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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 en route to a taping of television show
Politically Incorrect when it was flown into
the Pentagon in the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
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 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Saint Thomas in Houston.
Olson became a professional dancer, performing with the
San Francisco Ballet and the
Harkness Ballet in
New York City. She switched careers and went to Hollywood to work as an assistant producer for television and movies. As a newcomer, she achieved a surprising measure of success, working for
HBO and
Stacey Keach Productions. When she'd raised enough money, she quit to pursue her dream. She earned 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 where she did civil litigation for several years before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney. In 1994, she left to work for the
United States House of Representatives, becoming chief investigative counsel for the
House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. In that position, she led the
Travelgate and
Filegate investigations into the Clinton administration. She co-founded the
Independent Women's Forum with
Rosalie Silberman. She was later a partner in the
Washington, D.C. office of the
Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.
She married
Theodore Olson in 1996.
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 (1999). Olson was working on her second book,
The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House (published October 2001) at the time of her death. She was a resident of
Great Falls, Virginia.
Death
Olson 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.
Memorial lectures
The
Federalist Society has established the Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lectures, "an annual lecture on limited government and the spirit of freedom",
held every November. The first lecture was a eulogy for her by her husband.
Subsequent speakers have included Justice
Antonin Scalia, Vice President
Dick Cheney, and Chief Justice
John G. Roberts.
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)
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