Episode 2.34 // D.B. Cooper’s 10,000-foot Caper

In 1971, a man with sunglasses, a raincoat and a small attache case boarded a flight, lit a cigarette and calmly told his stewardess that he had a bomb and a handful of demands. Dan Cooper –misnamed as D.B. Cooper in the press– would go down in history for the stunt he’d pull off, skyjacking a plane and jumping off of it into the night. America was immediately enamored with the mysterious everyman, but who was he and what exactly happened that fateful, rainy night?

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• Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper suspect with various bizarre Oregon connections, dies at 75.

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TRANSCRIPT:

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