The Lindbergh Kidnapping

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The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Presentation created by Robert Martinez Primary
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• In 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh became a national
  hero in the United States. At the age of 25, he
  had been the first person to make a solo flight
  across the Atlantic Ocean.

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• The Lone Eagle, as the press dubbed him, was
  modest, charming, and good-looking, and his fame
  lasted.

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• Three years later, he and his wife Anne Morrow
  Lindbergh were Americas golden couple, to such
  an extent that they felt compelled to flee from
  the public.

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• They built a house on a remote tract of land
  in New Jersey near the little town of Hopewell,
  and here, on June 22, 1930, their first child was
  born.

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• The Eaglet, as the child came to be known,
  lived for less than two years.

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• On the cold, rainy night of May 1, 1932,
  somewhere between 8 and 10 p.m., the little boy
  was kidnapped.

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• Lindbergh was out hunting with his Springfield
  rifle for signs of the kidnapper when the State
  Police arrived, headed by their chief, H. Norman
  Schwarzkopf (father of General Stormin Norman
  Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm).

H. Norman Schwarzkopf Police Chief
General Norman Schwarzkopf Desert Storm
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• Lindbergh had already found an envelope.
  Inside they found a ransom note in blue ink
  demanding 50,000. Details of where to place the
  money would follow.

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• The police were not to be informed. Three days
  later another note arrived, raising the ransom to
  70,000.

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• Lindbergh was prepared to do whatever was
  asked for the return of his child.

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• A meeting was arranged at the Woodlawn
  Cemetery in the Bronx (New York City) with a man
  who called himself Cemetery John, following
  which the childs sleeping suit was mailed to
  Lindbergh.

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• A second meeting was arranged, attended by
  both Condon and Lindbergh. The heard Cemetery
  John call them in a strong German accent.

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• Lindbergh handed over 50,000 in gold-notes,
  and received a note allegedly telling him where
  to find the victim. It was now over a month since
  the little boy had been taken.

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• The note was worthless. Another month was to
  pass before the body of Charles Jr. was found,
  just four miles from home.

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• It was little more than a skeleton, hidden in
  a heap of rotting vegetation. The left leg, left
  hand, and right arm were missing. The cause of
  death was a massive fracture of the skull.

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• At first, one of the Lindberghs servants was
  suspected of the crime. The poor woman was so
  upset by such an accusation that she killed
  herself, swallowing silver polish that contained
  arsenic.

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• And then, almost a year after the discovery of
  the body, some of the ransom money turned up at a
  gas station in the Bronx.

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• The gas station manager thought it odd that a
  customer should pay for 98 cents of gas with a
  10 bill, and noted the license plate number on
  the car.

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• It turned out to be registered to a man named
  Bruno Hauptmann, a German who had entered the
  States illegally in 1923.

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• Hauptmanns trial was held in Fleming, New
  Jersey. Hauptmann was found guilty.

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• In the little time between sentence and
  execution, he was vilified in the press, but
  later doubts were voiced as to the justice of his
  trial and sentence.

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• For 60 years, up to her death in 1994, his
  widow Anna persisted that he had been innocent.

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• As for the Lindberghs, they had another son,
  and left the United States to settle in Europe,
  where the Lone Eagle sadly became an early
  supporter of the Hitler Nazi Regime. But thats
  another story.

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After the Lindbergh kidnapping baby monitors
became extremely popular for apprehensive
parents.
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