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...Dorothy Sullivan of Chicago, who described the tension during the seemingly endless ordeal. One of the original hijackers had been soft-spoken, the other brutal, she said, and the latter liked to go up and down the aisle thumping passengers on the head. Several passengers recalled that Stewardess Uli Derickson, of Newton, N.J., had stood up to the hijackers. Said she, speaking of her passengers: "They're doing what you tell them to do. Why do you keep beating them up?" The released passengers also noted that, before leaving the plane, they were relieved of their cash and valuables...
...statement that Lincoln refused bodyguards [May 10] is not entirely accurate. At least up to May 1863, my great-grandfather, Captain David Vincent Derickson, was in command of Company K, 150th Infantry Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers (the "Bucktails") and served as his personal bodyguard...
...Captain Derickson usually had breakfast with the President and rode with him in his carriage to the War Department or to the White House. As noted in a famous letter (now in the Smithsonian) that Lincoln wrote about Company K and its captain, Mr. Lincoln often stayed at the Soldiers' Home, which was then called the Soldiers' Retreat...
...Harvard-F. B. Lund, E. B. Bodley, W. Myer, E. C. Moen, G. S. Mandell. Yale-C. H. Sherrill, A. R. Moen, H. F. Walker, H. R. Sweny, F. W. Robinson. Princeton-S. J. King, W. C. Dohm, T. Payne, K. S. Ames, C. E. Babcock. Columbia-S. Derickson, jr., H. Shipman, A. S. Mahony, E. B, La Fevla. U. of P.- C. Thibault, C. Woodbury...
...Mandell, E. C.Moen, W. Myer, G. P. Cogswell, H. R. Miles. Yale-C. H. Sherrill, A. R. Moen, F. R. Robinson, H. R. Sweny, W. P. Graves, W. Harmar, H. F. Walker. Princeton-S. J. King, W. C. Dohm, T. Payne, K. L. Ames, C. E. Babcock. Columbia -S. Derickson, jr., H. Shipman, H. R. Connell, H. M. Banks, Jr., C. H. Colten. U. of P.-C. Thibault...