FD-350 clipping: Walt Evans column on Houston's novel 'King of the Midnight Blue'
Document date 19 October 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-54:190-190 Document: FD-350 clipping: Walt Evans column on Houston's novel 'King of the Midnight Blue' Id: Cooper-Part-54:190-190 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A190-190 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. 190 (DB Cooper-23119), News clipping, dated 19 Oct 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A190-190
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
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Walt Evans [illegible subheadline, possibly: RATES HIS EDITOR or WRITES HIS EDITOR]
Novel on D.B. Cooper for the jet set
LITERARY TIMES: When the frost is on the pumpkin, thoughts just naturally turn to D.B. Cooper, the nonpariel skyjacker who parachuted into immortality, if not a Douglas fir, five years ago this Thanksgiving Eve. What will undoubtedly be one of the best books — because it's being done by one of the best writers I know — to come out of the incident will be "King of the Midnight Blue," by Seattleite Darrell Bob Houston. And before you ask, the D. B. initials are just coincidence. Our D.B. is much too tall for the skyjacker. Houston's novel based on the incident comes out November 3. "I wrote it as an in-flight movie," he quipped. So far there have been a couple of nibbles from the movie folk and Darrell Bob figures it should sell, since "it's three parts sex to one part skyjack." Houston is dickering for the film rights. He's asking $200,000 . . . in 20s and four parachutes. The accompanying picture of D.B. (ours) was taken when he was covering the war in Vietnam. But it does look like a paratrooper's helmet. Hmmmmmm . . .
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p.A14 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.
Date: 10/19/76 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Jim King Title: NORJAC Character: [handwriting: D.B.] or Classification: 164-81-[illegible] Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated
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COPY SENT TO BUREAU SEARCHED _____ INDEXED ____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ NOV 1 1976 [illegible office stamp] b6 b7C
DB Cooper-23119
Serials: SE 164-81
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