Part 7, page 3

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With a make-believe bomb, a passenger using the name D.B. Cooper (in FBI sketch, far left) hijacked this Northwest jet, then bailed out into the dense woods of southwestern Washington state (below).

A recently published book by Anna Friday (below, right) includes some cartoon speculation as to what may have happened to Cooper after he parachuted to earth.

Like down the road at Jess Hatfield's place. Old Jess heard a thumping on his roof, but by the time he got out there, rifle at the ready, there was nothing. In the nearby community of View, it was black and blustery—hardly a night for small planes—but at a seldom-used airstrip near the cemetery, there were strange goings-on. Emil Nelger's wife recalls seeing an aircraft circling for nearly an hour. She doesn't know if it landed, but Mrs. Melvin Anderson, who lives across the way, says that it did. Five miles to the west of La Center, there is another strip adjacent to Donald Haun's blackberry farm. On the preceding night, also in forbidding weather, Haun's wife remembers that a plane [illegible] descended with [illegible] rocking with the [illegible] lights [illegible] returned [illegible] on both [illegible] [illegible]. Was this a [guess: sighting] on Cooper's getaway? The Haun [illegible]

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[Caption partially legible near upper panel, appears to read:] [illegible] SINKIN [illegible]