Monday, January 18, 2021

The Lindbergh Legacy

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Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.

Un-woke cogent people have a sense of history and thus they are familiar with the famous aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. 1902-1974 (few know about his father — please stay tuned). On May 20, 1927, Charles Augustus left New York aboard the plane named Spirit of St. Louis, and he arrived in Paris on May 21. Charles Jr. made this first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 hours, 29 minutes. As a result of this feat, Lindbergh gained immediate worldwide fame.

On March 21, 1929, Charles Jr. received the Congressional Medal of Honor and throughout the rest of his life he served America as an aviation advisor. On March 1, 1932, Richard Hauptmann kidnapped his 20-month-old son Charles Augustus, Jr. III from the Lindbergh home in New Jersey. The ransom demands dragged on for ten weeks and thereafter the officials found the body of the boy. Accounts show the boy died on the way out of the window of the house as the kidnapper's ladder failed. In 1934, police arrested Bruno Richard Hauptmann charging him with the murder. Convicted, Hauptmann faced execution in 1936. As a result of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Congress passed the “Lindbergh Law” which makes kidnapping a federal offense if the perpetrator(s) use the postal service for ransom demands or transport the victim across state lines.

The kidnapping was a sensation and the media along with onlookers constantly pestered the Lindbergh family. After the Hauptmann trial in 1935, Lindbergh with the rest of his family (wife, and their 3-year-old son Jon), moved to Europe in search of privacy and safety. In 1938, Charles Jr. accepted the German Eagle from Hermann Goering, the Nazis’ second in command. This raised questions about his loyalty. In 1939, he and his family returned to the United States. [1]

Charles Jr. railed against America’s voluntary involvement in World War II. While he campaigned against involvement in the war before the Pearl Harbor attack (1941), many people criticized him for his pacifism. It was not until the 1960’s that Charles Jr. spoke out again but this time it was for the conservation of natural resources. He no longer spoke about pacifist issues.

Charles Jr. joined the reserves and quickly rose to the rank of Colonel, but he resigned from his officer’s commission on April 29, 1941. However, he continued to serve in the Pacific during World War II as a technical advisor teaching fighter pilots how to increase the range of their planes. It was in this Pacific theater that he flew P-38 fighters in combat missions. A Japanese was shot down during one of those missions. After the war, Lindberg continued to serve the country in many ways, and on April 7, 1954, the military once again commissioned him, this time as a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserves.

During the last six years of life, Charles Jr. found his paradise in Maui, Hawaii and he built a home there. On August 26, 1974, at the age of 72, Charles Jr. passed away due to cancer. Following his request, his family buried him in his work clothing consisting of his favorite plaid shirt, khaki pants, and a Hudson’s Bay blanket he had once brought from Canada for his mother. Private services occurred at the Palapala Ho’omau church and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin headlined his departure “EAGLE’S FINAL FLIGHT.” The inscription on his gave near his home reads “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea” (Psalm 139).

Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

The aviator’s father, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr. (1859 – 1924) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and came to the United States in 1860 with his parents and they settled in Minnesota. Charles Sr. graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1883 with admission to the bar the same year. He practiced law in Little Falls, Minnesota. He served five terms in the House of Representatives from 1907 to 1917. He did not seek reelection for a sixth term and was unsuccessful in a bid for a seat in the Senate.

After serving in Congress, Charles Sr. resumed the practice of law and he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Minnesota as a Progressive Republican in 1918.  Smears by editors of the New York Times and raids on his home and office by federal agents damaged this campaign. Thereafter, he was a candidate for the nomination for Governor on the Farmer-Labor ticket in 1924, but he died on May 24, 1924, just before the primary election occurred. With the remains cremated, the ashes ended up in the columbarium in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

During his service as a Republican congressman, Charles Sr. attacked the methods of large industrial trusts and sponsored various reforms. He spearheaded the investigation of the money trusts and in particular the inherent troubles of the Federal Reserve. As a result, he faced demonization for his denunciation of war propaganda and profiteering. His 1917 book “Why Is Your Country at War?” faced suppression (like the cancel culture of today) and contributed to his defeated campaign for the Senate. He also wrote the book “The Economic Pinch,” first published in 1923 (currently reprinted with the cover “Lindbergh on the Federal Reserve), just one year before his sudden death during his second quest for Governor of Minnesota.

In his books, Charles Sr. outlines the money interests and their influence on the American economy. He details how under the Federal Reserve Act (see Creature From Jekyll Island), panics are scientifically created and how the money supply is controlled and created. He was the first public official to try and expose the fraudulent system birthed in 1913, the Federal Reserve. Charles Sr. would today be known as a radical extremist (for telling the truth) and just before the passage of the Federal Reserve Act (December 23, 1913) he said:

“The money trust deliberately caused the 1907 money panic and thereby forced Congress to create a National Monetary Commission which led to the ultimate creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic monetary trust on earth. When the President signs the bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Powers will be legalized. The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Powers, by taking control of Congress!...The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people from getting the benefit of their own government!”

Today, people of consequence who speak out about the perils of the Federal Reserve face demonization and/or face the Caustic Cancellation Culture Commission. If the majority of people knew money was backed by nothing it would crash. Can't have that.

Notes:

  1. In 2003, it was reported by a German newspaper that Charles Jr. the aviator had a mistress in Germany who bore him three children during a 17-year relationship that apparently remained hidden from his wife. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, Lindbergh met Brigitte Hesshaimer in Munich in 1957 when he was 55 and kept the relationship until his death in 1974. Hesshaimer, 24 years younger than Lindbergh, died in 1999, and her children – Dyrk, Astrid, and David – have decided to come forward about her relationship with the famed aviator, the respected Munich paper said. Your author does not mention this information to smear Charles Jr. but only, to be honest about the information at hand.

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