Her father was Hale Boggs, who was supposedly going to be the next Speaker of the House, until he and his pilot disappeared in Alaska on a hunting trip. The plane was never found..................
He was up campaigning with the endangered freshman AK Dem Congressman, Nick Begich.
Sometime in the late 1960’s, a North Dakota Air National Guard plane went down in Alaska; neither the plane nor the crew were ever found. My late father was a member of that Air Guard, “The Happy Hooligans,” and knew several of the crewmen who perished.