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Volume 25
July 2018 Edition
Catherine Marie Kerkow
Catherine Marie Kerkow is
wanted for her alleged in-
volvement in the hijacking
of Western Airlines Flight
701 which was to fly from
Los Angeles, California, to
Seattle, Washington, on
June 3, 1972.
A member of the Black Pan-
thers, Kerkow and an accom-
plice claimed they had a bomb
It has been called a hijacking epidemic. Between 1961 and 1972, more than 150
in an attache case and demand- flights were hijacked in American airspace. At the height of the trend, aeroplanes
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were hijacked at a rate of nearly one per week.
ed $500,000.