Payment of $50,000 ransom results in double-cross in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case

Title card, "Lindy Ransom Fails! New York - $50,000 paid kidnappers brings only apparent double-cross as Col. Lindbergh continues desperate search" / "wanted" poster with information regarding the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh / Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne; CU of him / Their estate Highfields seen from an airplane with several cars parked in the front / A New Jersey State Policeman with the makeshift ladder used to kidnap the child / VS newspapers with a highlighted portion, "Money is ready - Jafsie [John Condon]" / Gate of Woodlawn Cemetery / newspaper classified advertisement: "I accept. Money is ready. You know they won't let me deliver without getting the package. Let's make some sort of c.o.d. transaction. Come. You know you can trust Jafsie." / A man walks to a stone where one of the communications was placed and picks it up / Classified ad, "Thanks. That little package you sent was immediately delivered and accepted as real article. See my position. Over fifty years in business and cash I pay without seeing goods? Common sense..." / A tool shed in Van Cortlandt Park where the $50,000 ransom was delivered / a man enters the structure [VO narration: the baby was being held off the coast of Massachusetts, Lindbergh searched for days] / Two ads, "... body moved to 64 McLean _ Yonkers, NY" and "What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Please better directions, Jafsie" / File footage of the child in his playpen or crib / Note: exact day not known
Title card, "Lindy Ransom Fails! New York - $50,000 paid kidnappers brings only apparent double-cross as Col. Lindbergh continues desperate search" / "wanted" poster with information regarding the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh / Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne; CU of him / Their estate Highfields seen from an airplane with several cars parked in the front / A New Jersey State Policeman with the makeshift ladder used to kidnap the child / VS newspapers with a highlighted portion, "Money is ready - Jafsie [John Condon]" / Gate of Woodlawn Cemetery / newspaper classified advertisement: "I accept. Money is ready. You know they won't let me deliver without getting the package. Let's make some sort of c.o.d. transaction. Come. You know you can trust Jafsie." / A man walks to a stone where one of the communications was placed and picks it up / Classified ad, "Thanks. That little package you sent was immediately delivered and accepted as real article. See my position. Over fifty years in business and cash I pay without seeing goods? Common sense..." / A tool shed in Van Cortlandt Park where the $50,000 ransom was delivered / a man enters the structure [VO narration: the baby was being held off the coast of Massachusetts, Lindbergh searched for days] / Two ads, "... body moved to 64 McLean _ Yonkers, NY" and "What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Please better directions, Jafsie" / File footage of the child in his playpen or crib / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
2200243416
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
01 March, 1932
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Licence type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:02:41:11
Location:
New York City, New York, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr006371_01_01