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6. Chernow, The House of Morgan, 288.
7. Ibid., 287, 288.
8. Nicolson, Dwight Morrow, 158.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Chernow, The House of Morgan, 294.
12. Nicolson, Dwight Morrow, 312. Chernow, in The House of Morgan (p. 294), says it was December 14.
13. Nicolson, Dwight Morrow, 312–18.
14. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, 89.
15. Ibid.
16. David McCullough, The American Experience, WGBH Boston and WNET New York.
17. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, 103.
18. Nicolson, Dwight Morrow, 137–40.
19. A Hearst-chain newspaper photo shows Elisabeth returning aboard the S.S. Olympic with the caption saying she “is reported to marry Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic.” Associated Press reported, “Numerous newspapers have intimated that it won’t be long before Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, now visiting the Morrow ranch in Mexico, and Elisabeth will announce their engagement.”
20. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, 215.
21. U.S. Embassy spokesman, Mexico City, quoted in Mosley, Lindbergh, 138.
22. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, 215, 237.
23. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, 136.
24. Harry Green, meeting with author, June 1986, Los Angeles, California.
25. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, 4.
26. Ibid., 49–202. On July 2, 1929, Anne, now Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, wrote a chitchat letter to Elisabeth from Kansas City, Missouri. On August 13 of the same year, she wrote Elisabeth from the White House, amused by the fact that President Herbert Hoover’s wife referred to them as the Lingrins. The next letter to Elisabeth, also chitchat, was sent from Trinidad on September 23, 1929. The following correspondence, in November of 1929, found a pregnant Anne back at Englewood and expressing enthusiasm over Elisabeth’s impending school project but feeling it might be slightly indiscreet to submit an application for the yet unborn baby. The only letter printed in the book for 1930 is a July 30 get-well message following Elisabeth’s mild heart attack—suffered shortly after the June 22 birth of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. The next reprinted letter was sent a year and two months later, in October of 1931, from the British “airplane carrier” H.M.S. Hermes, which was en route to Shanghai. The Lindberghs’ trip over the top of the world to the Orient had been completed, and Anne related to Elisabeth how their airplane had capsized and nearly sunk in the “treacherous” Yangtze.
27. Ibid., 234.
28. Ibid., 269.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., 4.
32. Harry Green, meeting with author, June 1986, Los Angeles, California.
Chapter 29 Endgame
1. All statements in this chapter by Harry Green were made during his meeting with the author, June 1986, Los Angeles, California.
2. Stanton, New York American, January 17, 1936, 1.
3. Hoffman, “What Went Wrong with the Lindbergh Case,” Liberty, January 29, 1938, 8. The Liberty articles provide other indications that the governor had his own secret suspect and cache of information. After visiting Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in Washington, he recounted, “She told many interesting things in a spirit of confidence that I may not violate. These things may some day be part of Mrs. McLean’s story.”
4. Charles A. Lindbergh, signed statement to the New Jersey State Police, March 11, 1932; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, statement to Lieutenant John J. Sweeney of the Newark Police Department, March 11, 1932, and her signed statement to Lieutenant John J. Sweeney and Detective Hugh Strong of the Newark Police Department, March 13, 1932; Aloysius Whateley, signed statement, March 3, 1932; Elsie Mary Whateley, signed statement, March 10, 1932, Lindbergh Archives.
5. Milton, Loss of Eden, 213.
6. FBI Summary Report, 49.
7. Seating list for the All Alumni Centennial Dinner, March 1, 1932, Alumni Collection, New York University Library, New York.
8. New York Times, March 2, 1932.
9. Elsie Whateley gave the time in her March 10 statement. Anne, in her statement of March 13, bracketed the time between 6:15 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. Since in that time bracket Anne and Gow fabricated the child’s nightshirt subsequent to Lindbergh’s call, the author places the estimated time of the call closer to 7:00 P.M.
10. Bergen Evening Record, March 5, 1932, 5.
11. Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 10, 1932.
12. Time, Time Capsule 1932, 69.
13. Ibid.
14. Ahlgren and Monier, Crime of the Century, 227.
15. Ibid., 229
16. Ibid., 230
17. New York Post, December 3, 1934; New York Times, December 4, 1934.
18. For example, the New York American, December 4, 1934.
Chapter 30 Destinies
1. Kennedy, The Airman and the Carpenter, 407–8.
2. The incident concerning Amandus Hochmuth’s mistaking a vase for a hat was recounted in Kidnapped: Reliving the Lindbergh Case, New Jersey Network Production, 1989, and in Harold Hoffman, “What Went Wrong with the Lindbergh Case,” Liberty.
3. Kidnapped: Reliving the Lindbergh Case, New Jersey Network Production, 1989.
4. Kennedy, The Airman and the Carpenter, 407.
5. Joseph McNamara, “The Detective’s Downfall,” New York Sunday Daily News, May 5, 1985.
6. It houses some two hundred thousand pages of material plus most books, articles, newsreels, television programs, and movies dealing with the subject. Also on display are the exhibits introduced at the trial and additional physical evidence recovered by the police.
7. The complaint was filed June 20, 1986 at the U.S. district court in New Jersey by Anna’s lawyer, San Francisco-based Robert Bryan, who also demanded a jury trial.
8. For most of this tour of duty, H. Norman Schwarzkopf was accompanied by his wife, Ruth, and his three children: Norman Jr., Anne, and Sally.
9. New York Times, July 7, 1988.
10. Scott Lindbergh quoted in Parade, July 5, 1992, 2.
11. Milton, Loss of Eden, 435. Scott Lindbergh is quoted in Parade, July 5, 1992, as saying he read about the crime in a newspaper story.
12. The dinner included an American as infamous as Charles and Anne were celebrated, the king’s current paramour: Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, who showed up with her husband.
13. Mosley, Lindbergh, 237.
14. Ibid., 346.
15. Life, June 28, 1954.
16. Harry Green, meeting with author, June 1986, Los Angeles, California.
17. Stelhorn, The Governors of New Jersey, 1964–74, New Jersey State Document.
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National Archives, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Index
Ahlgren Gregory, 423–24
Airman and the Carpenter, The (Kennedy), 20
Alcock, John, 40
Allen, William, 188–90, 426
America (airplane), 42
America First Committee, 438
American Astrology, 359
Anna Christie (film), 94
Arnold, H. H. (“Hap”), 435, 439
Astor, Lady Nancy, 435
Bading, Anna, 304, 313, 318, 365, 368
Balbo, Italo, 434
Barr, Cecile M., 221–22, 223, 230, 231, 240, 242, 248, 275, 278, 312, 426
Barryman, James T., 220, 222, 227
Bartow, Frank D., 104
Benny, Jack, 258
Bergen Evening News, 421, 422
Bergen Evening Record, 420
Berritella, Rev., 105
Bertaud, Lloyd, 42
Bitz, Irving, 104–05, 120, 126, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146, 185
Blanton, Congressman, 343
Bleefeld, Murray, 318, 324, 358, 364, 365, 369, 428
Bogart, Humphrey, 94
Borah, William, E., 377
Bornmann, Lewis J., 34, 132, 243, 271, 429
Breckinridge, Aida de Acosta, 58, 73, 75, 130, 415, 419
Breckinridge, Henry, 56, 58, 63–64, 69–74, 83–91, 99, 102, 103–07, 110, 114–16, 118–22, 126, 127, 130, 132–37, 143, 145–48, 149–51, 153, 154, 157, 159, 161, 164–67, 170, 178, 190, 191, 193, 196, 207, 213, 258, 326, 411–19
Bring Me a Unicorn (AML), 405
Brinkert, Ernest, 213
Brinkley, David, 201, 260
Brisbane, Arthur, 143, 261
Broadway thru a Keyhole (film), 221
Brodesser, Frederick, 329
Bronx Home News, 119–22, 135, 142, 147, 148, 149, 151, 154, 156, 166, 170, 172, 391
Broun, Heywood, 261
Brown, Arthur Whitten, 40
Brown, Elmer Ellsworth, 416
Bruce, Edwin B., 177, 184
Bruckman, Henry D., 252, 275
Bryan, Robert, 429
Buck, Frank, 295
Bureau of Investigation (BI). See FBI
Burns, William J., 108–09, 386
Burrage, Guy, 151–54, 181
Byrd, Richard, 42
Byrne, Brendan, 428
Cagney, Jimmy, 94
Calles, Plutarco Elias, 376–77, 399
Capone, Al, 94, 99, 111, 128, 133, 143–44, 265, 362
Carlstrom, Elvert, 278
Carrel, Alexis, 199, 436
Carter, Boake, 261
Case, Clarence E., 80
Cassidy, Tom, 242–43, 245, 252–53
Chaims, Edward, 389
Chamberlin, Clarence, 42
Circus, Saints and Sinners Association, 294–95, 324, 342, 357, 443–44
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Cirrito, Mary, 105
Clancy, Paul G., 359, 365
Coar, Robert, 119, 189
Cochran bill, 96, 205
Cody, William, 221
Colby, Everett, 362
Coleman, Gregory F., 121
Coll, Vincent (“Mad Dog”), 94–95
Columbia (airplane), 42
Condon, John F. (“Jafsie”), 111–22, 126, 133, 149–51, 153–60, 165–66, 167, 180–81, 220–21, 224, 226, 230, 232–33, 258, 268, 269–70, 305, 306, 310–11, 314, 325, 328–29, 335, 336, 338, 339, 341–42, 344, 354, 367, 377, 391, 394, 427
book by, 433
flying to Nelly, 164–65
and Hauptmann, 237–40, 271–72, 284–85
with Lindbergh and ransom, 166–64
meetings with Cemetery John, 138–43, 162–63, 171–75
phone call from “kidnappers,” 134–35
and the press, 149–50, 170–71, 173
as suspect, 206–08
varying stories of, 172–76
Condon, Myra, 119, 122, 134–35, 161
Conklin, William, S., 321, 340
Connelley, E. J., 159–60
Coolidge, Calvin, 45, 47, 376, 396
Coughlin, Walter J., 89
Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax (Ahlgren and Monier), 423–24
Cronin, Chester, 227
Cucchiara, Sam, 299
Cummings, Homer, 356
Curtis, Charles, 314–15
Curtis, John Hughes, 126, 151–54, 157–58, 165–66, 167, 177, 178–87, 264, 270, 305
arrest and trial of, 206–07, 211–12
Curtiss, John H., 254, 257–58
Daugherty, Harry, 109, 110
Demange, Big Frenchy, 95
Dempsey, Jack, 258
Dengrove, Libby, 22
Dexter, Thurston H., 310
Diamond, Jack (“Legs”), 95, 97, 99, 104
Division of Investigation (DI). See FBI
Dobson-Peacock, H., 151–54, 181
Donovan, Ruth Rumsey, 76
Donovan, William J., 72, 75–78, 83, 97–99, 101, 215–16, 388–89, 412–15
Dormer, Elmira, 274, 321
Doyle, Dennis, 336–38, 350
Driscoll, Alfred E., 443
Duerr, Denis, 227
Edwards, Edward I., 80, 83
Edwards, Irving, 80
Einstein, Albert, 436
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 441
Elias, Arturo M., 389–90
Ellerson, Charles Henry, 57, 59
Ellerson, Henry, 212, 269, 410–11, 419