@article{693781,
      recid = {693781},
      author = {Koerner, Brendan I.},
      title = {The skies belong to us : love and terror in the golden age  of hijacking /},
      pages = {318 pages :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/693781},
}