FD-350 clipping: Emmett Watson 'Puget Sound Fury' column on Darrell Bob Houston TV appearance
Document date 15 November 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-54:188-189 Document: FD-350 clipping: Emmett Watson 'Puget Sound Fury' column on Darrell Bob Houston TV appearance Id: Cooper-Part-54:188-189 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A188-189 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 pp. 188–189 (DB Cooper-23117–23118), News clipping, dated 15 Nov 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A188-189
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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EMMETT WATSON
Puget Sound Fury
HEAT REACHED the blistering point after Thursday eve's "Tonight, Tonite" show on Ch. 5--one featuring Darrell Bob Houston, promoting his new book, "King of The Mid- night Blue," a novel based "loosely" on D. B. Cooper, the legendary pirate-skyjacker who commandeered an airliner and parachuted out with some $200,000. Also aboard the T-T show was singer Scott McGoogan, who sang the song from the early '70's, "D. B. Cooper, Where Are You?" Phone lines lit up like a pinball game with calls from ir- ate stewardesses, Boeing workers and pilots. Among the latter was Er- nie Gann, the famed au- thor-pilot ("High and The Mighty" "Fate Is The Hunter"), who fired off a telegram, to wit: "I am appalled that KING-TV should sponsor the glorifi- cation of a cutthroat pir- ate, namely Cooper. That villain directly endan- gered the lives of hundreds of innocent people and inspired oth- ers to do the same all over the world. I cannot believe your station, or Mr. McGowan, is so
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p.Bl Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.
Date: 11/15/76 Edition: Final Author: Emmett Watson Editor: Jack Doughty Title:
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated
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164-81-Sub B SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ NOV 16 1976
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irresponsible. May I urge you to give the opposite view, a hearing immediately from people far more expert than the opportunist author and singer who appeared all-jokingly on McGowan's show. The true depiction of all hijackers for what they are — instead of as heroes — must be shown now or you and your loved ones may well, and very soon, be aboard the next of another Robin Hood's terri- ble adventures."
John Tyers, the show's producer, says, "We thought it would be fun — and that's the exact word — to do the song written about D.B." As for "glorifying" a skyjacker, "that was not our intent," says producer Tyers, sounding a bit subdued.
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Serials: 164-81-Sub B