Newspaper clippings (Salem Statesman, Nov. 28, 1971) re hijacker search and ransom payment
Document date 28 November 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 91 pp. 63–66 (DB Cooper-40433–40436), News clipping, dated 28 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A063-066
8-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Nov. 28, '71
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Three Shocked Survivors [title cut off]
By JAY SHARBUTT Associated Press Writer
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — The three surviving members of the Jack Welch family were with family friends Saturday af-
ter a night of violence that had its seeds in a broken teen-age romance.
Their parents, a teen-aged friend and Welch's stepdaughter, Lori Roskam, 15, all were
slain Friday night at [their] home by a shotgun a[nd] wielding former boyfrie[nd of] Lori, authorities said.
The boyfriend, identified [as] Gary Lee Logan, 18, of Lancas[ter]
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Ransom Paid by Family; Eight Prisoners Freed
By ELOY O. AGUILAR Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The family of Dr. Jaime Castrejon Diaz reported paying a $200,000 ransom Saturday night and the government announced the release of eight of nine prisoners whose freedom was demanded in exchange for the kidnaped university rector.
A Mexican guerrilla group, the Vicente Guerrero Revolutionary Freedom Committee, abducted Castrejon Diaz on Nov. 19 in Guerrero state.
The 39-year-old rector of the University of Guerrero also is an industrialist, bacteriologist and former mayor of Taxco. There was no word of when he would be released.
The guerrilla group made its
demands in a letter sent to a local television station Friday night.
The government announced the release of eight of the prisoners but said a ninth remained in custody because "we have not been able to identify him." The prisoners had been held in Mexico City and Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state.
Government sources said five of the prisoners asked to be sent to Cuba and would be taken to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
The ransom letter said the nine were "political prisoners" who should be guaranteed political asylum in the embassy of
their choice and safe conduct from Mexico.
It said the ransom money could be used to help "victims of the repression of the government." Castrejon Diaz was forced from his car eight days ago by four armed men. His wife, the former Ruby Nickel of Lake Charles, La., their three children and his chauffeur were not taken.
The abduction was Mexico's second political kidnaping this year. The Zapatista Urban Front kidnaped Federal Avia-tion Director Julio Hirschfeld Almada in September and released him hours later in exchange for $240,000 ransom.
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DB Cooper-40433
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DB Cooper-40434
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Searchers Hunt in Vain for 'Chutist-Hijacker
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WOODLAND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities hiked through rural woodlands seeking traces of a parachuting airline hijacker for the second day Saturday. But again they reported no clues.
The hijacker is believed to have bailed out over the 15-square mile search area Wednesday night after hijacking the Northwest Airlines jet at Seattle. He had demanded and received four parachutes and $200,000 ransom.
"We're concentrating our search for a parachute," said Tom Manning, FBI agent coordinating the search. "We think this will give us a clue as to what happened to the hijacker.
"We've determined the hijacker was wearing a sport type back pack parachute," Manning said. "That means it would be difficult for him to maneuver if he had any kind of bulk on him at all and we've been told $200,000 weighs over 20 pounds."
Authorities earlier said the ransom, largest ever paid a hijacker in the United States, was in $20 bills.
Searchers were told to look for two white parachute canopies and portions of a pink one which was found opened and torn when the plane landed at Reno, Nev., Wednesday night.
Searchers converged on a large piece of white fabric Saturday but it turned out to be a shelter for two young fishermen on the banks of the Lewis River.
"We checked reports of possible sightings but they all proved false," said Clark County Sheriff Eugene Cotton.
Helicopters flown by pilots familiar with the terrain of the farm and timber land of the area, joined the search under improving weather conditions.
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Patchy fog hung over the area Friday.
The air and ground search was suspended Saturday when the ceiling lowered, preventing use of three helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft. The search will be resumed Sunday if weather permits.
Manning said house-to-house interviews of residents would be stepped up.
The hijacker—described as a well dressed, calm, middle-aged man, boarded the plane at Portland, Ore., and handed a stew-
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ardess a note which said he had a bomb with him and wanted to go to Mexico.
While the plane circled Seattle, the hijacker identified as D. B. Cooper demanded the money and parachutes. The 36 passengers and two of the stewardesses were permitted to leave the plane when it landed in Seattle for refueling.
The man then ordered the plane to be flown no higher than 10,000 feet and with the rear boarding door down, the landing gear extended and 15 degree flaps. The man remained in the rear of the plane unseen by the crew.
Capt. William Scott, the pilot, said an indicator light showed
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the rear stairwell was being operated when the plane was over Woodland.
Pilots of eight Air Force planes tailing the commandeered jetliner did not report seeing anyone jump from the plane, the Air Force said Friday. A sport type chute believed to be used by the hijacker allows a jumper tree fall before opening the chute.
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DB Cooper-40435
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the goodwill [guess: guests] of Ecua- dor's navy at a time when Ecua- adoran gunboats are patrolling and seizing American tuna boats off that country's coast.
Capt. James Varlay of Sub- marine Flotilla One here said it was "sort of an accident" that the submarine Blackfin was visiting Guayaquil, Ecuador, at a time when several American tuna boats were under guard in the nearby port of Salinas after being seized 60 to 120 miles off
In the past 18 days 23 Ameri- can tuna boats—most of them embarking from San Diego— have been seized by the Ecua- doran navy to enforce that coun- claim to territorial sover- up to 200 miles at sea. of the seizures have been out by naval craft ac- by Ecuador from the States, either on loan or right gifts.
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Group Votes To Oppose Cigarette Tax
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The board of the Oregon Home Owners Association has de- cided, in a vote by telephone, to oppose the cigarette tax, the or- ganization's president said.
The tax is scheduled to be re- ferred to the people Jan. 18, 1972.
The head of the association, Clyde Brummell, Portland, said the action came because of a bill introduced at the recent special session of the legisla- ture which would have made wholesale [illegible] a state m[illegible]
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been threatened with confisca- tion of their ships [illegible] a third violation of the 200-[mile] zone.
American tuna fishermen say they refuse to purchase the Ecu- adoran fishing licenses as the State Department advises that recognition might appear to be given to Ecuador's territorial claims if such purchases are made.
State Dept. 'Blessing'
Disclosure of the Blackfin's friendship visit to Guayaquil came as owners of the Califor- nia-based fishing fleet were re- newing demands that the navy provide them with armed es- corts. The visit, in the midst of a new and violent outbreak in the 18-year-old "tuna war," was made with State Department blessing.
An official of the American Tuna Boat Association described Blackfin's visit as "an act [illegible]dity and cowardice in the this escalating high seas "
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