News clippingPeople magazine 'Heroes' article re D.B. Cooper, Jan 12 1987 issue12 January 1987page 2 of 2
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Part 48, page 76

DB Cooper-19894

Document date 12 January 1987

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Heroes

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Belle Starr, thief, rustler and concubine of criminals, qualifies as a questionable heroine of the Old West. Some have also questioned her credits. Evidence suggests that the "Queen of the Bandits" (with lover Blue Duck, above) committed crimes no worse than larceny and mischievous arson.

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D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient airliner on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 and parachuted over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom money. The man's fate will probably never be known. His legend, however, has done a fine job of surviving. Stoked by books, songs, T-shirts, anniversary bashes and a movie, Cooper's cult following has yet to fade away.

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Charles Van Doren, son of a Pulitzer prize-winning poet, became a phenom of the late '50s when he won $129,000 on the quiz show Twenty-One. Chances are he would have rated a paragraph in TV history. But in the early '60s, after admitting that he'd been coached and fed answers by the show's producers, Van Doren became a mere footnote—the hero as fallen idol.

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