Part 54, page 188
Document date 15 November 1976
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 188 (DB Cooper-23117), News clipping, dated 15 Nov 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-54/pages/188
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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EMMETT WATSON
Puget Sound Fury
HEAT REACHED the blistering point after Thursday eve's "Tonight, Tonite" show on Ch. 5--one featuring Darrell Bob Houston, promoting his new book, "King of The Mid- night Blue," a novel based "loosely" on D. B. Cooper, the legendary pirate-skyjacker who commandeered an airliner and parachuted out with some $200,000. Also aboard the T-T show was singer Scott McGoogan, who sang the song from the early '70's, "D. B. Cooper, Where Are You?" Phone lines lit up like a pinball game with calls from ir- ate stewardesses, Boeing workers and pilots. Among the latter was Er- nie Gann, the famed au- thor-pilot ("High and The Mighty" "Fate Is The Hunter"), who fired off a telegram, to wit: "I am appalled that KING-TV should sponsor the glorifi- cation of a cutthroat pir- ate, namely Cooper. That villain directly endan- gered the lives of hundreds of innocent people and inspired oth- ers to do the same all over the world. I cannot believe your station, or Mr. McGowan, is so
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p.Bl Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.
Date: 11/15/76 Edition: Final Author: Emmett Watson Editor: Jack Doughty Title:
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated
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164-81-Sub B SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ NOV 16 1976
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DB Cooper-23117