FD-350 clipping: Los Angeles Herald Examiner "News Focus" on the Cooper hijacking, 12/16/79
Document date 16 December 1979
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Id: Cooper-Part-54:122-122
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-54:122-122 Document: FD-350 clipping: Los Angeles Herald Examiner "News Focus" on the Cooper hijacking, 12/16/79 Id: Cooper-Part-54:122-122 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A122-122 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 54 p. 122 (DB Cooper-23048), News clipping, dated 16 Dec 1979, serial SE 164-81-9194 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A122-122
[clipping info header] the page, name of newspaper, city and state) A-1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 12/16/79 Edition: Sunday Litest
Title: NEWS FOCUS
Character: or CAA Classi[fication] b6 Submit[ting office] b7C [guess: LOS] ANGELES
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... he [guess: year] [illegible] it was a dark, [guess: stormy] Thanksgiving [guess: eve] there is [illegible] to [guess: suggest] that Eve in Portland, Ore., and evidence that D.B. Cooper was an [illegible] at the [illegible] a [guess: mild] inter[illegible] named Byron "Jack" Coffelt [illegible] a [guess: someone] who survived the jump and es- to [illegible] [illegible] [guess: also did] caped. The FBI and various media night, [guess: prefer] [illegible] [guess: family] and outlets have spent considerable loved ones [guess: prefer] [illegible] the [guess: anti] [guess: climax] investigating the Coffelt- day's feast. A [guess: middle-aged] [illegible], [guess: dressed] in [illegible] [guess: before] [guess: been] [illegible] black suit, [illegible] [guess: black] and thin black tie on, [illegible] [guess: walked] up to the [guess: Northwest] Airlines counter[illegible] [illegible] [guess: about 6] feet, [guess: and] [illegible] [guess: return] [guess: build] and carried a [illegible] [illegible] [guess: a] [illegible] name as [guess: Dan] Co[oper] [illegible] [guess: paid] cash for a one-way [guess: flight] [illegible] $[guess: 18] [illegible] to Seattle. [guess: The] [illegible] [guess: great] [guess: purchased] the [guess: wrong] [illegible] [illegible] the [guess: crime] came [guess: out] [illegible]. [illegible]
[illegible] a [illegible] [illegible] [guess: the] [guess: coffin], the [guess: frightened] [guess: passenger] boarded a stewardess [illegible] [guess: and] threatening to blow up the [illegible] [illegible] with a hidden bomb if he [guess: 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. [guess: Then], as the plane continued on toward Reno, Nev., with its rear door open, as the hijacker had instructed, D.B. Cooper [guess: 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 [guess: accumulated] thousands of [guess: man-hours] [guess: tracking] down leads on some [guess: 900] suspects. Yet, the official line [guess: is] still [guess: that] an unknown man [guess: major] [guess: FBI] [illegible] that night and probably died in the parachute jump -- [guess: though] his body, the [guess: chute] and the money were never found [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [guess: established] [guess: precise] [illegible] [illegible].
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SUB B 164-81-[guess: 9194]
SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED JAN 1980 b6 b7C
FBI/DOJ DB Cooper-23048
Serials: SE 164-81-9194