{"id":122125,"date":"2015-09-27T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122125"},"modified":"2015-09-29T06:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T06:33:35","slug":"lindbergh-kidnapping-hauptmann-trial-was-a-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122125","title":{"rendered":"Lindbergh Kidnapping: Hauptmann Trial Was a Sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">henrymakow.com &#8212; Sept 26, 2015<\/h1>\n<h5>In the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2013\/05\/How-to-avoid-becoming-a-patsy.html\">long procession of American patsies<\/a><\/span>, one of the most egregious examples was Richard Hauptmann, who was framed for the 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh&#8217;s baby son. In this excerpt from his book &#8220;Programmed to Kill,&#8221; Dave McGowen shows how the Hauptmann prosecution was a total farce.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Dave McGowen &#8212; (excerpt by henrymakow.com)<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_121966\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hauptman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121966\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hauptman.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Hauptmann\" width=\"190\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-121966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Hauptmann<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>On September 19, 1934, German immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.<\/h5>\n<h5>After being held without access to an attorney, deprived of sleep, and unmercifully beaten, all in an effort to extract a bogus confession, Hauptmann was put in a police line-up alongside two burly Irish cops, one of them still in uniform. He was positively identified.<\/h5>\n<h5>Norman Schwarzkopf &#8216;s New Jersey State Police promptly moved Hauptmann&#8217;s wife out of their home, assumed the lease, and moved in. By all appearances, they then proceeded to manufacture and plant evidence.<\/h5>\n<h5>A week after Hauptmann&#8217;s arrest, an officer living in his former home &#8216;discovered&#8217; that the ladder found at the Lindbergh home had been partially constructed from a floorboard allegedly missing from the attic of the Hauptmann home.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2015\/09\/lindbergh-kidnapping-hauptmann-trial.html\">Continues &#8230; (with comments from Mike Rivero and James Perloff) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty two years later, the &#8220;Crime of the Century&#8221; still arouses wildly different interpretations. With comments from Mike Rivero and James Perloff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":121995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122193,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122125\/revisions\/122193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}