FD-350 clipping: AP report on federal grand jury air piracy indictment of 'John Doe aka Dan Cooper'
Document date 25 November 1976
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 61 pp. 259–260 (DB Cooper-25469), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-61%3A259-260
FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75)
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Old Skyjack Indictment In
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury late Wednesday returned an air piracy indictment in the case of the man known as Dan Cooper who parachuted from an airliner with $200,000 on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, the Justice Department an- nounced.
The indictment, naming a fictitious "John Doe also known as Dan Cooper," was returned in Portland, Ore.
An official familiar with the case said the indictment was obtained by the govern- ment as a precaution because of uncertainty over whether the five-year statute of limitations applied in the aerial hijacking case.
One count of the indict- ment charges aircraft piracy, and a second alleges obstruc- tion of interstate commerce by extortion.
Both the Justice Depart- ment and the FBI say there are several reasons why the normal statute of limitations would not seem to apply. Although they doubt he sur- vived, they say they will look for Cooper and the money until they find him or de- termine that he is dead.
The Justice Department takes the position that there is no statute of limitations on capital crimes, and that what Cooper did was a capital crime, punishable by death, at the time he did it.
The official in Washington noted that a Justice Depart- ment attempt earlier this year to prosecute New Jersey Teamster leader Anthony Provenzano and others in con- nection with the 1961 kidnap- slaying of another union of- ficial was thrown out of court by a federal judge who ruled that the statute of limitation had expired a decade ago.
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A-12 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA
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Date: 11/25/76 Edition: Thursday Latest Author: Editor: Donald Goodenow Title: NORJAK
Character: or CAA Classification: Submitting Office: 64-497* Los Angeles ☐ Being Investigated
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The indictment of the m[an] identified as Cooper is pri- marily an attempt to prevent such a problem in the hijack- ing case, he said. There has been no trace of Cooper or the money since that windy, wet, stormy night when he bailed out the rear door of a Northwest Airlines 727 jet with 21 pounds of mon- ey strapped to his chest. "Not one of the 10,000 bills has shown up, and we know the serial numbers on every one of them," says FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has worked on the case from the outset. Cooper had boarded a Portland-to-Seattle flight Nov. 24, 1971, clutching a pa- per bag. Soon after take off, he told stewardesses he had a bomb, and that he wanted $200,000 in cash and four para- chutes. Cooper's demands were met -and, on his orders, the plane departed for Reno with only himself and the crew on board.
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DB Cooper-25469