2003-08-02 04:00:00 PDT Frankfurt, Germany-- Charles A. Lindbergh's sympathy for the Nazi regime in prewar Germany has long been a stain on his gilded legacy -- a puzzling detour in a life of ...

Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit and raised on a farm near Little Falls, Minn., caused a sensation by flying his single-engine plane The Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in 33{ hours ...

Family triumph (Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight) and tragedy (the kidnapping “crime of the century”) shaped his early life, but he made his mark in the depths.

But Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest of the children of Charles and Anne and now an established author, has always had a different attitude. For her, the media spotlight is as natural as sunshine.

But in 1932 the Lindbergh family were also victims of a terrible crime that led to what was called "the trial of the century." At varying times Charles Lindbergh was a national hero — for his ...

Less than five years later, on March 1, 1932, tragedy struck his family when his 20-month-old baby, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was abducted from his New Jersey home with a $50,000 ransom note ...

Five years after Lindbergh’s famed 1927 flight, his first son Charles Jr. was kidnapped in March 1932. The family received a ransom note from Richard Hauptmann.

Last year, Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, made a visit to Hawthorn Hill, the historic Wright family mansion.

Just outside of Little Falls is a historic site open only in the summertime, so you still have several weeks to plan a visit. The Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site has the preserved childhood ...