Status of African-Americans in the 1930s and headlines: What and Who Made the News. By: US

Born in east of Memphis, Tn. in Rossville on January 12, Fred McDowell was called “ Mississippi Fred.” He was one of the greatest blues players. He was an orphan at a young age so his older sister and her husband took him in. He played the bottle neck guitar and was called one of the greatest guitarist who ever lived.

At the age of 24, a young Joe Louis, stopped by the white house in 1938 to congregate with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not much later he asked to keep boxing by FDR. Joe was already a heavyweight champion.

At 9:00 p.m. on March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. was kidnapped from his nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home, while being watched after by the babysitter. After the kidnapping, when the house was being searched, muddy footprints were found under the nursery window, but was impossible to measure. Investigators found the first ransom note sitting in the nursery window sill demanding $50,000. A second ransom note was received by Colonel Lindbergh on March 6, 1932 now demanding $70,000. Colonel Lindbergh received yet another ransom note (becoming now the third ransom note) on March 8 and requested a note in the newspaper. After making a statement saying that he (Dr. Condon) was willing to pay the ransom, once getting ransom note numbers 4, 5, and 6.

On March 16, Dr. Condon acknowledged a babies sleeping suit as a token of identity, and another ransom note becoming number 7. By March 21 Dr. Condon expected yet another note, being note number 8, insisting on complete observance and advising that the kidnapping had been premeditated for a year. March 29, Betty Gow, the Babies caretaker at the time of the kidnapping, found the infant’s thumb guard, that the baby was wearing at the time of the kidnapping.

March 29, the 9 th note was acknowledged by Condon, threatening to increase the money demand to $100,000. After 13 notes, on May 12, 1932 the kidnapped babies body was discovered accidentally, partly buried, and horridly decomposed. The body was discovered about four and a half miles southeast of the Lindbergh home, 45 ft. from the highway. The body was found by an assistant trucker named William Allen. The head of the baby was crushed with a hole in the skull and multiple body members missing. After investigating for 2 years, the babies murderer was found. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in February 13, 1935 and sentenced to death. On April 3, 1936, at 8:47p.m. B.R.H was electrocuted.

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