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Charles A. Lindbergh In the late spring of 1927, something bright and alien flashed across the sky. A young Minnesotan who seemed to have nothing to do with his generation did a heroic thing, and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams. --F. Scot

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Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927

The American Experience | Lindbergh | Fallen Hero Fallen Hero: Charles Lindbergh in the 1940s In 1935, after enduring a three-year ordeal involving the kidnapping and murder of their first born son and the trial of the man accused of committing the crime, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh chose to flee the country tha

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