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David T. Wilentz explains one of the ransom notes to reporters at Flemington, N.J., Jan. 15, 1935, when handwriting experts were on the stand most of...

This is a deposit slip which accompanied exchange of $2,980 of Lindbergh ransom money for silver certificates, referred to by Frank Wilson, Federal ag...

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Two of several notes which appeared in New York City newspapers during the attempt to pay the Lindbergh kidnappers the ransom money and save the child...

The end of the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation apparently now at hand, will bring a "back to the barracks" order for these three New Jersey State T...

Digging up the earth from the spot off the Mount Rose road, near Hopewell, N.J., where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was found, in a vain searc...

All that is left of the Bruno R. Hauptmann garage in the Bronx borough of New York, after police got through searching form more of the Lindbergh rans...

District Attorney Samuel J. Foley of Bronx County, left, and Inspector John L. Sullivan hold a plank ripped from the garage of Bruno Hauptmann's garag...

A side-by-side comparison of the handwriting of the Lindbergh ransom letters with specimens of Bruno R. Hauptmann's writing on display at the Mayflowe...

The first official reproduction of the Lindbergh ransom note telling Col. Charles Lindbergh that he would find his son on a boat between Horseneck Bea...

Walter Lyle and John Lyons, left to right, the gas station workers who became suspicious at a $10 gold certificate given to them by Bruno Richard Haup...

The fourth ransom note received by Col. Charles Lindbergh, describing the box in which the $50,000 was to be delivered to the kidnappers, shown Sept....

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Ray Sanderson, left, and Clarence Hopft, near the scene where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was found, midway between the Lindbergh estate and...

Carloads of sightseers line a country road near the Lindbergh home not far from Hopewell, N.J., where the body of 19-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr...

Combing an area 25 miles square in the Sourland Mountain of New Jersey for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby, New Jersey State Troopers are shown peering d...

Since the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, State Police of New Jersey have been almost continually on duty in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate, s...

The New Jersey State Troopers are continually combing the countryside in the neighborhood of the Lindbergh home at Hopewell, N.J., for any possible cl...

This is the isolated location of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, N.J., where the search for the Lindbergh baby continues, shown March 3, 1932. (AP...

Robert L. Ripley, traveler and originator of the "Believe It Or Not" series received the acid test at Long Island University in New York, Dec. 1, 1931...

Julius Meyer Titular, head of all East German Jews, who fled to West Berlin, Jan. 15, 1953 shows a mark which was branded on his forearm by the Nazis...

English author H. G. Wells, third right, after he had made a speech on the Commonsense of World Peace, in the Reichstag, in Berlin, on April 15, 1929....

Picture taken on November 11, 1927 of a "gueule cassee", the disfigured guardian of the site of Rethondes in the Compicgne Forest, where the Armistice...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY (FILES) - An undated file photo of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini during a political meeting. Italian dictator Benito...

Picture taken after the first World War of a "gueule cassee", the disfigured guardian of the site of Rethondes in the Compicgne Forest, where the Armi...

(FILES) - A photo taken on November 11, 1918 shows Parisian crowd celebrating the end of the First World War and the Armistice treaty between the Alli...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) Picture taken during the first World War of Head of French government Georges Cleme...

Picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows American troops on the French front during the First World War. AF...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) Picture taken during the first World War of Head of French government Georges Cleme...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) - A picture released by the International Contemporary Documentation Library (BDIC)...

(FILES) - A picture taken in 1916 shows French soldiers moving into attack from their trench during the Verdun battle, eastern France, during the firs...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) - A picture taken in 1916 shows French soldiers moving into attack from their trenc...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) - A picture taken in 1916 shows German soldiers ready to move into attack from thei...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) - A picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, sho...

(FILES) - A photo released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows a British Mark I male tank during the First World War. Fighter aircraft,...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY DOMINIQUE CHABROL & ERIC RANDOLPH (FILES) - A photo released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows a U-boat, what...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY DOMINIQUE CHABROL & ERIC RANDOLPH (FILES) - A picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, sho...

(FILES) - A picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows a poilu, French World War I infantryman, in the uniform...

A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute purportedly shows Armenians hung by Ottoman forces in Constantinople in June 1915. Armeni...

A picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows a French soldier wearing a gaz mask during the First World War. A...

A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute dated 1915 purportedly shows soldiers standing over skulls of victims from the Armenian v...

A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute dated 1915 purportedly shows severed heads of Armenians killed by Turkish forces during t...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRAN BLANDY & PIERRE-MARIE GIRAUD (FILES) - A picture taken during the first World War shows French soldiers taking care of w...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY (FILES) - Picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows Moroccan "tirailleurs" soldiers from...