People

Everyone the files name, one entry each, with every spelling the transcripts produced folded into the person it means.

Roles, notes and the merging of name variants into one person are machine-generated and can be wrong, and some people appear in the files only under redacted names.

5,165 people named, plus the hijacker. 1,518 mentions of people whose names are withheld or unrecorded.

The hijackerD.B. CooperThe unidentified hijacker (UNSUB). Alias 'Dan Cooper' from the ticket; 'D.B.' from press error.9,838 mentions · 7,577 documents · 144 spellings

Everyone else · 1,660 with 3 or more mentions

  1. Jack Bryant CoffeltSuspect665 mentions332 documents
  2. Thomas J. ManningFBI agent544 mentions493 documents
  3. Richard Floyd McCoy JrSuspect518 mentions326 documents
  4. Charles E. FarrellFBI agent430 mentions383 documents
  5. J. Earl MilnesFBI agent423 mentions397 documents
  6. Paul R. BiblerFBI agent318 mentions284 documents
  7. Ralph P. HimmelsbachFBI agent313 mentions263 documents
  8. Karl Payne FlemingJournalist257 mentions141 documents
  9. John Edgar HooverOfficial234 mentions203 documents
  10. Robert H. WickFBI agent208 mentions190 documents
  11. George Bryan Siegrist Jr.Suspect199 mentions129 documents
  12. Alvin Curtis HartleySuspect195 mentions127 documents
  13. Donald Sylvester MurphySuspect174 mentions106 documents
  14. William Johnson Louderback MasonSuspect173 mentions108 documents
  15. John Emil ListSuspect171 mentions156 documents
  16. John Neal MarlerSuspect160 mentions120 documents
  17. Brian IngramWitness or source156 mentions139 documents
  18. Douglas C. CooperSuspect148 mentions127 documents
  19. Joseph Henry JohnstonSuspect145 mentions100 documents
  20. Cord Harms Zum SpreckelPassenger139 mentions135 documents
  21. Earl J. CosseyWitness or source137 mentions98 documents
  22. James Ray Fugate JrSuspect132 mentions52 documents
  23. Peter Anthony ParloSuspect132 mentions123 documents
  24. Charles Allen WhitakerSuspect127 mentions103 documents
  25. Julius L. MattsonFBI agent127 mentions118 documents
  26. Wayne B. KingSuspect127 mentions91 documents
  27. Robert Wesley RackstrawSuspect126 mentions96 documents
  28. Harold Dwayne IngramWitness or source122 mentions95 documents
  29. Merlin Gene CooperSuspect121 mentions90 documents
  30. Alvin Benton CelcerSuspectNORJAK suspect; photo shown to witnesses, linked to stolen Slickcraft boat inquiry119 mentions99 documents
  31. Lawrence Allison HobartSuspect118 mentions104 documents
  32. Stewart O. KimeSuspect118 mentions111 documents
  33. William A. ScottFlight crew115 mentions90 documents
  34. John Donald PageSuspect108 mentions82 documents
  35. Charles D. BakerSuspect103 mentions86 documents
  36. Donald Allen BrennenSuspect102 mentions88 documents
  37. James Conrad CliffordSuspect102 mentions94 documents
  38. Richard Drummond DuketSuspectLeavenworth inmate checked as NORJAK suspect; photo shown to witnesses101 mentions88 documents
  39. Ralph Vincent GalopeSuspect98 mentions81 documents
  40. Joseph Royce StaggSuspect97 mentions88 documents
  41. Riley Lafayette TicerSuspect96 mentions85 documents
  42. John Stevens WhatleySuspect95 mentions86 documents
  43. William Charles BevanSuspect92 mentions87 documents
  44. Clarence M. KelleyOfficial91 mentions89 documents
  45. Raymond D. BerryhillSuspectNORJAK suspect whose photograph was displayed to hijacking witnesses91 mentions91 documents
  46. Louis M. Harris Jr.FBI agent90 mentions90 documents
  47. Max Arnold FreemanSuspect90 mentions85 documents
  48. Stanley PitkinOfficial90 mentions72 documents
  49. Robert Hammond KeelySuspect89 mentions81 documents
  50. Robert Harold ShoresSuspect89 mentions85 documents
  51. Lawrence Millard CrewsSuspect88 mentions84 documents
  52. Jason Thomas LangsethSuspect87 mentions44 documents
  53. Anthony FernandezSuspect86 mentions84 documents
  54. Douglas Archibald WillowsSuspect85 mentions84 documents
  55. Roland C. LindSuspect85 mentions79 documents
  56. Thomas M. ClancySuspect85 mentions79 documents
  57. William John LewisSuspect83 mentions51 documents
  58. Donald J. SteeleFBI agent82 mentions71 documents
  59. Doyle Wayne HarvellSuspect82 mentions79 documents
  60. Lonny James McClellanSuspect82 mentions81 documents
  61. Billy Ray CoonradSuspectSuspect listed in NORJAK index; photo shown to witnesses81 mentions81 documents
  62. William M. BakerFBI agent81 mentions75 documents
  63. Willard Carlos Twigg JrSuspect80 mentions37 documents
  64. Billie Lee McGillSuspect78 mentions57 documents
  65. Rodney Holbrook PackSuspect77 mentions75 documents
  66. Lawrence Lyster KennedySuspect76 mentions75 documents
  67. Alvin Earle CooperSuspect75 mentions70 documents
  68. Gary Evan Joseph SamdalSuspectNORJAK suspect interviewed in Chicago; description compared by Seattle and Minneapolis75 mentions64 documents
  69. Donald W. NyropOther74 mentions71 documents
  70. David Arthur StaudtSuspectClaimed to be D.B. Cooper, later recanted in Milwaukee County Jail interview72 mentions30 documents
  71. Gerald HammerSuspect72 mentions67 documents
  72. Patricia IngramWitness or source72 mentions58 documents
  73. Edward Burton McGovernSuspect71 mentions71 documents
  74. BuzzSuspectLast name unknown suspect reported from Houston; photos shown to Cord Spreckel69 mentions67 documents
  75. Larry William QuandtSuspect68 mentions43 documents
  76. Schuyler W. Miles JrSuspect68 mentions47 documents
  77. Jack Scott FarmerSuspect67 mentions51 documents
  78. Richard Avery DyerFBI agent67 mentions62 documents
  79. Dirk Wayne SummersOther65 mentions43 documents
  80. Duane L. WeberSuspect65 mentions45 documents
  81. Harold Lee DowellSuspect65 mentions57 documents
  82. Tina MucklowFlight crewNorthwest 305 stewardess who dealt directly with the hijacker65 mentions55 documents
  83. Eugene Leroy WatsonSuspect63 mentions50 documents
  84. John M. ReedFBI agent60 mentions58 documents
  85. Daniel Earl Cooper Sr.Suspect59 mentions56 documents
  86. James Henry Brown JrAssociateCoffelt associate who promoted claim that Bryant Coffelt was D.B. Cooper59 mentions30 documents
  87. John D. PringleFBI agentFBI ASAC quoted on Columbia River money search; Seattle office spokesman59 mentions58 documents
  88. Rolla J. CrickJournalist59 mentions59 documents
  89. Anthony Lambert ColeSuspect58 mentions51 documents
  90. C. Robert StrangerFBI agent58 mentions54 documents
  91. Jay D. WhitefordSuspectSuspect whose photograph SA Farrell displayed to a witness, March 197258 mentions51 documents
  92. Kenneth Dowie Jr.SuspectSuspect eliminated by witness Cord Spreckel in photo displays58 mentions57 documents
  93. William Thomas EdwardsSuspect58 mentions57 documents
  94. Donald Otis BurnworthSuspect56 mentions44 documents
  95. Maurice Stanislaus KeatingSuspectSuspect eliminated from photo spreads shown to witness Cord Spreckel56 mentions54 documents
  96. Bernard James CondonSuspect55 mentions52 documents
  97. John Gordon HoskinsSuspectSuspect whose photo was shown to witnesses in Portland and Eugene54 mentions52 documents
  98. Leslie Gene MinceSuspect54 mentions50 documents
  99. Franklin John PainterSuspect53 mentions34 documents
  100. Sheridan L. PetersonSuspect53 mentions37 documents

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