The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking - Brendan I. Koerner Audiobook
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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of ’60s 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, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom–a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
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| Creation Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:22:00 -0400 |
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
August 22nd, 2018
The Golden Age of Hijacking? Nostalgia really is eating itself. What’s so “bittersweet” about “jars of acid”?
Who doesn’t become misty-eyed and dreamy when contemplating brutal kidnappings?
This could be your nuttiest upload yet, Jean-Paul!
August 22nd, 2018
All time favorite, thanks for the upload! This book could easily be a movie but who cares the book is better than any movie would be. Quality of writing, depth of storytelling, history of hijacking in the early 70s.
to Caesar963, in the early 70s hijackings in the United States were occurring at about 1 a week. Exciting times getting on a plane, you just walked on. No searches, no questions. People walked on with shotguns, you name it. There was a hijack culture going on. Check it out man. Peace.
August 24th, 2018
Peace to you too, Koshuyawa! That title/description is thoroughly bizarre - if we’re romantic about stuff like that then we’ve definitively jumped the moral shark.
August 26th, 2018
Thank you for sharing.
April 11th, 2022
Could someone please be kind and seed _/\_
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