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Title: The Lindbergh Case by Jim Fisher ISBN: 0-8135-2147-5 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: book and author lack analytical ability
Comment: Having just finished the three current main books on the Lindbergh baby disappearance (no one can ever again assume there was a kidnapping) Jim Fisher's was the most disappointing. Fisher merely trots out the prosecution's 1935 presentation, uses literary license to add in some manufactured dialogue, and then boldly states that Hauptmann was guilty. Although he is openly and embarrasingly hostile to the two other major works in this case ("Lindbergh, the Crime" by Noel Behn and "Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax" by Ahlgren & Monier) the ironic fact remains that all three books pretty much agree on the correct sequence of undisputed facts surrounding the child's disappearance. But whereas the other two books offer contemporary investigative analysis in concluding that there was no kidnapping, only an accidental (or worse) death of the child followed by a hasty and clumsy kidnap cover-up, Fisher never attempts to answer the lingering questions which have haunted this case for over six decades: How would a real kidnapper have known or even suspected that the Lindberghs were home that week day eveing when they had only been staying at the Flemington house on weekends, and the decision to stay over on that Tuesday had only been made by Lindbergh himself that morning? How did Lindbergh "find" a ranson note in plain view in the nursery when he entered it alone, hours after the child had disappeared, and after others had searched the room without seeing it? Why did Lindbergh telephone his lawyer before calling the State police? Why did both Lindbergh's wife Anne and the nursemaid both originally suspect that Lindbergh himself had taken the child? And why had Lindbergh hidden the baby in a closet two weeks earlier and tried to claim then that the baby had been kidnapped? There are too many questions in this case, and Fisher's book doesn't provide plausible explanations.
Rating: 4
Summary: A useful attempt to stem the rash of conspiracy theories
Comment: The Lindbergh kipnap-murder case threatens to become as popular a subject for opportunistic true-crime writers as the Kennedy assassination. There seems to be something about conspiracy theories involving well-known murders that American readers find irresistible. Jim Fisher began his own research on the Lindbergh case after reading such books as Anthony Scadudo's "Scapegoat." Fisher's exhaustive research is painstakingly, if not very excitingly, presented in "The Lindbergh Case." The author looks carefully at the evidence, examines it from all sides, and opines that the case against Hauptmann is not merely persuasive but overwhelming. Naturally, his conclusion does not appeal to conspiracy theorists any more than the Warren Commission Report appealed to Mark Lane and his heirs and assigns. If Fisher is right, and I believe he is, then out the window goes (or should go) their topic of conversation or, if they're writers, their publishing opportunity. If Fisher is wrong, one must assume a wide-ranging and intricate conspiracy among law enforcement officials to frame Hauptmann, a conspiracy as unlikely as the one alleged by O.J. Simpson's defense team against the LAPD. Fisher's account is detailed, sensible, balanced, and credible. He did his research without a predetermined thesis and came to the conclusion (never a high-concept, best-selling one) that the jury got it right. Enough Hauptmann-didn't-do-it malarkey. Yes, Hauptmann's widow sincerely believed that her husband wasn't guilty. Yes, there were discrepancies in some details of the evidence. But to believe, after reading Jim Fisher's long and comprehensive book, that Bruno Richard Hauptmann didn't do it is to believe that little green men may someday be found on Mars.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Truth About the Lindbergh Case
Comment: In the midst of revisionist books presenting improbable coverup and frameup accounts gullibly swallowed by a naive reading public and seized upon by anti-government types, Jim Fisher has taken us back to the essentials of the Lindbergh-Hauptmann affair and presented the evidence and the simple truth of the case. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an illegal alien and a petty criminal in his homeland, kidnapped and murdered the Lindbergh baby for profit. Not a pretty story but in the real world it makes a whole lot more sense than massive conspiracies in which all the evidence is manufactured and all the witnesses are lying. Hauptmann did it and Hauptmann deserved to die for it. End of story. And Fisher tells like it was.
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Title: The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case by Jim Fisher ISBN: 0809322854 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax by Gregory Ahlgren, Stephen Monier ISBN: 0828319715 Publisher: Branden Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann by Ludovic Henry Kennedy ISBN: 0140258124 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann by Ludovic Henry Kennedy ISBN: 0670806064 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century by Hal Higdon ISBN: 0252068297 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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