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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'White Roots of Peace' Indian Troupe To Perform Today in Memorial Hall | 11/16/1972 | See Source »

...outside world he is Tom Parker, but other Mohawks call him Sakokwenonkwas. He is one of six members of The White Roots of Peace, a Mohawk group which will stage a performance today in Memorial Hall styled after a traditional longhouse meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'White Roots of Peace' Indian Troupe To Perform Today in Memorial Hall | 11/16/1972 | See Source »

...Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, an unemployed father of seven, used a fake bomb and a starter's pistol to extract $200,000 from Mohawk Airlines. An FBI agent gunned down VonGeorge as he and his stewardess hostage entered a getaway car in Purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: 1972: A Chronicle of Flight, Capture and Death | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...Hughes Airwest, Allegheny, Frontier, Mohawk, North Central, Ozark, Piedmont, Southern and Texas International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: A Wing and a Subsidy | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Finally, unemployed and debt-ridden, he told his wife that he was going to Albany to look for a job. He hijacked the Mohawk airliner with a track-meet starter's pistol, demanded and got $200,000 in ransom money, then forced the plane to land in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. There VonGeorge suffered his final setback: he was shotgunned to death at point-blank range by an FBI agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKYJACKING: A Tale of Two Losers | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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