Word: lindbergh
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...sentimental reassertion of the nation's conception of its own innocence. It is especially important to stage such pageants when Americans are feeling dirty about something. Jessica Dubroff's adventure--a Disney story of redemption by a seven-year-old, a '90s remake of Shirley Temple playing Charles Lindbergh--might have worked as a gaudy, cute, uplifting antidote to the shaming mess of the Simpson trial...
...label of "trial of the century," Ogletree expressed skepticism, preferring instead to save that title for the famed Lindbergh kidnapping case. He recognized, however, the parallel between the two affairs...
...Lindbergh case "is a lesson to us on how cameras can influence justice," Ogletree said. "The prosecution played on public sentiments...and the jury knew how important it was to society...
...Excluding the three presidential assassinations, the tragic Lindbergh kidnap-murder, and probably, but not certainly, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, few, if any, American crime stories so completely engrossed the public press, so totally grasped the attention of the American people as did the trial...of Harvard Professor John White Webster at the halfway mark of the 19th century," Sullivan wrote...
...drawers in Bridgeport." His self-regard soars as well: "I was Walt the Wonder Boy, the diminutive daredevil who defied the laws of gravity, the one and only ace of the air." He is struck by the fact that his triumphs take wing in the same year, 1927, that Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic: "I didn't know the Lone Eagle from a hole in the ground, but I felt linked to him after that, as if we shared some dark fraternal bond. It couldn't have been a coincidence that his plane was called the Spirit of St. Louis...