fass: one of the most concrete legacies of the lindbergh case is the lindbergh law which is passed by the congress the day after the kidnapping and which makes, for the first time kidnapping a federal offense and it makes it a capital offense-- makes it a very serious crime to kidnap a child, or anybody, for that matter. narrator: unfortunately, young children remain vulnerable to abductions, primarily by parents in custody disputes and sometimes by sexual predators. but their kidnapping for ransom is rare in the u.s. since the lindbergh law. and today, public alert systems have combined with better police work to aid in the arrest and prosecution of all child abductors. but the ones who got away still haunt john douglas. and for the lindbergh case... douglas: bruno hauptmann, guilty. john knoll, intriguing interesting. but the one thing we can say for sure is that someone absolutely got away with money and murder. narrator: but why, after so many years is douglas still looking for answers? douglas: when you get a case like this, we refer to it as an old dog kind of case. i mean, the

singer: ♪ lindbergh oh, what a flying soul was he ♪ ♪ lindbergh his name will live in history ♪ ♪ over he flew all alone... ♪ narrator: when lucky lindy met heiress anne morrow, he not only taught her how to fly, he married her. and when the celebrity couple had their first child, a boy they called charlie, their charmed lives seemed complete. singer: ♪ ...lucky lindbergh, the eagle of the usa. ♪ narrator: but their joy lasts less than two years. newsreel announcer: message that shocked the world comes in on the police teletype. fass: when the lindbergh baby is reported missing, this country is in a state of shock. there's a sense of disbelief that this extraordinary royal prince, really would have been stolen. man: the crime was committed by means of a ladder placed against the house. narrator: with no eyewitnesses and few clues other than a homemade ladder left by the kidnappers the police had a difficult time reconstructing the events of the crime. what emerged as facts were these. sometime between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. on tuesday, march 1, 1932 one or more individuals came to the hou

and lindbergh knew that. this man who was supremely confident in his own abilities and very controlling also felt that he could probably do a better job than the police. so you've got two sides of that argument. and again, we look at that pretty carefully in the show. >> we'll look forward to watching it tonight. thank you, larry kline. >> thank you. >>> straight ahead, hillary clinton is busy with exit interviews today. steve kornacki says this might be good-bye. speaking of exits, here's how "family guy" explains the disappearance of the lindbergh baby. >> maybe it's time for stewie to start potty training. >> isn't he too young for that? you know what happened to the libd berg baby. >> he's only six months old. >> will you relax? i think i know how to -- oh, god! oh, god! all right. he was kidnapped. you call the police. i'll write the ransom note. >> what about amelia, she saw everything. >> you leave her to me. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. ♪ oh wh

while researching the lindbergh book, two names kept cropping up. dorothy thompson, an american journalist, and her friend of 40 years, rebecca west, journalist, novelist, literary critic and historian. they eat atomized the kind of woman i was searching for. they play for high-stakes, whisking personal pain for public voice and influence. think of it. two generations before the baby boomers were born, these women had the courage to throw off convention, defy social expectation and catapult themselves into the public arena at a time of roiling political and social upheaval. and against the headwind of their contemporaries, i mean, they were ridiculed. and with none of the safety nets we take for granted today. and to compound their struggle, they had no family connection, no money, and had fractured childhoods. let me begin with dorothy thompson. born in 1893, the english irish parents in a small town in northern new york state, she was the eldest of three children whose preacher father taught them first to love jesus. second, do all day the christi

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lots of construction materials and debris inside and outside the home on lindbergh street. mark cliner was issued a construction permit for the home in 2001 and it's still a work in progress. his general contractor says he works on his own home after he finishes a full day on the job. clyber says he has been slowed by lack of money for building materials. >> the city wants it done but i think my wife wants it done even more. >> the city says the family can no longer live in the home because of code violations and unsafe conditions. >>> placer county teenager facing flown facing felony charges. she spiked milkshakes with sleeping pills. the mother noticed the shakes tasted odd. >> only a quarter of the milk. but after an hour they feel drowsy and fall asleep. >> mother says it's happened once before. so she checked the daughter's internet and phone use. authorities think the girl drugged her parents to get around restrictions that they had put on her while using the internet. >>> a state of emergency could be declared tonight because of flooding on the peninsula. san franses

he was not charles lindbergh. >> you talk about joseph kenne kennedy, or your critics say you did a hatchet job, the character against the also, his wife didn't like the kids. she didn't visit -- who became president kennedy when he got sick. then joseph kennedy had an affair with gloria swanson. he was never at home. the kids, they make the mothers talk. so the home was not as happy as we seem to think, and yet the children were outstanding individuals. how did that come about? >> i think -- i have written three biographies now, and one of the things i've learned is that people are contradictory. all of us. there's no one in this room who hasn't done something that a loved one has said, that's not like you. we all do things. there are very few saints and very few centers. most of us do good things, and we do bad things. and what i discovered in writing this book was, in one of the things that kept me going was that joseph p. kennedy was a remarkable father. an extraordinary father it and i detailed this again and again. he wrote each of his kids, when he was in london, separated from his c

it was dirt among the isolationist and lindbergh people and because he wanted to protect his children it was dirt among the roosevelt people and everyone who wanted or believed that americans have the support of the british in their war effort. twenty years later, his son was elected president of the united states. once again, the outsider had performed magic. he had become the ultimate insider, the father of the president of the united states. i am now delighted to take questions. [applause] >> there is a microphone here. hold your hand up your hand and don't speak until you get a microphone. >> that's a wonderful speech. is it true that roosevelt sent him to england to get rid of him because he considered him a pain in the knack? >> in part. that's a great question. but roosevelt didn't trust anybody. and he was a brilliant charmer and conniver, but roosevelt always said that three people could do one job and he believed that he needed kennedy because kennedy would immediately break reports of him directly rather than to the state department and that kennedy was smart enough to be h

steven lindbergh writes, "with democrats like harry who needs republicans?" hope ruble asks, "is reid a secret republican? who got to him? did the kochs back up a brinks truck in front of his house?" good question. you can go to our facebook page right now and join the conversation. and of course don't forget to like us on "the ed show" when you're there. appreciate that. still to come, female military personnel get the recognition they deserve from the government. but they're getting trashed by right-wing talkers. former marine goldie taylor will stay and weigh in with us on that. [ man ] ring ring... progresso this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never hap

steven lindbergh writes, "with democrats like harry who needs republicans?"nd hope ruble asks, "is reid a secret republican? who got to him? did the kochs back up a brinks truck in front of his house?" good question. you can go to our facebook page right now and join the conversation. and of course don't forget to earlier this week i spoke with martin smith, producer and correspondent for "frontline's" the untouchables, a documentary that explores why no high-level wall street executives have gone to jail in connection with the 2008 financial crisis. i have to say, watching the program i was totally stunned. there seems to be no shortage of whistleblowers offering evidence that lenders knowingly perpetrated and ignored fraud. but no one is being held accountable. well, just two days after the documentary "the untouchables" aired, lanny breuer is stepping down. though the justice department and breuer declined to comment, it looks like "frontline" struck a nerve. the justice department should embrace this documentary and use the information found in it. breuer

lots of construction materials and debris both inside and outside this house on lindbergh street. mark klaiber was issued a construction permit for his home in 2001. as you can see, it's still a work in progress. he is a general contractor who says he works on his own home after he finishes a full day on the job. klaiber says he has been slowed by an injured back and lack of money to buy building materials. >> if anybody wants it done it's me. i mean, the city wants it done but i think my wife wants it done even more. [ laughter ] >> i bet she does. >> the city says the family can no longer live in the home because of unsafe conditions. >>> and it will soon cost you more cash for trash in san francisco. that's because city residents are just too good at recycling. trash hauler recology says all of that sorting of recycled material costs more than current fees cover. it is now asking for rate hikes along with added fees for recycling and compost bins. >>> well, if you think san francisco buses are crowded right now, just wait a little bit because big brother is about to hop on boar

rally members of the non bolshevik russian diaspora and wished a russian could do something akin to lindbergh's recent flight across the atlantic. it was up to him to do and equivalent, to go around the world alone by bicycle. luckily he didn't have to do that. he departed shanghai on a battered secondhand bicycle but upgraded to a new bicycle in bangkok and the battered secondhand motorcycle in singapore. benefactor gave him a brand new aerial motorcycle in karachi plus a letter that guaranteed parts and assistance from aerial offices around the world. several in his public accounts thank the worldwide services of the ymca, shell oil and the firestone company and he depended on the global availability of gasoline, oil and food, the array of industrial goods and services that were now spread almost everywhere in the world. like the cycling parsees with the saudis in diaspora the encouragement of many white russians. there was his passport for which he was an unlikely around the world ambassador. the document raised eyebrows at the start of his journey but once it bore an impressive succession t

so eddie went to talk to charles lindbergh and guggenheim did know who charles lindbergh was. so he got some of the funding to do that. later, my father, because of his degree, was the head of air core engineering school. that later became brightfield airspace. engineering school became the school of technology. they financed my doctor's degree. >> good dna. good bloodline. military career and the segue to nasa. talk about how you morphed into getting into nasa. we will of course get to apollo 11. >> there was a west point friend of mine. he was one year behind me. ed white -- he was quite instrumental in my getting into the space program. we were in the same squadron in germany. we rotated back a lot earlier. life magazine came out and showed pictures of these capsules that were part of the mercury program. it said that the astronauts who were going to be selected are all going to be graduates of pilot schools. that would have been a good thing. that was my career to look over airplanes and judge airplanes that are current and will be flown by our people. i had my eyes a good

i knew where the lindbergh baby. like the girl on the medical show? and i'm like what there's 50 million. i was like grey's anatomy. and she is that is good. and i'm like if you google this and it is bad -- >> they always do that. oh, yeah. you are that girl that got arrested, right? >> stephanie: right. just give me my license back and shut up. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: eighteen minutes after the hour. we roll along with oooooooooh the god ens. ♪ party, party, party, yeah ♪ >> stephanie: right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> wow, yes, yes, i love it. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? these talking points, that the right have, about the "heavy hand of government" ... i want to have that conversation. really? you know i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over t

harry guggenheim didn't know eddy aldrin, so she went to charles and guggenheim did know who charles lindberghwas. so goddard got some of his funding to do that. later my father because of his degree was the head of the air corps engineering school from 21 to 25 or 26. that later became wright field, wright patterson air field base, school of technology and they found it my doctor's degree. the school that my father was at ended up financing by dr. its degree. >> good dna, good bloodline. so you have an amazing military career, 60 some combat missions, fighter jet pilot, and then you segue to nasa. talk about how you morphed into getting into nasa, what was involved. and then of course we are going to get into the apollo 11 and the landing of the moon. >> there was the west point friend of mine. we were on the track team. he was one year behind me. ed was quite instrumental in my getting into the space program. we were in the same fighter squadron in germany. he rotated back a lot earlier. life magazine came out and showed pictures of these capsules that were part of the mercury program. and i

the wealthy people at the time did their best to keep the information secret and it really was the lindbergh kidnapping, you see what is going to happen? we are all going to get kidnapped as if anyone needed that information. what is interesting and you go back and look at that, newspapers at the time ran it, the new york papers for randy list of people, really wealthy people and what they pay in taxes and real indication to look at that. i can't imagine what that would look like if you have the same two pieces of information. >> host: the final question before we go to calls, you have to be and egypt, just to read congressional bills? >> taxes are the most demanding. what we found overtime, if you need special training you have to be patient and read it and follow through and go through to see who it applies to. some of these were quite obscure, some in terms of special interest divisions and the company incorporated on such a date requires them to go to that state and go through what the filings were. and one company issued $900 million in bonds and some of the database people, search this

and it was the lindbergh kidnapping that started this. as if anybody needed that information to determine who is rich. what is interesting, what was interesting, when you go back and look at that, in the newspapers at the time ran it, the new york papers ran the list of people -- of the really wealthy people and what they paid in taxes. it's a real education to go become and look at that. and i can't imagine what that education would look like today. if you had the same two pieces of information. >> host: one more question before we go to calls. you said you have to -- do you have to be a so-called egyptologist to read bills. >> guest: the taxes are the most demanding. it's not so much you have to have any special training. you just have to be patient. you have to read it and then try to follow it through. go back through it to see exactly who it applies to. some of these were actually quite obscure. some in terms of special interest provisions and a company incorporated in some state on such and such date, required us to then go to that

the prior to world war ii isolationists, lindbergh, ford, all of those. the post-world war ii, and we are seeing that coming back strongly in my party today. >> how much does that concern you, sir? >> concerns me a great deal. we had a vote in the senate by the senator from kentucky just before we went out to cut off aid to pakistan, libya and egypt. it only got ten votes, but now that's spread all around the far right, uh-oh, they should have voted to cut off that aid. and so we are seeing that emerge in our party and in our or nation, and a lot of people say why should we be spending money on these foreign adventures and foreign assistance when we have so much trouble at home? and that debate will rage now between now and the next elections and, particularly, the next presidential elections. >> minister mackay, your nation has been such a loyal ally to the united states, following us into afghanistan. your country was involved to a lesser extent, certainly, in iraq. but considering the outcome in these two places, how would you say your nation's point o

. >> gene, joining us from lindbergh, montana, good afternoon. you are on the air. please go ahead. >> i have been listening and watching intently, taking notes on what has been said and ask, and i am really disturbed about chuck hagel. a leopard does not change his spots, and i am a firm believer in that. i have some tough questions if i could ask him myself, and whether it is the democrats or the republicans asking the questions, it is not the time for anybody to run and hide and say they do not know or they do not recall. that is all i have to say. >> calvin, durham, north carolina, day one of the confirmation hearings. you are on the air. >> yes, john mccain appears to be a sore loser, still bitter about his loss in the election. president barack obama won the election. i do not understand why he cannot have who he wants in his cabinet. >> we are getting comments on the facebook page. one says confirm chuck hagel, he served in vietnam, knows war is hell, and the us is wasting blood and treasure. another says i support chuck hagel as secretary of defense as it wi