Part 96, page 295

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[...]g ran several pages of purport- interview with Cooper, and two [s]ap County men were arrested selling a fake interview with [Coo]per to a former contributing [edi]tor of Newsweek for $30,000. Five months ago, two Tacoma [me]n said they had talked with

D.B. Cooper, who, they said, was living in Puyallup. The man told them that the money was buried under a pile of garbage at the Puyallup dump.

Mostly, however, people just have had fun with the D.B. Cooper story. T-shirts with the picture of D.B. Cooper in his sunglasses and bearing the legend, "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?" became popu- lar, and there even was a song written about him.

The residents of Ariel, Cowlitz County, near where Cooper sup- posedly bailed out, started holding an annual "D.B. Cooper Day" to commemorate the event. The fes- tival, called the "Cooper Caper," featured bear stew and sky divers and attracted more than 800 peo- ple. But not, apparently, D.B. Cooper.

As for the two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who have been on the case since it began, they say they believe D.B. Cooper probably died the night he went out the plane.

"It is my personal opinion that he is dead," said Joseph O'Con- nell, who has retired. "He jumped out of a plane at 10,000 feet on a cold, raw night and he jumped in an area densely populated with Douglas fir and ponderosa pine."

Ralph Himmelsbach, Portland F.B.I. agent who is to retire Feb- ruary 29, said he was "delighted" about the money being found. He said the find reduced the chances of Cooper ever being found alive

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[...]they find some bones," Fisher said. Then the telephone rang in the next room, Fi[sh]er raced to an- swer it, laughed [an]d announced, "San Jose calling."

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These are sketches of Cooper made from the recollections of passengers and crew of the hi- jacked airliner.

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Freight-train crash kills 1, injures 5

ORLEANS ROAD, W.Va. — (AP) — Two Chessie System freight trains crashed head-on be- fore dawn yesterday, killing an en- gineer and injuring five crewmen. The crash killed Barbara Jean Hopkins, an engineer who was driving the westbound train, ac- cording to Ted Fisher, a trainmas-

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