FD-350 clipping 'Search For Skyjacked Bills Revives D.B. Cooper Song'
Document date 13 December 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 7 p. 24, News clipping, dated 13 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-07%3A024-024
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Search For Skyjacked Bills Revives 'D.B. Cooper' Song
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By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer
Remember the song, "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?" Since The Journal made its offer to pay $1,000 for the first $20 bill turned in from the money the man popularly known as D.B. Cooper parachuted into the night with, the song has been played periodically on disc jockey programs. It had almost faded away, but the new Cooper publicity gave it new life. It was written by Judy Sword, 25, of Baker, a guitarist now singing in a Yaki[ma, Wash., supper club. She was in Astoria when the hijack occurred and the name D.B. Cooper was on everyone's lips.] Whether prophetically or not, she wrote lyrics and music within two weeks of the incident and indicated that Cooper died hanging in a tree in the shrouds of a parachute while his stolen money drifted to the ground. The song further emphasized the D.B. Cooper name in the minds of the public in [those first weeks as the search for the hijacker ranged from Seattle to Reno. It enjoyed another brief round of popularity a year ago when FBI agents and Army troops from Ft. Lewis, Wash., combed the woods of Cowlitz County.] And, now it's playing again.
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JUDY SWORD ... writes 'D.B.' song
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Ironically, though, D.B. Cooper is the wrong name. Somehow in the first hours after the hijack the name D.B. Cooper came up and stuck. It may have been because the FBI was checking on an individual whose name really was D.B. Cooper, but he was in jail at the time of the hijack. When the hijacker bought his Portland to Seattle ticket in Portland, he gave the name Dan Cooper. The FBI now officially identifies the man they want as Dan Cooper. That name was obtained by a process of elimination as the only passenger left on the 727 jetliner in Seattle after the hijacker let the other passengers go. Curiously, there was a bona fide Cooper who got off the still-to-be-hijacked plane at Portland. The FBI investigated him and determined that he had not flown on to Seattle and thus could not be the hijacker. His first name was not Dan; it was Michael. Dan Cooper was not the right name for the hijacker in any case, the FBI believes. But whether Dan or D.B. or Rumpelstiltskin Cooper, the FBI would like to talk to him, if he is the hijacker. And The Journal still is willing to pay $1,000 for that first $20 of "Cooper cash" to be turned in. Serial numbers of some of the bills are at right.
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10 THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, ORE[GON]
Date: December 13 Edition: [blank] Author: Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling Title: NORJAK Character: or Bufile Classification: 164-211[illegible] Submitting Office: Portland [X] Being Investigated
Serials: 164-211[illegible], NORJAK