The two authors' settlements are confidential. December 7, 1942 — November 9, 1974 was an American. She claimed they misrepresented her involvement in the hijacking for which McCoy was convicted, and also misrepresented later events from interviews done with Taylor in the 1970s. Archived from on 15 July 2007. Her request for an injunction to prohibit further sales of the book was denied.
McCoy hijacked a passenger jet for ransom in 1972. She sought an injunction against publication and distribution of the book. They married in August 1965 in. Once at the at , McCoy used his access to the prison's dental office to fashion a fake handgun out of dental paste. By 1971 they had two children, Chanti and Richard.
His purported dream was to become an or agent. The driver had picked up McCoy hitch-hiking at a fast-food restaurant, where McCoy was wearing a jumpsuit and carrying a. Criminal charge Penalty 45 years incarceration Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. The aircraft was a with stairs the same equipment used in the incident , via which McCoy escaped in mid-flight by parachute after giving the crew similar instructions as Cooper had. McCoy was on duty flying one of the helicopters involved in the search for the hijacker.
However, an injunction to prohibit the sale of movie rights to the book — conditional upon the movie including references to four specific allegations in the book that she protested — was granted. Cooper: The Real McCoy, by agents Bernie Rhodes and Russell P. McCoy claimed innocence, but was convicted of the hijacking and received a 45-year sentence. Both authors investigated McCoy's skyjacking case, and their book posits that Cooper and McCoy were really the same person. He and a crew of convicts escaped on August 10, 1974 by commandeering a and crashing it through the prison's main gate. Following fingerprint and , McCoy was arrested two days after the hijacking.
McCoy had also described to an how easy it would be to carry out such a hijacking. Upon returning to , he served as a in the and was an avid. . He served in as a expert and and was awarded the in 1964. During court proceedings, it was revealed that McCoy's widow was deeply involved in the hijacking.
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