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Post by sue75 on Aug 7, 2012 20:05:07 GMT -5
John Hohenberg ’27
As a young reporter with the New York Evening Journal, John Hohenberg covered the controversial “trial of the century” in which Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried and sentenced to death for the murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son. Hohenberg later returned to the Journalism School, where he became a legendary professor and an administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
The New York Evening Journal – February 14, 1935
“Flares Gleam as 10,000 Cheer Death Verdict”
by John Hohenberg
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Post by sue75 on Aug 7, 2012 20:06:42 GMT -5
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Joe
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Post by Joe on Aug 7, 2012 20:55:38 GMT -5
Sue, about ten years ago I spent many evenings, month after month in the Kitchener Public Library, absorbing every word from microfiched news accounts of the crime. From the day of the kidnapping, where I discovered a middle aged woman was killed walking the train tracks I cross every day now... on the very afternoon of March 1, 1932, and all the way up to the spattering of tailnews accounts that cried out for attention in the months following Hauptmann's execution. Great writing like this takes me back to that experience in a big way.. thanks for posting it!
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