Lindbergh, Charles

An American aviator and military officer who completed the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Highly celebrated as a pioneer of aviation, Lindbergh was a prominent figure in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Following the tragic kidnapping and murder of his infant son in 1932, Lindbergh and his family spent several years in Europe. They returned to the US in 1939 and, in the years prior to the US entry into World War II, Lindbergh became an outspoken supporter of the isolationist America First Committee, and was widely perceived to hold antisemitic views.