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Post by bookrefuge on Dec 26, 2011 9:12:32 GMT -5
I just found some video on the LKC recently uploaded onto Youtube by a German source. It may be repetition for LKC veterans, but it includes quite a bit of footage I had never seen before, and spotlights many principals in the case. The narration is in German, but there are interviews and briefings in English. I don’t understand the German voice-over, but the film appears to be a study of photojournalism in the LKC as much as the LKC itself. What I especially appreciate is the crisp quality of the images in much of the footage. It comes in two parts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVwFS2MPdqswww.youtube.com/watch?v=F5vQAy0Aefk&feature=related
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Post by Michael on Dec 26, 2011 9:46:53 GMT -5
This is a good find.
Just before the arrest announcement (Hoover sitting left, O'Brien in the middle, and Schwarzkopf on the right) there is a clip of men emerging from the woods where the child was discovered. On the right many of you will recognize Prosecutor Hauck from Hunterdon County. On his left is Mercer County Prosecutor Erwin Marshall. I point this out because I've only ever seen (1) picture of him at the NJSP Archives.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 13:31:16 GMT -5
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Post by lightningjew on Jul 18, 2014 14:22:13 GMT -5
Awesome, Amy. Especially that last part. I know I've said this before, but I wish there was more available footage of the testimonies though--particularly the Lindberghs, Condon and Betty Gow. From everything I've read, it seems like very dramatic stuff, but I've never actually seen it.
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Post by hurtelable on Jul 23, 2014 19:15:41 GMT -5
To amy35, lightningjew, Michael, et al:
Thanks, Amy, for your link to those videos.
With respect to the first video, a compendium of a couple of a couple of newsreels done in the aftermath of the Hauptmann arrest, the narrator's tone and content - viewed from a current day perspective - are obviously beyond the pale and calculated to amp up the public outrage against Hauptmann to the max. There are two major lies in the facts presented on the newsreel:
(1) A photo of the Hauptman car is shown with the narrator claiming that it was stolen from near Hopewell a day before the kidnapping. This would be the first I've ever heard of such a connection and I'm sure it would amaze everyone in this forum. Obviously false!
(2) A handwriting comparison is shown between the Manuscript writing of the name "Richard Hauptmann" on what is alleged to be Hauptmann's driver license application (actually, his 1934 auto registration) and Manuscript writing on an alleged "ransom note." Obviously, there were NO ransom notes written in Manuscript; all of them were done in cursive (script). In fact the alleged ransom note shown in the video was in all likelihood directed by the NYPD after Hauptmann's arrest. Since both samples shown are known to be written by Hauptmann, claiming that the two writings came from the same writer is about as informative as saying that the sun rises in the east. Yet this narrator thinks that he can fool his gullible audience into believing that it proves that Hauptmann wrote the ransom note shown.
BTW, both the NYPD commissioner and the narrator erroneously call the defendant BERNHARD RICHARD HAUPTMANN. Perhaps the commissioner should have gotten the name of the arrestee correct before he went before the microphones.
I don't care if Hauptmann was a bum. Entering totalitarian style propaganda into the case like this newsreel did was a disgrace to the media and an outrage to any American who believes in a fair system of justice.
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