Part 8, page 80

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Fc-3-G (Rev. 7-16-63)

(Mount Clipping In Space Below)

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Bunyan And Cooper

The Pacific Northwest, home of the legendary Paul Bunyan, giant logger and hero of the tall stories beloved by frontier America, has a new folk hero, D.B. Cooper.

Whereas Bunyan was built on the proportions of the Rockies and the redwoods, D.B. was an almost wholly unremarkable man, of middle age, medium size and ordinary appearance, quiet and self-effacing, who did only one thing to focus interest on him. He vanished into thin air.

On a flight enroute to Reno aboard a hijacked airliner which had made a couple of stops to oblige D.B. Cooper, he dropped out of sight in the vastness of Oregon or Washington, or somewhere, with a parachute and $200,000 he had collected from the airline.

That was several months ago. Now young guitarists sing a hit record tune, "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?" And youngsters sport T-[shirts with the same legend.]

shirts with the same legend.

Law enforcement officials and judges mildly disapprove glamorizing D.B. Cooper but the record producer and the shirtmakers are happily chasing more loot than Cooper's ransom.

The hunt for Cooper has wound down. Whether he landed in the mountains and was picked up by a confederate is a matter of speculation. Some think he may have died, either in the drop or from exposure, and that some day some wandering hunter may chance upon a shred of nylon parachute, a skeleton and a satchel with $209,000 in it.

Others believe the man who called himself D.B. Cooper was a shrewd ex-paratrooper, who quietly has resumed his life somewhere upon returning from a "business trip."

That's why they're singing "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?" A lot of people would really like to know.

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OCEANSIDE, CALIF.

Date: 1/20/72 Edition: Author: Editor: THOMAS F. MISSETT Title: BUNYAN AND COOPER

Character: or Classification: 164-91 Submitting Office: SD

[ ] Being Investigated

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