I was wondering, other than the placement of the clip on the tie, what else shows us that Cooper was left-handed? He wrote notes, did Tina see which hand?

I believe it's possible they might have the butts, but keep in mind that they have lost other key items as well.

The flight data is nowhere to be found.
No pictures of the money in the bag.
No pics of the chutes.
They claim they don't know who made the flight path map.
Did anyone ever hear anything about what was found on the seat. they removed it?
Different stories surrounding the money find. (FBI & Ingram's)


They might be good at what they do in certain parts of the FBI, but filing seems to be an issue with them, or keeping tabs on things.

He wrote notes? First I heard.

He had a hand-printed note that he gave to Florence, but whether he wrote it or not, leftie or righty, is not known. After that, he dictated all communications, as far as I know, or used the interphone to talk to the cockpit directly, such as when he told Rataczak to slow the plane down just prior to his jump.

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I was wondering, other than the placement of the clip on the tie, what else shows us that Cooper was left-handed? He wrote notes, did Tina see which hand?

The clip on the tie can only go one way. It clips to the shirt behind it.

Which confuses me, as there's a picture of Lepsy on Ross's website showing a tie clip coming in from the right hand side, whereas the Cooper tie has the clasp coming in from the left-hand side.

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How a tie clip actually attaches to a shirt is something I've never really had to think about...

As Vicki was pointing out, in the USA the shirt buttons are on the right hand side of the shirt and the button holes are on the left side.  When buttoning the shirt, the buttons are pulled through the hole with the right hand.  This means that the "tie clip", not the "tie tack", can only be inserted under the outer shirt side (the one with the button holes) if it is inserted from the right hand side.

There is no evidence who put the clip on the tie as shown in those photographs.

Could the picture of Lepsy be reversed or could he be wearing a British or Canadian shirt?

Carr states he took the clip off & on. I'm sure it has been taken off dozens of times and put back on either side...

Does anyone know why someone would refer to Portland as Portland proper?

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Does anyone know why someone would refer to Portland as Portland proper?

Can you amplify on what you mean by that question?

Stated that they had not reached Portland proper but were definitely in the suburbs or immediate vicinity therof...