Interview of relative of Robert Wesley Jones (Rackstraw)
Interviewed 3 March 1978Dictated 3 March 1978Transcribed 8 March 1978
Also filed at: Part 40 pp. 378–379
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-72:325-326 Document: FD-302 interview of relative of Robert Wesley Jones (Rackstraw) Id: Cooper-Part-72:325-326 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A325-326 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 72 pp. 325–326 (DB Cooper-31228–31229), FD-302 interview, interviewed 3 Mar 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A325-326
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 3/8/78
[REDACTED], furnished the following information:
She works for [REDACTED] and has home phone [REDACTED]
She is [REDACTED] of ROBERT WESLEY JONES [REDACTED] PHILIP RACKSTRAW, who was recently discovered as a murder victim.
PHIL RACKSTRAW [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. PHILIP never adopted JONES and JONES is his true name, although he always used the last name of RACKSTRAW in school and when he went into the Army.
She realizes that a murder warrant has been issued against JONES for the murder of [REDACTED] stepfather, but she will await the verdict of the court before deciding as to his guilt.
She denied any knowledge that ROBERT is identical to "D .B. COOPER", but she recalled that during the fall of 1971, ROBERT was just "floating around" because he was being sought on some fraud warrant out of Alabama. (Houston County, Dothan, Alabama) He intentionally did not keep his exact whereabouts known to his family.
She realizes D. B. COOPER had a knowledge of navigation and of parachuting and ROBERT is highly skilled at both. She believed he received his commercial flying license some time inthe fall of 1971, because at Christmas, 1971, [REDACTED]
She recalled that it was about this time that he worked for some real estate firm in the Los Angeles area and part of his work was the promotion of some land in Oregon, back in an area so remote that there were no roads and ROBERT had to fly prospects in there to see the land.
Interviewed on 3/3/78 at [REDACTED] California File # SC 164-50 [REDACTED] SE 164-81-[REDACTED] by [REDACTED] Date dictated 3/3/78
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DB Cooper-31228
SC 164-50
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When he first got out of the Army, in June, 1971, he first traveled around the south, for about a month, before he came back home to California. He stayed with his mom for a while and then when he heard he was wanted in Alabama he moved in with her for awhile. He then moved down to the San Jose area and from there he went to San Fernando to work for the real estate company. He seemed to have money and he frequently rented airplanes. He was always a pretty good "spender", but she has no recollection of his having any unusual amount of money during the fall of 1971. He got his real estate license when he moved to San Jose, she thought, although the land promotion firm that hired him was in San Fernando. She does not recall the name of the girlfriend he had for a short time in the San Jose area, but it was her recollection [REDACTED] California. He broke up with [REDACTED], and he did not meet [REDACTED], until after 1971.
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In a recent conversation she had [REDACTED] ROBERT, [REDACTED] not surprised at the murder accusation against ROBERT because on one occasion [REDACTED]
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2 DB Cooper-31229