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Barbara Kay Olson ( December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for FOX News, CNN and several other outlets. She was married to United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson.
In the mid 1990s, she was a chief investigator for the House Government Reform Committee. She was later a staff lawyer for Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles, before branching out on her own as a TV commentator and private lawyer. She was a frequent critic of the Clinton administration and wrote a book about First Lady Hillary Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House (published December 2001) when she died. She had been a professional ballet dancer when younger, and had also been a prosecutor.
She was a passenger on board American Airlines Flight 77Pentagon American Airlines Flight 77 was a morning flight that routinely flew from Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington DC, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California (IAD-LAX). On September, on her way to a taping of Politically IncorrectPolitically Incorrect was a late-night political talk show hosted by Bill Maher first on Comedy Central and later on ABC, which cancelled it in 2002. Maher would interview four guests simultaneously who sat around him in front of a studio audience. The sh in Los Angeles, when it was flown into the PentagonThe Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. It was dedicated on January 15, 1943 and it is the world's largest office building. Those who work within its walls often simply call it "The Building" or, less reverently, "Fort in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. She had reported the hijacking to her husband twice by phone about 20 minutes before the plane hit the Pentagon.
She was the subject of a eulogy by her husband at the Federalist SocietyThe Federalist Society began at Yale Law School in 1982 as a student organization that challenged what it saw as the orthodox liberal ideology found in most law schools. Its members argued that, while some members of the academic community dissented from on November 16November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. Events 534 A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. 1384 Hedwig is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman., 2001. The occasion was the launching of the annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lectures. These lectures have a theme of "Limited Government and the Spirit of Freedom", to quote from the Society's website.
See Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.
Olson, Barbara
Olson, Barbara
Olson, Barbara
