Part 54, page 396

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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JIM HEBIG

Hijacker No Hero

We Americans are suckers for originality. And alias D. B. Cooper was highly original. He exited from a 727 in flight with $200,000 strapped to his middle-aged body, and no one had thought of doing that before. But Dr. Otto Larsen, a University of Washington sociologist, thinks Cooper cornered the public fancy for reasons far more complex. "It was an awesome feat in the battle of man against machine," he said. "One man overcoming, for the time being anyway, technology, the corporation, the Establishment and the system." People-watchers with Ph. D.'s are always carrying on like that. Skip a stone across a puddle and they accuse you of manifesting a desire to walk on water. Tell them you almost have to admire a middle-aged man who parachutes from a 727 with $200,000, and they suggest it's actually gratitude you're feeling because he beat the Establishment. D. B. Cooper was not out to beat the Establishment for us. Nor the corporation, the system or technology. He was out to beat Northwest Airlines out of 200 grand. For himself. For the same, simple, greedy reasons anyone would like to get their hands on 200 grand. The public does not consider D. B. Cooper a hero. Like I said before, we're just suckers for originality.

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

A-14 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif.

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Date: 12/9/71 Edition: Thursday Latest Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles

☐ Being Investigated

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164-497-113 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED 13 DEC 9 1971 FBI — LOS ANGELES

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DB Cooper-22863