Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Scott Morrow Lindbergh, 25, youngest son of Charles; and Monique Dubois, an artist he met while studying in Paris; in Chataincourt, France...
Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend." Last week, on the basis of the jury verdict last clause, the Supreme Court struck down the Lindbergh law's death-penalty provision...
...penalty provisions in federal bank-robbery laws and the Atomic Energy Act's national-security section. But it did not affect the constitutionality of capital punishment, currently under broad legal attack. In fact, the court implied that should Congress wish to maintain a death penalty provision in the Lindbergh law, nothing in last week's decision would prevent it from approving legislation enabling judge as well as jury to pass such a sentence. Any such provision would not affect Jackson and his pals, but they do not go free. The court declined to throw the whole...
...Ironists were quick to point out that the court's decision came only a few days after the 32nd anniversary of the execution of Lindbergh Kidnaper Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Hauptmann, however, was not executed under federal law but under the New Jersey State murder law. In fact, only six kidnapers have been put to death under the U.S.'s so-called Lindbergh...
...society that spurs human resistance and reinforces the criminal's cynicism. In this view, the solution is getting criminals to reform themselves in the process of reforming other criminals. This approach has worked wonders in New Jersey with groups of 20 delinquent boys housed at Highfields, the old Lindbergh mansion. After working at daytime jobs, the boys spend evenings listening to a selected boy's woes-and then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside the circle; but things get rough, for no boy leaves Highfields until he has proved to both...