In this FBI memo 11/30/71, the person interviewed said Cooper kept putting his left hand in his briefcase

The subject had a sack and a briefcase which he kept putting his left hand in and out of, The subject appeared to be cool and casual.

This is Bill Mitchell.

I'd agree that the passenger's recollection about left hand in the briefcase is probably accurate.

I totally agree that Sheridan has used phrases in his writing that match Cooper's speech.
And that he had a way of knowing about an airfield in Yuma, AZ
And that he had a way of knowing that Minnesota was nice country when talking to Tina.
And that he would have recognized Tacoma from the air.

I always wondered how Cooper got to the airport.
I was thinking he might have flown in from another plane. But that would mean he didn't get the bomb parts locally in Portland. I was always wondering why the FBI didn't look for someone buying flares that week in a hardware or auto store, around Portland.

And if he had flown in, did he have no luggage other than the briefcase?

So weird, wondering what the days before the hijack were like, for Cooper.

Just to cover one item - Kaczynski was looked at after some people wondered if he had been DB Cooper. His age and other facts didnt match.

Alice said Cooper had his right hand in the briefcase at all times,,,


but I recall reading something else about Cooper using his "right hand" recently,, still looking

I was trying to think about how much it would cost to fly from Nepal to Portland back then.
My NWA flight schedule from 1971 at Dropzone.com (jpeg)....says it cost about $200 to fly coast to coast in the US. It doesn't have fares for the international flights.

But just guessing I would think it would have cost around $500 to go from Nepal to Portland? Probably at least one connecting flight. Maybe from Kathmandu to Japan, then Japan to USA. Dunno. It's an interesting question about just how long that might have taken.

Like, could Sheridan have flown from Nepal, with no luggage, and immediately hijacked. Or would he have stayed somewhere for a day or two, buying flares etc for a bomb. I would think he would have had to stay for a few days beforehand.

And then he would have to get back to an airport..probably PDX, and fly back?
Would he have had to buy some new clothes if the clothes he jumped with, got shredded?

It's hard to figure out the scenario.

funny 377. I thought Sheridan's story about kids field-packing/daisychaining your lines for cash was made up by Sheridan. How would the kids have figured that out, I thought.
But your account by Thom confirms it! so funny.

And we thought we were going to crush the Vietnamese (and now Trump thinks he's going to crush China)

Every time we jumped we were plagued by people trying to sell us everything from cokeacola to their daughters and these boys were all over who would field pack for you for a couple of cigarettes. Carry your gear back for another one.
 

No mentioned of "stained" in my OCR'ed FBI FOIA files.
some mentions of a suspect with stained teeth, but that's it.

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I'm curious about something. Does anybody here know a regular cigarette smoker? Are there signs of nicotine stains on their fingers?

I have not read anything that indicates that DBC had nicotine stained fingers, yet if he was a "heavy smoker" wouldn't he have nicotine stained fingers? Perhaps this is just an urban myth.

As a kid growing up in NY, I would occasionally see a neighbor's friend or an associate of my father's who had deeply stained fingers. I remember asking specifically once why they were stained and my father said that it was from cigarette smoking, and the guys who had these stains were usually smoking when we had this discussion.

Later, I learned that these stains only develop when someone smokes at least two packs a day for many years.

As for Cooper, I have heard intermittently that he had nicotine-stained fingers, but I haven't seen any documented corroboration.

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I heard Sheridan got in some fights with people from the internet.
That's hard to believe, since the internet is about peace and love.

From Snowmman, the Ghandi of the Internet.

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