Charles Lindbergh: America's Hero (1920s Spotlight)

For a time, Charles Lindbergh was the most famous person in the world. After his historic transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, he was celebrated as a hero in both Europe and North America. Let's take a look into his extraordinary life.

[homokharcos]

The whole story about the preparation, the flight, the landing and the celebration give me goosebumps! I'd certainly like to watch more documentaries about Charles Lindbergh. Too bad he may have been a Nazi sympathizer.

[secularv]

Is that Howard Lanin singing at the end of the video

[thomashorton]

Tiny Nit to pick. He was not the first to fly across the Atlantic. There were 94 others before him. He was, however, the first to fly solo across the Atlantic.

[secularv]

Does anyone know the name of the song at the end of the video?

[mohdnasir]

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In 1954 he flew a Piper Apache nonstop from New York to Paris, the first light plane flown over the route since Lindbergh accomplished it in the Spirit of St. Louis.

[degsbabe]

I do wonder how much the Lindbergh baby death influenced Agatha Christie for her novel 'murder on the orient express.'...