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Episode 26: Lost and Found
On September 6, 1970, CBS News Anchor Harry Reasoner and London correspondent Charles Collingwood reported on the hijacking of three international flights and the attempted hijacking of a fourth. A news junkie at 12, I must have watched the reports all week as my parents sipped a pre-dinner cocktail.
What I didn’t know was that someone who would become my friend was on one of those planes.
In 1970, hijackings were shockingly common, and while piracy is a centuries-old crime, aircraft hijacking was a relatively recent one. The first hijacking probably occurred in 1929, when revolutionaries in…
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