Part 54, page 2

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(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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$20 Bills Get Close Look Here

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For perhaps the first time, most people in the Portland area know whose picture is on a $20 bill.

That's because they have been checking serial numbers on bills in their possession against the list of serial numbers being published in The Journal of the $20 bills extorted from Northwest Orient Airlines in the $200,000 "D.B. Cooper" hijack of 1971.

The newspaper will pay $1,000 for the first of the "Cooper cash" to be turned in either to the newspaper or to the FBI.

Publication of the 10,000 serial numbers began in last Thursday's Journal and will be continued in installments until the entire list is reproduced for the newspaper's readers from the official FBI list.

The fate of the man who bought a ticket at Portland under the name "Dan Cooper" and then parachuted into the night with money he extorted from the airline is a baffling mystery. Not so baffling is what happened to those who thought Cooper's road to riches worth trying.

The FBI's breakdown of cases, stripped to the bare essentials of date, name of hijacker or hijackers, airline involved, money demanded and results, shows the following, starting with four hijacks ahead of Cooper:

June 4, 1970, Arther Gates Barkley, Trans World Airlines, $100 million, wounded by FBI agents; taken into custody and committed to a mental institution.

May 28, 1971, James Edwin Bennett Jr., Eastern Airlines, $500,000, overpowered by airline officials; tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity.

June 12, 1971, Gregory Lamar White, Trans World, $75,000, wounded by FBI agent and taken into custody.

July 2, 1971, Robert Lee Jackson and Ligia Lucrecia Sanchez Archila, Braniff International Airlines, $100,000, taken into custody in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and incarcerated.

Nov. 24, 1971, unknown subject (Dan Cooper), Northwest Orient Airlines, $200,000, identity and whereabouts unknown; money not recovered.

Dec. 24, 1971, Everett Leary Holt, NWA, $300,000, surrendered to FBI agents; awaiting sentencing.

Dec. 26, 1971, Donald Lewis Coleman, American Airlines, $250,000, overpowered by crew and charged with aircraft piracy.

Jan. 12, 1972, Billy Eugene Hurst Jr., Braniff, $1 million, taken into custody by FBI agents and charged with aircraft piracy.

Jan. 20, 1972, Richard Charles LaPoint, Air West, $50,000, bailed out; taken into custody by FBI agents; sentenced to four years in prison; money recovered.

Jan. 26, 1972, Merlyn LaVerne S. George, Mohawk Airlines, $200,000, shot and killed by FBI agents.

Jan. 29, 1972, Garrett Brock Trapnell, Trans World Airlines, $308,600, shot and wounded by FBI agents and charged with aircraft piracy.

April 7, 1972, Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., United Airlines, $500,000, bailed out; identified; charged with aircraft piracy and sentenced to 45 years imprisonment.

April 9, 1972, Stanley Harlon Speck, Pacific Southwest Airways, $500,000, arrested

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)

6 THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON

Date: November 26, 1971 Edition: Author: Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling, J[r] Title: [guess: ;;ORJAK]

Character: or Bufile Classification: 164-2111 Submitting Office: Portland

[X] Being Investigated

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