Bruno R Hauptmann gets electric chair sentence for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's child, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., in Flemington, New Jersey. Aerial and ground views of Lindbergh's residence and scenes of Anne Morrow Lindberh with Charles Jr. in a baby pram taking a stroll in garden before the kidnapping. Wooden ladder near the window and empty nursery. Scenes of the ransom note and the manhunt. Citizens view "Wanted" signs on street corners. Views of the ransom money. Officials arrest Hauptmann and show hideout shed and ransom money found. Crowds gathered outside courthouse. Lindbergh's enter. Kidnapper, lawyers, judges and other people in courthouse. Justice Thomas Trenchard seated in tribunal hears the lawyers statements. Jury foreman reads aloud the decision in the Hunterdon County Courthouse. Hauptmann led out of courthouse by many guards, and through large crowd gathered outside courthouse at night. Aerial and inside views of prison, cell, and empty electric chair.
USS Akron (ZRS-4), helium filled zeppelin dirigible, moors at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, United States. USS Akron in flight. The airship grounded. People stand near the grounded airship. The airship leaves the mooring mast. It takes off. A flag at the belly of the ship.
Consolidated N2Y-1 airplane tries to hook-on to USS Akron (ZRS-4) Zeppelin dirigible at Lakehurst, New Jersey in the United States. USS Akron in flight. The Consolidated N2Y-1 flies under the airship and maneuvers in attempts to hook on to the USS Akron.
Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
College students operate a railroad system in Princeton, New Jersey. The graduate students take up the study of model trains. They work on a control system. The model of the railroad and trains shows a train during a cross over. The students operate the entire railroad system.
Parachute jumpers jump from a U.S. Navy K-class blimp in Lakehurst, New Jersey. A parachutist in front of a navy blimp. Personnel stand near a ladder. The blimp in flight. Navy Parachutists inside the blimp. View of pilot and looking through blimp windshield with pilot at the controls. Paratroops jump one after another. View from jump hatch as each man jumps and their parachute opens in flight. Two navy blimp airships in flight. A parachutist looks out from the window of the blimp. An aerial of a delayed parachute opening and buildings. Safe landing by the parachutist. A tower in the background.
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