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Tweets on history of the Beaver State by “the author that calls himself a historian” (MA @PSU_History). Consulting work too! Kick Ass #Oregon History #podcast
Nov 24, 2021 204 tweets >60 min read
Sometime before 2:00pm, 11/24/1971, a man appeared @flyPDX. Seemingly out of nowhere. He just… appeared among the 2,500 passengers already in the terminal. From the mist, ethereal; all that shit.
#DBCooper
🧵: ✈️ 🥃 🚬 🕶 📝 💣 🪂 💰 A postcard postmarked in 1971 showing PDX, with a United Boe [In this video I lay out my 5 sources for this here #DBCooper aTwitterin. Cause if you don’t care about sources… I don’t think that we roll in the same crew. ]
Nov 24, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
Just before 2pm PST, DKC is gonna live tweet the #DBCooper hijacking as it played out, minute-by-minute, exactly 50 years later. And we'll start this story at @flypdx!

Hope you can join me for the only unsolved skyjacking in US history. Real Time! A photo of Portland International Airport, pre-1971. There a If you need some background on the Cooper case, I wrote a few features this year that will fill you in. The first is in @PoMoMagazine and looks at the legend that is DB Cooper. pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-…