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Oct. 29, 2025: At last a memorial to Flight 629; Before Gaga, there was Carl Bean’s ‘I Was Born This Way’

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In a black and white photograph, a crowd is seen around the tail section of United flight 629, which was bombed shortly after taking off from Denver.
A crowd is seen around the tail section of United Flight 629, which was bombed shortly after taking off from Denver in 1955.

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The bombing victims of United Flight 629 will be memorialized after seven decades. It was the first attack on a US commercial airliner. Atop Denver's old control tower, we speak with a woman who lost her parents. Then, a new film about musician and AIDS activist Carl Bean, who sang what's considered the first gay anthem.