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[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg‎ |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]

[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg‎ |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]

'''Charles Lindbergh''' (1902-1974) was an aviation pioneer.  In 1927 he became the first to fly solo, non-stop, from [[New York]] to [[Paris]]. This feat created a sensation and he was welcomed by enormous crowds in France and, on his return, in New York. He was a hero to conservatives for his exploits and his leadership of the "isolationists" in opposition to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s foreign policy in the late 1930s.  

'''Charles Lindbergh''' (1902-1974) was an aviation pioneer and the world's most famous hero in the 1920s.  In 1927 he became the first to fly alone, non-stop, from New York to Paris. This solo feat created a sensation and he was welcomed by enormous crowds in France and, on his return, in New York. He was a hero to conservatives for his exploits and his leadership of the "isolationists" in opposition to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s foreign policy in the late 1930s.  

===Son murdered===

===Son murdered===

In 1932 their first son was kidnapped, and killed ("a ransom was paid, but the child was not returned"),<ref name=marriage by Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He went on trial in 1935. Although treated as a social event by some, and as a carnival by others, the trial did bring out concrete evidence which proved Hauptmann's guilt.  

In 1932 their first son was kidnapped for ransom, but died when the kidnapper's ladder broke. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the crime. The crime and investigation dominated national attention for yrears.  The Lindberghs left the country and settled in France, returning when World War II broke out. In his later years, Lindbergh lived quietly in Hana, Hawaii where he died of cancer August 26, 1974.

 

The crime and investigation were perhaps the most infamous of the time.  The Lindbergh's left the country and settled in France. In his later years, Lindbergh lived in self-induced obscurity at his home in Hana, [[Hawaii]] where he died of [[Cancer]] August 26, 1974.

==Germany ==

==Germany ==

Lindbergh visited Germany in 1938 on a mission for the U.S. Air Corps. he studied and was impressed by the "Luftwaffe", the German air force, warning Americans it had the best equipment in the world. He accepted a medal from [[Hermann Goering]] for his services to aviation. He attracted criticism and some regarded him as a [[Nazi]] sympathizer, a charge he strongly denied and which historians generally reject.  Lindbergh strongly opposed U.S. entry into the [[Second World War]], and suggested that if the U.S. did enter, it should be on the side of Germany.

Lindbergh visited Germany in 1938 on a mission for the U.S. Air Corps. he studied and was impressed by the "Luftwaffe", the German air force, warning Americans it had the best equipment in the world. He accepted a medal from [[Hermann Goering]] for his services to aviation. Roosevelt supporters vehemently denounced him as a Nazi sympathizer, a charge he strongly denied and which historians generally reject.  [[Image:Spirit-stlouis.jpg|thumb|370px|The Spirit of St. Louis]]

[[Image:Spirit-stlouis.jpg|thumb|370px|The Spirit of St. Louis]]

==America First==

==America First==