title: Barbara Olson
text: Barbara Kay Olson (née Bracher; December 27, 1955September 11, 2001) was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.
  
  Early life
  Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas, on December 27, 1955. Her older sister, Toni Bracher-Lawrence, was a member of the Houston City Council from 2004 to 2010. She graduated from Waltrip High School.
  
  Personal life
  She married Theodore Olson in 1996, becoming his third wife.
  
  Olson was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). Olson's second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House was published posthumously.
  
  Death and legacy
  
  Olson was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, on her way to a taping of Politically Incorrect in Los Angeles, when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.
  
  Her original plan had been to fly to California on September 10, but she waited until the next day so that she could wake up with her husband on his birthday, September 11. At the National September 11 Memorial, Olson's name is located on Panel S-70 of the South Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 77.
  
  Three months after the attacks, Olson's remains were identified. She was buried at her family's retreat in Wisconsin.
  
  In popular culture 
  Canadian actress Marsha Mason portrayed Barbara Olson in the Canadian TV series Mayday Season 16: Episode 2 (2016) called "9/11: The Pentagon Attack".
  
  Books
  
  References
  
  External links
  
   
   
   
   Wife of Solicitor General alerted him of hijacking from plane
   Barbara Olson Mourned at Arlington Service
   Barbara Olson: A Sparkling Celebrity 'Full of Energy' Newsday.com-Victims Search
   Alfred S. Regnery (September 17, 2001). "Barbara Olson, RIP". Human Events/BNet Research Center.
  
  1955 births
  2001 deaths
  20th-century American lawyers
  20th-century American non-fiction writers
  20th-century American women lawyers
  20th-century American women writers
  21st-century American lawyers
  21st-century American non-fiction writers
  21st-century American women lawyers
  21st-century American women writers
  American Airlines Flight 77 victims
  American political commentators
  American political writers
  American women television personalities
  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law alumni
  Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
  Lawyers from Houston
  People murdered in Virginia
  Terrorism deaths in Virginia
  University of St. Thomas (Texas) alumni
  Washington, D.C., Republicans
  Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr associates
  Television personalities from Texas
  Yeshiva University alumni