Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann |
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Ludovic Kennedy
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Pages: 438 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0670806064
Pub: Viking Pr
Pub date: 1985-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 765935
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The heinous kidnap of the toddler of Charles Lindburgh from the child's bedroom, the intervention of a go-between with the kidnapper(s), a meeting in a darkened cemetery to hand over the ransom. The reader is almost praying that the child be returned safe. It does not give anything away to say that history records the child was not returned.
The narrative then turns to the arrest & trial of Hauptmann after he spent a ransom dollar bill at a gas station. Was his friend Isador Fish, who Hauptman claims gave him the money to hold, the real kidnapper? Fish is dead of TB in Germany. Does Hauptmans arrest for armed robbery of a Mother with pram in Germany prove he is capable of anything? Does his illegal immigrant status and strong accent give fuel to a show-trial?
Kennedy leaves us in no doubt that he believes Hauptman entirely innocent. We are taken back to the depression era in consumate style, with many photographs to help this. This is a most compelling book on what was once literally the crime of the century.
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