I was reading two books based on D. B. Cooper: D. B. Cooper What Really Happened and D. B. Cooper The Real McCoy. I noticed that a lot of the information presented about the actual skyjacking contradicted wasn't present and a lot of the info I wanted wasn't even presented. I was wondering where I could find information on what really happened. All I could think of was the interviews with the plane crew and passengers, although to my knowledge these are not public. Any ideas?
Josh, both books you mention are written by cops, and you have just experienced one of the troubling dynamics of law enforcement, especially in the DB Cooper case. Basically, cops don't think their shit stinks, so what they write is the only stuff worth knowing about. Wait until you read Himmelsbach!
So, if you read their books with that perspective, and are willing to look elsewhere for a more comprehensive picture, then your abovementioned works are valuable, especially Calame and Rhodes, which I consider a remarkable addition to the Cooper literature. Nobody in LE is writing with such courage and delivering such searing information.
To wit: Rhodes writes that Cooper agents were under the influence of a post-hypnotic suggestion when he interviewed them!
So, that is why guys like me, a humble journalist, still has a job. We tend to tell a fuller story.
