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Kidnapper and murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.; electrocuted April 3, 1936; Trenton, New Jersey...
...encounter Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford), 12, reading a paper to his school class in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1933. It's a very persuasive fantasy in which he imagines Charles Lindbergh calling him for advice on what food to take on his transatlantic solo flight. The boy suggests that cheese sandwiches are always good...
...Kidney transplants seem so routine today, but the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean," Murray wrote...
...most dramatic abduction in New Jersey since the Lindbergh baby disappeared in 1932. But unlike that kidnapping and murder, which has remained shrouded in mystery for decades, the details of the final four days of Sidney Reso came clear a little over four months after the 57-year-old Exxon International president vanished on his way to work April 29. Last week in a federal courtroom in Trenton, New Jersey, Arthur Seale, a former security officer for Exxon, recounted the grisly details as he pleaded guilty to extortion charges that could bring him up to 95 years in prison...
...outbreak of World War I when his father ordered the afternoon entertainment in an East European coffee house to stop: "There will be no more music today. The Archduke Ferdinand has been just assassinated in Sarajevo." Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop describes getting a glimpse of Charles Lindbergh as he paraded up New York City's Fifth Avenue. The closer the series gets to present day, however, the more it overlaps with a hoard of other TV nostalgia fests. Do we really need another round of tributes to the idealism of the J.F.K. years...