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In the 2017 high-definition program, learn all about the incredible contributions Charles Lindbergh made to aviation. What were the significant events of Charles Lindbergh₂s early years? What was the Spirit of St. Louis? What were the noteworthy events of Lindbergh₂s life after his historic transatlantic flight and in his later years? The answers to all of these questions are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video....
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Climb into the cockpit of an exact replica of the fabled Spirit of St. Louis to experience a riveting, hour-by-hour reenactment of the danger, doubts, and fatigue endured by the young Charles Lindbergh on his record-shattering flights across the Atlantic. From exclusive, rarely-seen archival footage to the high suspense of Lindbergh's down-to-the-wire race against a formidable field of foreign competitors to be first across the Atlantic, it's an unforgettable...
76) Those angry days
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Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry into World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press, and on the streets.
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"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...
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In Flights of courage, take a trip back to the first cross-country daredevil pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service. In the Red Baron, a biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron, who shot down eighty Allied planes before he was killed. Lindbergh & the Spirit of St. Louis tells about Charles Lindbergh's thirty-three hour flight from New York to Paris on May 10, 1927. Extra features cover the beginnings of aviation with the Wright Brothers'...
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