People

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

AIPeople: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it. 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.

Journalists, everyone named · 60

1. Karl Payne FlemingJournalist257 mentions141 documents
2. Rolla J. CrickJournalist59 mentions59 documents
3. Donald Sterling Jr.JournalistOregon Journal editor behind the paper's Cooper ransom bill number hunt49 mentions49 documents
4. Mike WallaceJournalist44 mentions28 documents
5. Dick LyallJournalistName recurring on Seattle-area press clippings about the Cooper case38 mentions38 documents
6. Henry McLeodJournalistSeattle Times newsman whose Cooper stories were clipped by the FBI38 mentions38 documents
7. Leverett RichardsJournalist29 mentions24 documents
8. Darrell Bob HoustonJournalist24 mentions22 documents
9. Bud MayJournalist21 mentions19 documents
10. George HolmesJournalistReporter on 1980 Cooper money and Lake Merwin stories, Longview Daily News/Oregonian18 mentions16 documents
11. Richard ZahlerJournalistSeattle Times reporter covering 1980 Cooper money hunt and Ariel15 mentions15 documents
12. Steve JohnstonJournalist15 mentions15 documents
13. Daryl E. LembkeJournalistLos Angeles Times reporter covering ransom bills and hijacking leads14 mentions14 documents
14. Neil ModieJournalistSeattle Post-Intelligencer reporter on the 1980 ransom money find12 mentions11 documents
15. Byron H. BrownJournalist11 mentions5 documents
16. Denise KaletteJournalistReporter covering Lewis/Murphy Cooper interview fraud story10 mentions8 documents
17. Dick CleverJournalist10 mentions10 documents
18. Joe FrazierJournalist10 mentions8 documents
19. Paul HudsonJournalistBylined reporter in 1980 coverage of the recovered ransom cash10 mentions10 documents
20. Jane MurrayJournalistMinneapolis Star reviewer of the Cricket Theater 'D.B. Cooper' play9 mentions5 documents
21. Malcolm Clair BauerJournalistOregonian editorial staffer; gave elimination fingerprints for Cooper letters9 mentions6 documents
22. Norman GorinJournalistCBS '60 Minutes' producer pursuing the NORJAK story9 mentions4 documents
23. Clay BlairJournalist8 mentions3 documents
24. Emmett WatsonJournalist8 mentions8 documents
25. Jack R. CampbellJournalistByline on several clipped news stories about the Cooper search and reward.8 mentions8 documents
26. Leslie L. ZaitzJournalistOregonian reporter covering the Tena Bar money search and geologist Leonard Palmer.8 mentions7 documents
27. Robert E. ThompsonJournalist7 mentions7 documents
28. Dick SchaapJournalist5 mentions5 documents
29. Gene GrantJournalist5 mentions2 documents
30. J. D. ReedJournalist5 mentions5 documents
31. Jimmy BreslinJournalist5 mentions5 documents
32. Kerry WebsterJournalist5 mentions5 documents
33. William F. ThomasJournalist5 mentions5 documents
34. Mike SteeleJournalist4 mentions4 documents
35. Bruce HendersonJournalist3 mentions3 documents
36. Darien MurrayJournalist3 mentions3 documents
37. David HawleyJournalist3 mentions3 documents
38. Douglas K. HaberlandJournalist3 mentions3 documents
39. Gordon CoeJournalist3 mentions3 documents
40. JamJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file3 mentions3 documents
41. LkeJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file3 mentions3 documents
42. Nicholas von HoffmanJournalist3 mentions2 documents
43. William ArnoldJournalist3 mentions3 documents
44. Dan BlackburnJournalist2 mentions2 documents
45. Doug RichardsJournalist2 mentions2 documents
46. J. D. HoldsworthJournalist2 mentions2 documents
47. Larry StewardJournalist2 mentions2 documents
48. Lester BernsteinJournalist2 mentions1 document
49. Paul HendersonJournalist2 mentions2 documents
50. Reid BlackburnJournalist2 mentions2 documents
51. RlbJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file2 mentions2 documents
52. Walt EvansJournalist2 mentions2 documents
53. DlrJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file1 mention1 document
54. DsjJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file1 mention1 document
55. Fred BrackJournalist1 mention1 document
56. JebJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file1 mention1 document
57. Joyce Lain KennedyJournalist1 mention1 document
58. MdgJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file1 mention1 document
59. Paddy ShermanJournalist1 mention1 document
60. RfrJournalistsurname only; no fuller name in the file1 mention1 document

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