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Post by johnno on Aug 20, 2021 20:15:40 GMT -5
OK, i'm new here, and you may have covered this, but I ran across an interesting article that part of Leon Hoage's collection of Lindbergh material became part of the UCLA library collection. (PI Leon Hoage was part of Hoffman's team, of course (Gardner 389-390) The article includes 2 photos, which seem iffy to me, but Michael and others probably know them - Charley "right before the kidnapping on a tricycle" and Violet Sharp (really? ) Has anyone seen the collection???
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Post by jeanne on Aug 21, 2021 0:56:38 GMT -5
Interesting article. Thanks for the contribution. The woman in the second picture, however, is identified as Betty Gow in Mark Falzini's "Their Fifteen Minutes." The picture of the child on the tricycle was discussed by board members at some length a while ago. A number of us argued that the child on the tricycle was older than 20 months. The article is interesting, nevertheless. Perhaps someone could comment on Hoage's reputation or on the credibility of the author of the article.
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Post by hurtelable on Aug 24, 2021 11:03:40 GMT -5
Either Hoage himself or the people who took care of his collection seem to have done a lousy job in their identifications from photographs. The photo of the boy riding the tricycle (posted previously on these threads) is obviously not of Charlie. Comparing the boy's size to the dimensions of the tricycle, one would guestimate the boy to be at least 4 years old, and so definitely more than 20 months. If someone would want to identify the model of the tricycle and thus find it's dimensions, then compare them to the size of the child in the photo by proportions, I'd be confident in the same conclusion: the boy is much too large to be little Charlie!
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Post by Michael on Aug 24, 2021 15:11:12 GMT -5
Either Hoage himself or the people who took care of his collection seem to have done a lousy job in their identifications from photographs. The photo of the boy riding the tricycle (posted previously on these threads) is obviously not of Charlie. Comparing the boy's size to the dimensions of the tricycle, one would guestimate the boy to be at least 4 years old, and so definitely more than 20 months. If someone would want to identify the model of the tricycle and thus find it's dimensions, then compare them to the size of the child in the photo by proportions, I'd be confident in the same conclusion: the boy is much too large to be little Charlie! The issue has absolutely nothing to do with Ho-age. It has to do with a mistake made by whoever created that web page. Now it’s in Judge Pearlman’s book which, in my opinion, has made it even worse. It’s an easy fix because I’ve researched it in the past. I brought this up on the Board but for the most part I was ignored. Anyone believe I don’t know what I’m talking about? As a result, I’ve addressed in in V4. Those who think I’m an idiot can ignore the footnotes and stay the course. The rest will stick a fork in it because it’s done.
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