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Author Koerner, Brendan I., author.

Title The skies belong to us : love and terror in the golden age of hijacking / Brendan I. Koerner.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1552 LOERNER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.15 KOERNER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1552 K81    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  364.15 KOERNER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.1552 KO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-308) and index.
Contents "Keep smiling" -- Coos Bay -- "I don't want to be an American anymore" -- Sweet black angel -- "I'm here and I exist" -- Operation Sisyphus -- "There are Weathermen among you" -- "Can't you get a chopper?" -- "It's all a lie" -- The choice -- "We are going to be friends" -- "My only bomb is my human heart" -- "How do you resign from a revolution?" -- "The Olympics wasn't anything" -- "Monsieur Lecanuet, anyone can steal-- " -- Omega -- Tweety Bird -- Erased.
Summary In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of Sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. The longest-distance hijacking in American history took place in 1972 when a shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow, commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague war protest. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Journalist Brendan I. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars.--From publisher description.
Documents the 1972 story behind the longest-distance hijacking in U.S. history, tracing the events of the hijacking against a backdrop of civil unrest and the skyjacking wave of the early 1970s.
Subject Hijacking of aircraft -- United States -- Case studies.
ISBN 0307886107
9780307886101
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