Crash, Joe Kittinger holds the record for highest freefall, for his jump in 1960 from 102,800 feet.
No, he doesn't. Firstly because he did not freefall at all as a drogue chute deployed automatically as soon as he jumped, otherwise he would have started spinning so violently that he would have lost consciousness pretty quickly (no air to "grab" on to at that altitude). Secondly because his was never meant to be a record-breaking attempt, but was instead meant as a scientific mission to test the feasibility of a high-altitude bailout system for astronauts during re-entry. Because of that no paperwork was done to have this recognized as any record, certainly not as a freefall record (see above).
A Russian pilot held the previous record, Baumgartner's previous jump is
currently being processed by the FAI.
Ciao,
Dg800