Part 54, page 62
Document date 2 December 1971
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 62 (DB Cooper-22988), News clipping, dated 2 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-54/pages/62
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He showed real heroics Skyjacker becomes folk hero
United Press International
Sattle, Wash. "D. B. Cooper" has become a sort of folk here to some people for his daring parachute escape from a hijacked jetliner with $200,000 ransom.
It has been six days since the hijacker collected a bag full of $20 bills in Seattle, released the passengers of a Northwest Airlines 727 jet and had the plane fly to Reno, Nev. He bailed out en route.
"We all like adventure stories," said Otto Larsen, a sociology professor at the University of Washington.
"That hijacker took the greatest ultimate risk. He showed real heroic features — mystery, drama, roman- ticism, a high degree of skill and all the necessities for the perfect crime."
Larsen said part of the reason for the public's sympathetic feelings toward the middle-age hijacker was the marked contrast in motivation from earlier plane hijackings.
"This man was neither political nor neurotic. His motive was simply $200,000 and people can understand it much better," said the professor.
"His was an awesome feat in the battle of man against the machine. One in- dividual overcoming, for the time being, anyway, technology, the cor- poration, the establishment, the system."
FBI agents, not charmed by the caper, have centered their search along a 15 square mile area near Woodland, Wash., where they believe the hijacker jumped with the loot Wednesday night and may be marooned in the rugged Cascade foothills. So far, they have found nothing.
In Reno, a note signed "D. B. Cooper" and saying "Thanks for hospitality" was turned over to the FBI Monday. The [guess: penciled] note was addressed to "the newspaper, Reno, Nev.," and [guess: marked] Oakdale, Calif., [illegible] sout[illegible] [guess: southeast] of Stockton.
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10 THE BAROMETER OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON
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DB Cooper-22988