Charles Lindbergh - Did He Take His Son's Life?
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I remember my third grade teacher in 1968 telling us this story and making the comment that some thought that Linbergh had something to do with it because the child was sickly. Great video. I want to check out the book!
Sad, but it makes sense in Lindbergh’s world. Imperfections are not tolerated. Erasing your imperfect child would be seen as allegiance to the cause. What a complete monster....
@@Firearcher4 What are you hiding? Hero worship towards a conniving, adulterous hypocrite? There was nothing to Charles Lindberg but a piece of blown up cartoon.
This is a Mandela Effect !!!
If he’ll does really exist, that’s where this monster Lindbergh is being torture for eternity.
@@ms.c3 oh you can be sure if he did not repent before his last breath he is now burning eternally having all done to him that he did!
it was common in those days for rich people to put children and relatives away if they were an embarrassment to the family like Rose Kennedy the daughter of Joe Kennedy, he had her put away after a lobotomy didn't work
Thank for sharing little Charlie's story. Poor child, so loved by his mother and mistreated by his dad. Even to this day, the story of his kidnapping and murder makes me ill. How does one kill a little trusting toddler? Chris Watts and Scott Peterson come to mind.
And then find a fall guy to take the blame.
Um, if little Charlie was "so loved by his mother", why the hell didn't she rescue him and beat it out of town? Their very marriage was a tiny, institutionalized, fascist pose. I believe she "adored" Charles Lindbergh in a Stockholm Syndrome fashion; mesmirized, and willing even to withstand the baby cries for help. The strength of their "marriage bond" was ever powerful. - I don't give a flip about the dainty, poetic, star-gazing book she wrote about the sea. Besides being soul-sold to Charles, she was a rank, elegant narcissist. No pity.
@@victoriajarvis2260 I tend to think it was a classic case of narcissist (C) finding an empath (A), an all too common coupling. Anne’s diaries and letters are full of anguish. And they are full of empathy for the suffering of others. When I read them, I am struck by her awareness beyond herself and her deep desire to know about and feel the suffering in the world, which she felt a responsibility to do as an artist.
In later writings, she is completely frank about her hero-worship of her husband during the early years of their marriage. They met only a handful of times before she married him.
I find it interesting that in her years of widowhood, after Charles’s death, she was unable to emerge from his dominant presence, even in death. She wanted to write a book on widowhood and never could. I’m honestly not sure she wrote again, except for her diaries and letters. (The last volume being particularly interesting, being the only volume not heavily edited by Charles).
The kidnapping was never spoken about in the family.
About Charles’s affairs, her daughter Reeve said in an interview that she believed her mother knew something but didn’t know what she knew. Perhaps something similar could be said about the kidnapping.
Anne spent the remainder of her life not finding her own voice so much as preserving her husband’s legacy.
Perhaps, finding her own voice would have illuminated truths too painful to see or resurrect. We can only speculate.
I do not see Anne as a narcissist, quite the opposite. I am not a specialist in the field. I do think Charles was extremely controlling. The way he controlled the investigation into his son’s kidnapping, even having the detectives and police living under his roof, would never be permitted today. It’s astonishing to think of the control he maintained.
I know what you mean. I agree. He was an adorable little child, so innocent. It is still heartbreaking.
@@m.h.6499 I agree. You summed it up amazingly. That was a different time. Judging someone who grew up over a century ago by today's standards is not appropriate. Women had only won their right to vote 12 years before the kidnapping, and 8 years before her marriage to Lindbergh. She wasn't narcissistic in the least. Quite the opposite.
My grandmother who was in her mid 20's when the kidnapping happened used to tell me about the rumors of Lindberg having something to do with his son dying. She never bought the whole kidnapping story that was "sold" to the public.
Neither did my grandparents.
@@MegaDavyk I agree there are definitely shady things that happen behind closed doors for sure. I have heard about Lindbergh's father being opposed to the Federal Reserve. That would have made enemies for him.
@@catherinethompson5325 I sure wish my grandmother was here to talk about this --she lived till almost 88 years old and sure had a lot of stories about those times.
@@lizzieb1106 I really don't why they did. Grandma never really went into it too deeply. I was just a teenager when she was talking about this. I didn't really know what to think about it at the time. But with passing years and hearing more about the trial and evidence it does seem suspicious.
Sensible grandmother.
According to one of the maids Lindbergh was mean to his baby son and tried to toughen him up and make him do things the toddler wasn't ready for, and leaving him to cry alone in his crib, not letting his mother or the nursemaid go to him. It used to upset his wife and they argued about it. I wouldn't put anything past such a mean man and a poor excuse for a father.
In a later published diary, Anne wrote about arguing with her husband about how harsh he was to their second son Jon. It upset her.
It’s interesting that Charles’s father’s family, originally from Sweden, highly valued stoicism. I understand from A. Scott Berg’s authorized biography (he was the only one given access to thousands of pages of family archives) that a not-too distant Lindbergh ancestor in Sweden had had surgery done (on the stomach or an amputation, my memory is faulty there) - and requested no anesthesia, a fact that engendered pride among the family. So, toughening up was a value.
CL wrote about his own father teaching him to swim by dropping him in deep water.
Anne was an empath and sensitive artist and found these methods distressing.
On family dynamics, it’s interesting to read the memoirs of their youngest child, daughter Reeve Lindbergh.
Lindbergh’s values in general can be discerned from his late-in-life book Autobiography of Values. It’s deeply disturbing. I’ve often wondered how Anne felt reading that his choice of wife had everything to do with breeding (his word).
He used to hide the baby, and act all frantic like he was just kidnapped. Checking out other people's reactions while dry running the real thing.
@@scottodonnell7121 I do remember reading in a detailed chronology that the nanny Betty Gow asked Anne if the Colonel was playing one of his tricks again. He would hide Charlie in a closet and cause uproar in the household.
To me that seems more like preparation for a staged kidnapping than a murder; I tend to believe Lindbergh intended to place his son out of sight and in care at an institution. Knowing Anne would never allow it, he needed a way to remove Charlie from the home. But the kidnappers dropped the baby or otherwise accidentally caused the head wound. Of course that is simply an opinion and speculation.
It’s chilling beyond words to think he was hiding him in the closet not as an immature prankster but to gauge reactions and strategize.
@@m.h.6499 That is a generally accepted theory. He staged a kidnapping, with the ladder and note, and the baby was accidentally dropped and died.
@@m.h.6499 But I still think he was an immature prankster.
My heart breaks for this little boy😒 r.i.p. little angel. God is the final judge. Thanks Ron for remembering and sharing his story.
My mom (she grew up in the 1920s and 30s) said many people believed he killed his own son, or had him killed, because he had a birth defect of some kind. She said he is believed to not have been the superhero nice guy everyone thought he was.
My great grandmother said the same, but she said that about many "famous" folks.
It also wasn't unheard of children "passing" that were born with birth defects early on in childhood.
I am on the fence. As a parent I want to believe the best, but as a true crime enthusiast there has almost always been a seed of doubt.
He was developmentally delayed. Lindbergh often stated hr believed in a 'super race,' of physically & academically superior people ( of which he considered himself a prime example) & his son didn't fit that. So its suspicious his son didn't make adulthood.
@@sarahholland2600 When he was down in Americus , GA doing his first solo flight at SoutherField he made an impression on the locals and it wasn't all good. Especially at the dinner parties he attended.
Now I can look back at all the information and sadly the circumstantial evidence.....makes my heart hurt for his wife.
@@amethyst5538 I think you're right
My grandfather was an associate of his and he believed that Linbergh staged the kidnapping for further publicity and then it went terribly wrong.
The part of Lindbergh knocking his little boy down when attempting to walk totally broke my heart. Total creep to say the least.
Ours too.
So sick he should have been helping the little boy to walk and saying well done not doing that and why didn’t the mom stop him ik ow I would have infact I’d have left him taking the boy with me
Reading stories on this years ago, I was always suss about Charles sr
now he has the demons knocking him down in the fire 🔥
@@jessicaagosto3633 damn right !
My father always said the man accused of the kidnapping never would have made or used a ladder of that poor quality. The man was a carpenter by trade. He believed Lindbergh had much to do with the murder. I do remember the wife of carpenter lived very quietly in the next town over from where my family lived. She stayed to herself and never remarried that I know of . I always felt sorry for her. She & her husband spoke broken English. Easy targets.
Thinking an actual carpenter would create & use such a hodge podge of an excuse for a ladder is nuts, but it was clearly deliberate! Follow the money & power & Lindy had both!
@@lizzieb1106 I imagine he was trying to push blame and probably treated all the help very bad, to make himself appear less guilty. He was into eugenics. This baby is said to have some disabilities.
@@lizzieb1106 The preposterous claim by the prosecution was that a floorboard in Hauptmann's attic was missing, and that the missing board matched rail 16 on the ladder. What really happened was that Detective Lewis Bornmann had accompanied the wood expert, Arthur Koehler, in his travels tracing a shipment of yellow pine from a sawmill in North Carolina to timber yards in the Bronx, elsewhere in New York, and New Jersey. As a result, Bornmann knew more about wood than any of the other detectives working on the case.
Several days after Hauptmann's arrest, when 27 police had already climbed up into the attic to search it and found nothing, Bornmann did the same and also found nothing. But he did a second search a little later and noticed something he hadn't noticed the first time: the attic flooring was yellow pine boards. He came up with an idea. He got back down and collected rail 16 from the ladder, taking it up into the attic. He prised up part of one of the flooring boards, fitted rail 16 into place, and hammered nails through existing holes in rail 16, into the joists, to create 'evidence' that rail 16 had been part of the flooring.
Just think of how preposterous this was: Hauptmann, short one board to finish the ladder, despite having plenty of boards in the garage or being able to go a short distance to a timber yard to get any timber he needed, somehow decides to go to all the trouble of the difficult climb through a manhole in the top of a CLOSET (!), hauling tools with him, to prise up a floorboard in the attic, to use for the siderail of the ladder. Don't you think the noise would bring the landlord, who lived on the ground floor of the house with his mother, running to see what on earth was going on? Can you imagine yourself, or any other member of the human race, doing this? This was manufactured evidence, but the jury fell for it.
Moreover, Hauptmann was a highly skilled carpenter, capable of cabinet work. The idea he would build such a ranshackle piece of work which could not bear his own weight, was ludicrous, but the jury fell for that, too.
@@lizzieb1106 The police found Dr. Condon's phone number written in pencil inside a closet. If they had closed off Hauptmann's house to prevent access by reporters, they would not have found it, because Hauptmann didn't write it there. A reporter named Tom Cassidy wrote it there, so he could write a 'sccop' story about it. He freely admitted this. But the police fell for it and made it part of their manufactured case against Hauptmann.
Hauptmann explained to the police that a friend, Isidor Fisch, had left a shoebox, wrapped in newspaper with him for safekeeping. After he learned Fisch had died in Germany, he investigated their joint business affairs, and discovered Fisch had fleeced him of several thousand dollars. He rediscovered the shoebox, and found it contained the gold certificates. He decided to use them to recoup his losses. He hid the gold certificates in the garage, because no one else went there. He would be able to get one or two of them each time he went out in his car.
I'm a carpenter all my life, no way a carpenter made that ladder.
I'm not surprised at any of this. My grandmother always said that he killed his own son. She had taken my uncle (who worshipped Lindbergh as a child) to one of Lindbergh's parades. She hated Lindbergh from that time on saying that he had the meanest, coldest eyes she had ever seen, that he had looked at the crowd cheering him with total contempt and that she would put nothing past him. Her reaction to him was so strong, I always felt she was quite possibly right.
Now, I got this biography of this monster Lindberg, he was really a demon...
@@angelavanhorn2325 My grandmother was a really intuitive person. So much so I never doubted what she said and her opinion never waivered from "He killed that baby himself." His eyes had horrified her.
Sounds like the stereotypical narcissist.
Wow.
@@cherylmockotr
Too late 2 say it myself first but 100% agree. 👍
Very interesting. My mother b. 1923 kept a scrapbook of the case which I read when I was a child. Amazing how they built him up to be such a hero & later in life I find out what a real POS he was. Thank you again for taking us along!
Yeah if he treated his kid as bad as this video says then I hope he’s in hell!
Mother was born and n 1919. She always said he was not the man everybody thought he was but never said more. Now I know why.
Media sold alot of papers...
I'd heard some bad things about Lindbergh, but I never knew how fragile his little son was. Poor baby, being knocked over for his father's entertainment. That's pure evil, no two ways about it.
Only a sociopath/psychopath think it's funny to see a disabled baby fall, extremely immature.
I was disappointed that Will Rogers found it funny also.
@@beckyshell4649 Me too, Becky. I expected better out of him.
@@beckyshell4649 At their deaths Lindbergh (of cancer), Rogers (plane crash) and Hitler (purported gunshot to the head) looked and functioned the nadir opposite of "perfect." Every human life is a move from relative perfection to decline and extreme imperfection.
@@GlennaVan I did hear that, I just can't imagine it being funny at all with a frail child involved. I guess if Will had not said anything we would never have heard anything about it. When we idolize people as heroes We are bound to be disappointed.
Some of my Dads side were police and FBI on that case. Very creepy and my Grandmother said that herself. Shocking.
Oh I bet they were suspicious of him for a long time!
I find it fascinating how much control they gave Lindbergh on the case. The detectives and police were set up in his house, living there, and he controlled every aspect of the investigation. Nowadays that would not be allowed. Then, the world still worshipped the famous aviator for his flight to Paris.
We're comments made that police were suspicious of him as the murderer.
@@raechelweir8861 That’s a good question. I am more familiar with the emotional inner lives Anne and Reeve wrote about. I know for certain that nowadays no parent would have such complete control to order and organize the investigation. Lindbergh was all but worshiped for his famous flight, by the media, the public, even governments. (I seem to remember the storage rooms designated for all the countries’ awards). This was before his controversial views on many things were public knowledge. There are clearly stories brought down through generations about people who privately suspected him, but I don’t know of specific investigators who publicly or privately questioned his involvement or his unusual level of control over the inquiry. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about NJ State history will know. Great question.
@@m.h.6499 thank you for your reply.
My Mum talked about this often, Even though I don't know much myself. This book is a must for me. We migrated to Australia from Ireland so we knew more of America before we came here. Funny how my Mum always had her own suspicions similar to your information? My Mum said that dear child was little angel, bless his heart. Thank you Sir for an exceptionally detailed, informed and so well presented channel! I'm new to all this dear, and will be watching in future.👍🇭🇲👵 My very elderly Mum still mentions this sweet child 😪💕
I read a book about the Lindburg Kidnapping in the early 80’s, I remember very well reading that C.L. was a narcissist jerk, who loved Hitler, believed in Eugenics and was involved with the death of his son. That book really opened my young eyes, I was in college and my husband & I were taking a Sociology class, that taught us to question the media, when I was reading about Lindburg. I thought he was horrible and that my grade school teachers presented him as an aviation hero, was totally bogus.
Shalom
YES! Question the media!
Funny how no Documentary I’ve seen on Lindbergh ever talk about any of his real history U just shared !
Thx Ron 👍
Because it isn't real.
I've seen a few docs that glossed over it. Even a documentary about his wife, who was a writer, didn't delve too deeply into how difficult he made things for his her on their international adventures. She learned to pilot a plane so she could be of value to him on these excursions. She wanted to accompany him, but I don't think he wanted her to, so he made things hard for her. He was an ass.
It's called media manipulation.
Actually Lindbergh would also trip little Charlie in front of any stranger so they wouldn’t see his struggle to walk. He was totally disinterested in the child.
His pet name for Charlie was “IT”
Seascape there is a documentary on him that was very good and talks about how he had other children in other countries, it was really descriptive about his character
So sad to hear how terrible a person he was. To knock your child down repeatedly is abuse. I did know he was a Nazi advocate along with Henry Ford.
Great video and I will get the book. I live in the Bx near Haiptmans house, the cemetery, etc. He was framed. There was a guy yrs ago claiming to be the baby .... never heard more about that story....
@@pozzee2809 there will always be anti-Semites in every generation. The American Nazi Party filled up Madison Square Garden with the America First’s before Pearl Harbor was bombed.
@@pozzee2809 and if you ever saw that photograph of Lindbergh reviewing the German aeronautic manufacturing, I mean this was the Nazi bombers we’re talking about! These are the planes that eventually killed our soldiers.
@@mattikarosenthal3298 yes those who opposed Jewish Supremacy!
@@SrAJones-ns7sx heartbreaking when reading hauptman's wife's account
As I understand it, Charles Lindbergh was in the U.S. Army Reserve at the start of WW2 and requested to be recalled to active duty and serve as an U.S. Army Air Corps officer. He never was and remained a civilian for the duration of the war. Why? Because President Franklin D. Roosevelt detested the man and refused to allow him to be called-up for military service.
They correctly assumed he would have been a national security risk.
FDR also detested ambassador Joeseph Kennedy and sacked him for his defeatism advising FDR that the British could not defeat Germany.
He also had one of his daughters lobotomised.
He did fly combat in the pacific
I heard he wasn't liked by some of the pilots
I well remember my Grandfather talking about this case! He on many occasions claimed that the wrong man was arrested, tried, found guilty & executed for the murder and kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby. It really bothered him a great deal as to the cruel treatment of the baby and that an innocent man was sentenced wrongfully to death!
My English Teacher, Mr. Gaglini didn't think Hauptmann kidnapped the baby either. He said he was set up.
My father was 12 when the kidnapping occurred. 60 years ago he was of the studied opinion that Lindbergh killed his own son because he had many health problems. Evidence seemed then as now to support this. He said Lindbergh hysteria protected him and framed the poor slob they executed for the crime. Thanks for this report.
I always wondered if he had something, if not everything to do with his sons murder. Thanks, Ron, for another great story!!!
Me too specially as I haven't heard many good things about this creep except his flying. Not sure I think he planned to kill the baby, maybe it was an accident after one of his sick, cruel prank or he got angry, tited at the boy because of his disability and killed him.
Also look at Anne's sister Elizabeth!
They found the ladder wood in the convicted man's home and it was cut from his attic
@@KoolT that's what we have been told! I truly think Lindbergh was the guilty party. We are good friends with a retired FBI agent and he said today it would be proven Lindbergh was guilty! Patricia Gambino Harrington
@@KoolT - Doubtful. That was what the public was told to try and convince them that Bruno Hauptmann had done it.
As a history buff, I’ve been suspicious of Lindbergh’s involvement in the “kidnapping” and murder of his son. The poor child had physical issues and that was an embarrassment to Lindbergh. Being that he was pro Nazi and eugenics, it makes sense to me that he’d do it and an innocent man was killed as convicted and put to death for it because Lindbergh was a “hero”.
I live in the St. Louis area where a major north/south through the county road is named after Lindbergh - knowing he was pro Nazi and a racist and just all around nasty creepy guy, I’m really surprised that Lindbergh Blvd was never renamed.
I remember reading Bruno Richard Hauptmann's wife saying there was no way her husband would kill anyone let alone a child and that he had an alibi but it just seemed like he was railroaded. I also heard Anne Morrow was a lovely woman who didn't deserve a monster like him. The Lindbergh book sounds very interesting. So was your story, Ron. Have a great Christmas!
She was a 'lovely woman' who was part of the elite and had no clue what anyone's life was like who had to actually work for a living. Sheltered and clueless just like any princess of her day......
I lost any respect for her when I read her words about how she thought Charles could possibly have killed their son. And yet she went on to have more children with the man!
I believe the woman 100%. Her husband was a carpenter and wouldn't have made a ladder of that poor quality or even used one like that. That man was executed for something he did not do.
@@juliegoldman411 100% correct !!!
@@juliegoldman411 you're right.
Anna Hauptman defended her husband's innocence for the rest of her life, she died in the 1980s, I believe.
always suspected that since reading Anne Morrow Lindberg: Her Life , they never stated that, but the facts / puzzle pieces were there
For years, it’s been known that Charles Lindbergh was an arrogant, self centered man, but hearing about that recent book that writes about a possible scenario where he may have murdered his own little son is sadly, very believable considering Lindbergh’s callous and reckless attitude. And his poor wife, although I’m sure she loved her son, was so controlled by that hack, Lindbergh. 😢
well stated!!
For what it’s worth, I do not believe Lindbergh murdered his son. I do think it’s possible he arranged with underworld figures to have him kidnapped, intending to place him out of sight but in care at an institution. That’s my understanding of what prominent and wealthy families often did in that time period when there were health issues or problems in a child. Lindbergh knew Anne would never allow that, so he needed some way of removing the child from the home and presenting it as a done deed. The death occurred, I understand, when the baby was dropped on his head in the course of the kidnapping. I have heard of the diverse theories about the wounds in the skull. I believe it was a kidnapping gone wrong. Though of course that is simply an opinion. Lindbergh held some deeply disturbing views that inevitably do cast him in a suspicious light.
When people commit awful crimes, it often means that great harm was done to them when they were young. That doesn't excuse what they did but it does explain it. After all, many people are wonderful parents.
Sadly as I mentioned in other post here...This was somewhat prevalent in families of heritage and means.
My Grandfather, treated My Grandmother and his 2 children with the same administration of abuse...
All the while making first class travels by ship to & from Europe,etc.
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Wont mention what my mother went thru...however, her much younger brother at 4 yrs of age, and enough money to convince the Military School...my Uncle Gil was sent 'away' to boarding military school on the east side of the SF Bay; a school that normally would Not have taken a boy b4 the age of 8!
And the sick reason? Because, my Uncle was a boy, and needed to be 'weaned' from the 'attentions' of my Grandmother!! Cruel!
@@m.h.6499 true...
Wow!! This was very interesting. Well, in my personal opinion, anyone who's a lover of Hitler's worthless a$$ is totally capable of doing something like that, even if it's their own family. One of the most tragic child deaths I ever heard of. But with this break down, yeah I'd say the father did that $hit. Kudos to you, another awesome video!
Finally someone is bringing this story to light. In a highschool history class I was in we did a group project on the Lindbergh baby and we agreed the Dad was the murderer, and that was way back in the 90's! He was not a kosher dude, definitely a criminal. I cant wait to read this book. Thank you for sharing !!
Gosh that's amazing you came to that conclusion at a young age....how did yr teacher react?
@@raechelweir8861 oh my teacher was skeptical at first but after we presented our points he was very intrigued. There was a documentary that had come out about that time that was about how he would play horrible tricks on his wife and others in his life and he was just an all around weird dude. Thats really what gave me the idea that he was capable of somethig and lieing about it. But he had clout and money so of course if he had been responsible no one wouldve even looked at him
I remember this horrible story. It’s new to me about Charles L. now accused of killing his son. It’s hard to believe. But then again it sounds like he did not care much for his son. What a monster. God only knows. Thank you Ron 🙏🏽 can’t wait to watch your next video.
🎄🎄Merry Christmas
He was always under suspicion.
@@puffchick4197 oh my 🙄 you sound like my son. To each their own.
If so…he let someone else take the blame and die for the crime he committed.
I read a while back, he would not allow his wife to cry about her son’s death in front of him. He was all heart that one.
@@judyrobertson5564 Lindberg reportedly asked then chief of NJ State police, Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf (father of 'Desert Storm' General) if he thought Hauptman did it, and Schwarzkopf said 'yes'. As much as I think Hauptman innocent, I also don't think that Lindberg could have done it, except by using extraordinary means. There is too much circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy within the domestic workers of that Lindberg household. Most specifically, Violet Sharpe, a Lindberg housekeeper, committed suicide just before her second police interrogation regarding the kidnapping. Also at this period of time, kidnapping for ransom was a favorite money raising scheme of the underworld.
My grandparents said he was embarassed that his son was born "deformed", and seldom ever had anything to do with the child. They also said the child was only seen by a very few, usually kept in his room. Stands to reason, if he was planning on moving to Germany, he would have wanted a perfect son...to match his status (so to speak), and the child would not match the standards of the perfect child thing Being a Nazi sympathizer, and mixing in with the upper Nazi class, the son's condition would have been discovered.
I have heard stories growing up too ..I agree with you
Sometimes the easiest explanation is the correct explanation. It makes sense to me he wouldn't have wanted an imperfect child. If he didn't kill his son, the Nazis in Germany would have.
@@awestphal40 yep
I’m so glad I caught up with your channel again. I had zero knowledge about C.L. I was taught he was a hero when I was in elementary school way back in the 1960’s. I will have to read this book. Thank you.
Spot on. I’ve also read that he actually got his kicks by locking the baby in a closet, and told everyone in the house that that he was missing. This was shortly before he was “kidnapped”. I believe he was most definitely behind it.
How facinating. I have read a bit about him but had no idea of all of the holes in the story. Thank you. This was something I was really interested in. You are a master of the telling!
Anybody that believes in eugenics is capable of just about anything. Years ago I dug into his speeches from the 40's and lost any respect I could have had for the man.
Those promoting eugenics were known at the time as 'progressives.' No joke.
@@noahhyde8769 Including the American founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger, who influenced Hitler into eugenics.
A great number of our current world leaders embrace eugenics, and Lindbergh wasn’t unusual for his time and beliefs. But I agree we have no right to thin the herd of humans based on our perception of what traits are desirable.
@@lilolmecj Certainly not by murder; a human life in being has the right to live out its natural life span. As rickets is a vitamin D deficiency disease, likely the Lindbergh toddler could have been cured of it with more of that vitamin from diet and more outdoor sun exposure. A horrific "fatherly" lack of empathy for an innocent child.
@@JudgeJulieLit truthfully I had never heard these facts about the little boy. Every being deserves respect, some like mice we will kill if their numbers are too large, or they are invading our home , but if a crittur is not interfering with me, I am going to see it as a integral part of the natural system. Here is an example: I have a small flock of chickens, under 20. I also have a family of rats, undetermined number, certainly under 10. If the rats just eat extra grain and sleep in the barn, we coexist. But if I catch one inside my hen house I will eradicate. But Eugenics takes a path of direct destruction of anything unwanted, it doesn’t even have to be imperfect, just not able to advocate for itself. It removes the ideas of compassion and learning from service out of the equation of being a human person being. I believe with rickets the child would have had permanent disabilities, but the descriptions were really not in line with a modern doctor would use so we have no idea. But to me it sounds like a cluster if symptoms that probably by now fit under some syndrome. It is very interesting, and I should go look up more information.
I've never heard these things about him. Unbelievable. Makes perfect sense. Horrible man.
I live in Hawaii, and I have been to Maui, and visited Lindbergh’s grave. The Church is so sweet, and was built I believe in the 1850’s or so. The graveyard is humble also. Some of my relatives are buried there. The article revealing the fact that he had a “family” in Germany, with children, was something that resonated with me. I’m sure Lindbergh’s wife, Anne, probably knew about this. I can imagine her sorrow, and grief at finding this out. Divorce was frowned upon back then, so she probably felt she couldn’t divorce him. Sad story.
@@pippadot679 As a mother she cannot have been oblivious to her husband's cruel treatment of their yearling to toddler son. I feel no pity for a mother who had no pity for her helpless, hapless little boy to supervene to protect him again his father's abuse. Too in the infant's first year she chose to abandon him to a nanny as she went on long trips with her husband. Her empathy for her little son was way deficient.
In her diaries she is very discrete about the "adventures" of his husband, (because one: she was really in love with him, blind in love with him, or two: she does not want to give a bad image of the God Lindberg that would show how to be in love with him was a disaster.) I can imagine that many women at that time were in love with the God Lindbergh! But when you know that he had a family in Germany with several kids!), we know or suspect that when Lindbergh says to Anne that he has to go to Germany for this or that it was surely to see his other family. Always with his airplane going there or there. Poor Anne.
@@Lydioski Those two scenarios are not mutually exclusive, you know. I read her early diaries years ago, she was blind in love with him in at least the early years of their marriage, and perhaps into the middle of it.
Charles Jr. died in 1932. Lindbergh did not initiate the affairs with 3 German women resulting in his secret families until
1957, his secret children were all born between 1958 and 1967. Twenty-five years is a lot of time for a marriage and feelings to change. There are claims Anne had an affair with her physician in the early 1950's, before Charles' affairs are known to have commenced. Her later diaries make clear she was disenchanted with her prince.
@@marysueeasteregg Thank you for this information. I did not read yet her lasts diaries. I am re-reading all her diaries now and I am at 1940. Thank you.
I was/am great admirer of Anne Morrow
Lindberg. To me, Gifts from the Sea
was exquisite in every way. Her
writings came from the depths of
her soul.....pure beauty. I do not
think she was a narrsacist. Believe
she blinded by excessive admiration
and infatuation with "THE GREAT"
Charles. She knew everything but
was blinded by this evil scoundrel.
Well that is what I think anyway!
Thank you for this. I read a book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh years ago when I was 16 back in the late 1980s.
I could feel her sadness. I would guess Charles has met his maker and been judged by now.
Hopefully Anne is in Heaven with her eldest baby boy now.
This was a very interesting video Ron. The pain that poor little boy went through before his death, so heartbreaking. I never heard you say where the little boy is buried, is it known where he is? The father Charles sure was a sorry person to treat his own son that way. Sounds like the nanny was more of a parent to the child than the actual parents. Looking forward to your next video, stay safe out there Ron.🙂💖
Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.
That why you don't leave kids alone w.father
THE THUMB GUARD-- not letting a little Baby self comfort-- is What i did not like!!
Look up BABY ALICE Thumb Guards, the brand the Lindberghs used. Nasty-tasting copper/nickle wires encaging the thumb and fastened to the baby's wrist. like the kind used to keep newly-canned food sealed. Apparently little Charlie was made to wear two, but the other one was never found.
Poor little boy
Omgosh. I never knew this Ron. We werent aware of this growing up in school. Thank you. God Bless you.
Wow I had no idea! He landed in a farmers field near my home. Once again, if you have fame and fortune you can get away with murder.
I have heard this theory before. I feel for Ann and everyone else who loved this poor little boy. People who believed in eugenics is discusting.
I have heard stories about him often, probably because we graduated from the same high school. I don’t think very many people know, because they always associate him with the midwest, that he graduated from REDONDO union high school, in Redondo Beach, California. He didn’t have any friends, and he hated being here in California, probably because the kids here wouldn’t put up with his nonsense stuff. REDONDO was a very hard-working community back in those days. I do not put it past him, narcissists are pretty much always jealous of their children and the time they take away from the wife’s attention.
True!!
This sounds so interesting and certainly not what was in my library book at school!
My gosh, I’ve not heard about this evil side of him! Will get the book! Thanks for this story.
Again thank you for shedding light on a homicide where the pieces never added up.
I have read quite a bit on Lindbergh over the years and have seen on television the biographies of him and the case of his sons kidnapping as well and I'm aware of all that has come out about him these past years. I truly do believe that he had everything to do with his sons kidnapping and death. I do believe that he planned it and I also believe that Bruno Hauptmann was just the poor guy blamed for this horrendous crime and made to pay for it. Bruno was just a patsy. Lindbergh was such a hero at that time that people just could not and would not ever believe he could do something like this. An innocent man paid a terrible price for something he didn't do.
Why would he kill son, unless he accidentally hit so hard killed the boy, he couldn’t wreck image, maybe even depression in mother! Who knows! Getting a big ladder to third floor seems like a lot of trouble. It’s probably up and up!! But wouldn’t a theory series be great. Not to cast evil at people, just to wonder, at a possibility like Agatha Christ ie, she cleared a lot of people she was suspicious of to! Oj, Blake, Wagner, Monroe etc , but should be a disclaimer protecting rights of people talked about. Everybody likes to play detective. I even wonder if as well as heroic trip limberg was on spy missions, Haumpton was German, this happened before Second World War but countries still spied.
I am sure me too. A man like him was always alert and controlling everything concerning security at his home because of his popularity. So it is impossible that Bruno entered the propriety of the Lindbergh with facility, took the kid and fly with him. That day Lindbergh was not there, also. I think they had a dog at that time? I do not remember if they had a dog or they took Thor after the kidnapping. Also, there is the strange story about the girl that was there to take care of the kid that finally killed herself. This is a very strange story also.
@@maryannemelenka9250 My grandfather was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot on the USS Wasp in the South Pacific, but I think my parents got rid of a uniform they said the rats had gotten into, but I thought it had German officer's buttons on it and my Swedish great-grandmother had a Nazi penny I saw Christmas 1992 when I was 16 and had reported Jesuit Masonic abuse that I was hospitalized for and discredited.
@@peternolan4107 Stop gaslighting me.
Lindberg was a well known control freak and cruel to his wife and child. It has long been believed he paid to have his child killed because the child was born with rickets and suffered deformities from that disease. Lindberg believed that humans should be selected to breed "perfect" humans and having a child born with a disease showed him to be the hypocrite he was. He was known as an adulterer, but that was glossed over to protect his "image". He was hated for being ProNazi. That heroic trip was actually to promote overseas travel by airplane, it wasn't thought of in that time but with his trip it was shown to be possible. Aviation was spreading and that is why Lindberg got the financing to do it. He was not a hero, he was a hypocrite and should be despised as such.
Interesting story. I was born in 1960 and I never heard a bad word about Lindbergh. Thanks for the review.
Thank you Ron for sharing this story. I've always thought Lindbergh had something to do with the child's abduction. One thing new to me is I didn't know he had 5 other families in Germany! I would love to read the book! Happy holiday's... Brenda from South Carolina
Charles Lindbergh was a monster. Anyone who would personally hurt a child is not human. RIP little Charles Jr. At least you are with Jesus in Heaven.
Great video Ron! I actually live a few houses away from the Lindbergh estate in NJ. What a weird and sick man. So sad that he once was considered an American hero. My heart goes out to the poor little boy and what he had to endure.
Worked on a farm several years ago in that area, 2013-2019. I had passed on a few occasions the driveway of the Lindbergh estate. Also enjoyed a few Lager's here and there at Hillbilly Hall. These new findings gives a whole different complexion to the estate and our skewed history book teaching's on C.L.
Just wrapping up Pearlman's book. Big stuff -- finish it start to finish, it's an amazing read.
good stuff.
This is so sad about the Lindbergh history. I didn’t know this information until now. Thanks for the information. I’ve got to read the book as soon as it’s possible.
Wow, I don't think I can even think about him as a hero anymore. A very enlightening and strange story. 🤔
I never heard this side of Charles Lindbergh, murdering his son?! Horrible! If so, another innocent man paid the price, and Lindberg knew it?
Heartbreaking…I heard he was embarrassed by his son ,,,I heard this a long time ago ,,,it’s so sad 😞
@@ohmeowzer1 what a sorry man!! This was his son, you care, not feel embarrassed! Just sad, tragic.
Lindbergh testified against him at his trial, claiming that he could identify his voice as one of the kidnappers. Many many strange things about the case. I am very suspicious of Jafsie and Lindbergh.
Lindberg was well known in Europe as an adulterer and hypocrite, hated as a Nazi supporter. There was smoke because there was fire
I have no doubt he is 💯 guilty of the disappearance of his son….sounds like a great book Ron. Thank you!
Wow, this is all new to me. I am definitely going to read the book. What a monster he was. His poor wife and kids, especially that poor little baby. It figures he would be a Nazi lover and a racist SOB! What a horrible man. Rest in Peace to his Mother, wife, and precious little boy. Great story Ron
Very interesting! I had read the book about the kidnapping many years ago, and always doubted that Richard Hauptmann had been the kidnapper...he seemed more of a person who had helped himself to a cache of money ( that happened to be the ransom money, unfortunately) that was left with him by a German friend who later died when he had returned to Germany. I also was aware of Lindbergh's "America First" policy, his Nazi sympathies, the anti-Semitism, and the serial philandering. I knew he was a sh*t, but a child murderer? Never thought of it...until now. I will be reading that book!!
I never knew any of this about him other than his son being kidnapped and murdered and of course him being an aviator. He was a monster! Love your last name(or husbands) George. It is my sons name who passed away.
You made this month’s audible selection super easy. Thank You .
Wow! I never knew this about Lindbergh! Very interesting and tragic story, poor little man. No love from his own father.
I just found your channel. I appreciate how much work you put into researching the history. A lot of TH-camrs don’t do that. Thank you
Thanks Lisa!
Hi Lisa and welcome to FoTF 😊
Thanks for discussing this, Ron! I need to find that book and read it. Always felt there was something not right with the Lindbergh baby death. I also knew that he admired Hitler and that he followed the eugenics movement. Now I want to learn more about all of this.
I read that he had a double life and kids in Germany. It makes you wonder what else he could hide or lie about if that was the case.
Yes! Two separate women and children in Germany. He lied to the women about his identity but they knew who he was. Those children are interviewed in a video.
A few years ago I read several biographies of both the Lindbergh's and originally was in awe of them (as a child) but I came to the same conclusion as you!
Sure would make the crime make much more sense!!! Ordering the book NOW! Thanks Ron 💗
I love those videos. Thanks for taking the time to do the research and travel to make this happen to remember those who where forgotten. God bless you and your family.
I've always heard that he could be a really pompous jerk even before his NAZI proclivities came to light. I've even heard assorted conspiracy theories regarding the child's disappearance including one that the child was not killed, but this is the first I've heard about the possibility that he killed his own son. I'm going to have to get that book now.
Thanks for your recommendation. I’m on to the audiobook now and look forward to listening. Confirmation bias maybe, because indeed I think Lindbergh was a creepy character too and lauded way too much for his aviation exploits, while his politics and political ambitions during the tumult of the thirties tends to be ignored. Had he gained Republican nomination for presidential election, the world might look vastly different today. In regard to those US political ambitions Lindbergh had back then, I’d recommend Phillip Roth’s Plot Against America. US might well have dodged a bullet with this nefarious character who was lionised at the time?
I discovered your channel by accident this past weekend and I am beyond thrilled. I love the old graveyards/Cemeterys. I binge watched all weekend and into today (Monday). I have some stuff you may be interested in in my area...Parkersburg West Virginia.
I just absolutely love the way you film and tell the stories. I have been telling all my friends about you. BEST CHANNEL I have seen in along time. 💖
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John Curtis Hughes, the guy who went cruising with Lindbergh on a private yacht on the East Coast ostensibly to find the kidnappers who were "supposed" to be hiding on an oyster boat, died in relative obscurity and a whole lot of disgrace. His wife and daughter CHOSE to be buried together in an unmarked plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk VA because of the embarassment he brought to the family and how they were hounded in life.
What a monster Charles was! Thank you for all your hard work to bring us these stories and to reignite the memories of lost stories. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from Colorado.
merry Christmas Danielle!
Wow, Ron. This is shocking! Thank you for enlightening us. I think I'll get the book. Have a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and yours Jacquelyn
As many times as I have heard about the Lindbergh baby story, I have never heard all of these details like this. This man was disgusting, wow! With all of the information, AKA evidence against him, that has come out, he must have done this. Man, my heart sank just hearing what he was doing to his little boy when he tried to walk..... and what the heck was wrong with Will Rogers thinking that was funny??? Where do these people come from?! He probably got away with it because it's another case of "money talks". Evil people!
Maybe will Rogers really didn’t think it was so funny and privately, and wanted people to know what Lindbergh was really like, for all we know.
Truth is so much stranger than fiction could hope to be - thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Ron, for highlighting this little skeleton in our national closet. It seems that some people had no idea. I've heard about it, but I never gave it much credit. I try to avoid conspiracy theories, especially if they involve someone doing something to their own children. I do believe he was a jerk who had other families and admired Hitler. I had to watch a documentary about Anne Morrow to learn about these things, though, and they were kind of glossed over. It's funny how we can't seem to admit that our heroes aren't always admirable, or worthy of our worship. I guess I'll have to read this book, now, just to see if there is anything compelling in it.
As a master Freemason, he was not averse to harming children, even his own.
Hero worship is shallow and misguided at best. Until humans improve themselves why worship them?
Fuzza mazamulu Well said. I remember hearing that Charles Lindbergh was an odd duck and was pro Nazi and had other families. I usually shy away from conspiracy theories as well, but the book may be worth a read. It's hard to believe Lindbergh would harm his child but who knows. I had no idea that he mistreated the boy if that is to be believed. Guess I'll have to read the book. Wow! You just never know about people.
No one is worthy of worship except God.
@@chynnadoll3277 A God that lets children be abused and killed. The all seeing, all knowing and all powerful created a faulty being in his likeness, hilarious. 3/10 for God's creation.
I have heard some of these stories about Lindbergh ..I cannot wait to read this book ,,,,I heard he was embarrassed by his son..that poor little guy getting hit with a pillow and will Rogers was disgusting to laugh at that ..ugh I lost respect for Will Rogers …I believe Lindbergh kidnapped his own child and those people paid were innocent…I can’t wait to get that book ,,,,
I lost respect for Will Roger's, too, for thinking knocking down the little boy was funny. Birds of a feather...
Hi Ron, you tell the most fascinating stories. I wished that your videos were longer because that is how great a story teller you are. I hope you have a blessed & wonderful Christmas.
Thank you for all of your hard work and research! I’ve learned more from you than in my history classes, and much more entertaining! I also go for walks through cemeteries in my area, so peaceful. One of my favorites is in River Falls, WI.
It was likely an accidental death as in the Ramsey case. He actually showed the investigators a sealed envelope found on the windowsill of the nursery and said, "here's a ransom note." He apparently hadn't opened it yet. How would he know it was a ransom note. The other most compelling part is that he told Hauptmann's lawyers that if he would just confess, they wouldn't go for the death penalty. Hauptmann refused.
#Facesoftheforgotten
I live in Serbia ( ex Tito's Yugoslavia, Balkan peninsula, Europe ). I heard about this monster Lindbergh. " Creating a superior race " wasn't only the goal of Germans at that time. It also was a goal of the English, France, and the Soviet Union.
This was excellent. I had never heard this perspective before. I plan to get the book. The youngest daughter of Charles and Anne, Reeve Lindbergh, is a writer like her mom. Reeve's book "Forward from here" talks a little about how Reeve found out her father had affairs and she had half siblings. I recommend it. She's a good writer.
I learn alot of stories I've never heard before from this channel. Thank you!
Not even gonna lie...my jaw hit the floor learning this. It is amazing how certain people are made into heroes but are demons at heart. 😳
Another great video! As I get older, I find it interesting how many of those we were taught to admire in school sometimes weren't upstanding people in reality. Lindbergh seems to be one of those. Yes, he managed to fly solo across the Atlantic, and that turned him into a hero, but otherwise, he seems to have been despicable, extremely so. I wonder if the second person to make the trip was a better human being, more deserving of the accolades? It's too bad Lindbergh can't be made a footnote or future reference made that he was a real b*****d, but he happened to be one of the early aviators who made it across the Atlantic.
I'm waiting!! Ron you do such a great job with these stories, I love your channel! Also enjoyed the Sunday walk today! Very interesting! Thank you 😊
It would appear that Charlie was a real piece of work! Thanks Ron for a great adventure.🇺🇸👮🏻♂️
Thanks Ron. I just downloaded the book to my kindle. Very interesting! I always thought he did it.
Just purchased the book! Can’t wait to take a deep dive into this. Thank you so much for the recommendation! 😊
Thank you ...you bring history to life..and are an amazing storyteller!
Just goes to show how evil transcends economic barriers, disgusting human being to treat his own son that way. Hope he met some sort of justice in the afterlife. Great vid!
Thanks for the tip, Ron. I recently had knee surgery plus, the elevator in my building is being worked on,for three,weeks and I can’t take the four flights by foot. Anyway,.I’m going to get the Lindbergh book. You’ve given me such good books and I appreciate it.because I don’t much like fiction . You’re the best! Have a great holiday !
Healing thoughts to you!
Get well soon. I had my kneecaps realigned when I was twenty seven years old. Recovery is hard. Keep at it.
Thank you Ron for telling us about this. I only knew about Lindbergh due to his aviation success, and the kidnap of his baby son. What a tragic story. Best wishes from the UK.
I already knew many of these facts from history...But, you did such a wonderful job telling the story! I love your conversational manner.
Makes me think of Jon Benet Ramsey, Elizabeth Smart (there's more to that story than meets the eye), and other parents who have done things to their children. Thanks for the info.
Wow just wow what a monster he was! And this is the first I’ve ever known about this Ron so thank you for showing us and myself this! That poor baby and mother the abuse this sick man did! But again thanks for the history and sharing this ❤️👍
This one has been a case that I have known about since I was a little girl about eight or nine. I have always been skeptical but as I grew older and learned more about Linburgh's character, and Nazi sympathies, I began to lean more towards he was involved. Now as an adult, the circumstances are just suspicious as sus can get
I’m going to order that book now Ron!!! I didn’t know all that sick stuff about him.
Terrific video Ron! Many thanks and kindest regards. Sunshine Coast,B.C.🇨🇦
I just purchased the book “Suspect No. 1” by Lise Pearlman about the kidnapping. Can’t wait to read it!
wow, alot to think about with this guy, I never knew the whole story and always felt badly for him......Im going to have to read that book....thanks Ron, this was very interesting
This book would be an interesting read. I will have to check it out. From what you were saying about Charles treating his son that way is sad. I enjoyed this Sunday history lesson.
Hi Ron I have always felt he had something to do with it. If he didn’t do it himself he hired someone to do it. I agree with you. What a creep! Great video! I watch all of your videos and enjoy all of them.
My parents were both mental health professionals. They were always certain that the child wasn’t born “perfect”. Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer. An imperfect child wasn’t in the plans. And now you’re telling us that their hypothesis was true.
Five families in Germany? That’s a big WOW.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh gives a lot away in her poetry. Beautiful work. Great read if you like poetry.
If your stories are true he was one SF.