Little Lindy Is Kidnapped : : How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century / / Thomas Doherty.

The biggest crime story in American history began on March 1, 1932, when the twenty-month-old child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was snatched from his crib in Hopewell, New Jersey. The news shocked a nation enamored of the famous aviator, the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. Virtually...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 48 B&W photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • A PREFATORY NOTE
  • PROLOGUE
  • Chapter 1. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY
  • Chapter 2. A STORY THAT PENETRATED THE THICKEST SKIN
  • Chapter 3. A MEDIUM OF AUDIBLE JOURNALISM
  • Chapter 4. NOBODY EVER WALKED OUT ON A NEWSREEL
  • Chapter 5. GET THE LINDBERGH KILLERS!
  • Chapter 6. HOLLYWOOD AND THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING
  • Chapter 7. THE GREATEST MURDER TRIAL THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN
  • Chapter 8. INTO THE ETHER
  • Chapter 9. THE EYE AND EAR OF MILLIONS
  • Chapter 10. THE VERDICT
  • Chapter 11. DEATH WATCH
  • EPILOGUE. The Legacies of the Crime of the Century
  • THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX