Subject: Re: Cooper's full name
From: brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
Date: 1990-09-07, 13:32
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <7217@milton.u.washington.edu>
twain@blake.acs.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:

> >Lynch gave the two major characters names that are meant to be playfully
> >SUGGESTIVE of D.B. Cooper and Harry S. Truman.
> >
> >The characters are named Dale Cooper and Harry Truman.  They have no 
> >middle initials.

Harry Truman is another Washington State joke; he's the old man who
wouldn't leave Mt St Helens when it was starting to erupt.  And he was
too old to be named after the president.