Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping by...

Kent State University Press

Hauptmann's LadderA Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping\nAuthor(s): Richard T. Cahill Jr.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Kent State University Press, United States\nImprint: Kent State University Press\nISBN-13: 9781606351932, 978-1606351932\nSynopsis\nIn 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up, and one posited that Lindbergh actually killed his own son and fabricated the entire kidnapping to mask the deed. Because books about the crime have been used as a means to advance personal theories, the truth has often been sacrificed and readers misinformed.\n\nHauptmann's Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist h.