Now It's History

Now It's History

Charles Lindbergh's kidnapping nightmare

His remarkable flight and the wreckage that followed

Richard Galant
Mar 06, 2026
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Charles Lindbergh and his 3-year old son, Jon, arriving in Liverpool, England on the freighter S.S. American Importer, December 31, 1935. (Universal Newsreel)

“You know what you want,” Evangeline Lindbergh wrote in reply to a letter from her son Charles. She couldn’t help adding a mother’s doubt: “…is a plane a wise investment & has the occupation of pil…

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