AUTHOR/HISTORIAN - James Davidson

• LINDBERGH BIOGRAPHY - PART 1
  Jim Davidson, author co-author of "New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial" will present a 1 hour powerpoint presentation entitled "Lindbergh, the Early Years" .  It will focus on Lindbergh's early aviation career as a barnstormer and air mail pilot culminating in his design of the airplane " The Spirit of St. Louis". We then  follow Lindbergh across the ocean to Paris and his heroic return to the United States with gigantic celebrations in Washington and New York.  On to his 80 city tour of US cities follow by his trip to Mexico and the Caribbean where he met his future wife Anne Morrow. Back to New Jersey where he marries and has Charles Lindbergh Jr. and builds Highfields  in the Sourland Mts. ending with the night Charles Jr. was kidnapped.
  Hunterdon County Historic Courthouse, Main Street, Flemington.
  April 22, 2014
• LINDBERGH BIOGRAPHY - PART 2
  We continue tracing the search for the kidnapper and the ultimate trial of Bruno Hauptmann in Flemington, after which Charles and Anne move to England to escape publicity. We then follow Lindbergh and his 5 trips to Nazi Germany, through his major fights with FDR and his participation in the American First Movement. Shut out of WWII Lindbergh works as a design consultant for aircraft companies eventually ending up in the Pacific where he does fly combat missions against the Japanese.  After the war Eisenhower allows him back in the Army and promotes him to Brigadier General and he writes his account of his historic 1927 flight in the Pulitzer Prize winning  book "The Spirit of St. Louis". On to Germany where he consults for the US government (and meets his 3 mistresses) and enters the environmental movement. He dies in 1972. After Anne dies in 2001 all is revealed in Germany about his 7 illegitimate children!
  Hunterdon County Historic Courthouse, Main Street, Flemington.
  April 23, 2014
• TOUR OF LINDBERGH'S HOME AND IMPORTANT KIDNAPPING SITES
  Join us for a unique opportunity to tour the site of the world's most famous kidnapping, the home of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Author, historian and Lindbergh expert Jim Davidson will tour us through the house and grounds and then take us to see other important sites of the murder including the location where Charles, Jr.'s body was found.
  Meet at the East Amwell Township Municipal Building, 1070 Route 202/31, Ringoes
  $5 per person
  April 25, 2014
• MAYHEM ON THE MOUNTAIN/HOPEWLL IS LIKE A ROMAN CIRCUS
  Join Author Jim Davidson with his discussion of Lindbergh which will cover the period of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby to the discovery of the corpse.
  Historic County Courthouse, Main Street, Flemington.
  April 27, 2014
• FLEMINGTON DURING THE LINDBERGH TRIAL
  Author Jim Davidson will once again discuss the famious Lindbergh Trial. This discussion will be about how Flemington was effected by the legal proceeding that took place in the very Courhouse where this event takes place.
  Historical County Courthouse, Main Street, Flemington.
  April 29, 2014
• 12 THEORIES OF WHO KIDNAPPED THE LINDBERGH BABY
  Join Author Jim Davidson for a discussion on the many theories of who kiddnapped the Lindbergh Baby.
  Hunterdon Historical Court House, Main Street, Flemington
  May 1, 2014
• TOUR OF LINDBERGH'S HOME AND IMPORTANT KIDNAPPING SITES
  Join us for a unique opportunity to tour the site of the world's most famous kidnapping, the home of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Author, historian and Lindbergh expert Jim Davidson will tour us through the house and grounds and then take us to see other important sites of the murder including the location where Charles, Jr.'s body was found.
  Meet at the East Amwell Township Municipal Building, 1070 Route 202/31, Ringoes
  $5 per person
  May 2, 2014

JAMES DAVIDSON is a resident of East Amwell Township where he was appointed the local historian in 2008 and is an active member of the East Amwell Historical Society and the township’s Preservation Committee. A lifetime Hunterdon resident and avid local historian, he was a co-author of a book on East Amwell and writes a column for the township’s monthly newsletter.

He is an avid collector of Lindbergh memorabilia and has recently finished a book on The Lindbergh Kidnapping, a subject he often speaks on. A former history teacher, he is also a member of the Hunterdon Central Regional High School Board of Education and the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission.