Robert Dornan: “I had just been told that I had a constituent from my district that had died on TWA flight 800. I stood at this very…”

“I had just been told that I had a constituent from my district that had died on TWA flight 800. I stood at this very microphone at the Speaker's desk and said that sometime over the weekend I would find out if it was a baby, a young child with his mom and dad, or traveling alone, maybe; a teenager; whether it might be a stewardess, one of the crew. I said the tragic news might be someone that lived in Anaheim or Santa Ana, CA, one of the small parts of about 10 other cities that I have, like Orange or Tuscan or Westminster, or I said it could be from my own town of Garden Grove. Mr. Speaker, about 24 hours after I spoke, I found out that my constituent who died in that terrible, horrific accident was a male. He was from my hometown of Garden Grove, and he was the pilot, Captain Kevorkian. I remember being on a TWA flight and this captain coming back during the short break at altitude, coming back to say hello to me, tell me that he was a neighbor just a few blocks away, and I teased him about his name, because of the infamous Dr. Kevorkian.”