Jack Gilbert Graham was a
mass murderer who killed 44 people by planting a
dynamite bomb on board a
United Airlines DC-6[?] taking off from
Denver, Colorado on
November 1,
1955. Jack's mother was on board the plane - the motive for the bombing was to claim $37,500 worth of
life insurance[?] money, from policies bought in the airport just before take-off.
Jack Gilbert Graham was executed in the Colorado State Penitentiary gas chamber on January 11, 1957.