CJR Looks Into the Etymology of D.B. Cooper

The famous case that was closed last week by the FBI centers around a man who, most certainly, used a fake name. However, as Columbia Journalism Review contributor William Browning very entertainingly lays out in a piece posted today, how the perpetrator of a daring 1971 commercial airliner hijacking came to be known as D.B. Cooper remains up in the air. (The ticket for the Northwest Orient Airlines Seattle-Portland flight was issued in the name Dan Cooper.)