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2024-07-11 05:57:43 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 69075CF88694CE3C99FD72D40543CD174779C45EDCF1A57C33F3D83F42F0F646
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While Beverly Eckert did meet with President Obama and tragically died in a plane crash shortly thereafter, the meme's specific claims about Obama giving her plane tickets and the exact timing are false and misleading. https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6870794&page=1 https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/crash.eckert/index.htm https://www.nbcmiami.com/local/natlsept-11-widow-among-plane-crash-victims/1869177/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Eckert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407
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