Barbara Olson

Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955 – September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Image File history File links Barbra_Olson. ... Image File history File links Barbra_Olson. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... “Fox News” redirects here. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Security camera image showing American Airlines Flight 77 (highlighted) just before and after impact. ... This article is about the United States military building. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

Biography

Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas. (Her older sister, Toni Bracher-Lawrence, has been a member of the Houston City Council since 2004.) She graduated from Waltrip High School [1] and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston and a Juris Doctor degree from Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In the early 1990s, she worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering before marrying Theodore Olson in 1996. She co-founded the Independent Women's Forum with Rosalie Silberman.^[1] Houston redirects here. ... Stephen Pool Waltrip High School is a secondary school located at 1900 West 34th Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77018. ... The University of St. ... “J.D.” redirects here. ... Yeshiva University is a private Jewish university in New York City whose first component was founded in 1886. ... The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University, located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, which also goes by the shorter market name WilmerHale, is an American law firm with major offices in Washington, Boston and New York and smaller offices in Palo Alto, Baltimore, London, Oxford, Brussels, Beijing, Berlin, Munich, Northern Virginia and Waltham, Massachusetts. ... Theodore Olson Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. ... The Independent Womens Forum (IWF) is an organization that, according to its website, was established to combat the women-as-victim, pro-Big Government ideology of radical feminism. ... Ricky Silberman (1937/1938 – February 18, 2007) was a conservative American activist who co-founded the Independent Womens Forum together with Barbara Olson. ...

In the mid-1990s she was a chief investigator for the House Government Reform Committee - and later a staff lawyer for Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles - before branching out as a TV commentator and private lawyer. She was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about First Lady Hillary Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House at the time of her death. She was a resident of Great Falls, Virginia. Image:Don Nickles. ... President Clintons Cabinet, circa 1993 The Presidency of Bill Clinton, also known as the Clinton Administration, was the executive branch of the federal government of the United States from 1993 to 2001 while Bill Clinton served as President of the United States. ... REDIRECT Hillary Rodham Clinton   This is a redirect from a title with another method of capitalisation. ... Great Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Fairfax County, Virginia. ...

Death

She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 on her way to a taping of Politically Incorrect in Los Angeles (host Bill Maher left a panel seat vacant during the first week the show aired after the attacks), when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. (She had been scheduled to take an earlier flight, but switched to that Flight 77 on that Tuesday, her husband's 61st birthday, in order to celebrate over dinner the night before.) She twice called her husband, then U.S. Solicitor General, from one of the phones in a passenger's seat, about 20 minutes before the plane hit the Pentagon, asking him "What can I do?".^[2] Security camera image showing American Airlines Flight 77 (highlighted) just before and after impact. ... Politically Incorrect was a late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that ran from 1993 to 2002. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... William Maher, Jr. ... This article is about the United States military building. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... The United States Solicitor General is the individual tasked with arguing for the United States Government in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, when the government is party to a case. ...

Memorial Lectures

The Federalist Society has established the Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lectures, "an annual lecture on limited government and the spirit of freedom",^[3] held every November. The first lecture was a eulogy for her by her husband.^[4] Subsequent speakers have included Justice Antonin Scalia, Vice President Dick Cheney^[5], and Chief Justice John G. Roberts. The Federalist Society logo, depicting James Madisons silhouette The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, began at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1982 as a student organization that challenged the perceived... Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936[1]) is an American jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ... Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ... [edit] John G. Roberts, Jr. ...

Books

• Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton (November 1999; ISBN 0895262746)
• The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House (October 2001; ISBN 0895261677)

Notes

1. ^ "Remembering IWF Founder Barbara Olson", Rosalie Silberman, Independent Women's Forum, December 1, 2001
2. ^ "‘She asked me how to stop the plane’", by Toby Harnden, The Daily Telegraph, March 1, 2002
3. ^ Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture, Federalist Society website
4. ^ First Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture, Theodore Olson, November 16, 2001
5. ^ Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture — Past Lecturers, Federalist Society website

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External links

• Barbara Olson at findagrave.com
• Barbara Olson Tribute Tribute to Barbara Olson by members of Free Republic
• Wife of Solicitor General alerted him of hijacking from plane
• Barbara Olson Mourned at Arlington Service
• Barbara Olson: A Sparkling Celebrity 'Full of Energy' Newsday.com-Victims Search
• Barbara Olson, RIP Memorial essay by Alfred S. Regnery, president of Regnery Publishing