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D B Cooper — Part 7
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: ‘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
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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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