American aviation and military officer Charles Lindbergh made history on May 20, 1927, when he departed for his first solo flight as a pilot across the Atlantic. Less than five years later, on ...

After Charles, they became pilots and passengers," he says. Lindbergh is using what he calls ... shaping driftwood found around the family home on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the child’s mother and a pilot herself, was pregnant with the couple’s second child. Jon Lindbergh, ...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was born on June 22, 1930. The son of Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the daughter of a diplomat, Baby Charlie was destined for fame.

Someone had taken 20-month-old Charles “Charlie” Augustus ... supporters threatened the new Lindbergh baby’s life after the trial that the family hired armed guards to keep watch over ...

Tabloids called the headline-making kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. in March 1932 “the crime of the century.” ...

On May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh left Long Island's Roosevelt Field in a single-engine plane built by Ryan Airlines. The plane, named the Spirit of St. Louis, would not touch ground again ...