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Vintage CBS News Footage of D.B. Cooper Skyjacking
Footage from at least one Pacific Northwest TV station (KIRO in Seattle) is included in this D.B. Cooper segment from the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite from November 25, 1971.
This report by Bill Kurtis came one day after Cooper hijacked a Seattle-bound jetliner by claiming to have a bomb; collected money and parachutes in Seattle and released the passengers; then had the crew take off again and headed south. Somewhere in southwest Washington, it's thought, the hijacker jumped from the jet and was never seen again.
While conspiracy theories about Cooper's true identity and ultimate fate have flourished in the past 39 years (and while Cooper has become something of a folk hero), it's illuminating to go back and see what it looked and sounded like on TV at the time when the guy was just an escaped criminal.
(Posted by Feliks Banel)
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