query: Who is Charles Lindbergh?

title: Charles August Lindbergh

text: Charles August Lindbergh Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. Lindbergh is best known as the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born Carl Månsson, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Lovisa Carlén, the 19-year-old mistress of Ola Månsson, a peasant member of the Riksdag of the Estates and a bank manager. When accused of bribery and embezzlement, Ola Månsson changed his name to

title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

text: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles. The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be seen by the public. "The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh" was the last film

title: Charles August Lindbergh

text: year. In 1887, Lindbergh married Mary LaFond, with whom he had two daughters, Lillian and Eva. Mary LaFond died in 1898. In 1901, Charles married Evangeline Lodge Land (1876–1954). In 1902, they settled in Little Falls, Minnesota. They separated in 1918, their only child being the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who also became an antiwar leader. Lindbergh served as prosecuting attorney for Morrison County, Minnesota in 1891-1893. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1906 as a Republican, serving in the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, and 64th congresses. In 1916 he unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in

title: Charles A. Lindbergh State Park

text: Charles A. Lindbergh State Park Charles A. Lindbergh State Park is a 569-acre (2.3 km²) Minnesota state park on the outskirts of Little Falls. The park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator. Their restored 1906 house and two other farm buildings are within the park boundaries. The house, a National Historic Landmark, and an adjacent museum are operated by the Minnesota Historical Society, known as the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum. Three buildings and three structures built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s were named to the

title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

text: at the end of Vassili Slovic's 1995 documentary "Orson Welles: the One-Man Band." The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles. The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a [[U.S. Air Mail]] pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the [[Orteig Prize]]: making a nonstop flight from [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Roosevelt Field]], [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to [[Paris]], France. Lindbergh covered the -hour, flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built [[Ryan Airline Company|Ryan]] [[monoplane]], the "[[Spirit of St. Louis]]". This was not the [[Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown|first flight between North America and

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich|The American Axis]]", [[Holocaust]] researcher and investigative journalist [[Max Wallace]] agreed with Franklin Roosevelt's assessment that Lindbergh was "pro-Nazi". However, he found that the Roosevelt Administration's accusations of dual loyalty or treason were unsubstantiated. Wallace considered Lindbergh to be a well-intentioned but bigoted and misguided Nazi sympathizer whose career as the leader of the isolationist movement had a destructive impact on Jewish people. Lindbergh's [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning biographer, [[A. Scott Berg]], contended that Lindbergh was not so much a supporter of the Nazi regime as someone so stubborn in his

title: Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History

text: Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History The Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, also known as the Lindbergh Chair, is a one-year senior fellowship hosted by the U.S. National Air and Space Museum (NASM), to assist a scholar in the research and composition of a book about aerospace history. Named for the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, the position is competitive: one experienced scholar is selected each year from multiple applicants worldwide. Up to $100,000 is granted to the winner. The Lindbergh Chair is one of four research fellowships administered by NASM within the Smithsonian Institution: the others are

title: August Lindbergh

text: their younger children, who did not live long. August Lindbergh August Lindbergh (12 May 1808 – 14 October 1893) was a Swedish American farmer and politician. He was the father of the U.S. politician Charles August Lindbergh, and the grandfather of aviator Charles Lindbergh. August Lindbergh was born Ola Månsson in Smedstorp, Tomelilla Municipality in Skåne, Sweden. His father, Måns Jönsson (at that time, Swedish peasants used patronymics as family names), married to Sara Carlsdotter, owned a small farm and worked as a parish tailor in Smedstorp. Through his marriage to Ingar Jönsdotter, who brought in a substantial dowry, and

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Europe]], but he did achieve the first solo [[transatlantic flight]] and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the [[United States Army Reserve|U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve]], and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]], for the feat. Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., [[Lindbergh kidnapping|was kidnapped and murdered]] in what

title: August Lindbergh

text: August Lindbergh August Lindbergh (12 May 1808 – 14 October 1893) was a Swedish American farmer and politician. He was the father of the U.S. politician Charles August Lindbergh, and the grandfather of aviator Charles Lindbergh. August Lindbergh was born Ola Månsson in Smedstorp, Tomelilla Municipality in Skåne, Sweden. His father, Måns Jönsson (at that time, Swedish peasants used patronymics as family names), married to Sara Carlsdotter, owned a small farm and worked as a parish tailor in Smedstorp. Through his marriage to Ingar Jönsdotter, who brought in a substantial dowry, and his own hard work, Månsson became a well-to-do

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), and writer Reeve Lindbergh (1945-). Jon Lindbergh Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932) is a former underwater diver from the United States. He has worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Jon's parents had

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: foundation. Lindbergh serves on the Vermont Arts Council. Reeve Lindbergh Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (born October 2, 1945) is an American author from Caledonia County, Vermont who grew up in Darien, Connecticut as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001). She was graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. Her second husband, writer Nathaniel Wardwell Tripp (1944-) wrote the Vietnam memoir, "Father, Soldier, Son" (1997) which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Lindbergh writes of her experiences growing up in the household of her famous father — with echoes of his famous

title: Lindbergh Range

text: the average temperature reaches -5 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -19 °C. Lindbergh Range The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or "Lindbergh Nunatakker") is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the

title: Lindbergh Range

text: Lindbergh Range The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or "Lindbergh Nunatakker") is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the Greenland Ice Sheet and had discussed the matter with him when they met in Ella Island. Although not

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: Karen Pryor, daughter of author Philip Wylie; they divorced in 1997. Lindbergh is currently married to Maura Jansen. He had two daughters with Jansen. When his father was dying, Lindbergh took charge of transporting him from New York City to Hawaii to die, and helped build his father's grave. Lindbergh's eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in the infamous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Jon's other Lindbergh siblings are: Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993),

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: Jon Lindbergh Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932) is a former underwater diver from the United States. He has worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Jon's parents had discovered the name "Jon" in a book about Scandinavian

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: Reeve Lindbergh Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (born October 2, 1945) is an American author from Caledonia County, Vermont who grew up in Darien, Connecticut as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001). She was graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. Her second husband, writer Nathaniel Wardwell Tripp (1944-) wrote the Vietnam memoir, "Father, Soldier, Son" (1997) which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Lindbergh writes of her experiences growing up in the household of her famous father — with echoes of his famous transatlantic flight and the kidnapping of her eldest

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: be withdrawn from circulation and would therefore attract attention; the bills' serial numbers were also recorded. On , the child's remains were found in woods not far from the Lindbergh home. [[File:Charles Lindbergh testifying.jpg|thumb|right|Lindbergh testifying at the Hauptmann trial in 1935. Bruno Hauptmann can be seen on the right side of the photograph.]] In response to what was widely called "The Crime of the Century", Congress passed the so-called [[Federal Kidnapping Act|"Lindbergh Law"]], which made kidnapping a [[Federal crime|federal offense]] if the victim is taken across state lines or (as in the Lindbergh case) the kidnapper uses "the mail or...

title: Lindbergh High School (Washington)

text: Lindbergh High School (Washington) Lindbergh High School is a (senior) high school located in the southeastern section of Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, in the Renton School District. It is named after Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. The school was founded in 1972. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors attended the first year, making the class of 1974 the first to graduate. Lindbergh's school motto is "ad astra", which is Latin for "to the stars". The crest features the Spirit of St. Louis (the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew),

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: control for larger aircraft than multicopter drones' fixed-pitch propellers, avoiding control lag. Son of Jon Lindbergh and Barbara Robbins, Erik Lindbergh is the grandson, by his father, of the pioneering aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. His father's Lindbergh siblings are Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993), conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), and writer Reeve Lindbergh (1945-). Lindbergh has written the foreword to several books, a monthly column in AOPA Pilot magazine and numerous freelance and op-ed articles. In May 2008 Lindbergh was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Molloy College in NY for outstanding

title: Lindbergh Forest

text: entry, "Lindbergh Forest," was suggested by Emilee Cate. She submitted the name in honor of aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had completed his famous trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. Cate was the wife of Sheriff J. Carroll Cate, who as a deputy sheriff had unsuccessfully defended the Knox County Jail from a lynch mob during the Riot of 1919. The Cates lived on Chamberlain Boulevard. Early residents of Lindbergh Forest included local business owners, local politicians, University of Tennessee professors, and Tennessee Valley Authority employees. During the 1930s, three consecutive mayors of Knoxville lived in Lindbergh Forest— John T. O'Connor, James Elmore,

title: Anne Lindbergh

text: Anne Lindbergh Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940 – December 10, 1993) was an American writer, primarily of children's novels. She was the daughter of aviators/authors Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Anne Lindbergh was raised in Darien, Connecticut. After studying at Radcliffe College for three years, she moved to Paris to continue her education, studying at the Sorbonne. She met and married a fellow student there, Julien Feydy, who later became a political scientist and university professor. They later divorced. She later married Jerzy Sapieyevski, a composer and conductor she met in Europe and with whom she moved to Washington. They

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: service to humanity. Erik Lindbergh Erik Charles Lindbergh (born 1965) is an aviator, adventurer, and an artist. He is the grandson of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly non-stop between New York and Paris in 1927. In 2002 Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by retracing the journey in his own single-engine aircraft. The journey was documented by the History Channel, raised over one million dollars for three charities, garnered half a billion media impressions for the X PRIZE Foundation and prompted a call from United States President George W. Bush for

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: Erik Lindbergh Erik Charles Lindbergh (born 1965) is an aviator, adventurer, and an artist. He is the grandson of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly non-stop between New York and Paris in 1927. In 2002 Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by retracing the journey in his own single-engine aircraft. The journey was documented by the History Channel, raised over one million dollars for three charities, garnered half a billion media impressions for the X PRIZE Foundation and prompted a call from United States President George W. Bush for inspiring the country

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: Lindbergh (book) Lindbergh is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg. The book became a "New York Times" Best Seller and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Once he had completed his second book, "" (about film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) in 1989, Berg began the search for his next subject. He wanted it to be "another great American cultural figure but—because I had written about Perkins and Goldwyn—not somebody from the worlds of publishing or film". After briefly considering Tennessee Williams, Berg chose the aviator Charles Lindbergh, attracted by what he

title: Anne Lindbergh

text: also divorced. She was married to Noel Perrin, American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College, at the time of her death. They lived together in Thetford Center, Vermont. Anne Lindbergh wrote numerous books, most of them for children. Anne Lindbergh died of cancer in 1993 at her home in Thetford Center, Vermont, at the age of 53. Anne Lindbergh's eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in a famous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Anne's other Lindbergh siblings

title: Anne Lindbergh

text: are aquanaut Jon Lindbergh (1932-), Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), and Reeve Lindbergh (1945-). Anne Lindbergh was the recipient of numerous honors for her work, including an award from the International Reading Association. This list includes all known titles at WorldCat. Anne Lindbergh Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940 – December 10, 1993) was an American writer, primarily of children's novels. She was the daughter of aviators/authors Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Anne Lindbergh was raised in Darien, Connecticut. After studying at Radcliffe College for three years, she moved to Paris to continue her education, studying at the

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is a 1976 American television film dramatisation of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was directed by Buzz Kulik and stars Cliff DeYoung, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, and Walter Pidgeon. The film opens with archive footage of Charles Lindbergh's pioneering transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and the song “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)”. Hopewell, New Jersey, March 1, 1932. After preparing a bath, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Sian Barbara Allen) is alerted by her nurse, Betty Gow, that her baby is not in its crib. They check with Charles

title: Lindbergh Boulevard

text: 367. Lindbergh Boulevard Lindbergh Boulevard, named after the aviator, Charles Lindbergh, is a section of U.S. Routes 61 and 67 that extends through Missouri. Lindbergh Boulevard is home to Missouri's only traffic tunnel underneath a runway at Lambert–St. Louis International Airport. Lindbergh Boulevard was initially a bypass of St. Louis, designated in about 1930 as Route 77 from Mehlville to the Chain of Rocks Bridge. The part north of Dunn Road, where Route 77 turned off to access the bridge, was initially Route M and later Route 140. Route 77 was later extended at the south end to the Jefferson

title: Lindbergh Boulevard

text: Lindbergh Boulevard Lindbergh Boulevard, named after the aviator, Charles Lindbergh, is a section of U.S. Routes 61 and 67 that extends through Missouri. Lindbergh Boulevard is home to Missouri's only traffic tunnel underneath a runway at Lambert–St. Louis International Airport. Lindbergh Boulevard was initially a bypass of St. Louis, designated in about 1930 as Route 77 from Mehlville to the Chain of Rocks Bridge. The part north of Dunn Road, where Route 77 turned off to access the bridge, was initially Route M and later Route 140. Route 77 was later extended at the south end to the Jefferson Barracks

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: baby to be raised in Germany. Robert Zorn's 2012 book "Cemetery John" proposes that Hauptmann was part of a conspiracy with two other German-born men, John and Walter Knoll. Zorn's father, economist Eugene Zorn, believed that as a teenager he had witnessed the conspiracy being discussed. Lindbergh kidnapping On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his home Highfields in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. On May 12, his body was discovered nearby. In September 1934 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. After a

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: Lindbergh kidnapping On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his home Highfields in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. On May 12, his body was discovered nearby. In September 1934 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. After a trial that lasted from January 2 to February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Despite his conviction, he continued to profess his innocence, but all appeals failed and he was executed in the electric chair at the New Jersey

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the name of a living person. A half-century later, a 13-Cent commemorative stamp (Scott #1710) depicting the "Spirit" flying low over the Atlantic Ocean was issued on , 1977, the 50th anniversary of the flight from [[Roosevelt Field]]. On , 1998, a 32¢ stamp with the legend "Lindbergh Flies Atlantic" (Scott #3184m) depicting Lindbergh and the ""Spirit"" was issued as part of the [[Celebrate the Century]] stamp sheet series. [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1974 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:20th-century American male writers]] [[Category:1927 in aviation]] [[Category:American anti-communists]] [[Category:American anti-war activists]] [[Category:American environmentalists]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:American military personnel who served in the

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: coerced. One theory is Lindbergh accidentally killed his son in a prank gone wrong. In "Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax", criminal defense attorney Gregory Ahlgren posits Lindbergh climbed a ladder and brought his son out a window, but dropped the child, killing him, so hid the body in the woods, then covered up the crime by blaming Hauptmann. Several people have suggested that Charles Lindbergh was responsible for the kidnapping. In 2010, Jim Bahm's "Beneath the Winter Sycamores" implied that the baby was physically disabled and Lindbergh arranged the kidnapping as a way of secretly moving the

title: Charles Lindbergh

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title: Charles Lindbergh

text: on , 1936. [[File:Charles Lindbergh Arrives in England, January 1936.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.65|Newsreel still of Lindbergh family arrival in England, , 1935]] An intensely private man, Lindbergh became exasperated by the unrelenting public attention in the wake of the kidnapping and Hauptmann trial, and was concerned for the safety of his three-year-old second son Jon. Consequently, in the predawn hours of Sunday, , 1935, the family "sailed furtively" from Manhattan for Liverpool, the only three passengers aboard the [[United States Lines]] freighter SS "American Importer". They traveled under assumed names and with diplomatic passports issued through the personal intervention of Treasury Secretary [[Ogden

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: State Prison on April 3, 1936. Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection." Legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the "trials of the century". The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. At 7:30 p.m. on March 1, 1932, family nurse Betty Gow put 20 month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. into his crib. Around 9:30 p.m. Charles Lindbergh was in the library just below the baby's room when he

title: Winslow–Lindbergh Regional Airport

text: Winslow–Lindbergh Regional Airport Winslow–Lindbergh Regional Airport is mile west of Winslow, in Navajo County, Arizona. The U.S. Forest Service has a firefighting Air Tanker base here. The airport was served by TWA and Frontier Airlines but now sees no airline service. The airport was built in 1929 by Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT). Aviator Charles Lindbergh, who served as head of TAT's Technical Committee, chose Winslow as one of twelve critical refueling stops on the nation's first transcontinental passenger line. For many years it was the only all weather airport between Albuquerque, New Mexico,and Los Angeles, CA. During World War II

title: Winslow–Lindbergh Regional Airport

text: the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellowship, the A. Verville Fellowship, and the Postdoctoral Earth and Planetary Sciences Fellowship. Announced in 1977 at the 50th anniversary of Lindbergh's famous solo flight, 1978 was the first year that the Lindbergh Chair was occupied—British aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith was selected as the first recipient. Each Lindbergh Chair application is judged relative to the suitability of its proposal, the scholarly record of the applicant, the availability of relevant museum staff advisors knowledgeable on the proposed topic, whether the NASM can provide the specific resources, and the applicability of the proposal to NASM's work-in-progress

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: to Mexico, Lindbergh met Anne in Mexico City in December 1927. The couple was married on , 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey. They had six children: [[Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.]] (1930–1932); [[Jon Morrow Lindbergh]] (b. 1932); Land Morrow Lindbergh (b. 1937), who studied anthropology at [[Stanford University]] and married Susan Miller in San Diego; [[Anne Lindbergh]] (1940–1993); Scott Lindbergh (b. 1942); and Reeve Lindbergh (b. 1945), a writer. Lindbergh taught Anne how to fly and she accompanied and assisted him in much of his exploring and charting of air routes. Lindbergh saw his children for only a few months a

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: In [[Denis MacEoin|Daniel Easterman]]'s [[K is for Killing]] (1997), a fictional Charles Lindbergh becomes President of a fascist United States. His vice-president, and power behind the throne, is the notorious rapist and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, [[D. C. Stephenson|David Stephenson]]. Eventually, Lindbergh is assassinated in the novel and it is implied that Stephenson, who has now risen to President of the United States, orchestrated Lindbergh's murder. The [[Philip Roth]] novel "[[The Plot Against America]]" (2004) explores an [[alternate history]] where [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] is defeated in the 1940 presidential election by Lindbergh, who allies the United States

title: Charles August Lindbergh

text: members of the Federal Reserve Board including Paul Warburg and William Proctor Gould Harding, charging that they were involved "...in a conspiracy to violate the Constitution and laws of the United States..." Charles August Lindbergh died in 1924 in Crookston, Minnesota of brain cancer. He has a memorial plaque in the columbarium at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. According to his wishes, son Charles scattered his ashes over the place near Sauk River where the first Lindbergh home once stood. Charles August Lindbergh Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Spengler was a conservative [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] and during the [[Interwar period|interwar era]], was widely read throughout the [[Western World]], though by this point he had fallen out of favor with the Nazis because he had not wholly subscribed to their theories of racial purity. Lindbergh developed a long-term friendship with the automobile pioneer [[Henry Ford]], who was well known for his anti-Semitic newspaper "[[The Dearborn Independent]]". In a famous comment about Lindbergh to [[Detroit]]'s former FBI field office special agent in charge in July 1940, Ford said: "When Charles comes out here, we only talk about the Jews." Lindbergh considered Russia

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Minnesota]], and Washington, D.C. He was the third child of [[Charles August Lindbergh]] ([[Name at birth|birth name]] Carl Månsson; 1859–1924) who had emigrated from Sweden to [[Melrose, Minnesota]] as an infant, and his only child with his second wife, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh (1876–1954), of Detroit. Charles' parents separated in 1909 when he was seven. Lindbergh's father, a [[United States Congress|U.S. Congressman]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Minnesota|MN]]-6) from 1907 to 1917, was one of the few Congressmen to oppose the entry of the U.S. into World War I (although his Congressional term ended one month prior to the House of Representatives

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: is disagreement on how accurate Lindbergh's reports were, but Cole asserts that the consensus among British and American officials was that they were slightly exaggerated but badly needed. Lindbergh also undertook a survey of aviation in the [[Soviet Union]] in 1938. [[File:Hermann Goering gives Charles Lindbergh a Nazi medal.jpg|right|thumb|Göring presenting Lindbergh with a medal on behalf of [[Adolf Hitler]] in October 1938]] In 1938, [[Hugh R. Wilson|Hugh Wilson]], the American ambassador to Germany, hosted a dinner for Lindbergh with Germany's air chief, [[Hermann Göring]] and three central figures in German aviation, [[Ernst Heinkel]], Adolf Baeumker, and [[Willy Messerschmitt]]. At this

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: for [[Montgomery, Alabama]], some 140 miles to the west, for his first solo cross-country flight. He went on to spend much of the rest of 1923 engaged in almost nonstop barnstorming under the name of "Daredevil Lindbergh". Unlike the previous year, this time Lindbergh flew in his "own ship" as pilot. A few weeks after leaving Americus, the young airman also achieved another key aviation milestone when he made his first flight at night near [[Lake Village, Arkansas]]. [[File:Charles Lindbergh 1925.JPG|thumb|left|upright=0.75|2nd Lt. Charles A. Lindbergh, USASRC March 1925]] While Lindbergh was barnstorming in [[Lone Rock, Wisconsin]], on two occasions he

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: grounds of the Palapala Ho'omau Church in [[Kipahulu]], [[Maui]]. His [[epitaph]], on a simple stone following the words "Charles A. Lindbergh Born Michigan 1902 Died Maui 1974", quotes [[Psalms]] 139:9: "... If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ... C.A.L." [[File:Bourget-statue.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|Statue in honor of [[François Coli|Coli]], [[Charles Nungesser|Nungesser]], and Lindbergh at [[Paris–Le Bourget Airport]]]] Lindbergh received many awards, medals and decorations, most of which were later donated to the Missouri Historical Society and are on display at the Jefferson Memorial, now part of the [[Missouri History Museum]] in [[Forest Park

title: Charles A. Lindbergh State Park

text: forest with oak and prairie openings. Damming has raised the water level of the Mississippi substantially from the days when Charles Lindbergh swam in it. The park has a campground with 38 sites, 15 of those with electrical hookups. There is also a group campsite that accommodates up to 30 people, one walk-in campsite, and a canoe-in site along the Mississippi River. Charles A. Lindbergh State Park Charles A. Lindbergh State Park is a 569-acre (2.3 km²) Minnesota state park on the outskirts of Little Falls. The park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son

title: Charles August Lindbergh

text: August Lindbergh, left his wife and seven children, and emigrated to the United States with his mistress and their illegitimate infant son, Carl, in 1859. Lovisa became Louisa and young Carl became Charles August Lindbergh. They settled in Melrose, Minnesota and had six more children together. August worked as a farmer and a blacksmith for 26 years before marrying Louisa in 1885, having become a widower in 1864 with the death of his first wife in Sweden. Charles August Lindbergh studied law at the University of Michigan Law School, graduating in 1883 and being admitted to the bar the same

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text: science, technology, nationalism, war, materialism, and values. Included among those writings were five other books: "The Culture of Organs" (with [[Alexis Carrel|Dr. Alexis Carrel]]) (1938), "Of Flight and Life" (1948), "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh" (1970), "Boyhood on the Upper Mississippi" (1972), and his unfinished "Autobiography of Values" (posthumous, 1978). In addition to many biographies such as A. Scott Berg's massive ""Lindbergh"" published in 1999 and others, Lindbergh also influenced or was the model for characters in a variety of works of fiction. Shortly after he made his famous flight, the [[Stratemeyer Syndicate]] began publishing a series of

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text: or Autobiography winners]] [[Category:Racism in the United States]] [[Category:Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)]] [[Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)]] [[Category:Sidwell Friends School alumni]] [[Category:Transatlantic flight]] [[Category:United States Air Force officers]] [[Category:United States airmail pilots]] [[Category:United States Army Air Forces officers]] [[Category:United States Army Medal of Honor recipients]] [[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni]] [[Category:Writers from Detroit]] [[Category:Antisemitism in the United States]] [[Category:Critics of Judaism]] [[Category:American male non-fiction writers]] Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age

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text: (St. Louis, Missouri)|Forest Park]] in St. Louis, Missouri. [[File:Congressional Gold Medal presented to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|The [[Congressional Gold Medal]] presented , 1930, to Lindbergh by President [[Herbert Hoover]] ]] [[File:Charles Lindberg, Medal of Honor.JPG|thumb|upright=0.75|Lindbergh's Medal of Honor]] Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve. Place and date: From New York City to Paris, France, , 1927. Entered service at: Little Falls, Minn. Born: , 1902, Detroit, Mich. G.O. No.: 5, W.D., 1928; Act of Congress , 1927. In addition to ""WE"" and "The Spirit of St. Louis", Lindbergh wrote prolifically over the years on other topics, including

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text: and his fellow CAM-2 pilots had used, so it could be said that each cover had been flown by him. The covers were then backstamped and returned to their senders as promotion of the Air Mail Service. In 1929–1931, Lindbergh carried much smaller numbers of souvenir covers on the first flights over routes in [[Latin America]] and the [[Caribbean]], which he had earlier laid out as a consultant to [[Pan American World Airways|Pan American Airways]] to be then flown under contract to the Post Office as Foreign Air Mail (FAM) routes 5 and 6. [[File:CharlesLindbergh22.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.75|Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] In

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text: wife, the former [[Anne Morrow]], were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three [[German people|German women]] (two from [[Bavaria]], one from [[East Prussia]]) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world. [[File:Charles&Dad.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.75|Charles A. Lindbergh and his father, circa 1910]] Lindbergh was born in [[Detroit]], Michigan, on , 1902, and spent most of his childhood in [[Little Falls,

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text: killed Lindbergh". [[File:433dfws.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|433rd Fighter Squadron "Satan's Angels"]] In his six months in the Pacific in 1944, Lindbergh took part in fighter bomber raids on Japanese positions, flying 50 combat missions (again as a civilian). His innovations in the use of [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning]] fighters impressed a supportive Gen. [[Douglas MacArthur]]. Lindbergh introduced [[Air–fuel ratio|engine-leaning techniques]] to P-38 pilots, greatly improving fuel consumption at cruise speeds, enabling the long-range fighter aircraft to fly longer range missions. The U.S. Marine and Army Air Force pilots who served with Lindbergh praised his courage and defended his patriotism. On , 1944, during a P-38

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text: the [[Vought F4U Corsair]] fighter-bomber's rated capacity. At the time, several Marine squadrons were flying bomber escorts to destroy the Japanese stronghold of [[Rabaul]], [[New Britain]], in the Australian [[Territory of New Guinea]]. On , 1944, Lindbergh flew his first combat mission: a strafing run with [[VMF-222]] near the Japanese garrison of Rabaul. He also flew with [[VMF-216]], from the Marine Air Base at [[Torokina]], [[Bougainville Island|Bougainville]]. Lindbergh was escorted on one of these missions by Lt. Robert E. (Lefty) McDonough, who refused to fly with Lindbergh again, as he did not want to be known as "the guy who

text: series. The winner is expected to reside in the Washington, DC, area for nine months to a year, the academic year generally starting in September and ending by the following August. He or she is also expected to take part in discussions with museum staff and to attend professional seminars and colloquia. Along with access to primary research materials, the winner is given the use of an office, a phone and a computer. Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History The Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, also known as the Lindbergh Chair, is a one-year senior fellowship hosted

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text: pilots. First produced in 1931, it is still produced today. In 1929, Lindbergh became interested in the work of rocket pioneer [[Robert H. Goddard]]. By helping Goddard secure an [[Financial endowment|endowment]] from [[Daniel Guggenheim]] in 1930, Lindbergh allowed Goddard to expand his research and development. Throughout his life, Lindbergh remained a key advocate of Goddard's work. In 1930, Lindbergh's sister-in-law developed a fatal heart condition. Lindbergh began to wonder why hearts could not be repaired with surgery. Starting in early 1931 at the Rockefeller Institute and continuing during his time living in France, Lindbergh studied the [[perfusion]] of organs outside

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text: described as "the dramatic possibilities of the story of the great hero who became a great victim and a great villain". "Charles Lindbergh is a window onto the whole world -- a great lens for observing the American century," Berg elaborated. When asked about previous biographies of Lindbergh, Berg noted "The problem is most of what has been written about him is wrong or misleading." Berg had been interested earlier by the idea of writing a book on the life of Lindbergh but "had scratched Lindbergh off my list" when he heard that Lindbergh's papers were locked up and inaccessible.

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text: his autobiography, Lindbergh derided pilots he met as womanizing "barnstormers"; he also criticized Army cadets for their "facile" approach to relationships. He wrote that the ideal romance was stable and long-term, with a woman with keen intellect, good health, and strong genes, his "experience in breeding animals on our farm [having taught him] the importance of good heredity". [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] (1906–2001) was the daughter of [[Dwight Morrow]] who, as partner at [[J.P. Morgan & Co.]], had acted as financial adviser to Lindbergh. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico in 1927. Invited by Morrow on a goodwill tour

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text: National Register of Historic Places. These buildings include a picnic shelter and a water tower, built in the Rustic Style from local stone and logs, and have remained relatively unchanged since construction. Although the property includes shoreline on the Mississippi River, the Lindbergh family requested that the park not include intensive use areas for swimming or camping, so development was kept to a minimum. Charles August Lindbergh, known as C.A., was a prominent lawyer and real estate trader in Little Falls. In March 1901 he married Evangeline Lodge Land, the college-educated descendant of two notable Detroit medical families, who had

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text: year. He kept track of each child's infractions (including such things as gum-chewing) and insisted that Anne track every penny of household expenses in account books. [[File:Lindbergh baby poster.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.65]] On the evening of , 1932, twenty-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was abducted from his crib in the Lindbergh's rural home, [[Highfields (Amwell and Hopewell, New Jersey)|Highfields]], in [[East Amwell Township, New Jersey|East Amwell, New Jersey]], near the town of [[Hopewell, New Jersey|Hopewell]]. A man who claimed to be the kidnapper, picked up a cash ransom of $50,000 on , part of which was in [[gold certificate]]s, which were soon to

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text: to buy a World War I surplus [[Curtiss JN-4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"]] biplane. Though Lindbergh had not touched an airplane in more than six months, he had already secretly decided he was ready to take to the air by himself. After a half-hour of dual time with a pilot who was visiting the field to pick up another surplus JN-4, Lindbergh flew solo for the first time in the Jenny he had just purchased for $500. After spending another week or so at the field to "practice" (thereby acquiring five hours of "pilot in command" time), Lindbergh took off from Americus

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text: the two women did not know each other. Not long after, Berg heard from Mrs. Lindbergh. Berg convinced Lindbergh's widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who considered him "trustworthy," to grant him unprecedented access to the man's archives, which he was surprised to find totaled "1,300 boxes, or several million papers". In addition to his research in the archives, Berg also spoke with Mrs. Lindbergh, their five children and Lindbergh family friends. "You can't write about Charles without writing about me," the widow told Berg, allowing him access to her memoirs and diaries. Berg found Lindbergh's papers "in a miraculous order." Lindbergh

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text: death) did not know the true identity of their father, whom they had only known by the alias Careu Kent and they had only seen him when he briefly visited them once or twice per year. However, after reading a magazine article about Lindbergh in the mid-1980s, Brigitte's daughter Astrid deduced the truth; she later discovered snapshots and more than 150 love letters from Lindbergh to Brigitte. After Brigitte and Anne Lindbergh had both died, she made her findings public; in 2003 DNA tests confirmed that Lindbergh had fathered Astrid and her two siblings. Reeve Lindbergh, Lindbergh's youngest child with

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text: is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection." Lindbergh deplored the rivalry between Germany and Britain, but favored a war between Germany and Russia. Following Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, Lindbergh decried suggestions that the United States should send aid to countries under threat, writing "I do not believe that repealing the arms embargo would assist democracy in Europe" and "If we repeal the arms embargo with the idea of assisting one of the warring sides to overcome the other, then why mislead ourselves by talk of neutrality?" He equated assistance with

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text: in [[Grimisuat]]. Lindbergh also had a son and daughter (born in 1959 and 1961) with Valeska, an [[East Prussia]]n aristocrat who was his private secretary in Europe and lived in [[Baden-Baden]]. All seven children were born between 1958 and 1967. Ten days before he died, Lindbergh wrote to each of his European mistresses, imploring them to maintain the utmost secrecy about his illicit activities with them even after his death. The three women (none of whom ever married) all managed to keep their affairs secret even from their children, who during his lifetime (and for almost a decade after his

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text: bomber escort mission with the [[433d Weapons Squadron|433rd Fighter Squadron]] in the [[Seram Island|Ceram]] area, Lindbergh shot down a [[Mitsubishi Ki-51]] "Sonia" observation plane, piloted by Captain Saburo Shimada, commanding officer of the 73rd Independent Chutai. After the war, Lindbergh was touring the Nazi [[concentration camp]]s when he wrote in his autobiography that he was disgusted and angered. After World War II, Lindbergh lived in [[Darien, Connecticut|Darien]], [[Connecticut]] and served as a consultant to the [[Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force]] and to [[Pan American World Airways]]. With most of eastern Europe under Communist control, Lindbergh believed

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text: the "[[Spirit of St. Louis]]", the fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane ([[Civil Aeronautics Authority|CAB]] registration: N-X-211) was designed jointly by Lindbergh and Ryan's chief engineer [[Donald A. Hall]]. The "Spirit" flew for the first time just two months later, and after a series of test flights Lindbergh took off from San Diego on . He went first to St. Louis, then on to Roosevelt Field on New York's Long Island. [[File:Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Saint Louis (Crisco restoration, with wings).jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Lindbergh with the "Spirit of St. Louis" before his Paris flight]] In the early morning of Friday,

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text: flight. People were "behaving as though Lindbergh had walked on water, not flown over it". His mother's house in Detroit was surrounded by a crowd estimated at about 1,000. Countless newspapers, magazines, and radio shows wanted to interview him, and he was flooded with job offers from companies, think tanks, and universities. The French Foreign Office flew the American flag, the first time it had saluted someone who wasn't a head of state. Lindbergh also made a series of brief flights to Belgium and Great Britain in the "Spirit" before returning to the United States. [[Gaston Doumergue]], the [[President of

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text: AFC rally]] In his 1941 testimony before the [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs|House Committee on Foreign Affairs]] opposing the [[Lend-Lease|Lend-Lease bill]], Lindbergh proposed that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Germany. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] publicly decried Lindbergh's views as those of a "defeatist and appeaser", comparing him to [[Clement Laird Vallandigham|U.S. Rep. Clement L. Vallandigham]], who had led the [[Copperheads (politics)|"Copperhead"]] movement that had opposed the [[American Civil War]]. Lindbergh promptly resigned his commission as a colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps, writing that he saw "no honorable alternative" given that Roosevelt had publicly questioned

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text: war profiteering: "To those who argue that we could make a profit and build up our own industry by selling munitions abroad, I reply that we in America have not yet reached a point where we wish to capitalize on the destruction and death of war." In late 1940 Lindbergh became spokesman of the non-interventionist [[America First Committee]], soon speaking to overflow crowds at [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]] and Chicago's [[Soldier Field]], with millions listening by radio. He argued that America had no business attacking Germany; in writings published posthumously he justified this stance: [[File:Amrally.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Lindbergh speaking at an

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text: days before graduation, when a midair collision with another Army [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5|S.E.5]] during aerial combat maneuvers forced him to bail out. Only 18 of the 104 cadets who started flight training a year earlier remained when Lindbergh graduated first overall in his class in March 1925, thereby earning his Army pilot's wings and a commission as a [[Second Lieutenant#United States|2nd Lieutenant]] in the [[Military reserve force|Air Service Reserve Corps]]. Lindbergh later said that this year was critical to his development as both a focused, goal-oriented individual and as an aviator. The Army did not need additional active-duty pilots,

title: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

text: at the Lindbergh home police began the first search into the disappearance of young Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., there police witnessed two clear sets of footprints outside of the Lindbergh home. One set specifically lead southeast towards a ladder that was believed to be used in the abduction. Upon the discovery of intruders, police returned inside the home to begin there initial search of the nursery. Before calling the police Charles Lindbergh uncovered a plain white envelope located on the windowsill. Believing it was a ransom note, Charles left it for police inspection. Expert in crime-scene photography and fingerprints, Corporal

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: his fellow pilot, Charles Lindbergh, to urge Americans to enter the war against Nazi Germany. Unsuccessful in his primary objective, de Saint-Exupery became captivated by "Charles’s golden-haired boy," Land Lindbergh. As a 76-year-old Montana rancher in 2014, the possible basis for this classic story could not be reached for comment. Lindbergh won the Redbook magazine award in 1987 for ‘’The Midnight Farm’’ and in 1990 for ‘’Benjamin's Barn’’. She serves as member of board (1977-) and honorary chairman (2004-) of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation. She previously served as vice president (1986–95) and president (1995-2004) of the

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text: with [[Nazi Germany]]. Within days of the flight, dozens of [[Tin Pan Alley]] publishers rushed a variety of popular songs into print celebrating Lindbergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis" including "[[Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)]]" by Howard Johnson and [[Al Sherman]], and "Lucky Lindy" by [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] and Abel Baer. In the two-year period following Lindbergh's flight, the U.S. Copyright Office recorded three hundred applications for Lindbergh songs. [[Tony Randall]] revived "Lucky Lindy" in an album of [[Jazz Age]] and [[Great Depression|Depression]]-era songs that he recorded entitled "Vo Vo De Oh Doe" (1967). In 1929, [[Bertolt Brecht]]

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text: books for juvenile readers called the "[[Ted Scott Flying Stories]]" (1927–1943), which were written by a number of authors all using the "[[pen name|nom de plume]]" of [[Franklin W. Dixon]], in which the pilot hero was closely modeled after Lindbergh. Ted Scott duplicated the solo flight to Paris in the series' first volume, entitled "Over the Ocean to Paris" published in 1927. Another fictional literary reference to Lindbergh appears in the [[Agatha Christie]] book (1934) and movie "[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]" (1974) which begins with a fictionalized depiction of the [[Lindbergh baby kidnapping]].

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text: his loyalty. At an America First rally in September, Lindbergh accused three groups of "pressing this country toward war[:] the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration": He went on to warn of "large [Jewish] ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government", though he condemned Germany's [[antisemitism]]: "No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany." He continued, Responding to criticism of his speech, Lindbergh denied he was anti-Semitic but did not back away from his positions. Anne Lindbergh felt that the

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text: months, applications for pilots' licenses tripled, and the number of planes quadrupled. President [[Herbert Hoover]] appointed Lindbergh to the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]]. Lindbergh and [[Pan American World Airways]] head [[Juan Trippe]] were interested in developing a [[great circle]] air route across Alaska and Siberia to China and Japan. In the summer of 1931, with Trippe's support, Lindbergh and his wife flew from Long Island to [[Nome, Alaska]] and from there to Siberia, Japan and China. The route was not available for commercial service until after World WarII, as prewar aircraft lacked the range to fly Alaska to Japan

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text: covering in just over 116 hours of flight time. A year and two days after it had made its first flight, Lindbergh flew the "Spirit" from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., where it has been on public display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] ever since. Over the previous 367 days, Lindbergh and the "Spirit" had logged 489 hours 28 minutes of flight time together. [[File:Spirit of St. Louis Smithsonian.JPG|thumb|right|The "Spirit of St. Louis" on display at the National Air and Space Museum]] A "Lindbergh boom" in aviation had begun. The volume of mail moving by air increased 50 percent within six

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text: a 500-guest banquet and dance held at Clarence MacKay's Long Island estate, [[Harbor Hill]]. The following night, Lindbergh was honored with a grand banquet at the Hotel Commodore given by the Mayor's Committee on Receptions of the City of New York and attended by some 3,700 people. He was officially awarded the check for the prize on . On July 18, 1927, Lindbergh was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Air Corps of the Officers Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army. On , 1927, a Special [[Act of Congress]] awarded Lindbergh the [[Medal of Honor]], despite the fact

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text: in Klink's Curtiss JN-4C "Canuck" (the Canadian version of the Jenny). Lindbergh also "cracked up" this aircraft once when his engine failed shortly after take-off in [[Pensacola, Florida]], but again he managed to repair the damage himself. Following a few months of barnstorming through the South, the two pilots parted company in [[San Antonio]], Texas, where Lindbergh reported to [[Brooks City-Base|Brooks Field]] on , 1924, to begin a year of military flight training with the [[United States Army Air Service]] there (and later at nearby [[Kelly Field Annex|Kelly Field]]). Lindbergh had his most serious flying accident on , 1925, eight

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text: After quitting college in February 1922, Lindbergh enrolled at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation's flying school in Lincoln and flew for the first time on , as a passenger in a two-seat [[Standard J|Lincoln Standard "Tourabout"]] biplane trainer piloted by [[Otto Timm]]. A few days later, Lindbergh took his first formal flying lesson in that same machine, though he was never permitted to solo because he could not afford to post the requisite damage bond. To gain flight experience and earn money for further instruction, Lindbergh left Lincoln in June to spend the next few months [[barnstorming]] across Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado,

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text: wrote a musical called "Der Lindberghflug" (The Lindbergh Flight) with music by [[Kurt Weill]] and [[Paul Hindemith]]. Because of Lindbergh's apparent Nazi sympathies, in 1950 Brecht removed all direct references to Lindbergh and renamed the piece "[[The Flight across the Ocean|Der Ozeanflug]]" (The Ocean Flight). In 2016, as part of his series of scores based around historical events, Adam Young released a score based around The Spirit of St. Louis's flight. During World War II, Lindbergh was a frequent target of [[Dr Seuss]]'s first political cartoons, published in the New York magazine [[PM (newspaper)|PM]], in which Geisel emphasised Lindbergh's anti-semitism

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text: Year Award, [[Elinor Smith|Elinor Smith Sullivan]], said that before Lindbergh's flight, [[File:Lindbergh Airmail Stamp c10.jpg|thumb|right|"Lindbergh [[Airmails of the United States|Air Mail]]" 10¢ issue (C-10) , 1927]] Barely two months after Lindbergh arrived in Paris, G. P. Putnam's Sons published his 318-page autobiography ""WE"", which was the first of 15 books he eventually wrote or to which he made significant contributions. The company was run by aviation enthusiast [[George P. Putnam]]. The dustjacket notes said that Lindbergh wanted to share the "story of his life and his transatlantic flight together with his views on the future of aviation", and that ""WE""

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text: banquet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Program for the New York "WE" Banquet (, 1927)]] Lindbergh flew from Washington, D.C. to New York City on , arriving in lower Manhattan. He traveled up the [[Broadway (Manhattan)#Canyon of Heroes|Canyon of Heroes]] to City Hall, where he was received by Mayor [[Jimmy Walker]]. A [[ticker-tape parade]] followed to Central Park Mall, where he was honored at another ceremony hosted by New York Governor [[Al Smith]] and attended by a crowd of 200,000. Some 4,000,000 persons saw Lindbergh that day. That evening, Lindbergh was accompanied by his mother and Mayor Walker when he was the guest of honor at

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text: dragged Lindbergh out of the cockpit, and literally carried him around above their heads for "nearly half an hour". Some damage was done to the "Spirit" (especially to the fine linen, silver-painted fabric covering on the [[fuselage]]) by souvenir hunters before pilot and plane reached the safety of a nearby hangar with the aid of French military fliers, soldiers, and police. Lindbergh's flight was certified by the National Aeronautic Association based on the readings from a sealed [[barograph]] placed in the "Spirit". [[File:CharlesLindbergh-RaymondOrteig.jpg|left|upright=0.75|thumb|Lindbergh accepting the prize from Orteig in New York, , 1927]] Lindbergh received unprecedented adulation after his historic

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text: Wyoming, and Montana as a [[wing walking|wing walker]] and [[Parachuting|parachutist]]. He also briefly worked as an airplane mechanic at the [[Billings, Montana]], municipal airport. [[File:"Daredevil Lindbergh".jpg|thumb|right|"Daredevil Lindbergh" in a re-engined Standard J-1, the plane in this photo often misidentified as a Curtiss "Jenny", probably 1925]] Lindbergh left flying with the onset of winter and returned to his father's home in Minnesota. His return to the air and first solo flight did not come until half a year later in May 1923 at [[Jimmy Carter Regional Airport|Souther Field]] in [[Americus, Georgia]], a former Army flight training field, where he had come

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text: died, and the farm was largely neglected. After Charles Lindbergh became famous in 1927, souvenir seekers frequently broke into the empty house and caused extensive damage. Encouraged by locals hoping to see the house protected, the Lindbergh family donated the farm to the state of Minnesota in 1931 as a park in memory of C.A. The family worked with the Minnesota Historical Society to restore the home, and donated many original furnishings. The Works Progress Administration developed the park for recreation. In 1969 the house and its grounds were transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society. In what was to be

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text: the attack on Pearl Harbor came as a shock to Lindbergh, he did predict that America's "wavering policy in the [[Philippines]]" would invite a bloody war there, and, in one speech, he warned, "we should either fortify these islands adequately, or get out of them entirely." After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh sought to be recommissioned in the USAAF. The Secretary of War, [[Henry L. Stimson]], declined the request on instructions from the White House. [[File:Vmf222a insig.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|VMF-222 "Flying Deuces"]] [[File:VMF-216 insignia.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|VMF-216 "Bulldogs"]] Unable to take on an active military role, Lindbergh approached a number of aviation companies and

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text: duties included evaluating new aircraft types in development, recruitment procedures, and finding a site for a new air force research institute and other potential air bases. Assigned a [[Curtiss P-36 Hawk|Curtiss P-36]] fighter, he toured various facilities, reporting back to Wright Field. Lindbergh's brief four-month tour was also his first period of active military service since his graduation from the Army's Flight School fourteen years earlier in 1925. [[File:MIH-film101jpg.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.65|Longines' Lindbergh watch]] [[File:Lindbergh perfusion pump in Putnam Gallery, 2009-11-24.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.75|A Lindbergh [[perfusion]] pump, "circa" 1935]] Lindbergh wrote to the [[Longines]] watch company and described a watch that would make navigation easier for

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text: criticized Berg's reluctance to deal more strongly with it. The author did bring to light the alteration of Lindbergh's "supposedly candid World War II era diaries," reporting that the diaries published in 1970 had anti-Semitic entries omitted. Berg writes: "The bulk of the omissions centered on one subject: the Jews." An example of the quotes omitted from the diaries but included in "Lindbergh": "A few Jews add strength and character to a country, but too many create chaos and we are getting too many." Lindbergh (book) Lindbergh is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg.

title: Lindbergh Boom

text: Lindbergh Boom The Lindbergh Boom (1927–1929) is a period of rapid interest in aviation following the awarding of the Orteig Prize to Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 non-stop solo transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. The Lindbergh Boom occurred during the interwar period between World War I and World War II, where aviation development was fueled by commercial interests rather than wartime necessity. During this period, dozens of companies were formed to create airlines, and aircraft for a new age in aviation. Many of the fledgling companies funded by stock went under as quick as they started as

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text: It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country." Lindbergh's anticommunism resonated deeply with many Americans, while his eugenics and [[Nordic race|Nordicism]] enjoyed social acceptance. Although Lindbergh considered Hitler a fanatic and avowed a belief in American democracy, he clearly stated elsewhere that he believed the survival of the white race was more important than the survival of democracy in Europe: "Our bond with Europe is one of race and not of political ideology," he declared. Critics have noticed an apparent influence of German philosopher [[Oswald Spengler]] on Lindbergh.

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: A Memoir" recounts Lindbergh's life as a child growing up in Darien, Connecticut with her “loving but stern father”. Charles did not allow his children to drink soda or eat candy, and he favored family discussion over watching television. He directed his family with a set of hard-and-fast rules. "There were only two ways of doing things—Father's way and the wrong way," Lindbergh notes in her book. The build-up to World War II brought more controversy to the Lindbergh household. Charles Lindbergh was an outspoken isolationist and critic of U.S. military involvement against Nazi Germany. Putting her father's views in

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text: in "Reader's Digest": Lindbergh's speeches and writings reflected his adoption of views on race and religion similar to that of the Nazis. Because of his trips to Nazi Germany that were combined with a belief in [[eugenics]], Lindbergh was suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer. Lindbergh's reaction to Kristallnacht was entrusted to his diary: "I do not understand these riots on the part of the Germans," he wrote. "It seems so contrary to their sense of order and intelligence. They have undoubtedly had a difficult '[[Jewish question|Jewish problem]]', but why is it necessary to handle it so unreasonably?" Lindbergh had

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: interventionist policies, telling Treasury Secretary [[Henry Morgenthau Jr.|Henry Morgenthau]], "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." In 1941 he wrote to Secretary of War [[Henry Stimson]]: "When I read Lindbergh's speech I felt that it could not have been better put if it had been written by [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]] himself. What a pity that this youngster has completely abandoned his belief in our form of government and has accepted Nazi methods because apparently they are efficient." Lindbergh elucidated his beliefs regarding [[White people|white race]] in a 1939 article

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: heard a noise that he imagined to be slats breaking off a full crate in the kitchen. At 10:00 p.m., Gow discovered that the child was not in the crib. The nurse also found that the baby was not with his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who had just left a bath. Gow then alerted Charles Lindbergh, who went immediately to the child's room, where he found a note in an envelope on the windowsill. It was a ransom note written by the kidnapper and contained bad grammar and handwriting. He then took a gun and went around the house and