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On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (born June 22, 1930), the 20-month-old son of colonel Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being abducted from his crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs' home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. [1]
St. Raymond’s Cemetery, where Dr. John F. Condon Sr. paid over the $50,000 ransom money to the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby New York Daily News Archive - Getty Images
John F. "Jafsie" Condon (June 1, 1860 – January 2, 1945) was an American college football coach and school principal. He was the first head football coach at Fordham University , serving for one season, in 1883, and compiling a record of 3–5. [ 1 ]
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, and later New York City, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in ...
Dating back nearly 270 years, Flemington is brimming with history. But the Hunterdon County seat's most well-known claim to fame is that it was the site of the 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial ...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of the century". [1]
Lindbergh identifies the garment and also retrieves instructions for the rendezvous to pay the ransom. The Bronx, April 2, 1932. Condon and Lindbergh drive to a cemetery to hand over the ransom. Lindbergh stays in the car while Condon meets the kidnapper. The kidnapper speaks with a German accent and tells Condon that his name is John.
John F. Condon, the intermediary between the Lindbergh family and the kidnapper of their baby, received a baby's one-piece sleeper pajamas in the mail, sent as proof by the kidnapper of the baby's identity. [1] Born: Don Blasingame, American baseball player who later played and managed the Nankai Hawks in Japan; in Corinth, Mississippi (d. 2005)