A Delta Airlines DC-9-30 similar to the one involved.
     
   

Sam Byck was an American hijacker and attempted assassin
who on February 22, 1974 attempted to hijack a Delta Airlines
jet flying out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport,
intending to crash into the White House in the hopes of killing
President Richard Nixon.

In fact, Byck killed a policeman and a pilot, but was shot and
wounded by another policeman before committing suicide.

Samuel Joseph Byck
(January 30, 1930 – February 22, 1974)

A film based on his story, The Assassination of
Richard Nixon, was released in 2004.

The film starred Sean Penn as Bicke (the surname
spelling having been changed)

    
ROSS SIMPSON

        TIM MAGUIRE    

On February 21, 1948, the National Association for Stock
Car Racing, or NASCAR, as it became to be widely known.
was officially incorporated. NASCAR racing went on to
become one of America’s most popular spectator sports,
as well as a multi-billion-dollar industry.

The driving force behind the establishment of NASCAR
was William “Bill” France Sr. a mechanic and auto-repair
shop owner from Washington, D.C., who in the mid-1930s
moved to Daytona Beach, Florida.

After witnessing how racing rules could vary from event
to event and how dishonest promoters could abscond
with prize money, France felt there was a need for a
governing body to sanction and promote racing.

Bill France Sr. or Big Bill (1909 – 1992).