General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Class 109 (Kidnapping) Litigation Case Files. 1930 - 1978. 109-1 (section 5). 4/14/1932 - 5/11/1932. Letter from Citizens of the State of South Dakota to President Herbert Hoover

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General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Class 109 (Kidnapping) Litigation Case Files. 1930 - 1978. 109-1 (section 5). 4/14/1932 - 5/11/1932. Letter from Citizens of the State of South Dakota to President Herbert Hoover

1932

This petition, signed by 34 citizens of Mitchell, South Dakota, protests the possibility that President Herbert Hoover would release Al Capone from prison. The petitioners felt that if Capone was released from prison in order to assist in the search for the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, it would encourage further acts of kidnapping violence from gangsters.

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001

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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was born in Englewood, New Jersey on 22 June 1906, the daughter of ambassador and politician Dwight Morrow and author and Smith College president Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. From 1924-1928 Anne studied literature at Smith College, where she graduated in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in English. In May 1929, after a brief courting period, Anne married Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974). Anne had met Lindbergh in Mexico in 1927, while her father was serving as ambas...

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 1930-1932

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Capone, Al, 1899-1947

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Al Capone was born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a gangster who started his career in New York City and gained notoriety while in Chicago during the Prohibition era. He was arrested for tax evasion in 1931. He died on January 5, 1947 in Florida....