Charles Lindbergh: American Hero or Nazi Sympathizer?

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    Source/Further reading:
    Bryson, B., 2014. One Summer. London: Black Swan. Book.
    “Charles Lindbergh: An American Aviator”. charleslindbergh.com. Accessed June 16-23, 2020. Website.
    "Charles Lindbergh in Combat, 1944," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2006). Accessed June 22, 2020. Online Article.
    History.com Editors, 2009. Revised 2020. “Charles Lindbergh”. www.history.com/topics/explor... . Accessed April 25, 2020. Online Article.
    Lindbergh Kidnapping Index. “Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Kidnapping, March 1, 1932”. charleslindbergh.com/kidnap . Accessed June 20, 2020. Online Article.
    Lindbergh, R., Under A Wing, A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster. Book.
    Longines. “History of Longines in 1931”. www.longines.com/company/hist...
    Accessed June 19, 2020. Online Article.
    PBS.org . “Lindbergh: Daredevil”. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... . Accessed June 17, 2020. Online Article.
    Smithsonian Magazine. “To Save His Dying Sister-In-Law, Charles Lindbergh Invented a Medical Device”. smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/save-his-dying-sister-law-charles-lindbergh-Invented-medical-device-180956526/ . Accessed June 19, 2020. Online Article.
    Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. “Ryan NYP ‘Spirit of St. Louis’”. airandspace.si.edu: Accessed April 26, 2020. Online Article.
    The Aviation History Online Museum. All rights reserved. “Capt. John Alcock and
    Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown”. Created February 9, 1998. Updated July 22, 2014. Accessed June 16, 2020. Online Article.
    The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Revised March 25, 2020. “Charles Lindbergh”. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Accessed April 26, 2020. Online Article.
    The New York Times. “Lindbergh Quits Air Corps; Sees His Loyalty Questioned”. www.nytimes.com/1941/04/29/ar... . Accessed June 22, 2020. Newspaper Archive

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

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    • @chronic_hip_and_back_pain
      @chronic_hip_and_back_pain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Jayden Emmanuel
      ?

    • @makeracistsafraidagain
      @makeracistsafraidagain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please!
      It is called the "Medal of Honor".
      No "Congressional"!
      Thank you.
      I had the great honor of saluting TWO heroes wearing the award while I was in uniform.

    • @melissadwiggins
      @melissadwiggins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jayden Emmanuel
      Tf?

    • @bicyclist2
      @bicyclist2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FYI: There's two (ii) at the end of Hawaii. You misspelled the 50th state. Just thought you should know.

    • @KJ4663
      @KJ4663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do Caravagiggio

  • @robdon3472
    @robdon3472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Albert Einstein wanting Linburgh to fly a message to FDR warning him about nuclear fision is the craziest sentence I've never heard before

    • @1158scott
      @1158scott ปีที่แล้ว

      This is absolute, laughable, garbage. As is most of this worthless, misinformation video.

  • @hectorsmommy1717
    @hectorsmommy1717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    My Dad remembers playing outside as a small boy (would have been 7 or 8) and hearing a noise. Looking up, he saw the Spirit of St. Louis flying pretty low overhead. Lindbergh was on one of his barnstorming jaunts around the country and he always flew fairly low over populated areas as part of his publicity. Dad thinks he was heading to the state capital 30 miles away.

  • @RickRobinCagnaan
    @RickRobinCagnaan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    One fun fact is that Lindbergh went to the Philippines, particularly Southern Mindanao, and specifically Davao. He led conservation efforts to save the Philippine eagle.

    • @densealloy
      @densealloy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      He also helped the pjlots in the pacific theater extend their range on their F4U Corsairs and later the P-38 Lightings. He was able to actually double the range on the Corsair by adjusting the air fuel mixture all while carrying double the planes capacity.
      Edit...I made this comment at the beginning of video and Simon "sorta" covered this.....

    • @maxheadrom3088
      @maxheadrom3088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      People recently have found out that great historic figures were also humans and then got really surprised! For some reason I was not surprised by their surprise.

    • @frankreynolds9418
      @frankreynolds9418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      If he spent time in the Philippines then there are probably a few half Filipino half Lindbergh people running around. This guy laid it down everywhere he went.

    • @maxheadrom3088
      @maxheadrom3088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@frankreynolds9418 Thank God for condoms!
      God won't mind the joke, don't worry.

    • @ferociousgumby
      @ferociousgumby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@frankreynolds9418 I was just thinking that. He could repopulate half the island.

  • @marinusvonzilio9628
    @marinusvonzilio9628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Just a little correction, that quote at the start, about the "Byzantine layers of deception on the part of our shared father", that was not said by any of the illegitimate children, it is quote from Reeve Lindbergh, Charles' youngest child with his wife Anne.

  • @fiveninecummins7768
    @fiveninecummins7768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Henry Ford is also fascinating when it comes to this. If I'm not mistaken, Hitler adored him and he even had a portrait of him in his office. I believe he was one of the ONLY Americans that he actually liked, let alone adored.

    • @tomflendodo7297
      @tomflendodo7297 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Walt Disney were ALL NAZI'S !!!!!!!!!

    • @notastone4832
      @notastone4832 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nah.. edward bernays. hitler tried to hire him to do propaganda for germany.
      he was the guy who basically came up with modern propaganda (during the first world war, hitler found it so impressive he wanted to just hire him lol)

    • @bezllama3325
      @bezllama3325 ปีที่แล้ว

      Henry Ford was a Nazi through and through he ran the Dearborn Independent

    • @HairHoFla
      @HairHoFla ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Many Republicans and Industrialists were...the common denominator was anti-communism....read about "The Businessman's Plot" attempted coup against FDR 1934

    • @railrodemike
      @railrodemike ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes the 45th Division found a picture of Ford in Adolf Hitlers office.

  • @j1st633
    @j1st633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    Interesting to note. The court house that the trial of the accused killer of the Lindbergh baby still exists in Flemington, NJ. Every year in October, up until recently, a production company of volunteers act out the major evidence of the trial. Upon conclusion, the actors leave it up to the audience to decide whether he was guilty. It is a nice piece of history to be able to sit in the very seats that was used during the tiial.

    • @vanessathomas7437
      @vanessathomas7437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Interesting..

    • @PoeticProphetic
      @PoeticProphetic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I attended this a while back. It’s silly fun, but interesting

    • @flightofthebumblebee9529
      @flightofthebumblebee9529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hauptmann was innocent. He knew he was about to be executed anyway and the scumbaggish powers that be told him his wife would receive 50k if he admitted he did it and named his coconspirators and he still maintained his innocence.

    • @maryannemelenka9250
      @maryannemelenka9250 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What I can’t figure out, who would go to trouble with a big ladder like that climb I , grab a baby, going to be awkward carrying unless 2. Baby was probably smothered to keep from crying. I think someone from inside. I’m not sure of Lindbergh nazi thing. But there always something odd about this man. But

    • @dfuher968
      @dfuher968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@maryannemelenka9250 The ladder couldnt even hold Hauptmann's weight without the child, let alone with the child. He was a carpenter, he had access to tools and could easily make a proper ladder, yet they claimed, he made the rickety ladder, that wouldve broken under the weight of any adult, and used it to carry his own weight, much larger than the ladder could hold, and a 27 pound child down to the ground.
      And thats just 1 of the lies, they presented as "evidence" at the trial. I dont know, who really killed the Lindbergh baby, if Lindbergh himself had anything to do with it or not, but Hauptmann was innocent. He wasnt even in New Jersey, when the kidnapping happened, he was working in New York with plenty of witnesses, which the police discounted and hid at trial along with all the other exculpatory evidence they hid, while presenting manipulated or outright false "evidence", as has been confirmed by modern experts. Lets not forget, that all their expert witnesses from the handwriting expert to the wood expert had at first been either unable to connect Hauptmann to the crime or ruled him out alltogether, until the police needed a scapegoat, then they all suddenly changed their tune.

  • @cjthegood
    @cjthegood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    If you're going to make another bio video on World War 2 commanders, can you make it about Erich von Manstein?

    • @bigboy3332
      @bigboy3332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      😍😍😍😍yes von manstein

    • @cjthegood
      @cjthegood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      OMG! 69 likes! Epic! 😁

    • @chigwesibanyama1148
      @chigwesibanyama1148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes please

    • @doocieonu
      @doocieonu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck needs to take priority

    • @nickyork2137
      @nickyork2137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please do Manstein

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    2:00 - Chapter 1 - Childhood & early aviation
    4:45 - Chapter 2 - Spirit of st louis & famous flight
    8:30 - Chapter 3 - Using fame for good
    10:25 - Mid roll ads
    11:55 - Chapter 4 - Kidnapping & murder
    13:50 - Chapter 5 - Private life & political controversy
    17:10 - Chapter 6 - WWII
    18:40 - Chapter 7 - Double life & final years

    • @louisrockefeller9152
      @louisrockefeller9152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice of you to do. Thanks man

    • @johnnyknight614
      @johnnyknight614 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol I literally read this and immediately closed the video but had to come back and say thanks wasn’t the video i was looking for

  • @jimklein5491
    @jimklein5491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    The man who lead the NJ State Police investigation was Howard Norman Schwarzkopf. His son would lead the Coalition forces in Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

    • @vanessathomas7437
      @vanessathomas7437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Talk about 6 Degrees of Separation...

    • @cpegg5840
      @cpegg5840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Gen. Schwarzkopf was one of the finest American generals of all time

    • @kimmedavid
      @kimmedavid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cpegg5840 lol schwarzkopf is a Shampoo Brand in germany or an insult for Muslims 😂

    • @billdehappy1
      @billdehappy1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kimmedavid or in native swede for any and earlist my kind...romani than next next next but oh well..

    • @weebay6166
      @weebay6166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      PellzoPiri151 you wrote like 10 paragraphs and i didnt comprehend a single sentence. Bravo

  • @Redemptorchapter
    @Redemptorchapter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Eject without rockets isn't an ejection..before the seat..it was called "Bailing out"

    • @toddlerj102
      @toddlerj102 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Picky. Lol

    • @xys7536
      @xys7536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@toddlerj102 no correct 🤪

    • @Redemptorchapter
      @Redemptorchapter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And it killed as much as it saved..alot got killed striking the vertical stabilizer

    • @fchanMSI
      @fchanMSI 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Correct, there was no such a thing as an ejection seat until WWII & they used compressed air, gun powder or springs push the seat out of the aircraft. The modern ejection seats with rockets came after WWII.

    • @xys7536
      @xys7536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @frank hargreaves my statement was addressed to DEAN KING

  • @timbarnett6781
    @timbarnett6781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Simon. I came upon your biographics videos a few months ago. I just wanted you to know that I think these mini lectures on famous or infamous people are fantastic. I can't stop watching them....they're so interesting. I hope you keep producing them. Thank you for all of the research and information.

    • @rigaudmackson4167
      @rigaudmackson4167 ปีที่แล้ว

      After seeing this comment I became Ur first ever subscriber

  • @liamboyle9199
    @liamboyle9199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    He may have told P-38 pilots how to extend their combat range but in the book 'Race of Aces' they quoted that some pilots already knew of this tactic.
    Speaking of his time in the P-38, his eagerness to fly combat missions would end up derailing the career of Colonel MacDonald as he got in trouble for allowing Charles to get tangled in combat.
    (Hopefully I've remembered the book correctly)

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most pilots did know the best way to extend range already, but there is a tendency to credit CL with creating and implementing the techniques, not just broadening that knowledge.

  • @Leviackerman-bj1my
    @Leviackerman-bj1my 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic began on May 20th, 1927, when he left New York aboard his airplane 'The Spirit of St. Louis' and headed for Paris
    In October, 1923 Charles Lindbergh sold his first airplane to an aviation student. The plane was discovered almost 50 years later in a barn and now sits on display at Garden City, NY's Cradle of Aviation Museum

  • @jaredwilliams112
    @jaredwilliams112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Thanks for this one. A lot of people need to see this. It seems to shine a light on how famous people are, versus how they want us to view them.

    • @kronosomni2805
      @kronosomni2805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not all famous people let it go to their heads. To be fair, many do, but not all of them end up leaving scandals behind or getting into petty feuds with their celebrity counterparts.

    • @Stonecutter334
      @Stonecutter334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Next up Henry Ford. Another racist bastard. Sent ball bearings for Nazi planes.

    • @jasonwrenn8209
      @jasonwrenn8209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Stonecutter334 still a great man

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jasonwrenn8209 Right? Charles Lindbergh's overall impact on human civilisation was positive and exceptional, in spite of his ethical failings. From the advances in aviation and medical technology to his international conservation work.

    • @cristineconnell7803
      @cristineconnell7803 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@beno1129 I admire those that do great things for humanity while not trying to kill off half of it! He was a eugenist & supported the nazis!

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    interesting as always, i don't always see your videos due to being very busy, but appreciate them when i catch them.

  • @lonegamer6332
    @lonegamer6332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I wish they would have talked about the controversy of the kidnapping before

    • @jackmason5278
      @jackmason5278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It is said that Lindbergh kidnapped his own son to "prove a point", and accidentally killed him in the process. I believe it. He was known to have committed dangerous "practical jokes".

    • @lonegamer6332
      @lonegamer6332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jack Mason it really feels that they glossed over some things in this one.

    • @DMS-pq8
      @DMS-pq8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@jackmason5278 Also theory's that his son may have had developmental problems which a eugenicists like Lindbergh could not accept so he either had the boy purposely killed or arranged his kidnapping and the death was an accident

    • @drdre4397
      @drdre4397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lonegamer6332 Yeah like he didn't immediately want to be an advisor, he was denied the right to serve as a pilot under order of the whitehouse.

    • @SafetySpooon
      @SafetySpooon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jackmason5278 I have read a believable theory that it was a family member who was jealous of his wife (her sister - I forget exactly who, but the details made sense)

  • @edwardhaynes6728
    @edwardhaynes6728 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I always watch your videos I even have the other parents letting their kids these videos. Very educational. Thank you.

    • @roguespearsf
      @roguespearsf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You let your kids watch anti white propaganda?

  • @beaconite4249
    @beaconite4249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Corrections. B-24 was a bomber, not a fighter. I assume that’s why it starts with “B”. Spelled Hawaii wrong too.

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The Hawaii mis-spelling and the refeference to the B-24 would have come from the scriptwriters, who are Americans and should know better

    • @djzrobzombie2813
      @djzrobzombie2813 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      F/A-18 HORNET .... F = FIGHTER A= ATTACKER ( ground attack )

    • @castizopilled
      @castizopilled 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shebbs1 You been able to get braces for your teeth yet mate?

  • @chesspiece81
    @chesspiece81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As always Simon great video full of great information.

  • @oljag13
    @oljag13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please update your playlist. I have watched so many of your videos and I simply love them, but the new ones I can't find on any of the playlists. Thanks and keep up the great work 😊

  • @contentcop
    @contentcop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    This channel has made me 5% smarter and 50% more full of useless info. I love it.

  • @sarasweightlossjourney1432
    @sarasweightlossjourney1432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was an incredible video. I got to be honest I don't normally watch things like this all the way through but you kept me engaged the entire time. Bravo definitely a new subscriber

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The Spirit Of St. Louis would make an interesting Megaprojects!
    I live in San Diego, where it was built. The plane itself is displayed in the Air And Space Museum here in Balboa Park.

    • @rachaelsdaddontdrink
      @rachaelsdaddontdrink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The San Diego Air and Space museum is pretty cool, especially their static display of WWII naval fighters...
      Unfortunately, the "Spirit of St. Louis" on display there is a replica... The real aircraft is on display at the Smithsonian Institute...

  • @johnk6123
    @johnk6123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Horray nice and early, thanks Simon et al!

  • @kimjongun6746
    @kimjongun6746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    He was a good aviator, but not a good personality. He shouldn't have left his children searching for his identity. I was forced to live under a pseudonym in Switzerland during my childhood.

    • @towermoss
      @towermoss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Sure, whatever you say Kim.

    • @deedee4531
      @deedee4531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      What was your pseudonym . Sum ting wong

    • @cattibingo
      @cattibingo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@deedee4531 either that or Ho Lee Fuk

    • @Three_Random_Words
      @Three_Random_Words 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They say you dead, sister /scary Dragon Lady now in charge.

    • @kimjongun6746
      @kimjongun6746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Three_Random_Words I'm alive

  • @ghostofluck1811
    @ghostofluck1811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Biographics idea: Whitey Bulger?

    • @cpegg5840
      @cpegg5840 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whitey Bulger; the scumbag who was “Epstein’d” before Epstein 😂

  • @Lucixir
    @Lucixir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    My mother married "Charles Lindbergh the 3rd" who was my stepdad for about a year. He was a dickhead and the family constantly talked about Charles Lindbergh and tried living off his coattails but never amounted to much.
    I recall the family get together.
    Weird times....

    • @mikshinee87
      @mikshinee87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not surprising. Very rarely do children of famous people amount to much. Why should they if they have more money than they could reasonably spend. Perhaps that's why Mark Zuckerberg makes his children do chores like in a normal family.

    • @evaharvey840
      @evaharvey840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, people suck.

    • @21stcenturyfossil7
      @21stcenturyfossil7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      At least Chuck the 3rd had eugenics on his side, didn't he?

    • @eshim3961
      @eshim3961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm assuming that there was no relation between your stepfather and The aviator Charles Lindbergh, because Charles Lindbergh III was murdered at the age of two.

    • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
      @edmundblackaddercoc8522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eshim3961 lol

  • @balancedactguy
    @balancedactguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video Simon...Good Job!!

  • @Lanwarder
    @Lanwarder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I strongly recommend to watch "The Plot Against America". It's a 6 episode miniseries about a fictional alternate timeline in which Lindbergh would have become president instead of FDR and kept America from entering the war. It's in no way a documentary, but there are quite a few important factual elements and it's a good reflexion about what could have happened and what could easily happen.

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      watched it, and i actually really enjoyed it! it reminds of "the Man in the High Castle".
      though i wish they would actually show what happened in the election and whether America did actually join war. i recall they ended it just as the result was being announced.

    • @DahliaRich
      @DahliaRich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree. Great mini series. Well worth it. I purchased it after watching. Even though set in the 40s, there is so much that is relevant to today's politics.

    • @tomfrazier1103
      @tomfrazier1103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A popular play of the time was "It Can Happen Here", at least it was performed by some Hawaii High Schools in the immediate prewar.

    • @allhope_lost6448
      @allhope_lost6448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The real plot against America Charles A. Lindbergh SR literally tried to stop. As a prominent congressman during the inception of the Federal Reserve, private central banking scheme, he spoke vigorously about the dangers of what a central bank would bring.

    • @Lanwarder
      @Lanwarder 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      DahliaRich I couldn't agree more

  • @E2O10
    @E2O10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hm. I'll probably never know but i wonder why they would leave out a lot of the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping. I mean there were like 13 different ransom notes; The way he met his wife was through the wife's sister who he was initially visiting but who herself was away when he arrived and Charles fell in love with his future wife. This caused the mental breakdown of the sister who subsequently killed the Lindbergh family dog and once threw out charles jr with the trash - stated by the Lindbergh family nurse; Charles was also supposedly in the study right underneath junior's nursery during the night of the kidnapping. The study window faced the same way as the nursery window which the kidnapper used to enter/exit. There was evidence that the ladder broke during the descent and yet charles heard nothing - some believe that this was the moment that the baby died, accidentally during the fall.
    There are many more really shady facets of this story. This video made it seem like the person who was tried and executed for the crime was actually guilty of it. That's not at all a fact

  • @davidpeganyee
    @davidpeganyee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It can’t be said enough how much I appreciate the VOLUME

  • @mauricestanley6859
    @mauricestanley6859 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great show!!

  • @lauriehepinstall2636
    @lauriehepinstall2636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is a well done coverage of a complex man. I have appreciated your evenhanded portrayal

  • @pagangoddess5853
    @pagangoddess5853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Did you consider using the book, "The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Suspect #1: the man that got away" in your research? I believe the author posits a credible theory that Lindbergh himself was involved in the baby's Kidnapping and murder.

    • @roguespearsf
      @roguespearsf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely garbage, anytime someone espouses "wrong opinions", aka supporting the Germans in this case, these virtue signaling people really go out of their way to smear people. Did you ever stop to think that they may have been the good guys?

    • @robertn800
      @robertn800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Most recent book & shows Lindbergh’s cruelty, his dislike of his deformed son & was probably the one responsible for the toddler’s death.

    • @samtrujillojr
      @samtrujillojr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Dr Mark Felton has a really good piece on Lindbergh. In there he discusses the very real possibility that Lindbergh was indeed behind the murder of his own son. With his views on eugenics and having to be seen as the absolute perfect person, it would have been devastating to his ego if his child was anything but perfect and that became apparent as he grew up. He has done a great deal of research and he's a noted historian.

    • @leonieromanes7265
      @leonieromanes7265 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@roguespearsf who the Nazi's? No, they weren't the good guys.

    • @marcleblanc3602
      @marcleblanc3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robertn800 It doesnt show, no visual or footage, yes he was oldfashion hardknox father style, not delighted with a weak child but he was also tuff on the others as he had been. Not a fashionable modern day daddy but far cry to make him a childkiller. Not the only Celebrity to have affairs by FAR nor the last.

  • @QuietFury9
    @QuietFury9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Anyone else rediscover their love for history and then binged watched all videos after finding this channel?

  • @user-uq7io2os3r
    @user-uq7io2os3r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many thanks for great video goes to whole BIO team👍 Many thanks👍

  • @michaeltnk1135
    @michaeltnk1135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “After graduating high school” He was so close to mentioning my high school’s name

  • @samlbrown6665
    @samlbrown6665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    His career as an aviator was stellar ( excuse the pun ). However I will be overly generous when I say that he was a horribly misguided soul when it came to his personal views. Like the rest of us there is a Jeckyll / Hyde element in his make up.

    • @jefflewis4
      @jefflewis4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lindbergh became something some very intelligent or successful people become. The start to think they are better/superior and thus need to validate it by claiming they came from a superior race or class.

  • @scottmitchell358
    @scottmitchell358 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love BIO Graphics. KEEP THEM COMING!

  • @bluearrow_001
    @bluearrow_001 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video

  • @TrojanJustin
    @TrojanJustin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This video leaves out a lot of facts about the kidnapping which make Lindbergh an even more unsavory character, from running the investigation in such a way to completely stymie police, to playing practical jokes while supposedly searching for his son to his son's medical conditions which likely was the real reason he was "kidnapped."

    • @SafetySpooon
      @SafetySpooon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I also read one theory that says his own sister-in-law murdered the child out of an unstable jealousy, which was also explained/bolstered by his behavior.

    • @dfuher968
      @dfuher968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not to mention, that Hauptmann had several alibi witnesses to him working in New York at the time of the kidnapping, so couldnt have done it, along with all the expert witnesses suddenly changing their opinions from "not him" to "definitely him", once police needed to close the case, and Lindbergh had decreed, that Hauptmann was guilty. As well as the trial being a kangaroo court with a case based on flimsy circumstancial and in many cases false "evidence".

    • @Theanimeisforme
      @Theanimeisforme ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@dfuher968 read somewhere that ultimately it was due to being in possession of the ransom money that undid him.

    • @IrishMike22
      @IrishMike22 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Theanimeisforme yeah kinda hard to deny that...and the ladder built from his own supplies...Lindy was effin dirty and in bed with Hitler which is enough for me 👎

  • @jjc5475
    @jjc5475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    that facebook pop up was hilarious. GG lol.

    • @forbesy33
      @forbesy33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ha yes clever

  • @iloveshootingshit
    @iloveshootingshit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    16:36 am i the only one wondering why christmas music is being played.......no just me?

  • @axelj4963
    @axelj4963 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video again. It would be really cool if you could do some Australian related figures.

  • @orcasea59
    @orcasea59 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Lindberg's son, Charles, had a congenital birth defect that mortified senior, especially since their suitability as parents was a major aspect of his marriage to Ann. There are convincing arguments regarding Linberg's possible involvement in removing this painful embarrassment from his life and how his fame protected him from question. Given his professed values later in late none of the claims would have been surprising...

    • @TrojanJustin
      @TrojanJustin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yep ironically the defect was likely caused by him forcing Anne to take an unpressurized cross-country flight inhaling gas fumes with little oxygen. She begged to land but he pressed on and, upon landing, Anne was hospitalized for 6 days.

    • @marcleblanc3602
      @marcleblanc3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TrojanJustin dam that was nasty, he was there too right? Man was wreckless and tuffguy, not so gentleman indeed, much is possible but farcry of him being the killer, but the Culprit was no saint either.

    • @TransRoofKorean
      @TransRoofKorean 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      great men rarely are good men

    • @marcleblanc3602
      @marcleblanc3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TransRoofKorean kind of, not Saints thats for sure, but he was not a Conqueror.

    • @marcleblanc3602
      @marcleblanc3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jay Landau stupid this and nothing more

  • @frankmoore993
    @frankmoore993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The work Lindbergh did allowed P38 Lighting pilots to take out the most important military leader Japan had. Yamamoto - who organised the attack on Pearl Harbor. The island hopping campaign was the chief strategy of war in the pacific. The longer the range of US planes the fewer islands had to be taken by American Ground Forces. Thousands of US soldiers owe their lives to Lindberg.
    75% of Airmail Pilots Died. Surviving work as an airmail pilot was a Bid Deal. An Achievement in itself. With a fatality rate higher than ww1 combat. So Lindberg had more relevant experience than the air aces etc who died or were injured prior to Lindbergh's Attempt.
    He flew via dead reckoning and had the range to make landfall across a wide range of latitudes.
    Insofar as his anti semitism - there's no defence. There's no defence against racism expressed by anyone at any time. Today's leftists are casually and institutionally racist against Anglo Celtics. (Discuss)
    But Lindbergh strikes me as a pilot who could have and should have died a hundred times.
    What drives young males to take so many risks has been written about extensively.
    I see Lindbergh as a deeply traumatised pioneer pilot.
    Losing his son to a brutal murder, under the glare of international publicity must have reinforced his trauma.
    Not wanting his country tied up in a war is someone exercising their political rights. He had surveyed the developments in aviation in Japan and Germany and Britain. He reasoned that no one power could successfully mount a campaign to take US soil. So why should Americans die in another European War? That was his thinking.
    The activities of the Japanese Fascist Empire brought America into the war - so he made himself immediately available.
    Did Lindbergh deserve a Medal of Honor? I think so. He went after 6 others died and others were injured.
    I don't believe Lindbergh had any idea of the fame that awaited him.
    And fame is a double edged sword.

    • @stuart8663
      @stuart8663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Great response, Frank.

    • @frankmoore993
      @frankmoore993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stu Art Thanks Stu!

  • @adamfaul8129
    @adamfaul8129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi there biograhpics ! Thank you for great bios . I would love to get a bio on my hero Gene Autry. Started as a blues singer . Singer, cowboy,actor, ww2 vet, saved Ohio town with his pistol, the phantom empire " clearly an early star wars influence, wrote here comes Santa Claus, owner of the Angels MLB team, and the only human with 5 stars on the walk of Fame. Thank you guys! Keep educating !

  • @domenicosaviano5924
    @domenicosaviano5924 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What is not mentioned, that fought against the Nazis as a civilian contractor. He taught allied pilots, flew 50 combat missions and even engaged in a dog fight.

  • @sherriexsal
    @sherriexsal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I've always found Charles Lindbergh fascinating. I did a book report when I was in elementary school on him because even back then I was captivated with stories of people like Alan Turing,Jack Parsons,etc;... So I love your videos!!

  • @DougsMessyGarage
    @DougsMessyGarage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting character. While I have encountered snippets of Lindbergh's legend throughout my aviation hobby, this is the first time I have actually seen a summary of his life.

  • @darrensmith6999
    @darrensmith6999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant Thank you (:

  • @dseray9494
    @dseray9494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why is there a Christmas Carol playing in the background around 17:20?

  • @rfitz1711
    @rfitz1711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Fun fact: Hermann Goring is the chief suspect for the allies mole in Hitler's inner circle.

    • @jasonanfinson9346
      @jasonanfinson9346 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *goerring

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jasonanfinson9346 Göring is technicall correct.

    • @MetalboxwithKanon
      @MetalboxwithKanon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol then why would he be sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials and would commit suicide the night before he was to be hanged?

    • @vanessathomas7437
      @vanessathomas7437 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wouldn't be surprised..

    • @MrBobthebird
      @MrBobthebird 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Borman was the suspected Russian spy, as he recorded every word that was said in front of Hitler.

  • @ehrldawg
    @ehrldawg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another reason it was called *Spirit Of St Louis* ; he invite the citizens of St Louis,his home town at the time,to pitch in money for the effort.

  • @rickoftherick4610
    @rickoftherick4610 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The iced Puertorican treat "limbers" are according to legend named after him, as one of the legends goes the name was given to them after a photographer referred to the treat as "Colder than Limbergh" and from then on it was called that, another is that the treat was offered to him upon arriving in Puerto Rico, he liked it and from then on it became known as "limbers".

  • @Staggo_L
    @Staggo_L 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good video. You misspelled Hawaii.

  • @pgwchaos
    @pgwchaos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) had a large number of political cartoons, denouncing the Axis powers as well as isolationists like Lindbergh. Who is shown as ostriches with their heads in the ground. All of the political cartoons are in the art style of Dr. Seuss so it can be a bit weird, yet kind of awesome.

    • @WyattRyeSway
      @WyattRyeSway 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      PGW Chaos .....I have that book

    • @krazykkarl
      @krazykkarl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Dr. Seuss also was cheating on his ailing wife with her best friend which drove her to suicide.

    • @justinjluz
      @justinjluz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @lanner95 oh he was Juish?

    • @justinjluz
      @justinjluz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @LofiGooba it's like rolling snake eyes 100 times in a row 😆

    • @dirtcache6128
      @dirtcache6128 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But dr suess is racist

  • @jeanieq6153
    @jeanieq6153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I found the music selection weird and distracting and at times too loud in an otherwise excellent video. Many thanks.

  • @Mikefantasia22
    @Mikefantasia22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bruno was 100% innocent of the kidnapping, potentially the ransom as well.

    • @bethryan9077
      @bethryan9077 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't be soo Ridiculous.

  • @jacobhurt8246
    @jacobhurt8246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, please make one about Henry Ford

  • @donnyhh313
    @donnyhh313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You guys gotta do music composers like Mozart, etc

  • @aristaniara
    @aristaniara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    May I suggest that you consider going deeper into detail on the Lindbergh Trial? Saying that the handwriting matched is not completely true. That IS the abridged version, however, the handwriting did not actually match as shown in modern handwriting analysis (look at the G in the letter verses the handwriting sample and you'll see that they do not match at ALL). The trial took place in Flemington, NJ and all involved except poor Bruno, made it into a performance, not caring whether they did the trial correctly. The Union Hotel, across the street from the Courthouse in Flemington, was built solely for the purpose of housing the reporters for the trial. There's a lot more that I could potentially go into but I won't as this comment is already going long enough. I have lived in the area of the trial for my whole life and there are re-enactments of the trial today (due to COVID, I believe they have been put on hold.)

    • @Justatackit
      @Justatackit 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought something was wrong in this video because I remember way back in the 1970s or 80s hearing about the kidnapping and how suspicion still arises on who was actually responsible for the Lindbergh baby's death!

  • @murphystravels
    @murphystravels 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👍. Can we have an episode about J. Edgar Hoover

  • @Jiff321
    @Jiff321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a difference between being a great man and being a good man.

    • @houstonhelicoptertours1006
      @houstonhelicoptertours1006 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely. A good man upholds the status quo, does not question state nor elites and dies for Israel in some far-off desert.
      👍

  • @Nym146
    @Nym146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "Time Magazines man of the year"
    Oh, just like Hitler! 😂

    • @fredschnerbert1238
      @fredschnerbert1238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AND Greta Thunberg
      ALL with world domination on their minds...
      You Vil live as we say!

    • @ismth
      @ismth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fredschnerbert1238 get a grip

    • @pyromania1018
      @pyromania1018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The magazine actually mocked Hitler, predicting that he could raise hell in about a year if he wasn't stopped soon, while also condemning his persecution of the Jews. This was one year before the war kicked off.

    • @Nym146
      @Nym146 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pyromania1018 irrelevant to my point.

  • @CptCudlScoops
    @CptCudlScoops 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Both

  • @Angel_1394
    @Angel_1394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Learned more about him in the 20 minute video then I did years in school

  • @TillerMicroSkiffs
    @TillerMicroSkiffs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting! Ever think of doing a biographics on David Fairchild? Secret agent? Plant lover? He did more to steal/collect strategic agriculturally important plant species for the dept of agriculture and many foods we love today...

  • @kattsforeveryone
    @kattsforeveryone ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My Grammer called him a nazi murder. She always said he killed his son Lil Charlie

    • @nancyvillines4552
      @nancyvillines4552 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree with her. Always have.

  • @michellejade3272
    @michellejade3272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The “Timeless” episode featuring Lindbergh was great!

  • @cland49lsu1
    @cland49lsu1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    America: Where we will idolize you as a super hero if you are born rich, given literally everything, suffered absolutely zero consequences for your wrongs, and sympathized with fascist. Yeah, that's totally the only time this has happened.

  • @stischer47
    @stischer47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You forgot about "The Lindy Hop"

  • @alexanderveritas
    @alexanderveritas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think that indeed nothing else could’ve better described _Lindberg_ than the very words of _FDR._

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If his nickname was 'Daredevil Charles' why show a photo that clearly says 'Daredevil Lindbergh'???

  • @mssarah1101
    @mssarah1101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How about a video about the red orchestra?

  • @roberts1572
    @roberts1572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The amount of ads on youtube these days in astonishing.

    • @vinnyfatstacks1644
      @vinnyfatstacks1644 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s got great content but yeah, more ads than ever. You get what you pay for!

  • @johnstevenson9956
    @johnstevenson9956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    William Shirer attended a Charles Lindbergh lecture in Berlin before the war, in which he talked about what wonderful things the Nazis were doing. Shirer was disgusted that a man who was led around by the nose for a few days on a guided tour, should be lecturing journalists who had lived there for years and telling them "how it really was".

  • @jenniferspencer587
    @jenniferspencer587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wait! You never said how he died. If you're going to explain his entire life, why not finish with his death?

    • @YearsOfLeadPoisoning
      @YearsOfLeadPoisoning 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He died a humble labourer working at an Omaha cherry farm in 1911, but will always be remembered for his contributions to mountain folklore and famous desert recipes.

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Dani Mendoza Your hate and fear is showing

  • @ryanchancey781
    @ryanchancey781 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello, so I need help with something. My mom was throwing away a lot of old papers and I found 2 newspapers of the same but it's 1927 detroit press of when charles lindbergh landed in Paris and took a pic with his mom. Can someone please tell me how rare this paper could be? One of the news paper is in almost perfect condition, the other is in good condition.

  • @Niinsa62
    @Niinsa62 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You mention very briefly that he flew air mail, and you mention it only in passing, about how he found financers for his Atlantic solo flight. But I think there is more to it, this air mail business. He gained experience in long range solo flying and solo navigation, this way. So he definitely knew one or two things about what he was getting into, when he took off from New York City.

  • @hectorsmommy1717
    @hectorsmommy1717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Lindberg is a good reminder of how we need to separate the achievements from the person. We can celebrate one without celebrating the other. Just because someone does an incredible or heroic thing does not make them someone to emulate.

    • @roguespearsf
      @roguespearsf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or maybe some of us aren't blinded by 80+year old Soviet propaganda

    • @gomahklawm4446
      @gomahklawm4446 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Repent Keep crying about the truth. PATHETIC.

    • @ethanweeter2732
      @ethanweeter2732 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank-you! Too many people put men on a pedestal without vetting them.

  • @brianplanz9034
    @brianplanz9034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video! Although correct me if I'm wrong Hawaii was missing an i

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was missing. Poor editing, I reckon.

  • @Sn0wdawgz
    @Sn0wdawgz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was so good I watches it thrice

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Finally, I love you!

  • @aregularperson7573
    @aregularperson7573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In my opinion history is more complex that it seams at the surface and there if you look deeper you can get a better picture of the resining of the historical figure and there actions there is many cases of that the figures actions might have been done in good intent but they turn into disasters.

  • @ivanhunter6492
    @ivanhunter6492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    would you do one on Dante Alighieri

  • @agent_meister477
    @agent_meister477 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's been a long road, gettin' from there to here.

  • @romacooper1059
    @romacooper1059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you do a video on the king of the gypsy's bartly gormon

  • @jrow3101
    @jrow3101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    In school all they told you to consider is how wonderful Lindbergs flight was and they show you the ticker tape Parade, i had to get to college to really expand on who these ghostly historical figures really where. Thank you for making it easier for my children to digest reality fully.

    • @roguespearsf
      @roguespearsf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You let your children watch anti white/American propaganda?

    • @gomahklawm4446
      @gomahklawm4446 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @repent Keep crying. Truth is truth.

    • @michaelsmyth3935
      @michaelsmyth3935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@roguespearsf oooo edgy are you not? Go watch Alex Jones.

    • @lewisallan9963
      @lewisallan9963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@roguespearsf anti white/American propaganda.....WHAT

  • @dyveira
    @dyveira 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    "American hero who became a Nazi sympathizer" is probably more accurate.

    • @ugrena7419
      @ugrena7419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @SLCPunked You seem to have skimmed the video, or are just cherry picking points. The dude was a real scumbag, but he did some genuinely important things, multiple of which could have easily ended in his death.

    • @American-Orthodox-Christian
      @American-Orthodox-Christian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @SLCPunked While I do agree with the USA being in ww2, ww1 was mainly stupid monarchs trying to see who was better and the US had no reason being in it. WHAT IS SO HEROIC ABOUT AN AMERICAN FIGHTING IN AN EUROPEAN CONLFICT.

    • @natel9019
      @natel9019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They kidnapped his baby and murdered it ritualistically because he spoke the truth about which side we should have been on in WW2.
      America had far more German ancestry then English and we had millions of Irish and American Germans had millions of parents and grandparents who lived in Germany.

    • @American-Orthodox-Christian
      @American-Orthodox-Christian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nate L If your talking about ww2 Im glad we fought against the Germans. I am of German ancestry too. But ww1like I said the American deaths were pointless. We got rid of the idea of fat kings and queens in America so why fight for them in Europe. GOD DAMN THE QUEEN.

    • @American-Orthodox-Christian
      @American-Orthodox-Christian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nate L So you are a Fascist?

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon you need to do an entire video about the Limbergh kidnapping

  • @fulltimerver2355
    @fulltimerver2355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No mention of the information and theory that baby Lindbergh was born with a medical condition and Lindbergh may not have been willing to have a less than perfect name sake.

  • @gubbie2u
    @gubbie2u ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He was a traitor, pure and simple.

  • @hellsidefamilia
    @hellsidefamilia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Hawaii or Hawai’i, Not spelled “Hawai”.
    Also, he is buried here on Maui. Out in Kipahulu, near(ish) Hana.

  • @hunter_lite
    @hunter_lite ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Balanced review of Lindbergh. Some still persist in branding him a Nazi racist, in spite of his work with the Maasai tribe in East Africa and other indigenous groups. (In 1961 Lindbergh met Jilin ole “John” Konchellah, a warrior of the Maasai tribe in Africa. Konchellah described his way of life to a fascinated Lindbergh, who made several visits to Africa over the years.) Lindbergh also worked extensively with the Agta and Tasaday tribes in the Philippines.
    Prior to the second world war Lindbergh was fooled by the Germans into overestimating their aerial prowess. Isolationism was (and is) a dead end but at the time it was understandable given our WWI experience. Lindbergh was aghast when reports of the death camps came in during WWII. (Eugenics would make an excellent podcast. Most non-political adherents advocate producing healthy offspring of all ethnicities, not race purification as the Nazis claimed and promoted.)
    The multiple family thing is certainly over the top but essentially reinforces that he was a multi-layered very complex guy. I think the largest lesson from the Lindbergh phenomenon is the pernicious impact of celebrity. Given our celebrity saturated culture and times Charles Lindbergh's story is as cogent as ever.

  • @beagleissleeping5359
    @beagleissleeping5359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't know if it's truth or Hollywood: I remember a movie about him that had a scene where there was a fly inside his cockpit that kept buzzing around his face. It helped keep him from falling asleep during his long flight.

  • @aristotleasparaguspodcast1129
    @aristotleasparaguspodcast1129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He's both

    • @kenyattaclay7666
      @kenyattaclay7666 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't be both.

    • @aristotleasparaguspodcast1129
      @aristotleasparaguspodcast1129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Ezra Yaakov I'm literally Jewish dude, my real last name is Silverman and I had to remove it from my handle because of actual neo-nazis.. not to mention I'm pretty left-leaning on most issues

  • @judochopmaster8233
    @judochopmaster8233 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example;
    Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall
    General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed
    Confederate President Jefferson Davies
    Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War
    Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction
    Etc.
    I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel

    • @hellsing507
      @hellsing507 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don’t forget Vincent “claw hammer” Witcher the insane confederate paramilitary who would bash people’s brains out on suspicion of union sympathy’s

    • @judochopmaster8233
      @judochopmaster8233 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hellsing507 a fellow Atun Shei Films fan?

  • @robertconlon
    @robertconlon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Biographics Is Hawai'i spelt wrong? 17:24