Word: lindberghs
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...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...
...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...
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...