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The 40-year Mystery of America’s Greatest Skyjacking [The FBI Hunt for DB Cooper]
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | Sunday 31 July 2011 | By Alex Hannaford

Posted on 07/30/2011 7:31:04 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

After hijacking an aeroplane and extorting $200,000 from the FBI, DB Cooper coolly made his escape via parachute. Forty years on, is America’s most elusive fugitive finally in sight?

The night before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper, wearing a suit and raincoat, walked up to the Northwest Orient desk at Portland airport in the United State’s Pacific Northwest and spent $20 on a one-way ticket to Seattle.

On the plane, he donned a pair of dark sunglasses, ordered a whiskey, lit up a cigarette and coolly handed the stewardess a note. In capital letters, it read: I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE. I WILL USE IT IF NECESSARY. I WANT YOU TO SIT NEXT TO ME. YOU ARE BEING HIJACKED.

What happened next would ensure Cooper a place in the pantheon of American folk heroes.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Government; US: Oregon; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 1971; 197111; 19711126; alexhannaford; curtiseng; dancooper; dbcooper; dropzone; faziobrothers; galencook; northwestorient; phonecall4dbcooper; robertblevins; seattlefbi; skydiving; tinabar
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To: fight_truth_decay

bump.


61 posted on 07/31/2011 9:14:36 AM PDT by ken21 (dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: Iron Munro; Smokin' Joe
A good looking woman in shorts and a low cut top would have 2 guys going over her car like a NASCAR pit crew.

He who was the quickest to grab the vacuum cleaner got the honor of cleaning the floor mats and sucking the ash tray empty.

The best part was getting the credit card slip signed, a lengthy process on a first name basis.

62 posted on 07/31/2011 10:03:09 AM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: Dan Cooper

What´s it been like all these years?

Though I do seem to recall hearing that once before, now that you mention it.

Thanks very much.


63 posted on 07/31/2011 12:34:05 PM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: MHGinTN; gracie1; Sundog
The only money ever recovered was found by an eight-year old boy in 1980. He found three packets of matted and badly disintegrated bills, still bound by rubber bands, buried in the sandy banks of the Columbia River when he was raking up an area for a campfire.

Based on the matting and the rounded nature of the disintegration, it was determined that they had washed down the river a considerable distance before reaching their resting place.

There's no report of any of the Cooper money being found by a lake or anywhere else. Just the Columbia river find.

In 2007, the FBI disclosed that one of the two parachutes given Cooper was a dummy chute with an inoperable ripcord and that Cooper had jumped with that chute, cannibalizing the working chute (probably to wrap the money to his body).

So, yeah, Cooper cork-screwed into the ground at terminal velocity, if the FBI's information is true.

64 posted on 07/31/2011 2:10:56 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: FromTheSidelines
You have an “allergy to cigarette smoke?” Do you break out in hives if someone is smoking across the street?
65 posted on 07/31/2011 2:23:11 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: Iron Munro
I had a Volkswagen in 1971. Worked at Gulf Oil back then and got a 10% discount off my gas if I used my employee Gulf Oil credit card.

My monthly gasoline bill was $8.00, give or take some change. I kid you not.

66 posted on 07/31/2011 2:27:30 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: Iron Munro

And - PS - Me and my dad drove to and from work 5 days a week from the northern suburbs to downtown Pittsburgh in the Bug.


67 posted on 07/31/2011 2:29:33 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: TYVets

Cleaning winshields in the summertime with good looking gals in short skirts riding shotgun in cars with no air conditioning!


68 posted on 07/31/2011 3:35:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: Steely Tom
Why are they calling him a folk hero?

I believe the following DB has, for instance in the Telegraph's investigative journalism piece; there was reference to a day of celebration named for DB, and the woman interviewed explained why Cooper was is so popular:

“Because the government's always screwing us over and finally somebody got ‘em back.”

69 posted on 07/31/2011 3:48:44 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Iron Munro
I am going to start pumping in some country music to this forum for you people driving down memory lane.. lol

Let's see:

Ahhh.... Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem

Enjoy!

You're welcome!! ;)

70 posted on 07/31/2011 3:55:37 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: HenpeckedCon
You have an “allergy to cigarette smoke?” Do you break out in hives if someone is smoking across the street?

No. But inhaling a decent amount of cigarette smoke (say, sitting with a friend who is smoking for 5-10 minutes) my sinuses clog up and stop functioning - it triggers vasomotor rhinitis in me. Literally. I'm a mouth-breather after that, for several hours, and antihistamines don't help at all.

My solution? I don't go places where people smoke. I try to avoid it. If smoking was still allowed on flights, I'd take the non-smoking flights.

Also, I watched my grandfather - who raised me - die from lung cancer when he was 67, from smoking 3-4 packs a day for 50 years. We buried him on my 16th birthday. The man who taught me how to drive was buried on the day I could get my license, because of his addiction and use of cigarettes. The fewer who smoke, the better IMHO.

71 posted on 07/31/2011 4:11:11 PM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: TYVets
True, that. But come in there acting like a butthead and you could leave with different pressure in all 4 tires, a flat spare, and extra quart of oil, and that annoying eye level dab of grease on the windshield wiper...

Service with a smile!

72 posted on 07/31/2011 10:22:12 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Thanks fight_truth_decay.

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73 posted on 08/01/2011 5:38:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Iron Munro

“In the 1960s Gasoline varied from 18.9 to 21.9 cents per gallon, unless there was a gas war going on. They pumped your gas, checked your oil and everything else under the hood, checked the tire pressures and you never got out of your car.

And they scrubbed and washed your windshield. “

And gave you promotional goodies like drink glasses and dishes.


74 posted on 08/01/2011 5:45:49 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
And gave you promotional goodies like drink glasses and dishes.

True - that slipped my mind.

And some gave Blue Stamps or S & H Green Stamps redeemable for all sorts of items.

I worked a gas station after school and on weekends. We also gave a 2 cents per gallon discount to regular customers.


75 posted on 08/01/2011 6:55:04 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: SunkenCiv; hennie pennie
Note again the London Telegraph writes the authors investigative piece on this--first? Note the article I posted from over the weekend Telegraph timestamp. The 40-year Mystery of America’s Greatest Skyjacking July 30-31st.

I had watced the "Whitey" Bulger news [a real killer,kidnapper, child murderer,theif, mobster with government ties] and that was because of the focus by Howie Carr [WRKO] and his books [2] for so long.

I belive the DB Cooper forum I acknowledge has also kept the story alive-note 2 who have always been active for years.

Suddenly the FBI now is on top of all this. All that is great in the grand scheme of things; but we need to make sure our country is safe from terrorists..I guess we are all suppose to feel safer now. ;)

What's happened to FR's "hennie pennie" and their investigative posts I enjoyed reading.

Thanks for you post.

76 posted on 08/02/2011 11:11:29 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0802/A-new-D.B-Cooper-book-and-a-new-lead

A New Book a new lead...coincidence?

Carr wrote a book which was being promoted and then the FBI suddenly had a new lead which they said they developed with media posters[however not in the LA area]-—happened with the 16 yr old story of Whitey...


77 posted on 08/02/2011 12:08:49 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

The problem with any and all solutions is, no matter how it’s claimed to be solved or who claims it, the various lone researchers won’t let go of their own ideas and/or suspects. Barring incontrovertible evidence (like a single fingerprint match, unlikely at this point) that puts one of the suspects — and none of the others — on board that plane, it can’t be solved. Same goes for the Zodiac killer.


78 posted on 08/02/2011 6:12:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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