Video: 'USA: World-famous Americans Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in Alaskan air-crash (1935)'

(Thursday, August 15, 1935, 8:18 p.m. AKST; during the Great Depression) — Will Rogers, beloved humorist, and Wiley Post, master aviator, were crushed to death tonight when a shiny, new airplane motor faltered and became an engine of tragedy near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

Video: 'Will Rogers Biography. c. 1961.'