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Charles Lindbergh prepares for take-off on his trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927.

His trans-Atlantic flight, followed by the kidnapping and murder of his two-year-old son, had catapulted Charles Lindbergh, the Minnesota farm boy and St. Louis air mail pilot, to international celebrity.

But the constant press scrutiny d…

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