Lindbergh Kidnapping
Published October 26, 2026Updated October 28, 2026
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Charles Lindbergh Jr. with his mother and family
Source: loc.gov
The missing-child search poster
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Police reconstruct the abduction at the nursery window
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The kidnapping ladder preserved at the police museum
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Rail 16 and the attic floorboard: the comparison exhibit
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Bruno Richard Hauptmann's 1934 New York mugshot
Source: archives.nyc
The first ransom note
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Serial-number booklet used to trace the ransom
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NYPD photograph of Hauptmann's Bronx premises
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The garage searched for ransom money
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The courtroom from Justice Trenchard's bench, 1935
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