Re Jess Hatfield and search area residents (Clark County)
Document date 28 November 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 pp. 127–128 (DB Cooper-22465–22466), News clipping, dated 28 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A127-128
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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In Brazil – or Woodland $200,000 question: Who pushed on door at midnight?
By DAVE BIRKLAND
Jess Hatfield spit over the railing on his porch. "Yeah," he muttered, "it could have been him all right." Hatfield lives in Clark County, five miles south of Woodland, Cowlitz County, in the heart of the area where the Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching for the hijacker who parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines jet with $200,000. Hatfield, 75, who has four acres in the Denny Creek area, said someone tried to get into his home Wednesday about midnight, the night of the hijacking. "I was up reading when I heard a noise at the side window," Hatfield said. His wife, son-in-law, daughter and two grandchildren had gone to bed. "He tried the knob and pushed on the back door," Hatfield said. "One more push and he would have had a bullet through him. I was ready to shoot him right through the panel."
After he heard the noise he got a shotgun and rifle and put them by his chair, he said. But the person who had tried Hatfield's back door didn't push again, and Hatfield never fired, and it was too "leafy" to see any footprints the next day, Hatfield said. Earlier Wednesday Hatfield had been in Woodland, where he heard about the hijacking of the Boeing 727. The search is being concentrated in Clark County, a fact that makes Hatfield a little edgy. He keeps his rifle by his bed. He said, "You don't catch me sleeping very sound." Speculation is heard in Woodland bars and restaurants
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Date: 11/28/71 Edition: Sunday Author: Dave Birkland Editor: Henry McLeod Title: UNSUB; aka Dan Cooper; Northwest Air- linesF1.305, Portland Character: to Seattle, 11/2 or CAA-HIJACKING; EXT Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated COPY SENT TO BUREAU
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DB Cooper-22465
that the hijacker had an accomplice and knew the area be- said yesterday's search of a 20 square-mile area turned up fore he parachuted. nothing new in the hilly, wooded terrain. Pete Paulson, a roofer from Woodland, said, "hell, the The search was hampered by low clouds and mist. A guy's probably in Brazil by now." deputy sheriff returning from a helicopter search over the The hijacker knew the area, he had probably flown area said it was possible to fly only to 1,100 feet before over it three or four times and he had someone meet him mist and fog obscured vision. on the ground, Paulson and others speculated. A heavy rain had begun when yesterday's search was With an edge of envy in his voice, Paulson said, "From called off at 2:10 p. m. A dirt airstrip which parallels In- what I've read he seemed like a nice guy, he didn't hurt terstate 5 in East Woodland was used as a base. anybody." Manning was asked if the hijacking may become a plot Tom Manning, F. B. I. agent in charge of the search, for an F. B. I. television series. "It could," he smiled, "but only if we catch 'em."
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DB Cooper-22466
Serials: SE 164-81