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Lindbergh, at say publicly age care for 25, squeeze the Spirit of Commitment. Lo • 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. Charles was born on February 4, 1902 and spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota. Son of a local attorney, and later congressman, Charles was described as both reserved and withdrawn – character traits for which he was known for the rest of his life. In the summer of 1912, at age 10, Charles’ mother took him to the air races. Charles was hooked. After failing out of the Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin, in April of 1922 Charles moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and enrolled in a local flight school. When the school closed shortly thereafter, he joined a barnstorming operation, billing himself as the “Aerial Daredevil Lindbergh.” As a daredevil, Charles not only walked on the wings of flying aircraft and performed parachute stunts, but he did mechanical work on the planes as well. In March of 1924, tired of the hand-to-mouth income of a daredevil, Charles enrol • Charles Lindbergh was the first aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight. In May 1927, he successfully flew his plane, Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris. The feat made him an international hero, and he later wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the experience. In 1932, his 20-month-old baby was kidnapped from the family home. Fueled by Lindbergh’s celebrity, the crime and its aftermath sparked a media frenzy and the first “Trial of the Century.” Lindbergh later became a target for his Nazi ties and isolationist, anti-Semitic views in the lead-up to World War II, though he did contribute to the American war effort after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The pioneering aviator died in 1974 at age 72. FULL NAME: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh, age 8, stands next to his father Charles August Lindbergh Born Charles Augustus Lindbergh on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Lindbergh became f
--F. Scott FitzgeraldCharles Lindbergh
1902-1974
Who Was Charles Lindbergh?
Quick Facts
BORN: February 4, 1902
DIED: August 26, 1974
BIRTHPLACE: Detroit, Michigan
SPOUSE: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1929-1974)
CHILDREN: Charles Jr., Jon, Land, Anne, Scott, Reeve, Dyrk, Astrid, David, Vago, Christoph, and 1 son and 1 daughter (names unknown)
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: AquariusEarly Life