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 ...
bump.
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.
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.
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.
My monthly gasoline bill was $8.00, give or take some change. I kid you not.
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.
Cleaning winshields in the summertime with good looking gals in short skirts riding shotgun in cars with no air conditioning!
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.” |
Let's see:
Ahhh.... Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem
Enjoy!
You're welcome!! ;)
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.
Service with a smile!
“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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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