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The 40-year Mystery of America’s Greatest Skyjacking
[The FBI Hunt for DB Cooper]
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| Sunday 31 July 2011
| By Alex Hannaford
Posted on 07/30/2011 7:31:04 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
After hijacking an aeroplane and extorting $200,000 from the FBI, DB Cooper coolly made his escape via parachute. Forty years on, is America’s most elusive fugitive finally in sight?
The night before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper, wearing a suit and raincoat, walked up to the Northwest Orient desk at Portland airport in the United State’s Pacific Northwest and spent $20 on a one-way ticket to Seattle.
On the plane, he donned a pair of dark sunglasses, ordered a whiskey, lit up a cigarette and coolly handed the stewardess a note. In capital letters, it read: I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE. I WILL USE IT IF NECESSARY. I WANT YOU TO SIT NEXT TO ME. YOU ARE BEING HIJACKED.
What happened next would ensure Cooper a place in the pantheon of American folk heroes.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Government; US: Oregon; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 1971; 197111; 19711126; alexhannaford; curtiseng; dancooper; dbcooper; dropzone; faziobrothers; galencook; northwestorient; phonecall4dbcooper; robertblevins; seattlefbi; skydiving; tinabar
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To: Mount Athos
He stole lots of other people’s money, threatened and endangered dozens of innocents. Should we call him a liberal democrat?
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:25:29 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: JRandomFreeper
Have a cigarette and beer for breakfast, growl at the dog. Are you spying on me? You know my Sunday morning routine, LOL!
22
posted on
07/30/2011 8:28:11 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: fight_truth_decay
He became Jimmy James and bought a news radio station in NYC.
23
posted on
07/30/2011 8:28:27 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Enchante
I do admit to enjoying “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” Me too, but that had a lot to do with Katherine Ross. :-)
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:30:11 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
To: fight_truth_decay
His real name is Thomas Crown.
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:30:56 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: fight_truth_decay
Everyone except the FBI knows DB Cooper was actually Hunter S. Thompson!
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:34:24 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
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07/30/2011 8:49:25 PM PDT
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To: Grizzled Bear
uh,.,,,1971....if you were makin $20K you were doin ok....
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:53:03 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
To: Grizzled Bear
$200,000? A fella could live large on that for two years! Quite a bit longer than that.
That would be equivalent to around $2 million today
In 1971 you could buy regular gasoline for around $ .30 cents or as low as $ 19.9 cents a gallon when there was a local gas war.
A pack of Marlboros was $ .30 cents, a new Chevrolet or Ford around $3,500.
The Dow Jones Average was 890 at the close of the year.
The 1971 median income was $9,000.
Disney world opened in 1971 and an adult all day pass was $3.50, a pass for kids under 18 cost $1.00.
The national debt was $424 Billion, and the minimum wage was $1.60 an hour.
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:57:49 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
To: Iron Munro
Trust me. I could live very well on one million a year for two years...
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posted on
07/30/2011 8:58:55 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: fight_truth_decay
This is him...
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:02:03 PM PDT
by
South40
(Palin/Cain 2012!)
To: Iron Munro
I know you were only trying to help...but stop it. You’re depressing me.
I just saw today that a 3-day Disney World pass is $199. *sigh*
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:09:15 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: Enchante
“Butch Cassidy. . .” is a good film because the theme and storyline both revolved around the outlaws’ disgraceful end. The characters (in the film) were likeable but only in the context that their lifestyle was bad.
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:09:23 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: Grizzled Bear
"$200,000? A fella could live large on that for two years!"
After QE3 and 4 you'll need more than that for a loaf of bread and to let your kids ride the mechanical racecar in front of the grocery store.
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:13:56 PM PDT
by
TheVitaminPress
(as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
To: Bernard Marx
I think the authorities in Utah are holding him because he won’t tell them his name. He looks quite a bit older and rougher around the edges.
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:17:08 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: fight_truth_decay
I talked to a NorthWest airlines guy years after-the airline gave him a training parachute-sewn shut so students could learn how to fold it. He used it to jump. Years later hikers found a few bills about twenty miles from where he roman-candled into something, found them in the wash of a stream. The serial numbers matched.
He’s dead, Jim.
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:22:54 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(It takes a darn good reason for me to break down and post something these days.)
To: MHGinTN
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:25:47 PM PDT
by
bornred
To: fight_truth_decay
he donned a pair of dark sunglasses, ordered a whiskey, lit up a cigarette and coolly handed the stewardess a noteExcept for the whole hijacking part, that was great time to fly.
To: Enchante
I do admit to enjoying “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
To: unkus
You can’t be DB Cooper. I just saw him in Durango, Colo.On the choo-choo heading to Silverton?
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posted on
07/30/2011 9:30:14 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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