Joe Nocera

Right.

The point is that there is an appeal ongoing right now, and we'll see what happens.

All right.

I connect it more than anything with the America we live in today.

that it teaches you so much about the judicial system.

It teaches you so much about how we're mired in conspiracies.

It teaches you what the country was like back then versus what it's like today.

And it's a damn good story.

You know, this is what you and I live for.

Jonah Serra with a damn good story.

What else would we talk about at night?

What else would we keep our wives up late at night talking about if not for the Lindbergh baby case?

Charlie had had a cold, and Anne had caught the cold.

She was also pregnant at the time, and she says, I'm exhausted, we're staying put.

At around 7.30, she and Ann start putting him to bed.

They put him in his little sleepy suit.

Because they've stayed longer, he doesn't have adequate clothing, and Betty makes him a little shirt out of her petticoat just on the spot.

They both try, but her failure to close that shutter will come back to haunt her.

She then goes downstairs and has dinner with Elsie Waintley, who is the cook for the Lindberghs.

At 8, the family hears the approach of a car, and everyone assumes it's Colonel Lindbergh coming home.