BY MANDY VAN DEVEN This article originally appeared at Salon.com. Reprinted with permission. The legend of D.B. Cooper is a curiously enduring one. On November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a plane in Portland, Ore., and after a drink and a cigarette...
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