Wellstone memoir a searing recollection

Updated: September 1, 2012 - 6:11 PM

New Wellstone memoir a searing read.

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"Becoming Wellstone: Healing From Tragedy and Carrying on My Father's Legacy," by Paul David Wellstone Jr., will be published in October by Hazelden Books. The memoir by Paul David Wellstone Jr. opens with a searing account of Oct. 25, 2002 -- the day that U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, and daughter, Marcia, died in a plane crash along with five others.

Law enforcement personnel had set up surveillance cameras to view the crash site, which was smoking and smoldering when David Wellstone arrived. "The impact of the crash had pushed everyone to the front compartment," he writes. "I could also see shadows that I knew were people, shadows that represented my father, my mother, and my sister."

The memoir carries an afterword by former GOP Rep. Jim Ramstad.

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