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TIME erred (perhaps only slightly) in saying that Col. Lindbergh in his broadcast speech represented "everybody." Although this is of no interest to the Colonel (or to TIME, or posterity) I beg to say that he did not represent...
...tradition started with a hero, Charles Lindbergh, who conquered the Atlantic by air to become the most inspiring newsmaker of 1927. In seven decades, TIME's Men and Women of the Year have included the despicable (Adolf Hitler in 1938), the majestic (Queen Elizabeth II in 1952), the visionary (Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963) and the revolutionary (Lech Walesa in 1981). There has been the man in uniform (G.I. Joe in 1950), the younger generation (1966) and an entire gender (American women, 1975). The computer beat out flesh and blood in 1982. And the earth itself became the biggest...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH 1927 The pioneer, flying alone across the Atlantic...
...involved with Baseball and turned the project over to Ives. A graduate of Harvard who began making corporate and documentary films in Texas, Ives was the co-producer of Burns' 1989 film The Congress, worked on The Civil War, and produced and directed a film on Charles Lindbergh for PBS before tackling The West. He has inherited his mentor's passion and volubility on the subject of American history. Ives likes to call the West the "great four-way stop sign of American history, where everyone was changed by the encounters they had." He adds, "I don't think...
...press frenzy around the kidnapping--and murder--of the son of hero aviator Charles Lindbergh was the prototype of such end-of-the-century sensations like the O.J.Simpson trial: "By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying 'token'--a simple affair used often by criminals of the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services...[Later] newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout...