Join Kick Ass Oregon History‘s Ribald Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder) for D.B. Cooper 101.

Get the Straight Shit on the only unsolved skyjacking in US aviation history at “DB Cooper 101″ … The Resident Historian will give you the who, what, where, when and how (maybe not the why . . .), and discuss some of the leading suspects in the case. In addition, we will watch a little film about 727s and some of the strange things they did over “Indochina” in the late 1960s, and maybe some other, as yet to be unnamed, film too! It will be a night for those who ask “Who is this DB Cooper guy?” to the self styled Cooper Sleuth, who knows most of the details by now (This is a pretty complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you’s.). AND we will have a Trivia Contest, with the winner receiving TWO tickets to the Washington State History Museum, which includes admission to their amazing COOPER exhibit! Hmmm . . . let’s see . . . “What drink special will the JLB run that night . . .???” So come on down and join us – you won’t want to miss this one!

21 and over only, the investigation begins at 7:30 p.m.

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Finn John, author of the Offbeat Oregon column Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town, presents Mysterious Skeletons of Old Oregon: If only these bones could talk … on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at the Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder).

What is it about a human skeleton that makes it so different from your run-of-the-mill zombie or vampire? Skeletons are real; they’re dead, but were once alive; they can’t talk, but once could; and their cold and lifeless condition suggests that something dramatic, perhaps tragic, happened to them. If only they could talk ….

Oregon has a few skeleton-related mysteries — mysteries that we could clear right up if only those bones could tell us their story. Unfortunately, they can’t do that. But on the first Tuesday of October, at The Jack, we’ll rattle a few of Oregon’s most mysterious skeletons and maybe roll a few theories around.

The presentation begins at 7:30 PM, and it’s free. Come early (6:30 PM) for Breakfast: From Silver Screen to Small, presented by Portland ecologist and food writer Heather Arndt Anderson.