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((Short description|American politician (1935–1983)))
((For|the musician|Larry McDonald (percussionist)))
((Use mdy dates|date=March 2022))
((more citations needed|date=September 2017))
((Infobox officeholder
| name                = Larry McDonald
| image               = Larry McDonald.jpg
| state               = [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
| district            = ((ushr|GA|7|7th))
| term_start          = January 3, 1975
| term_end            = September 1, 1983
| predecessor         = [[John William Davis (Georgia politician)|John Davis]]
| successor           = [[George Darden]]
| birth_name          = Lawrence Patton McDonald
| birth_date          = ((birth date|1935|4|1))
| birth_place         = [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], U.S.
| death_date          = ((nowrap|((death date and age|1983|9|1|1935|4|1))))
| death_place         = near [[Sakhalin]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| party               = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse              = ((marriage|Anna Tryggvadottir|end=div))<br />Kathryn Jackson (1975–1983)
| children            = 5
| education           = [[Davidson College]]<br />[[Emory University]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]])
| allegiance          = ((flag|United States|1960))
| branch              = ((flag|United States Navy|23px))
| serviceyears        = 1959–1961
))
((Conservatism US|politicians))
'''Lawrence Patton McDonald''' (April 1, 1935 – September 1, 1983) was an American physician, politician and a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]], representing [[Georgia's 7th congressional district]] as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] from 1975 until he was killed while a passenger on board [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007]] when it was shot down by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Interceptor aircraft|interceptors]].<ref name=obituary>((cite web |last=Krebs | first=Albin | title=REP. L.P. MCDONALD OF GEORGIA AMONG THE AMERICANS LOST ON JET  |date=September 2, 1983 |access-date=March 13, 2021 |newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/02/obituaries/rep-lp-mcdonald-of-georgia-among-the-americans-lost-on-jet.html))</ref>

McDonald maintained one of the most [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] voting records in Congress and [[Anti-communism|crusaded against communism]]. He became chairman of the [[John Birch Society]] in 1983, months before his death. He was remembered as a martyr by American conservatives.<ref name="character">((citation|last=St. John|first=Jeffrey|title=Essay on Character: Lawrence Patton McDonald (1935–1983)|newspaper=The New American|date=September 30, 1985|url=http://www.jbs.org/node/1053|access-date=August 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004949/http://www.jbs.org/node/1053|archive-date=September 27, 2007))</ref><ref name=profile>((cite web |last=Dewar | first=Helen | title=Rep. McDonald Hailed As Right-Wing Martyr |date=September 2, 1983 |access-date=April 21, 2021 |newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/09/02/rep-mcdonald-hailed-as-right-wing-martyr/7f259583-8990-416e-b23b-e92500068ebe/))</ref>

==Early life and career==
Larry McDonald was born and raised in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], in the eastern part of the city that is in [[DeKalb County, Georgia|DeKalb County]]. General [[George S. Patton]] was a distant relation.<ref name="Politico">((cite news |last1=Dorfman |first1=Zach |title=The Congressman Who Created His Own Deep State. Really. |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/02/larry-mcdonald-communists-deep-state-222726 |access-date=December 2, 2018 |work=Politico |date=December 2, 2018))</ref> As a child, he attended several private and [[parochial school]]s before attending a non-denominational high school. He spent two years at high school before graduating in 1951.<ref name="character"/><ref name="con_bio">((Cite web|title=McDonald, Lawrence Patton|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000413|publisher=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]|access-date=August 26, 2009))</ref> He studied at [[Davidson College]] from 1951 to 1953, studying history. He entered the [[Emory University School of Medicine]] at the age of 17, graduating in 1957.<ref name="character"/><ref name="con_bio"/> He interned at [[Grady Memorial Hospital]] in Atlanta. He trained as a urologist at the [[University of Michigan Hospital]] under [[Reed M. Nesbit]]. Following completion in 1966 he returned to Atlanta and entered practice with his father.((citation needed|date=September 2017))

From 1959 to 1961, McDonald served as a [[flight surgeon]] in the [[United States Navy]] stationed at the [[Naval Air Station Keflavik|Keflavík naval base]] in [[Iceland]]. He married an [[Icelandic people|Icelandic national]], Anna Tryggvadottir, with whom he eventually had three children: Tryggvi Paul, Callie Grace, and Mary Elizabeth.<ref name="character"/> In Iceland, McDonald asserted to his [[commanding officer]] that the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik was doing things advantageous to [[Communism|communists]], but was told he did not understand the big picture.<ref name="character"/>

After his tour of service he practiced medicine at the McDonald Urology Clinic in Atlanta.<ref name="character"/> He joined the anti-communist [[John Birch Society]] in 1966 or 1967.<ref>International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors [http://www.rescue007.org/larry_mcdonald.htm "Lawrence 'Larry' Patton McDonald"], March 10, 2009; retrieved January 21, 2010.</ref> He hosted thousands of people in his living room for Bircher-inspired lectures and documentaries, according to his first wife.<ref name="Politico" /> His preoccupation with politics led to a divorce.<ref name="character"/> He became known as an [[United States anti-abortion movement|anti-abortion]] activist.<ref name="Politico" /> He made one unsuccessful run for Congress in 1972 before being elected in 1974. In 1975, he married Kathryn Jackson, whom he met while giving a speech in California.<ref name="character"/> 
He served as a member on the Georgia State Medical Education Board and as chairman from 1969 to 1974.<ref name="con_bio"/>

==Political career==
In 1974, McDonald ran for Congress against incumbent [[John William Davis (Georgia politician)|John W. Davis]] in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] primary. McDonald opposed mandatory federal school integration programs, and criticized Davis for being one of two Georgia congressmen to vote in favor of [[Desegregation busing in the United States|school busing]]. He also attacked Davis for receiving [[political donation]]s from out-of-state groups which he said favored busing.<ref>((Citation|last=McDonald|first=Larry|date=July 9, 1974|title=Where I Stand (advertisement)|newspaper=[[Rome News-Tribune]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=25gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2747,892908|access-date=August 26, 2009))((Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref>((Primary source inline|date=March 2022))

McDonald won the [[primary election]] in an upset and was elected in November 1974 to the [[94th United States Congress]], serving [[Georgia's 7th congressional district]], which included most of Atlanta's northwestern suburbs (including [[Marietta, Georgia|Marietta]]), where opposition to school busing was especially high. However, during the [[general election]], J. Quincy Collins Jr., an Air Force [[prisoner of war]] during the [[Vietnam War]], running as a Republican, nearly defeated him, despite the poor performance of Republicans nationally that year due to the aftereffects of the [[Watergate]] scandal.

McDonald, who considered himself a traditional Democrat "cut from the cloth of [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] and [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson]]", was known for his conservative views, even by [[Southern Democrat]]ic standards of the time. In fact, one scoring method published in the ''[[American Journal of Political Science]]''<ref>((Citation|title=Estimating a Basic Space From A Set of Issue Scales|journal=[[American Journal of Political Science]]|volume=42|date=July 1998|pages=954–993|url=http://voteview.com/basic.htm|author=Poole, Keith T.|access-date=May 4, 2008|doi=10.2307/2991737|issue=3|jstor=2991737|citeseerx=10.1.1.49.7218))</ref> named him the second most conservative member of either chamber of Congress between 1937 and 2002 (behind only [[Ron Paul]], who was his closest confidant in Congress).<ref>((Cite web |last=Poole |first=Keith T. |date=October 13, 2004 |title=Is John Kerry a Liberal? |url=http://voteview.com/Is_John_Kerry_A_Liberal.htm |access-date=August 24, 2009 |website=voteview.com))</ref><ref name="Politico" /> Even though many of McDonald's constituents had begun splitting their tickets and voting Republican at the federal level as early as the 1960s, the GOP was still well behind the Democrats at the local level, and conservative Democrats like McDonald continued to hold most state and local offices well into the 1990s.((Citation needed|date=April 2022))

The [[American Conservative Union]] gave him a perfect score of 100 every year he was in the House of Representatives, except in 1978, when he scored a 95.<ref>ACU Ratings of Congress: House Ratings: [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20190309162455/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/197h/hse_coge.html 1976], [http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1977/hse_coge.html 1977] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180202/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1977/hse_coge.html |date=September 28, 2013 )), [http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1978/hse_coge.html 1978] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180212/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1978/hse_coge.html |date=September 28, 2013 )), [http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1979/hse_coge.html 1979] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180216/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1979/hse_coge.html |date=September 28, 2013 )), [http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1980/hse_coge.html 1980] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180204/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1980/hse_coge.html |date=September 28, 2013 )), [http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1981/hse_coge.html 1981] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180210/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1981/hse_coge.html |date=September 28, 2013 )), [http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1982/hse_coge.html 1982] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180214/http://www.conservative.org/ratingsarchive/uscongress/1982/hse_coge.html |date=September 28, 2013 )), [http://www.acuratings.org/ratingsarchive/1983/hse_coge.html 1983] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627035157/http://www.acuratings.org/ratingsarchive/1983/hse_coge.html |date=June 27, 2007 )); retrieved August 26, 2009.</ref> He also scored "perfect or near perfect ratings" on the congressional scorecards of the [[National Right to Life Committee]], [[Gun Owners of America]], and the [[American Security Council Foundation|American Security Council]].<ref name="tna_rlm">((Citation|date=September 8, 2003|title=Remembering Larry McDonald|magazine=The New American|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-24528832_ITM|access-date=August 26, 2009))</ref>

McDonald admired [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]]<ref>((citation|last=McDonald|first=Larry P.|title=Remarks of the Honorable Larry P. McDonald of Georgia: On the occasion of the 24th annual memorial services commemorating the death of U.S. Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy|publisher=Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Educational Foundation|year=1981))</ref> and was a member of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation. He hired former staffers of the [[House Un-American Activities Committee|House Committee on Un-American Activities]] to work in his own congressional office to continue their research on left-wing groups, which was shared with law enforcement.<ref name="Politico" /> He considered communism an international conspiracy. An admirer of [[Austrian School|Austrian economics]] and a member of the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]], he advocated tight monetary policy in the late 1970s against [[stagflation]], and advocated returning to the [[gold standard]].<ref>"[http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/5goldmyths.htm Five Myths About the Gold Standard]" by Rep. Larry McDonald and Rep. [[Ron Paul]] (R-Texas). ''[[Congressional Record]]'', Vol. 127, No. 28; February 23, 1981; retrieved January 21, 2010.</ref>((Third-party inline|date=April 2022)) He displayed a portrait of [[Francisco Franco]], the Spanish dictator, in his office.<ref name="Politico" />

McDonald called the [[welfare state]] a "disaster"<ref name="passing_laws">((YouTube|lIdEWAb8j9I|"Rep. Larry McDonald explains why Congress needs to stop passing laws")). YouTube; retrieved August 26, 2009.</ref> and favored phasing control of the [[Great Society]] programs over to the states.<ref name="royal">((citation|last=Royal|first=David|date=August 20, 1982|title=7th District Race for U.S. Congress: Incumbent Larry McDonald cites 'favorable record'|newspaper=Rome News-Tribune|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19820820&id=QcoHAAAAIBAJ&pg=4791,3152211|access-date=August 26, 2009))((Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref> He also favored cuts to [[foreign aid]], which he said "you could take a chainsaw to".<ref name="royal"/> McDonald co-sponsored a resolution "expressing the sense of the Congress that homosexual acts and the class of individuals who advocate such conduct shall never receive special consideration or a protected status under law".<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/29|title=H.Con.Res.29|website=congress.gov|date=February 17, 1981|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=September 3, 2017))</ref>

He advocated the use of the non-approved drug [[Amygdalin|laetrile]] to treat patients in advanced stages of cancer<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4045|title=H.R.4045 - 96th Congress (1979-1980)|website=congress.gov|date=May 10, 1979|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=September 3, 2017))</ref> despite medical opinion that such use was [[quackery]].<ref name="ajcn">((cite journal|author=Herbert V.|title=Laetrile: the cult of cyanide. Promoting poison for profit|journal=Am. J. Clin. Nutr.|volume=32|issue=5|pages=1121–58|date=May 1979|pmid=219680|url=http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=219680|doi=10.1093/ajcn/32.5.1121|doi-access=free))</ref><ref>((cite journal|doi=10.1002/1097-0142(19840201)53:3+<815::AID-CNCR2820531334>3.0.CO;2-U|author=Lerner IJ|title=The whys of cancer quackery|journal=Cancer|volume=53|issue=3 Suppl|pages=815–19|date=February 1, 1984|pmid=6362828|s2cid=36332694 |doi-access=free))</ref><ref>((cite journal|author=Nightingale SL|title=Laetrile: the regulatory challenge of an unproven remedy|journal=Public Health Rep|volume=99|issue=4|pages=333–38|year=1984|pmid=6431478|pmc=1424606))</ref> He was ordered to pay thousands of dollars in a laetrile malpractice lawsuit in 1976.<ref name="Politico" /> An investigation by the ''Atlanta Constitution'' later that year found that a friend of McDonald, a Georgia doctor, was asking patients seeking laetrile treatment to make their checks out to the Larry McDonald for Congress campaign.<ref name="Politico" />

McDonald opposed the establishment of a [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Day]],<ref name="law uga">((Citation|last=Wilkes Jr.|first=Donald E.|title=The Death Flight of Larry McDonald|newspaper=[[Flagpole Magazine]]|page=7|date=September 3, 2003|url=http://www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/his36_flight.html|access-date=August 24, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314091507/http://www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/his36_flight.html|archive-date=March 14, 2012))</ref> saying the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] had evidence that King "was associated with and being manipulated by communists and secret communist agents".<ref name="tragic_irony">((citation|date=September 2, 1983|title=McDonald's peers note tragic irony|newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I9kRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6859%2C844160|access-date=August 26, 2009))((Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref> 
A firearms enthusiast and game hunter, McDonald reportedly had "about 200" guns at his official district residence.<ref>((citation|date=March 30, 1977|title=Congressman Reportedly Helped to Stockpile Guns|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=18|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/30/archives/congressman-reportedly-helped-to-stockpile-guns.html|access-date=August 26, 2009))</ref>

In 1979, with [[John Rees (journalist)|John Rees]] and [[Major General]] [[John K. Singlaub]], McDonald founded the [[Western Goals Foundation]]. According to ''[[The Spokesman-Review]]'', it was intended to "blunt subversion, terrorism, and communism" by filling the gap "created by the disbanding of the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] and what [McDonald] considered to be the crippling of the FBI during the 1970s". McDonald became the chairman of the John Birch Society in 1983, succeeding [[Robert W. Welch, Jr.|Robert Welch]].<ref name="tragic_irony"/>((Dead link|date=March 2022)) At the time of his death, Western Goals was being sued by the ACLU for obtaining illegal Los Angeles Police Department Intelligence Files from 1975 that had been ordered destroyed and computerizing them in a database on a $100,000 computer in Long Beach at the house of an attorney connected to the [[United States Intelligence Community|U.S. intelligence community]]. Many of these files concerned individuals from Ronald Reagan's term as Governor of California, and it was speculated that Western Goals was using these files to [[blackmail]] figures in the Reagan Presidential Administration.<ref>((cite news |last1=Brussell |first1=Mae |title=Who Killed Congressman Larry McDonald? |url=https://archive.org/details/brussell-mae.-who-killed-congressman-larry-mc-donald-hustler-february-1984 |work=Hustler Magazine |publisher=Larry Flynt |date=February 1984))</ref>((Better source needed|date=November 2021))

McDonald opposed the [[Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area]] in his own district because he did not believe the federal government could constitutionally own national parks.<ref>((Cite web |date=June 4, 1976 |title=Committee OKs $7 Million for Chattahoochee Park |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/398827838/?terms=chattahoochee%20river%20national%20recreation%20area&match=1 |access-date=May 3, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Atlanta Constitution |language=en))</ref>

McDonald rarely spoke on the House floor, preferring to insert material into the ''[[Congressional Record]]''.<ref name="tragic_irony"/> These insertions typically dealt with foreign policy issues relating to the Soviet Union and domestic issues centered on the growth of non-Soviet and Soviet sponsored leftist subversion. A number of McDonald's insertions relating to the [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]] were collected into a book, ''Trotskyism and Terror: The Strategy of Revolution'', published in 1977.<ref>[[Medford Stanton Evans|Evans, M. Stanton]] (1977). Introduction. ''Trotskyism and Terror: The Strategy of Revolution''. By Larry McDonald. Washington, D.C.: ACU Education and Research Institute. pp. 2–3.</ref>((Primary source inline|date=November 2021))

===Legislation introduced===
During his time in Congress, McDonald introduced over 150 bills, including legislation to:((Third-party inline|date=April 2022))
* Repeal the [[Gun Control Act of 1968]].
* Remove the limitation upon the amount of outside income a [[Social Security (U.S.)|Social Security]] recipient may earn.
* Award honorary U.S. citizenship to Russian dissident [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]].<ref>((cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Lawrence |title=House Concurrent Resolution 348 - A concurrent resolution to award honorary United States citizenship to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/94th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/348?s=7&r=999 |website=Congress.gov |date=July 17, 1975 |access-date=July 3, 2019))</ref>
* Invite Solzhenitsyn to address a joint meeting of Congress.<ref>((cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Lawrence |title=House Concurrent Resolution 353 - Concurrent resolution to invite Alexandr Solzhenitsyn to address a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and Senate. |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/94th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/353?s=7&r=998 |website=Congress.gov |date=July 22, 1975 |access-date=July 3, 2019))</ref>
* Prohibit Federal funds from being used to finance the purchase of American agricultural commodities by any Communist country.
* Create a select committee in the House of Representatives to conduct an investigation of human rights abuses in Southeast Asia by Communist forces.
* Repeal the [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] regulations against editorializing and support of political candidates by noncommercial educational broadcasting stations.
* Create a House Committee on Internal Security.
* Impeach UN Ambassador [[Andrew Young]].
* Limit eligibility for appointment and admission to any United States service academy to men.
* Direct the [[Comptroller General of the United States]] to audit the gold held by the United States annually.
* Increase the national speed limit to ((convert|65|mph|kph)) from the then-prevailing national speed limit of ((convert|55|mph|kph)).
* Abolish the [[Federal Election Commission]].
* Pull the U.S. out of the [[United Nations]].
* Place statues of African American leaders [[Booker T. Washington]] and [[George Washington Carver]] in the U.S. Capitol.<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/member/larry-mcdonald/M000413 Representative Lawrence P. McDonald (1935 - 1983)] at ''Congress.gov''.</ref>

==Death==
((Main|Korean Air Lines Flight 007))
McDonald was invited to [[South Korea]] to attend a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the United States–South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty with three fellow members of Congress, Senator [[Jesse Helms]] of [[North Carolina]], Senator [[Steve Symms]] of [[Idaho]], and Representative [[Carroll Hubbard]] of [[Kentucky]].<ref>((Citation|last=Johnson|first=R. W.|author-link=R. W. Johnson|title=Shootdown: Flight 007 and the American Connection|publisher=Viking Penguin|year=1986|location=New York, N.Y.|pages=3–4))</ref> Due to bad weather on Sunday, August 28, 1983, McDonald's flight from [[Atlanta]] was diverted to [[Baltimore]] and when he finally arrived at [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK Airport]] in New York, he had missed his connection to South Korea by two or three minutes.<ref name="law uga"/>

McDonald could have boarded a [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]] [[Boeing 747]] flight to Seoul, but he preferred the lower fares of [[Korean Air|Korean Air Lines]] and chose to wait for the next KAL flight two days later.<ref name="law uga"/> Simultaneously, Hubbard and Helms planned to meet with McDonald to discuss how to join McDonald on the KAL 007 flight. As the delays mounted, instead of joining McDonald, Hubbard at the last minute gave up on the trip, canceled his reservations, and accepted a Kentucky speaking engagement. Helms attempted to join McDonald but was also delayed.<ref>((Citation|last=Farber|first=Stephen|title=TELEVISION; Why Sparks Flew in Retelling the Tale of Flight 007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 27, 1988|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/27/arts/television-why-sparks-flew-in-retelling-the-tale-of-flight-007.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|access-date=August 24, 2009))</ref>

McDonald occupied an aisle seat, 02B in the first class section, when KAL 007 took off on August 31 at 12:24 AM local time, on a ((convert|3400|mi|km)) trip to [[Anchorage, Alaska]] for a scheduled stopover seven hours later. The plane remained on the ground for an hour and a half during which it was refueled, reprovisioned, cleaned, and serviced.<ref name="law uga"/> The passengers were given the option of leaving the aircraft but McDonald remained on the plane, catching up on his sleep. Helms meanwhile had managed to arrive and invited McDonald to move onto his flight, KAL 015, but McDonald did not wish to be disturbed.

With a fresh flight crew, KAL 007 took off at 4 AM local time for its scheduled non-stop flight over the Pacific to [[Seoul]]'s [[Gimpo International Airport|Kimpo International Airport]], a nearly ((convert|4500|mi|km)) flight that would take approximately eight hours.<ref name="law uga"/> On September 1, 1983, McDonald and the rest of the passengers and crew of KAL 007 were killed when Soviet fighters, under the command of Gen. [[Anatoly Kornukov]], shot down KAL 007 near [[Moneron Island]] after the plane entered Soviet airspace.

==Aftermath==
McDonald became a martyr for his fans, who thought he was assassinated in a communist conspiracy. According to his widow, [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|President Reagan]] was reluctant to take actions against the Soviet Union.<ref>((Cite web |last=Dallek |first=Matthew |date=28 Apr 2023 |title=Opinions ((!)) Before Marjorie Taylor Greene, there was Larry McDonald |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/opinions-before-marjorie-taylor-greene-there-was-larry-mcdonald/ar-AA1ateF7 |access-date=9 Jun 2023 |website=MSN |publisher=Washington Post))</ref>

After McDonald's death, a special election was held to fill his seat in the House. Former Governor [[Lester Maddox]] stated his intention to run for the seat if McDonald's widow, Kathy McDonald, did not.<ref>((citation|date=September 8, 1983|title=Maddox Says He May Seek McDonald's Seat in House|newspaper=[[The Miami Herald]]|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB35D7828C0FA3A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=August 26, 2009))</ref>

Kathy McDonald did decide to run, but lost to [[George Darden|George "Buddy" Darden]].

===Tribute===
There is a [[cenotaph]] placed for him at Crest Lawn Cemetery in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].

On March 18, 1998, the [[Georgia House of Representatives]], "to preserve the memory of the sacrifice and service of this able and outstanding Georgian and recognize his service to the people of his district", named the portion of [[Interstate 75 in Georgia|Interstate 75]], which runs from the [[Chattahoochee River]] northward to the [[Tennessee]] state line in his honor, the [[Interstate 75 in Georgia|Larry McDonald Memorial Highway]].<ref>((cite web |title=HR 1098 - Larry McDonald Memorial Highway; designate |url=http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/Archives/19971998/leg/fulltext/hr1098.htm |website=Georgia House of Representatives |access-date=December 10, 2018))</ref>

==Bibliography==
'''Articles'''
* “Why Does Spotlight Attack the Real Anti-Communists?” ''[[Congressional Record]]'', September 9, 1981.((Third-party inline|date=April 2022))

'''Books'''
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* ''We Hold These Truths: A Reverent Review of the U.S. Constitution''. Seal Beach, CA: '76 Press, 1976. ((ISBN|0892450053)).((Citation needed|date=October 2020))
::Revised edition: Larry McDonald Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1992. ((ISBN|978-0963280909)).
*[https://archive.org/download/TrotskyismAndTerrorTheStrategyOfRevolutionRepLawrenceMcDonald1977114pgsSOC.sml_201905/Trotskyism_And_Terror-The%20Strategy_Of_Revolution-Rep_Lawrence_McDonald-1977-114pgs-SOC.sml.pdf ''Trotskyism and Terror: The Strategy of Revolution''.] Introduction by [[M. Stanton Evans]]. Foreword by Marx Lewis. Washington, D.C.: ACU Education and Research Institute, 1977.

'''Contributed works'''
* “Introduction.” ''The Rockefeller File'', by [[Gary Allen]]. Seal Beach, CA: '76 Press, 1976. ((ISBN|0892450010)).((Citation needed|date=October 2020))
* “China in Africa.” ''Sino-Soviet Intervention in Africa'', by [[Roger Pearson (anthropologist)|Roger Pearson]]. Washington, D.C.: Council on American Affairs, 1977. ((OCLC|3100665)).
* ''The Future of the United Nations: A Roundtable Discussion'' (Audiobook). Washington, D.C.: [[American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]], 1977. ((OCLC|2914756)).
::Remarks on the UN, its past and future, and its relations with the [[United States]].((Third-party inline|date=April 2022))

'''Articles by other authors'''
* Dorman, Zach. [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/02/larry-mcdonald-communists-deep-state-222726 “The Congressman Who Created His Own Deep State. Really.”]. ''[[Politico]]'', December 2, 2018.

==See also==
((portal|Biography|Conservatism|Politics))
* [[Boll weevil (politics)]]
* [[John G. Schmitz]]
* [[John Rarick]]
* [[United States Congress members killed or wounded in office]]
* [[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99)]]
* [[Willem Witteveen]], another politician who got killed when an airliner was shot down
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==References==
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==External links==
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*((CongBio|M000413))
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3100752722910819372 Larry McDonald on Crossfire in 1983]
*((webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20010918125924/http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200104171.shtml |date=September 18, 2001 |title="KAL 007 Mystery", Timothy Maier, ''Insight Magazine'' ))
*[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015034850183;view=1up;seq=7 Larry P. McDonald, late a representative]
*[https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/rrn1c Lawrence Patton McDonald congressional papers, circa 1974-1983]

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