The encyclopedia of kidnappings. / Michael Newton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Checkmark Books, c2002.Description: vii, 373 p. : ill. 28 cmISBN:
  • 816044872
Subject(s): Summary: Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the famous aviator's infant son whose kidnapping and death remain a mysterySummary: Child Abductions, a national dilemma defined with updated facts and figuresSummary: King Richard, The Lion Heart, who was kidnapped by Austrian Duke Leopold V while returning from the Third Crusade in 1192Summary: Missisippi White Knights of the Ku Lux Klan, perpetrators of the infamous kidnap and murder of the three civil rights volunteers during the freedom Summer of 1964Summary: Patty Herst, the kidnapping victim who joined ranks with her kidnappers and was later jailed for her involvement in a bank heistSummary: Skyjacking, the form of kidnapping widely believed to be a modern phenomena but first committed in 1931, etc.Summary: the 37-month ordeal of 53 Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran in 1979Summary: The Disappeared, a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died in the hands of the military juntaSummary: Provides a cross section of kidnappers and their victims, and explores the details and circumtances surrounding each kidnapping case. Topics include the American Embassy Hostage Crisis
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Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference HV 6595 .N485 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000276561

Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the famous aviator's infant son whose kidnapping and death remain a mystery

Child Abductions, a national dilemma defined with updated facts and figures

King Richard, The Lion Heart, who was kidnapped by Austrian Duke Leopold V while returning from the Third Crusade in 1192

Missisippi White Knights of the Ku Lux Klan, perpetrators of the infamous kidnap and murder of the three civil rights volunteers during the freedom Summer of 1964

Patty Herst, the kidnapping victim who joined ranks with her kidnappers and was later jailed for her involvement in a bank heist

Skyjacking, the form of kidnapping widely believed to be a modern phenomena but first committed in 1931, etc.

the 37-month ordeal of 53 Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran in 1979

The Disappeared, a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died in the hands of the military junta

Provides a cross section of kidnappers and their victims, and explores the details and circumtances surrounding each kidnapping case. Topics include the American Embassy Hostage Crisis

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