FD-350 clipping: Herald Examiner 'NEWS FOCUS' D.B. Cooper article (serial 164-81-8192)
Document date 16 December 1979
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 43 p. 101 (DB Cooper-17294), News clipping, dated 16 Dec 1979, serial SE 164-81-8192 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-43%3A101-101
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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 12/16/79 Edition: Sunday Latest
Title: NEWS FOCUS
Character: or CAA Classifi[ ] b6 Submitting [ ] b7C Los Angeles
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Search for 1971 hijacker leads to mysterious ex-con
The year was 1971. It was a dark, stormy Thanksgiving period. There is at least [illegible] Eve in Portland, Ore., and evidence that D.B. Cooper was an at the busy Portland Inter- ex-con named Byron "Jack" Coffelt national Airport, everyone seemed who survived the jump and es- to want to be somewhere else this caped. The FBI and various media night, preferably with family and outlets have spent considerable loved ones preparing for the next time investigating the Coffelt- day's feast. Cooper connection, yet his story A middle-age man, dressed in a [guess: berserker] before been published. black suit, white shirt and thin black tie and wearing a hat, walked up to the Northwest Airlines counter. The man, who was about 6 feet tall and of medium build and carried a briefcase, gave his name as Dan Cooper and paid cash for a one-way ticket on Flight 305 to Seattle. The ticket agent punched the wrong key and the name came out "D.B. Cooper"
A few minutes after takeoff, the misnamed passenger handed a stewardess a note threatening to blow up the plane with a hidden bomb if he didn't receive $200,000 cash and four parachutes. The plane went to Seattle, where an FBI agent brought the ransom to the cabin door and handed it to a stewardess. Then, as the plane continued on toward Reno, Nev., with its rear door open, as the hijacker had instructed, D.B. Cooper jumped into the night — and became a legend in American crime.
The massive manhunt that began the next day in the mountainous terrain that Cooper jumped into was only the beginning. In the eight years since the famous inci- dent, the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation has expended thousands of man-hours tracking down leads on some 900 suspects. Yet, the official line is still that an unknown man hijacked Flight 305 that night and probably died in the parachute jump — though his body, the chutes and the money were never found in the wild, uninhabited Cascade Mountains.
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SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED [checked] FILED JAN 1/1980 [illegible] SEATTLE
FBI/DOJ DB Cooper-17294
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Serials: SE 164-81-8192