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ing t ‘ ng.and ingenious airline hold: i up history doing: it: all, along’: d;, ‘” diving ‘out’ of ‘the plane with $200,000 4 booty—and to”all appearances getting '_ away with it. Half the FBI agents in the, . country were looking’ for him. Hundreds‘: of military‘troops fanned out on foot} to search the countryside around Lake~ Merwin, Wash., where it was believed. he landed after parachuting. Northwest? posted a $25,000 reward. So no’ matter * how urgently Cooper might have wanted? to talk, he would be laying extremely “ © dow, To ee et ey hae OS sj Nevertheless, I brooded, if a r porter, + could somehow get to Cooper’ what a‘: Story there was to be had. Not only was: the crime daringly unique, but Cooper's - m letter suggested an extremely uncommon: © ana thus potentially fascinating mo-: tive. If a reporter was ‘good at his craft,.. he looked for this extra dimension in a: - Story ~ a situation or’ an oceurence of * ‘an* extraordinary nature that instantly crystalized some aspect of the human te we ; spectacle... .. we He Given the int nsity of the search for - ‘Cooper, however, what, real hope was . ater Copyright© 1972 Platypus Publications | tivolved” 7 had: Nola. down South, a reporter friend | 5, tating his integration story, to hfs‘ of i by long-distance ‘call when a’y. ice, ‘ob: en $ viously white, probably cop, broke in and. |” Said’. “You goddamned nigge on-of-a-biteh.” 6 nte4! One learned to be’ careful ® Phones. By next morning, I had at San elaborate. system | involvin aT es and Watts. He covered the_assassijations S of President John F. Kennedy and %¥s'bro}- | ~ ther Robert and those of Martin’ Luthex ‘’ King and Medgar Evers. He was assi ned to Richard Nixon during the last, Presi, . . dential campaign and has covered Lyndon y; Johnson, George Wallace, Hubert um.) " phrey, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Rea- * gan. He also reported on the Charleg Man::' son and Jack Ruby trials for Newsweek. , a 'and the trial of Pueblo spy ship captain. ° . ‘Lloyd M-Qucher, » ~ Soot \ + ous SR YE PCE ote a A eee oe prea et epee eee renege ene REE