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Trial
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by Douglas
Linder(c)
2000
| Journalist H. L. Mencken called
the trial of
Richard Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper of the baby of
aviator
Charles
Lindbergh, "the greatest story since the Resurrection." While
Mencken's
description is doubtless an exaggeration, measured by the public
interest
it generated, the Hauptmann trial stands with the O. J. Simpson and
Scopes
trials as among the most famous trials of the 20th century.
The trial featured America's greatest hero, a good mystery involving
ransom
notes and voices in dark cemeteries, a crime that is every parent's
worst
nightmare, and a German-born defendant who fought against U. S. forces
in World War I....[continued] |
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