**EDIT: Correction: Roger Holder was born in North Carolina and moved to Coos Bay, Oregon and later to San Diego. I misspoke about the sequence of where his family moved. **

On today’s show we join the mile high club and tell the absolutely unhinged (and somewhat romantic) story of 1970’s skyjackers, Willie Roger Holder and his hippy girlfriend, Catherine “Cathy” Kerkow.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skies_Belong_to_Us

https://theskiesbelongtous.com/the-story/

https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/algeria-and-the-american-black-panther-party

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt/catherine-marie-kerkow

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-18-me-3264-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/27/nyregion/ex-black-panther-extradited-to-us.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver

https://nmaahc.si.edu/angela-davis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_841

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rom-crime/id1483552419?i=1000489472086

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/female-criminals/id1357366726?i=1000487879097