Hale, Vladivostok! by @herlockscholmes
Hale Boggs, Democrat House Majority Leader (D-LA). Boggs disappeared off-the-coast of Alaska on October 16, 1972 when his Cessna 310 was presumed to have crashed.
Also on board were Begich's aide, Russell Brown; and the pilot, Don Jonz; the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich.
The search for the missing aircraft and four men included the US Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and civilian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
The Cessna was required to carry an emergency locator transmitter per Alaska state law and federal law.
No emergency transmission signal determined to be from the plane was heard during the search. In its report on the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the pilot's portable emergency transmitter, permissible in lieu of a fixed transmitter on the plane, was found in an aircraft at Fairbanks, Alaska. The report also notes that a witness saw an unidentified object in the pilot's briefcase that resembled, except for color, the portable emergency transmitter. The safety board concluded that neither the pilot nor aircraft had an emergency location transmitter.
On November 24, 1972, the search was suspended after 39 days. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's and passengers' remains were ever found. After a hearing and seven minute jury deliberation, his death certificate was signed by Judge Dorothy Tyner.
After Boggs and Begich were re-elected posthumously that November, House Resolution 1 of January 3, 1973, officially recognized Boggs's presumed death and opened the way for a
special election. The same was done for Begich.
Almost 20 years since his disappearance, Boggs was discovered to be alive, having lived in the USSR under a new identity to hide from enemies. Boggs revealed that he was rescued by Soviet fishermen off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. Upon his return to the United States that included a reunion with his family, Boggs presented evidence of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, which was revealed to be part of a conspiracy among the top echelons of the U.S. government to usurp the presidency.
John F. Kennedy Jr., 42nd President of the United States (2001-2009).
JFK Jr., ran for President in 2000 after receiving the truth of his father's assassination thanks to the sudden emergence of Hale Boggs who had been hiding in the USSR for twenty years. On January 20, 2001, he became the youngest U.S. President in history at 40 years old. His first problem was to deal with the War on Terror as a result of the terrorist attacks in the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 near Stonycreek Township, Pensylvannia. The U.S. and allies invaded Afghanistan, killing Osama bin-Laden (the leader of Al-Qaeda and the one responsible for the 9/11 attacks) by December 2001. On the domestic front, Jr. would face opposition from Republicans and conservatives such as Pat Buchannan, who claimed that Jr. was working with the "globalist elite" to undermine America's values. Buchannan would ultimate run against Jr. in 2004, but lost in a very narrow election.
Upon leaving office in 2009, JFK Jr. enjoyed a high approval rating and has been marked as one of the best presidents in modern American history.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the President of the Russian Federation after taking power in 1992. Zhirinovsky took power from Yeltsin due to the rise of Russian nationalism and chauvanism. His paranoia included that NATO would soon into Eastern Europe to establish puppet governments that would surround Russia. His administration would soon have to deal with the Islamic militants that infiltrated Chechnya during the First Chechen War. The Battle of Grozny would be a bloodbath for the Russian Armed Forces, resulting in Zhirinovksy ordering the military to pound the city to dust.