wife for $10,000 in insurance money.

I was able to secure a really old mining book with Russell's accomplishments; I will be 'mining' that information for the biography. I have a July 22,1955 newspaper article from The Central Africa Post in Rhodesia entitled The Double Crown: Zinc and Copper- Russ Parker, the Man from Colorado. The author was trying to make the case for establishing a Rhodesian national holiday in celebration of Russell's find and its tremendous economic implications for the country.