HISTORICAL NOTES: Lindbergh Nightmare

"I am going to write you this first afternoon all that I know and some you may discover in the newspapers. . . I will write everything as I would like it told me and as I cannot tell you on the telephone. . . At 7:30 Betty [the nurse] and I were putting the baby to bed. We closed and bolted all the shutters except on one window where the shutters are warped and won't close. . . At ten Betty went in to the baby, shut the window first, then lit the...

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