FD-350 clipping: "Cooper, dead or alive?" (part one) by Larry Steward, The Daily World, Aberdeen, 11/26/75
Document date 26 November 1975
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 168 (DB Cooper-23097), News clipping, dated 26 Nov 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A168-168
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D.B. Cooper, dead or alive?
By LARRY STEWARD World Staff Writer (First of two articles)
D. B. Cooper died on Thanksgiving Day four years ago.
After he wrapped the 10,000 $20 bills around him with one of the four parachutes he received with the ransom he demanded for the safety of a Nor- thwest Airlines 727, its crew and passengers, he parachuted from the plane -- 10,000 feet down into Lake Merwin near Woodland.
Cooper, unable to swim in the frigid water of the glacier-fed reservoir, was pulled to his watery grave by the 24.5 pounds of money he carried and the extra weight of his parachute.
AT LEAST that's one man's theory -- Special FBI Agent Thomas Manning of Longview.
Manning shared that theory with the Grays Harbor Footprinters at their recent monthly meeting in Hoquiam.
The agent is in charge of the D. B. Cooper search, one of Washington's most intriguing mysteries.
Seven men have since tried what D. B. Cooper did and all of those parachuting 727 skyjackers have been apprehended within hours after they have tried to pull off the same caper.
But Cooper either died that Thanksgiving night when he leaped from
the plane over Woodland or he managed to survive the jump and has eluded capture.
IF HE IS still alive, Manning told the Footprinters, he will be brought to justice.
"Did Cooper pull off the perfect crime? I don't think so. This one will be solved," Manning said.
Despite his theories that the man known as D. B. Cooper died in Lake Merwin, the FBI agent said the case is still open and the agency is continuing to check out leads.
HE SAID 700 suspects have been checked out so far and he expects more to come.
But dead or alive, four years of in- vestigation into the Cooper case has failed to turn up a single clue as to the man's real identity or location.
When the skyjacker stepped onto the plane in Portland, he was known as Dan Cooper. That is the way he signed for his ticket to Seattle.
SHORTLY after the plane left the ground, the man handed a stewardess a note that said he had a bomb and showed her a satchel of what is now believed to have been highway flares, not dynamite.
The plane landed in Seattle and the $200,000 in ransom, along with the four parachutes were given Cooper and the 36 passengers onboard were allowed to leave the plane.
Cooper, after discussions with the (Continued on A-8)
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Page 1 "The Daily World" Aberdeen, Wa.
Date: 11/26/75 Edition: Author: Editor: Title: NORJAK
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated
164-81 ~SubB
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SEARCHED........INDEXED SERIALIZED [checked] FILED [checked] DEC 9 1975
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DB Cooper-23097
Serials: SE 164-81