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He probably would have been elected President in 1988 if the Soviets didn't assassinate him.

I think that's a bit of a stretch. He probably would have needed to make another career move before that -- Senators and Representatives are rarely elected to the White House directly from their seat in Congress. The vast majority of U.S. Presidents in recent decades were former governors.

Here's something for your 'X-files':

William Becker and Bethe Hagens, in "Antigravity and the World Grid," wrote about two jetliners that were shot down by Russian MIGs for straying into Soviet air space: KAL 007 on September 1, 1983 and KAL 902 on April 20, 1978. They claim that in both cases the geocompass in the autopilot’s guidance system was slowly pulled off its north bearing by energized ley lines. What Becker and Bethe found to be a common factor in both instances is that they occurred during religious feast days: 007 during a major Hindu feast for Vishnu, and 902 during Good Friday/Passover.

Any ideas on just what the heck a geocompass is?

People die because of accidents sometimes. Really they do. The most likely explanation for KAL 007 is a series of horrible mistakes and bad coincidences, not a plot. The Russian side of the evidence suggests a lot of confusion and lengthy delays before they shot down KAL 007, probably over international waters as it was leaving their air space, which is pretty odd behavior for assassins. And the cockpit voice recorder suggests that the KAL 007 crew had no clue what was wrong with their aircraft, which is also pretty odd if they were in on it.

The human mind doesn't handle the fact that human beings die for essentially random reasons in horrible ways. But the truth is that they can and do.

When I was six years old, my 39 year-old mother suddenly dropped dead from a heart problem in a supermarket while I was in school. The KGB didn't kill her. An evil corporation didn't kill her. Global warming didn't kill her. She died of a medical condition that no one was aware of. It was essentially a random and unpredictable death. For that reason, I'm used to the idea that deaths don't have to have an important reason. I have no problem believing that an incompitent Soviet general ordered a pilot to shoot down a civilian airliner that had accidentally wandered into Soviet airspace before it could leave, which is what all the evidence that I've seen clearly shows happened. Sometimes good people die because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time or missed the clues that would have kept them alive. Sometimes they take a lot of other people with them. It happens, like it or not.

I knew Larry and his wife who he met at a Republican Christmas party in Glendale California.

I don't recall who they were at the time but there were 2 other conservative Congressman/Senators that were scheduled to be on that flight. One canceled at the last minute because of other business and the other missed the flight. If they had made the flight as planned there would have been 3 dead conservatives out of the way that were gaining in power and were becoming a force to be reckoned with