When His Pilot Died Mid-Flight, Wyoming Attorney General Had To Take The Controls

(Courtesy Richard Barrett) Arrow left Arrow right‘Are You OK?’“So, I called out, ‘George, are you OK?’” Barrett recalled. Not Mechanically InclinedSon Richard Barrett, 72, a retired Cheyenne attorney, said his dad was someone who probably didn’t know the difference between a Phillips-head and common screwdriver. Family Learns About CrashBack in Cheyenne at the Barrett home, Richard Barrett, then 17, remembers that evening their doorbell rang. They were taken by the highway patrolman to the hospital and walked into the room where James Barrett was being treated. James Barrett continued as Wyoming’s attorney general into 1971.