S2 Ep34: D.B. Cooper’s 10,000-foot Caper

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.0 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, a man with sunglasses, a raincoat and a small attache case boarded a flight, lit a cigarette and calmly told his stewardess that he had a bomb and a handful of demands. Dan Cooper –misnamed as D.B. Cooper in the press– would go down in history for the stunt he’d pull off, skyjacking a plane and jumping off of it into the night. America was immediately enamored with the mysterious everyman, but who was he and what exactly happened that fateful, rainy night?

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0:00.0	What makes a legend?
0:06.7	What is it about some stories that stick in our collective memories while others fade
0:11.4	away?
0:12.4	I think some legends leave their mark in the details.
0:15.8	The outfits worn, the one-liners said, the delicate turns a tale can take.
0:21.8	For some it's the bigger pieces.
0:24.2	Who did what and why?
0:26.2	And in this story, it's both.
0:28.5	That's all of that.
0:30.5	Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:33.4	I'm a writer and an actor who probably couldn't hijack a plane, but will be damned if someone
0:39.2	tries to rob me of my free soft drinks and little bag of pretzels in a biscoff.
0:44.0	Today, we'll load Joy to the world by three-dog knight into our eight tracks, buckle in and
0:49.4	hitch a ride on the infamous trail of DB Cooper, the mysterious everyman who hijacked a flight
0:56.0	and fascinated America with his weird flair while doing it.
1:03.0	America in the early 70s was a wild place.
1:13.5	The pendulum which had swung so far to the left in the late 60s with the free love movement
1:18.7	was trying to make its way right.
1:21.6	The end of the contested Vietnam War was coming, so was the Watergate scandal.
1:26.7	Civilian hope for a brighter future gave way to distrust and government, frustration, and
1:32.2	revolt.
1:33.2	Amidst all the chaos on the ground, skyjackings had become so common that about once every
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