Part 53, page 127

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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

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In Brazil – or Woodland $200,000 question: Who pushed on door at midnight?

By DAVE BIRKLAND

Jess Hatfield spit over the railing on his porch. "Yeah," he muttered, "it could have been him all right." Hatfield lives in Clark County, five miles south of Woodland, Cowlitz County, in the heart of the area where the Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching for the hijacker who parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines jet with $200,000. Hatfield, 75, who has four acres in the Denny Creek area, said someone tried to get into his home Wednesday about midnight, the night of the hijacking. "I was up reading when I heard a noise at the side window," Hatfield said. His wife, son-in-law, daughter and two grandchildren had gone to bed. "He tried the knob and pushed on the back door," Hatfield said. "One more push and he would have had a bullet through him. I was ready to shoot him right through the panel."

After he heard the noise he got a shotgun and rifle and put them by his chair, he said. But the person who had tried Hatfield's back door didn't push again, and Hatfield never fired, and it was too "leafy" to see any footprints the next day, Hatfield said. Earlier Wednesday Hatfield had been in Woodland, where he heard about the hijacking of the Boeing 727. The search is being concentrated in Clark County, a fact that makes Hatfield a little edgy. He keeps his rifle by his bed. He said, "You don't catch me sleeping very sound." Speculation is heard in Woodland bars and restaurants

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p. All Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.

Date: 11/28/71 Edition: Sunday Author: Dave Birkland Editor: Henry McLeod Title: UNSUB; aka Dan Cooper; Northwest Air- linesF1.305, Portland Character: to Seattle, 11/2 or CAA-HIJACKING; EXT Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated COPY SENT TO BUREAU

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