7:52am - Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York. The heavy plane, loaded with 450 gallons of fuel, clears telephone wires at the end of the runway by only 20 feet.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was kidnapped on March 1 ... postmarked from Brooklyn, New York, according to the Library of Congress. This ransom note increased the demanded amount to $70,000.

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

When Charles Lindbergh returned to the United States after making his historic solo flight from New York to Paris, he was both a hero and the biggest celebrity in the world. In the weeks and ...

Tabloids called the headline-making kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. in March 1932 “the crime of the century.” The victim was the first-born son of the nation’s most revered ...