I’ve been reading Scott Berg’s mammoth biography of Charles Lindbergh, a man whose life was truly a dramatic whirlwind in multiple acts. Yesterday I took the plunge and dove into the dreadful story of the kidnapping and murder of his twenty-month old son, Charles Jr. in 1932 and the ensuing trial of the man accused and convicted of the crime, Bruno Haumptmann. Berg made reference to actual film existing of witness interrogation taken in secret (via camera in a window and secret sound wire somehow threaded into the room from outside) shot by Fox Movietone News, a sound-on-film process. And guess where I found it? I love YouTube. Above is some of the interrogation of Haumptmann and a man named John Condon who negotiated with the kidnapper before his capture. Below is a Britsh Pathe newsreel telling the basics of the tragic tale. It’s impossible to convey the fascination the public had with Lindbergh, both as a hero and a tragic figure and the story of his child’s killing was more sensational and avidly followed by anything in recent memory. And that includes O.J.