If you know, you know. (And if you don't, you're about to find out!)
On November 24, 1971, a nondescript man (literally how the FBI describes him) went down in history. This man bought a ticket for a one-way flight to Seattle, Washington in the Portland, Oregon airport under the name of Dan Cooper. During the course of the flight, he ordered a drink & around 3 PM, he handed the stewardess a note saying that he had something nefarious in his briefcase & that he wanted her to sit beside him, which she did. Cooper then gave her a note to take to the pilots in the cockpit - a demand for four parachutes & $200,000, all in 20-dollar bills. He was able to exchange the other passengers on the flight for his demands & had the flight rerouted to Mexico.
If the story isn't crazy enough for you, it gets crazier: Cooper jumped out of the back of the plane & the ransom money. The plane landed safely elsewhere but DB Cooper disappeared in the meantime. To this day, nobody has been charged with this plane-jacking. The FBI was on the case immediately & this remains an open case. (There is actually an article about it on the FBI's website: D.B. Cooper Hijacking — FBI) Clues have been found, theories have been put forth, suspects looked into. But the case has gone down in legend & somewhere along the way, the name Dan Cooper morphed into DB Cooper.
Books have been written about this (& the library has a few). The story of DB Cooper has been shared on the History Channel shows History's Greatest Mysteries & Brad Meltzer's Decoded. Of course, there are a whole mess of YouTube videos & articles about the DB Cooper case. (A few are listed below.)
Who Was the Mysterious Hijacker D.B. Cooper? | HISTORY
D.B. Cooper Mystery Solved? New Evidence May Reveal His Identity
New Evidence Discovered in D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Case Uncovers Potential Suspect
New suspects? Museum of Flight hosts D.B. Cooper Conference
And since DB Cooper perpetrated his plane-jacking the evening before Thanksgiving, the Quincy Public Library will have a display featuring materials about DB Cooper, plane-jacking, & hijacking during the week of Thanksgiving. Just a little something different - both for the library & for those of us trying to escape the holiday related stress. Feel free to borrow any of those. If you don't find what you want, we can always place a hold for you. (But please bring your library card to obtain the materials. No one wants to join DB Cooper on any of those lists. 😒)