Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture...
Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture...
Meticulously, the author describes how Condon met a wiry, nervous young German immigrant who called himself "John." With Lindbergh's approval, Condon gave him $50,000, mostly in marked gold certificates, receiving in exchange a note about the baby's supposed whereabouts that proved completely phony. Five weeks later, the decomposed body of the child was discovered five miles from the Lindbergh home...
...Charles Lindbergh, he was convinced that Hauptmann had, for whatever reason, taken and killed his child...
...mind, as Author Waller suggests, millions of others shared Haupt-mann's guilt. "They," he had told his wife when it happened, "have stolen our baby." To Lindbergh, "they" meant the clamoring public, seeking to haul down the wall of privacy that he sought desperately to erect about his family life...