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Jack Kennedy THOMPSON

Male 1920 - 1972  (52 years)


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  • Name Jack Kennedy THOMPSON 
    Birth 5 Jan 1920 
    Gender Male 
    Death 26 Jan 1972  Skamania County, Washington Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • From an article in the January 27, 1972, edition of The Oregonian.

      Two men were injured fatally at Bonneville Dam Wednesday when a scaffold on which they were standing collapsed at the upstream auxiliary fishway entrance.

      Dead are 51 year-old Jack K. Thompson, of 904 E. 10th Street, The Dalles, and Albert Brock, 44, of 914 NE 92nd Ave., Portland. Thompson was killed outright and Brock died several hours later in Gresham General Hospital.

      Skamania County sheriff’s deputies said the men were working above a 56-foot hole near the fishway counting station on the north shore when the accident occurred. Cause of the accident was not given.

      Both men were employed by Pacific Vantures, Inc., a contractor from Bellevue, Washington.



      From an article in the February 3, 1972, edition of The Oregonian.

      An accident that killed two iron workers at Bonneville Dam last Wednesday was caused by a combination of human error and fate, an Iron Workers Union official said in Portland Wednesday.

      Jack Thompson, 52, The Dalles, and Albert Brock, 44, Portland, died when a nut worked off a bolt securing scaffolding and the temporary structure fell off a fishway wall on the dam’s Washington side, said William Kissinger, business agent for Iron Workers Local 29 in Portland.

      Kissinger said the accident occurred while the men were transferring their safety lines from one point to another during repair work on the fishway.

      “At any other moment they would have been tied off,” said Kissinger, and would probably have escaped injury.

      Workmen failed to place a second jamb nut on a bolt holding scaffolding bracket in position and the single nut gradually worked its way off, tumbling the entire structure, said Kissinger. The incident was investigated by the Army Corps of Engineers as well as state and union officials the business agent noted.

      Kissinger said the union will insist on a third man being assigned to watch the scaffolding while repair work on the fishway is concluded.
    Person ID I778  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 25 May 2023 

    Father James THOMPSON 
    Mother Alice 
    Family ID F18893  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Armella Dean VALGREN,   b. 9 Jul 1923, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 2010, Wasco County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 21 Nov 1942  Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Jerry Lee THOMPSON,   b. 26 Jan 1951, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jun 2001, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F568  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 May 2013