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D B Cooper — Part 7

25 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D B Cooper · 24 pages OCR'd
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eee Eg aed ORIENT a a a Lee ERO aA Aah basteneey Une Mbt 5 : ‘L'"D.B. Cooper skyjack” of made public. Banks and oth- "4 anyoie by’.now may have — ¢he list of serial numbers\°; .caught in..a stree to the > Q. o: . td 1 = 2 0 00 VIAN & wh eH (Mount Clipping in Space Below) (ndiecte page, name of -' newspaper, city and state & e A Ne oe o* search for, alate» To assist in the ans .0 : 2s By ROLLA J. CRICK . the money, The Journal is Tn poner. sng. Journal Staff Writers: | publishing. on; page 31°: the - |i. THE OREGON JODR i vo i serial numbers of some of o , PORTLAND , : OR £!The Journal will pay $1,000 the missing twenties and will , ae rear 5 -<for the first $20 bill turned in publish more of. the list on- wy ~ .-t0 the newspaper upon verifi- ' succeeding days. Serial num-." —- oo 7 ‘cation by the Federal Bu- bers of the bills that were en zeau of Investigation thatthe delivered to Cooper were re-. Sa, eo bills a-bona fide part of thet corded before: the “delivery, . gree ec} was made, -" at $200,600 extorted from North-| This is the’first'time that - of west Orient “Airlines in the! the list of numbers has been - 4 . er financial institutions have - + Nov. 24, 1971. ae ‘had a 35-page booklet of the 2°” The offer is made with the ‘numbers since its. prepara- concurrence of the FBI that }-" Lon te oe pw tercpocy. of gedae me obtaining any of the missing, |tion by the FBI shortly after} and presented a note to af, 9 money would be a substan- the hijacking. : stewardess. The note de- 6l. Journal readers who keep, manded > money and_ para- Te 2 jiial aid to the two-year Jon . each of the partial lists pub- chutes and was backed up by{ |. - 4 op investigation of the nation’s lished by the newspaper will “ display of “what ‘the man? |_ ee 8 Smost cclebrated airline hi- be able to put together their claimed was a bomb. After. mye t 2. jacking. own copies of the, complete .. negotiations on the ground in> Te It is also made in the be- official list. Seattle the demand was met=. rer e took off for. | a O° hier that if any of the money . The Journal invites other, and the plan jg in circulation, that fact mews media to aid in the dis- +" Ren0s. 3 v vss. iss). | Date: a smhey “can be established by alert, ¢ribution of serial numbers.” — The plane ‘reached * Reno, * ‘November S283 readers wha:check the seriall . .’ Northwest Airlines initially -- but Cooper ;was. not to be Edition; 00, Ua) AYE eeeee: wer vss f offered a reward of'15 per: found, ‘oa. F- Roto. 1 RTE Author?” Rolla: J. Crick numbers on §20 bills in their) cent of the extortion money. A flight recorder indicated Edito:Donald St 133 possession. recovered up to'a maximum -_ that the rear door of the 727.. ‘Von er Ly : “The man known as Cooper i\.of . $25,000," but” the reward ;#, was’: opened’ shortly’ after Title: NORJAK’ : demanded and obtained} has been discontinued, the. takeoff and it was assumedi | ° *# 0) ‘e” x05 $200,000 in $20 bills, plus four ° airline informed the newspa-";, that Cooper had parachuted.3 | _ parachules, and disappeared : pers “ae Roe Te FE about then. 28s. TS Chere in e in-spattered nig! t ..- The Journal's $1,000 for $20 in. ere ‘has. been 2 aracter: ; somewhere between Seattle ' wilt be paid even if the first Spread belief that the hijack-7 | 00 or oy _and Reno from the 727 he ' pill to be turned in is surren-, °° perished in the nocturnal had commandeered at Port- | dered directly to the FBI at jump. S eculetion has land International Airport. : any of its field offices, once ° ranged from. the possibility: Neither he nor the money ; jt js established that the bill . that his body someday would. have appeared since, but surfaced because’ of” the be found hanging“ in the: there,is a,chance that almost yewspaper’s publication of Shrouds :of parachutes= Classification: . 164-232 oo Submitting Office: Portland LN] Betng Investigated | ““come into possession of one - “Dp, B, Cooper” or “Dan‘,;. chance that he and the mong: 3.nof.the: bill ofthe bills, ..——-<-» Cooper” is the name as-~ ey are at the bottom of Lakew - _ signed to the -middle-aged,”. Merwin ‘near Cougar, Washi, . a focation ms or ‘an; intensive, ed NWA flight 305 at Port-- scarch in 972.0." 0. sess, sland Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, > , ° . o 4 or “a re.) . ’. dark-haired man who’ board-
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