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Post by Sue on Jul 17, 2021 10:25:37 GMT -5
New Zealand newspaper journalist Geoffrey Cox had an assignment to interview Anna Hauptmann in Europe sometime after her husband's execution.
Did Cox ever obtain that interview?
Who could know for sure?
Are all interviews and forensic investigations relating to the Lindbergh case required to be made known to the world?
I think not.
The following excerpts are from the book Eyewitness: A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s:
"Back in Berlin a tough assignment awaited me. Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann, the wife of the German-born carpenter who had been executed in New Jersey after being found guilty -- on very tenuous evidence -- of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, had come back to Germany with her own small son.
The Express Stringer in Bremen had missed her when the ship she was travelling on had docked there, and there was no trace of her whereabouts.
It was now Thursday and Sutton desperately wanted her track down and interviewed before the Sunday papers got to her.
Selkirk Panton, the Express man in Berlin, told me the lead could come from Hauptmann's mother, a very old woman living in Zittau, a village in Silesia on the Czech border, three hours away from Berlin by train."
(University of Otago, Dunedin, 1999)
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Post by Guest on Jul 17, 2021 22:21:34 GMT -5
New Zealand newspaper journalist Geoffrey Cox had an assignment to interview Anna Hauptmann in Europe sometime after her husband's execution.
Did Cox ever obtain that interview?
Who could know for sure?
Are all interviews and forensic investigations relating to the Lindbergh case required to be made known to the world?
I think not.
The following excerpts are from the book Eyewitness: A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s:
"Back in Berlin a tough assignment awaited me. Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann, the wife of the German-born carpenter who had been executed in New Jersey after being found guilty -- on very tenuous evidence -- of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, had come back to Germany with her own small son.
The Express Stringer in Bremen had missed her when the ship she was travelling on had docked there, and there was no trace of her whereabouts.
It was now Thursday and Sutton desperately wanted her track down and interviewed before the Sunday papers got to her.
Selkirk Panton, the Express man in Berlin, told me the lead could come from Hauptmann's mother, a very old woman living in Zittau, a village in Silesia on the Czech border, three hours away from Berlin by train."
(University of Otago, Dunedin, 1999) Anna Hauptmann went back to Germany for a visit in 1937. Hauptmann's mother, the "very old woman," was a mere 72 at the time. How the notion of old age has changed since then.
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Post by Sue on Jul 19, 2021 21:42:36 GMT -5
Condon was considered an old man in his 70s, too.
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