Handwritten citizen tip letter re a man claiming to have jumped from an airplane and 'Joe Cooper'
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Id: Cooper-Part-42:164-166
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-42:164-166 Document: Handwritten citizen tip letter re a man claiming to have jumped from an airplane and 'Joe Cooper' Id: Cooper-Part-42:164-166 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A164-166 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 42 pp. 164–166, Handwritten note — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A164-166
Can't they [guess: touch] you? He said "Cause it's been five years, and the Statute of Limitations runs out tonight at midnight, and I'm celebrating." He told my son he had done something and jumped out of an air plane and escaped. He said he knew the forest well, that he had taken survival training when he was with the rangers. He was trained to jump from a plane, and survive on berries or any thing he could find. He said they would give them one chicken and tell them to keep the chicken untill they couldn't find any thing else to eat, and so as long as they could with out food. Then kill the chicken, and eat that. He said the F.B.I was looking for him. That night, I saw the picture on T.V. with out knowing about his conversation with my son. My son told me about the conversation with out
knowing about the S.W. pictures. [REDACTED] Joe Cooper, ran away and left his family in Wilmington, N.C. in 1942. He was not heard from again untill he was killed in a car wreck in California. I think this was the mid. 50s Any way [REDACTED] Joe [REDACTED] had left to his wife Lizzie here in Wilmington. The [REDACTED] [REDACTED] I have never been very close to the family except [REDACTED] Lizzie, who died in the late 50s. So I didn't know [REDACTED] [REDACTED] untill about a year ago. (I have known him three years) He is nerveous, very watchful, he turns his back to the wall, and always faces the door. If an officer comes in he is tense and uptight untill he leaves. All the time pulling at his beard. He never pulls his jacket or hat [over]
[redacted] off. We tricked him into taking his hat off and every one that saw the picture on I V said with out his hat he looked just like the Guy on T.V. He wears a [redacted], [guess: weighs] about [guess: an] inch longer on both. A western felt hat (black) dark shades and a jacket at all times. He weighs about 250 lbs. [redacted] in speech. He is heavily armed at all times. Guns in both boots, on the inside and out side coat pockets also guns under the front seat of his car. He is quiet, but quick tempered. He also has a [redacted]. They are [redacted] I know [redacted]. [redacted] He [redacted] for Union Carbide in Wilmington N.C. He is known as [redacted] I won't tell you who I am, because the crowd he is with is dangerous. Signed [redacted]