AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Here is the first page of the extortion indictment returned by a Bronx County, New York grand jury against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Bronx carpenter ch...

Copies of charts which show methods of comparing Lindbergh ransom notes and Hauptmann???s handwriting by experts in scientific crime detective laborit...

Here is reproduced a graph prepared by Charles Appel, Jr., Federal Department of Justice officer and handwriting expert, in which he compares known...

??sThe case has been completely broken??? said District Attorney Samuel J. Foley of the Bronx, Sept. 25, 1934, after discovery of the address and tele...

Albert S. Osborn, handwriting expert, who has said that the handwriting on the Lindbergh ransom notes and that on Bruno Hauptmann???s applications for...

Corporal William F. Horn of the New Jersey State Police is shown in this photo with a box containing a pair of woman???s shoes which he took before th...

Two members of the grand jury impaneled to hear the evidence in the case of Bruno R. Hauptmann, charged with receiving the $50,000 Lindbergh kidnap ra...

Attorney General David T. Wilentz of New Jersey, left, is shown conferring with Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent of the New Jersey State Pol...

Here are the fingerprints of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, taken after the Bronx carpenter was arrested as the receiver of the Lindbergh Ransom money, Sept...

G.F. Coleman, assistant city editor of the Home News, confidante of Dr. John F. Condon who was the first witness, Sept. 24, 1934. (AP Photo)

Despite police interrogations, visits to her husband, and the fact that she has been staying with a relative, Anna Hauptmann, wife of Bruno Richard Ha...

Frau Pauline Hauptmann, mother of Bruno R. Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnap suspect, pictured at her home in Camenz, near Dresden, Germany, Sept. 22, 1934....

After the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping, officials descended upon his little garage where $13,750 of t...

Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested when a portion of the Lindbergh ransom money was found in his possession, is shown being arraigned in west farms cour...

After the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping, officials descended upon his little garage where $13,750 of t...

An airview of the left front, of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Lindbergh suspect, who was arraigned in New York City, Sept. 21, 1934 and held without bail...

This is a facsimile of a card message sent to Col. Charles Lindbergh in March of 1932. Message signed ??sB.H???. the postcard states that the baby...

Investigators examine the license plates that led to the arrest of Bernard Richard Hauptmann, suspected of having received the $50,000 Lindbergh kidna...

This is the interior of the garage of Bernard Richard Hauptmann in the Bronx, New York, where officials said they dug up $13,650 of the Lindbergh rans...

Bruno R. Hauptmann, right, as he left the Greenwich Police Station, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1934 with detectives who transferred him to the Bronx County Court...

The filling station on Lexington Avenue, New York, where Bruno R. Hauptmann passed $10 gold certificate that led to his arrest as the alleged receiver...

Photo shows left to right (front) J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Bureau of Investigation of the department of Justice, police Commissioner O'Ryan of New...

Long lines of national guardsmen with bayoneted rifles form an aisle for loyal workers to leave a textiles factory at Danielson, Connecticut on Sept....

Young Bobby Jones, of Detroit, Mich., who provided the most sensational upset in golf since the Breat Boddy Jones was defeated by Goodman, when he def...

Wood sleuth who aided trace of kidnap ladder does minute study of the Lindbergh kidnap ladder by Arthur Koehler at the U.S. forest products laboratory...

A large crowd of strikers in front of the Loray Mills in Gastonia, North Carolina on Sept. 4, 1934, picketing the main entrance. Gastonia City author...

The end of the conference which resulted in the reinstatement of Dizzy Dean, fined and suspended because he did not accompany the St. Louis Cardinals...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt starts from union station to the White House on August 10, 1934 in Washington after completing his precedent-shatteri...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussing the

Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian ambassador to Washington (left), secretary of state Cordell Hull, (center) and R. Walton Moore, assistant secretary of...

Joseph Stalin, left, dictator of the Soviet Republic, and Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, commissar of war, enroute to the tomb of Lenin at the Red Squa...

William C. Bullitt, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Republic, left, and H.G. Wells, noted English writer, shown together at the huge ports para...

Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald of Great Britain as he arrived at Quebec, Canada, on July 19, 1934 from England, when he was met by Premier R.B. Benne...

Two nephews of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt were among those who sailed for Europe, June 29, 1934, aboard the S.S. Columbus. They will study abroad during...

The Federal Bar Association paid tribute in Washington to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings for his drive to rid the country of racketeers, June 25,...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing white fishing hat, on board the referee's boat at New London, Conn. when he saw the Yale freshmen and junior...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, greeted by Gov. Wilbur Cross of Connecticut, left, as the chief executive arrived in New Haven, June 20, 1934 to rece...

Sketches of man who received Charles Lindbergh ransom money was released on April 23, 1934. This sketch is released in connection with the kidnappi...

Craig Wood, noted golf professional, and his bride, Jacqueline Valentine, are shown during a luncheon in their honor following their wedding in New Yo...

Performers of

Frank Frisch, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, left, and William Mckechnie, manager of the Boston Braves, photographed at the National League meet...

Famed Broadway producer Earl Carroll is shown at Grauman???s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Feb. 1, 1934 during selection of 11 beautie...

The Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, photographed in Washington. D.C., Jan. 18, 1934 when he went before a Senate committee with the assertion...

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (left) is shown with Attorney General Homer Cummings at the hearing of the Senate Banking Committee in Was...

Germany's Prime Minister Hermann Goering, with his staff, leaves the Reichstag, Berlin on Nov. 4, 1933, after the trial of Marinus Van Der Lubbe. (AP...

Sightseers watch as the mighty Graf Zeppelin is refueled in hanger at Akron, Ohio, for return trip to Europe on Oct. 27, 1933. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Eugene L. Vidal, who has been named director of the reorganized aeronautics branch of the department of commerce, shown inspecting a new a...

Ellsworth Vines Jr., American and defending Wimbledon Champion, in action during his match with Jack Crawford, Australian and French Champion, in the...

Chauffeur Monte Snyder is the fast friend of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelts dogs Meggie the terrier, left, and Major, the police dog, on the White Hous...

This is a view of the entirely destroyed tribunes of the Reichstag, Berlin, Feb. 28, 1933. (AP Photo)