Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby events
Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby theories
Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was bord 4 February 1902. As a 25-year-old US Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh rose to fame by winning Orteig Prize for his solo non-stop flight Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France in custom made monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight, Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. Lindbergh, a US Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of commercial aviation. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr, was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century". To avoid the media hysteria Lindbergh and his wife subsequently left America until 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate of keeping the US out of the world conflict, as had his father, Congressman Charles August Lindbergh, during World War I. Although Lindbergh was a leader in the anti-war America First movement, he nevertheless strongly supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew 50 combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor and environmentalist.
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