Mistrial
Michael Davie, 6 June 1985
The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Case and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann
by Ludovic Kennedy.
Collins, 438 pp., £12.95, April 1985,0 00 217060 4 Show More
by Ludovic Kennedy.
Collins, 438 pp., £12.95, April 1985,
“... The greatest story since the Resurrection was how Mencken described the 1935 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. Among the three hundred-odd reporters present, besides Mencken, were Damon Runyon, Ford Madox Ford, Edna Ferber, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Walter Winchell and Joseph Alsop, who was required to write no less than ten thousand words a day for the Herald Tribune ... ”