For the record and to help with the discussion on Dr. Edwards' book, I do believe it is a masterpiece because it possesses the greatest array of federal documents on Norjak than anywhere else in the Vortex. They are concise and comprehensive.

Now, what Edwards does with those docs is questionable. His interpretations and analysis are subject to criticism, as we have rightly seen so far at the Forum.

While not a PhD, Timika Rohal put the effort in to publish his book on June 29,2021 this year,
and I think he didn't get enough attention from DBC researchers in Romania and other EU countries.

Here's a little promotion. I have not been compensated in any way nor have I read the book. He took a whole night to write the book, mostly (about 9 hours), so you can believe it's good! (time included one of the two poems that come gratis).

He appears to have done his research, since the book is about himself, so it was relatively straightforward to do so.
only $8.99
a bargain. Some movies cost that much to rent on Netflix. Acknowledgements page attached. 121 6x9 pages.


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Watch D.B. Cooper: On The Night Of The Skyjacking: Db Cooper Story Paperback – June 29, 2021

D. B. Cooper is a media epithet used to describe an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971.

Around Thanksgiving (2010) my wife Robin and I were sitting on the sofa watching the 11:00 pm late news when they announced it was once again the anniversary of the “D.B. Cooper skyjacking event. On television, they always talk about it…this time they showed the original film footage of the airliner, taken during a stormy night in Seattle around 40 years earlier. In addition, they also displayed the composite sketch of the skyjacker, drawn from the memories of the few passengers and crew members to have observed him on the night of the skyjacking. “Look”, I told my wife, “That guy was my father. I swear to God, he’s the one who did it.” She was astonished. I went on to tell her my Dad’s brother, Bud, was in on it also. That he was a jet captain for the very airline, Northwest Orient, that was hijacked! Now, outside of conversations with my mother, I’d not mentioned a word of all this to anybody in over 40 years! The newscast went on to say that the FBI had discovered additional new evidence in the case, (In the form of DNA) again they asked for the public’s help in finally solving the case. I not only decided to tell my wife, I told her of my decision to contact the authorities including the FBI as soon as possible to reveal what I knew. I was excited that evening, I began to tell my wife more about the story.

Sounds like a re-telling of Bradley Collins' book: My Father was DB Cooper.

whenever someone tells a story about a family member 'being' Cooper, like Marla etc...
I can't help think about how it's really a story at some level about emotional pain or distance.
i.e. either someone was deceiving someone else, or someone actually didn't know much about the other person.
There's a couple common threads to everyone who thinks they "know" who cooper is.

The ones with a personal connection are odd. Does it say more about the person telling the story, or the person the story is being told about.

Both, I think.

Bradley seems like a guy who was impressed with his father, even if he had to handle some degree of guilt for championing a criminal. Bradley's father was called "Jumping Jack Cash," and it sounds like he was involved in lots of shady deals to the point that a neighbor turned him into the cops for Cooper knowing that he was a bad egg.

Plus, Bradley like his uncle Bud, who was the 727 pilot, and then Bradley was the fellow who discovered Uncle Bud's body, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Lots going on here emotionally.

WHO CARES!?   .......... There is no compelling reason to keep track of every Tom, Dick, and Mary that comes along with another Cooper suspect. No sane person would even try!

To me, the cornucopia of Cooper is part of the story - a big part. To me as a journalist, it's a story worth telling. 

As for DBC researchers, not so much. We come to this Forum from different places.

In Bradley's case, all he had was a story. Unfortunately, the day we met at the WSHM I was not at my best and I treated him poorly. I wanted a Cooper twenty or the parachute and he didn't have either.  My attitude was quite pissy and he stormed off, never to return.

So some days I lose patience with some of the storytellers.

True.

thought I'd include the Amazon "Best Sellers Rank" info (today's) for the 4 books mentioned
Seems like the heavy promotion of Edwards is paying off for him. Ka-ching!
Advertising works! Mad Men are in charge of the metaverse!

Edwards
Best Sellers Rank: #36,197 in Books
#10 in Commercial Aviation (Books)
#408 in True Crime (Books)


Bruce 3rd edition book
Bruce: are you listed in the "Aviation History", "Commercial Aviation", "Aviation & Nautical Biographies" groups at Amazon?. The other Cooper books are
Andrade seems to include "White Collar Crime True Accounts" also
Best Sellers Rank: #437,928 in Books
#5,868 in True Crime (Books)
#20,821 in United States History (Books)
 

Gray
Best Sellers Rank: #70,111 in Books
#11 in Aviation & Nautical Biographies
#19 in Commercial Aviation (Books)
#43 in Aviation History (Books)

Andrade
Best Sellers Rank: #437,121 in Books
#235 in White Collar Crime True Accounts

I'm gonna have to figure out how to get listed in those categories. Another cyber mountain to climb. Sigh.