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Charles Lindbergh

Confronting the Lindbergh legacy in St. Louis

Confronting the Lindbergh legacy in St. Louis

SHULA NEUMAN, Special To The Jewish LightPublished February 20, 2024

On Dec. 13, 1930, about 2,000 people representing the elite of St. Louis society gathered at the Bridle Spur Hunt Club in Huntleigh Village to celebrate the dedication of a newly paved highway. What was once Denny Road was re-named Lindbergh Boulevard. The...

Confronting the Lindbergh legacy: Chapter 1

Confronting the Lindbergh legacy: Chapter 1

Shula Neuman, Special To The Jewish LightPublished February 20, 2024

On Dec. 13, 1930, about 2,000 people representing the elite of St. Louis society gathered at the Bridle Spur Hunt Club in Huntleigh Village to celebrate the dedication of a newly paved highway. What was once Denny Road was re-named Lindbergh Boulevard. The...

Lindbergh and antisemitism: Chapter 2

Lindbergh and antisemitism: Chapter 2

SHULA NEUMAN, Special To The Jewish LightPublished February 20, 2024

Once home, Lindbergh joined the debate over whether or not the U.S. should get involved in the European war. Lindbergh was firmly in the isolationist camp. He publicly sparred with President Franklin Roosevelt and fell in with the America First Committee,...

Lindbergh, the hero's fall (temporarily): Chapter 3

Lindbergh, the hero’s fall (temporarily): Chapter 3

Shula Neuman, Special To The Jewish LightPublished February 20, 2024

In the fall of 1941, newspapers were filled with accounts of the blitzkrieg in London as well as Hitler’s invasions of more European countries — Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands and France, to name a few. And some news of how the Nazis were treating...

What do we do about Lindbergh? Chapter 4

What do we do about Lindbergh? Chapter 4

Shula Neuman, Special To The Jewish LightPublished February 20, 2024

As the Black Lives Matter movement has grown, so, too, have workplace and campus workshops in equity, belonging, inclusion and diversity. More than half of college students surveyed by the ADL say they have taken such training where they learn, among...

Charles Lindbergh stands beside 
the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927.

Excerpts of Lindbergh’s ‘America First’ speech in 1941

Published February 20, 2024

  The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration... The second major group I mentioned is the Jewish. It is not difficult to understand why Jewish...

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