cover image The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptman

The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptman

Ludovic Kennedy. Penguin Books, $7.95 (496pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008994-3

Kennedy ( 10 Rillington Place argues that Hauptmann, executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son, was innocent. He ridicules the key testimony of Arthur Koehler, who linked the ladder used in the crime to Hauptmann, but Kennedy is unconvincing. ""Far too shrill,'' PW judged. (Julyp