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D. B. Cooper — Part 1

35 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Nov 24, 1971 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D. B. Cooper · 33 pages OCR'd
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we git slo os _ ved Tr Fiem ing was associated with Newsweekic mibage nt;- Los’ Angeles’ nd: contributing editor Jor: I, yedrs. before resigning "April 15 to found’ ? oy LAS While’ with: Newsweek? neve ds - virtially every significant civil: ights story; of the turbulent ‘60s, including. Binning ham, Selma, Ole, Miss... Little* Rock andpe * Watts”. He™ covered’ the: - assassinations of. ._ President’ John F- Kennedy and his brother” * "Robert: and. those of Martin. Luther King: and Medgar. Evers. ‘He: was assigned tos’ ‘K hard Nixon during the last Presidén-:* - tial campaign. and ‘has ‘covered: Lyndon-. Johnson, George Wallace, Hubert Hum." . Phrey, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Rea-~ pat also reported on the Charles Man: t d Jack Ruby trials- for Newsweek * and the trial of Pueblo spy ‘ship f captain * » loyd M: Bucher Early this year, Fleming: f ade contact ‘with. aman who claimed tax e D. B. Cooper, the only person ever to*: skyjack an airliner. and get away with’ his identity unknown, In this and the next, two installments, Fleming tells what hap. pened, me a i Copy right 9 1922 Platypus Publications . Po boa " abt date Bee 9 vy we USTED BLAS ad Ey wR eC RNS DIR Soe SY . . Ohl QO AT eh ral eon ya Teves . a aay . " ai Thanh! Qe dEE sah aN YA Dunn gat : , Te a See T ae ace he AAU HG . 7 way . . a planned jump spot; he concealed me. + would work; :>° { : _ rPOKHOHNNY : Bee ok unawaer WDMNOANNMPMWOM OHS - ‘ > “Dp aNmewor oo - RARER ENT ce eee mut wae tuned’ to a per, ee thet ingmite rg Were’ “see the: - highway ‘and the: ‘lights | id WH: wt there, . but I wanted to’ have that’ tb epi: beep!” signal’ in case’ «anything! rong," Cooper said." ' “Cooper had made practice.runs’ nthe’ . Portland-Seattle flight’. a: half-déze '. times,: checking the terrain, checking ‘the: compass route, familiarizing. ‘him self with landmarks and on. the fi al * ", checkride he had placed his small trafis ui “ mitters and had taken his walkie-tal i # on board with him. “Approaching | ‘, walkie-talkie in a pillow and held the’ A ‘* pillow up to his ear. Sure enough, when } She’ was over the right place—and could * *"see where he was~—the’ signals beganjto’: ‘come _ in; demonstrating ‘the: . Syst m oT. " nk " After setting then out on the day! of rye er . the: hijacking, Cooper’ returned to the « . “Post Office Lot, parked the car, walked * WAIN,
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