Part 50, page 181
Document date November 1983
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 50 p. 181 (DB Cooper-20786), News clipping, dated Nov 1983 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-50/pages/181
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According to Florence, the FBI drawings of Cooper were "misleading" and "erroneous."... The pretty half-Filipino stewardess took one look at my photographs of Jack Coffelt and gasped, "It's him! My God, it's him!"
pictures of D.B. Cooper that had been widely circulated in the press were, in fact, misleading and erroneous drawings. As she explained with a hint of lingering scornfulness, "The man had much fuller cheeks, and his hairline was not nearly as receding as shown by the composite pictures. I kept telling that FBI artist that his pictures were wrong . . . but he would not listen to me!"
This startling claim was the first hint ever by an unwilling participant in the skyjacking that the official version of the crime has been erroneous from the beginning. Florence then went on to confirm another aspect of Jack Coffelt's story that had long puzzled me. "Cooper took off his street shoes and put on a pair of boots," she affirmed. Jack Coffelt, in 1974, had insisted that he changed into a pair of boots on the plane. But press accounts, quoting the FBI, had long ridiculed the "hill- billy skyjacker" for jumping out in normal
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This FBI composite drawing of D.B. Cooper, and the one on the preceding page, were widely circu- lated in the press.
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82 NOVEMBER 1983/LAS VEGAS MAGAZINE
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DB Cooper-20786