[corkoman]

cant blame him - im hot for hatmakers too

[Viking2002]

Haw, Lindy, you old horndog.....LOL

[DK Zimmerman]

"In many ways, the forced historical revision is reminiscent of earlier DNA tests confirming the long-held claim that Thomas Jefferson, one of the US's founding fathers, had sired children with one of his slaves."

Is one of the ways, that the Jefferson tests were in fact not conclusive? It's been awhile since I visited that issue, but as I recall, the bottom line was actually that someone in the "slave line" had a child with someone from the Jefferson family line, but that was more than one possible participant from each. At or about the time in question claimed, Jefferson was something like 70 years old. These days, eyebrows are lifted, but it is not entirely unheard of...at that time, average life expectancy was something like 40, a tad different.

[PAR35]

A German-born carpenter who had fought against the US in the Second World War was eventually arrested and sent to the electric chair on the most tenuous of evidence.

Now I know that the concept of fact checking is foreign to the editor who was supposed to edit this story.

[GOP_Proud]

< It helps that the German family is interested only in setting the historical record straight. It is not asking for money ­ Lindbergh apparently provided generously for them as they were growing up ­ and deliberately waited until after the death of their mother before making the issue public. >

Um... not necessarily a fan or an apologist...but why did it have to be made public at all? Historical record? This is important in the historical scheme of things?

I'm not sure I'd want the world to know that my father was a scoundrel even if he was a "famous" scoundrel. And do I really want to to be proud of the fact that my mother had an affair? 3 illegitimate children?

[Bubba_Leroy]

In many ways, the forced historical revision is reminiscent of earlier DNA tests confirming the long-held claim that Thomas Jefferson, one of the US's founding fathers, had sired children with one of his slaves.

Except that this is false. DNA tests proved that Jefferson did NOT sire any of his slave's children except for one, the youngest who was born when Jefferson was elderly and in poor health. That child was sired by either Jefferson or his younger brother, most likely his brother.

[Bonaparte]

"In many ways, the forced historical revision is reminiscent of earlier DNA tests confirming the long-held claim that Thomas Jefferson, one of the US's founding fathers, had sired children with one of his slaves."

That one sentence alone casts considerable doubt on the truth of this Lindbergh story.

[El Gato]

A German-born carpenter who had fought against the US in the Second World War

How can one put much credence in an author that mixes up WW-I and WW-II? The Lindberg kidnapping was after the transatlantic flight, but well before WW-II. The father of General Norman Schwartzkopf, also General Scwartzkopf, was head of the NJ State police at the time, and heavily involved with the case.

[Michael.SF.]

The couple met in 1957 in Munich, ... Ms Hesshaimer was then 30; 25 years younger than Mr Lindbergh.

Dyrk Hesshaimer was born in 1958, Ms Bouteuil in 1960 and David Hesshaimer in 1967.

According to the 'facts' in this article that would mean that Charles Lindbergh was 65 when David was born. Hence the name:

LUCKY LINDY?