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Announcing Our New Location!

JC & Company

HAIR SALON COMMERCIAL CENTER 953 E. Sahara D #8 Las Vegas, NV 89104 735-2418

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(top) A Northwest Boeing 727 with arrow pointing to the rear stairway ramp. (above) Mt. Hood, Oregon. Coffelt returned twice to this area to search for the lost money before his 1974 trip with the Browns.

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Cape Cod Clambake

Every Friday, an airplane leaves the East Coast for Nevada. The cargo? Whole live lobsters. Fresh clams and oysters. The best from the bays of New England.

They're greeted by enthusiastic gourmets in an elegantly intimate restaurant called Hugo's Cellar. And fresh corn on the cob. Steamed parsley potatoes. Even a chicken leg for good measure. And you have a uniquely [guess: delicious] Cape Cod Clambake. Right in the heart of Las Vegas.

QUEENS

The Glass Downtown Las Vegas

Reservations recommended 385-4011

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Myriad leads connected over the years like the silken strands of a spider's web, one thin trail joining another at obscure crossroads along a pattern of seemingly infinite design. My father and I were able to find witnesses in Oregon who positively identified Jack as the man who came to their gas station and recrea- tion business twice, in the spring and fall of 1972, the year after the skyjacking. Along with another to this day unidentified man, Jack rented snowmobiles from them, driving the vehicles into the hills behind their station near the isolated jump site. These witnesses finally confirmed Coffelt's claim that our trip with him in 1974 to search for the lost money was not the first time he had been back to that remote place.

And finally, in a check of all the passengers on Flight 305 as it left Portland Airport that stormy Thanksgiving Eve, I discovered that a prominent Seattle attorney, George LeBissoniere, had sat only three seats away from D.B. Cooper, so close that even the FBI told him that he was one of their best eye-witnesses. When Mr. LeBissoniere was shown photo- graphs of Jack Coffelt, he calmly identified the face as that of D.B. Cooper, unaware that stewardess Florence Schaffner had already identified the pictures. "That Leavenworth guy — right?" he asked, as if trying to refresh his own memory. "I identified these same pictures for the FBI six weeks after the sky- jacking." (refer to sidebar p. 68)

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86 NOVEMBER 1983/LAS VEGAS MAGAZINE

DB Cooper-20790