FD-350 clipping: Daily Chronicle editorial 'Knuckle-Headed Thinking'
Document date 18 December 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 100 (DB Cooper-22438), News clipping, dated 18 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A100-100
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Knuckle-Headed Thinking
As amazing as it may appear to some of us "square heads," the legend of D. B. Cooper, "Robin Hood of the airways," persists.
A man with the pseudonym D. B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner between Portland and Seattle Nov. 24, claimed $200,000 in ransom and presumably parachuted out of the airplane with his loot.
Since then, there have been "D. B. Cooper" sweatshirts; a high school class (which shall remain nameless) has lauded the hijacker as a man who "is pretty darn smart, and we're proud of him!" The same class extolled him as being a cut above the "normal nut." And "the establishment" has been chided by some as "getting its just desserts."
A recent development is a telephone call to The Wenatchee World. "Don't put the young people down. If they're bitter about the system and the establishment, it's because they have a reason. They've seen the double standard under which business operates. And they don't respect it." That, in part, was the gist of the remarks by an anonymous telephone caller, as reported on the editorial page of the newspaper. This came after the newspaper had editorially expressed shock because some people have "lorified the hijacker.
The attack on business and industry (the establishment) is a childish reaction to a criminal act.
How many businesses can absorb a $200,000 loss without suffering the effects?
Business and industry provide the jobs and the taxes that keep this nation moving; that provide income; that provide schooling.
An appropirate analogy for this type of knuckle-headed thinking would be for the children to laugh when their mother breaks a leg, or when their father loses his job.
Parents are part of the establishment — which represents control, discipline and security.
Perhaps it would be better if we could all return to nature and live off the land. We can't. Our society has advanced too far to permit that kind of upheaval. Only an idiot would argue otherwise.
And only a person whose thinking has subsided to moronic levels would worship D. B. Cooper, or whatever his name is.
He is, or was, an outlaw, a criminal; a robber whose actions threatened the lives of many people.
The act of air piracy will only lose its lure and allure when enough hijackings have been thwarted and those who attempt them are punished severely.
Control of hijackings is basically a law enforcement problem — and part of our "new" society which has seen its criminal laws weakened by judicial loopholes and diluted concepts of punishment.
The time for a reversal of the trend is here.
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Daily Chronicle Centralia, Wash.
Date: 12/18/71 Edition: Author: Editor: Tom Koenninger Title: NORJACK
Character: CAA-HIJACKING; or EXT Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle
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SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED............FILED. 1571 FBI-SEATTLE
DB Cooper-22438
Serials: SE 164-81