Word: minichiello
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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Italians are making a jet-age Robin Hood of Skyjacker Raffaele Minichiello. When he comes to trial for that gunpoint odyssey from Los Angeles to Rome, the young Marine should have no trouble financing his defense. He stands to get lira aplenty from Producer Carlo Ponti, who will make a $2,000,000 movie about the adventure. And why not Mrs. Ponti-Sophia Loren -as the hostess who volunteers to go all the way with TWA and Raffaele...
...Marine lance corporal four weeks ago commandeered at gunpoint a TWA plane that had taken off from Los Angeles International Airport and skyjacked it to Rome, where he was captured and jailed (TIME, Nov. 7). Behind that senseless and dramatic odyssey lay another one that helps to explain Raffaele Minichiello's bizarre action. Raff, as his family calls him, retraced that first, formative journey for U.S. Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, who flew to Rome to organize Minichiello's defense. As the young Marine talked in his cell in Regina Coeli prison, Attorney Mitchelson recorded parts of it in Raff...
...communities that hide behind hills all over Europe. Even there, he was something of an outsider: a U.S. citizen by virtue of his father's naturalization years before in America. The 30-year disparity in his parents' ages did not contribute to a settled home life. Papa Minichiello, a stern disciplinarian, confined his son at home nights. The one time Raff defied this parental decree he was soundly beaten...
...when Raff was 13, Papa Minichiello moved his family back to the U.S. and settled on a farm outside Seattle, where the old man had relatives. The abrupt transition was traumatic for Raff. He could neither speak nor read English. Classes at Foster High School became a routine torture; he fell hopelessly behind and, without his father's knowledge, regularly played hooky...
Kill or Be Killed. "Why did I do it?" he wondered aloud after his arrest. "I don't know." Pilot Cook thought that Minichiello had suicidal tendencies. Stewardess Coleman said Minichiello "wanted someone to come out to the plane so that he could kill them or be killed himself." Perhaps the troubled Marine, whose mother and sister live in Seattle, wanted to see his ailing 80-year-old father, who returned to Italy a year ago. If that was his aim, he chose an irrational way to achieve it. Italian authorities announced that Minichiello will stand trial for kidnaping...