FD-350 clipping, The Oregonian: 'D.B. Cooper book sales stay alive'
Document date 22 February 1992
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 97 p. 288 (DB Cooper-43836), News clipping, dated 22 Feb 1992, serial 164A-SE-81 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-97%3A288-288
FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81)
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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON Date: FEBRUARY 22, 1992 Edition:
Title: NORJACK 00;SE
Character: 164A-SE-81 .. or 80-715 Classification: Submitting Office:
Indexing: [stamp] SEARCHED... SERIALIZED...
FEB 2 2 1992
FBI-PORTLAND
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D.B. Cooper book sales stay alive
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has refused to ban further sales of a book claiming a deceased Utah man was the legendary skyjacker Dan Cooper.
Third District Court Judge Homer Wilkinson said Thursday that some allegations against the Utah skyjacker's widow, Karen Burns McCoy, in the book "D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy" may not be repeated in any movie version.
But he refused to take the book, published by the University of Utah Press in October 1991, off the shelves.
"It's not something now that can be pulled back by an injunction," he said.
Mrs. McCoy sued the book's authors, Russell Calame and Bernie Rhodes, in January to ban further sales on the grounds that it contains lies and violates her right to privacy.
The book claims the late Richard Floyd McCoy of Provo was Cooper, the name used by a man who parachuted from a Boeing 727 over southwestern Washington on Nov. 24, 1971, and was never found. Those who investigated the Cooper hijacking have been skeptical of the book's claims, and Cooper's identity remains a mystery.
McCoy was shot to death by FBI agents in 1974. He had escaped from a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., after he was convicted for a 1972 skyjacking in which he bailed out over Provo with $500,000.
During testimony Thursday, Mrs. McCoy contended the book and the publicity surrounding it have destroyed her.
"I have attempted to keep this private because I was trying to put that behind me in my life," she said. "I was trying to raise two children and give them a normal life after they had been through such hell."
McCoy denied allegations in the book that she drove a getaway car in her husband's prison escape, dated an FBI agent, conspired with the FBI to have her husband captured or killed and once threatened to throw her daughter under the wheels of a truck.
"I was not unfaithful to Richard McCoy. I did not help have him killed. I feel like I'm barely holding on, and I have worked so hard to hold on," she said.
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FBI/DOJ
DB Cooper-43836
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Serials: 00;SE, 164A-SE-81, 80-715