Feature article 'Parting Shots: The Skyjacker Who Vanished into Thin Air'
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-07:001-001 Document: Feature article 'Parting Shots: The Skyjacker Who Vanished into Thin Air' Id: Cooper-Part-07:001-001 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-07%3A001-001 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 7 p. 1, News clipping — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-07%3A001-001
PARTING SHOTS
The Skyjacker Who Vanished into thin air
The country has a way of [adopting] young, [deputy], [championing] through the midst a ridge of the Cascade Mountains in southwest Washington. 'They tell us Cooper bailed out and landed back of that mountain. But who really knows?'
These thick[et] [timbered] woods have become the graveyard for secrets of lost hunters and strayed children. Now, they also seem to have swallowed up the secret of 'D. B. Cooper,' the first of the parachuting hijackers and, [cur-] rently, the only one not in cus- tody. No tangible trace of him has been found since he bailed out that back door of a Northwest Orient [727] jet [Thanksgiving Eve]. He was dressed in a business suit, top coat and brown oxfords; and, he had $200,000 in ransom strapped to his chest. This exploit has become a leg- end in the Northwest. A [meeting] [later] arrested Cooper [illegible] [illegible remainder of right column]