Presenting the Lindbergh Conspiracies
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Veteran reporter Joe Nocera, of The Free Press, investigates a 94-year-old murder case that deserves a second look: the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Little Lindy was the infant son of the most famous man in the world at the time: an aviator who had achieved impossible feats. Unsurprisingly, the case was a media sensation in 1932: especially when German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann was tried and executed for the crime. Hauptmann professed his innocence to the end: but could he have been telling the truth? This is a series that asks: was this case America's first great conspiracy?
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| 0:00.0 | I would stake my entire professional career on the fact that Brigitte McCrone, the current First Lady of France, was born a man. |
| 0:09.3 | And I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of Intel Services, probably not American. |
| 0:15.3 | And we have every right to ask on whose behalf was he working. |
| 0:20.6 | Pizza gate is real. |
| 0:21.6 | The only question is, what exactly is it? |
| 0:24.6 | And if you look at the numbers, the numbers are false. |
| 0:28.6 | The numbers are corrupt. |
| 0:31.6 | It was a rigged election, 100%, and people know it. |
| 0:35.6 | That's why you have people marching all over the United States right now. |
| 0:38.3 | They know it was a rigged election. |
| 0:40.3 | Conspiracies are like Japanese knotweed. |
| 0:44.3 | The invasive plant is hollow inside, and it looks innocent enough. |
| 0:49.3 | And yet just a little bit of it can rapidly spread up to 10 feet tall and upend the foundations of whatever it is you're trying to build. |
| 0:58.0 | You're screwed. |
| 1:00.0 | The more you try to get rid of it, the more you'll drive yourself mad |
| 1:05.0 | with finding new areas infested. |
| 1:07.0 | Plusters of small, cream-colored flowers growing in plumes everywhere you look. |
| 1:13.6 | And that's what conspiracies do too. |
| 1:16.6 | They grow and they grow and they grow until the original foundation has been utterly abandoned. |
| 1:24.6 | Conspiracies are now part of American life, of course. |
| 1:28.3 | The JFK assassination. |
| 1:30.3 | A rigged election. |
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