A ransom message sent on a postcard to Charles Lindbergh after the disappearance of his young son. The New York Times At the time of the boy’s kidnapping his father was a national hero.

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.

Charles Lindbergh agrees to pay the ransom for the safe return of his baby that had been stolen from its crib.

Charles David Lindberg SARATOGA SPRINGS – Charles David Lindberg, 88, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Sunday, January 15, 2017. Charles was born in Canton, Ohio on Febru… ...

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.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh began his historic solo transatlantic flight on this day in history, May 20, 1927. Departing from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, just before 8 a.m. on May 20 ...

They’ve been hiding in storage for 90 years: rare, never-before-published photographic images of Charles Lindbergh on his way to becoming Charles Lindbergh.

When Charles Lindbergh landed his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, at Amboy Airport in Camillus on July 28, 1927, he was arguably the most famous person in the western world.

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N.Y., May 20, 1927 (UP) -- Charles E. Lindbergh, alone and without ceremony sailed off into the gray of this foggy morning in his Ryan monoplane, shouting to his friends that ...

On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his Spirit of St. Louis, flying 3,600 miles from New York to Paris in just over 33 hours. Greeted by ...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne Marrow, was taken from his nursery at 20 months old, with the first of many ransom notes left behind.

While Maddow is expected to explore the nature of Lindbergh’s politics, the pilot is primarily known to people across the country for his May 1927 transatlantic flight from New York City to Paris.