The 1965 Press File

• Exhibit 01. The Washington Post, Tuesday, November 23, 1965. Front page: D.C. Heiress to $10 Million Fortune Missing.
• Exhibit 02. French daily, November 25, 1965. Multimillionaire in 26 days, and twice kidnapped, by her father, then by her mother.
• Exhibit 03. BILD, West Germany, November 25, 1965. The husband's family gives its version.
• Exhibit 04. The Evening Star, Washington, November 26, 1965. Her mother doubts the cable. The blue underline is the family's.
• Exhibit 05. Washington Daily News, November 26, 1965. Heiress Turns Up, living with husband in Venezuela.
• Exhibit 06. The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, November 26, 1965. The wires carry it nationwide.
• Exhibit 07. The Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia, November 26, 1965. Girl, 17, in Caracas Says She Is Missing Heiress.
• Exhibit 08. The Washington Post, November 29, 1965. Missing Heiress Reported a Mother. "Glad to read this," in the family's hand.
• Exhibit 09. Daily Journal, Caracas, late 1965. Mrs. Hitz Points Finger at Two Others: bearer shares, an autopsy, a murder accusation in print.
• Exhibit 10. BLICK, Zurich, December 16, 1965. Goldspatz versoehnt: the Golden Sparrow, reconciled. "We hope this isn't true," the family wrote above it.
• Exhibit 11. Ultimas Noticias, Caracas, January 11, 1966. 50 Millones que dejo Hitz: counting the estate.
• Exhibit 12. El Mundo, Caracas, February 14, 1966. The Hitz-Spring scandal gets a name.

Every exhibit is already public on the archive page. The file puts them in order, at print size, with the family's own marks visible and a dated caption on each page, so a journalist, a producer or a researcher can work from one document instead of twelve web images.

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