June 22, 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Aviator and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh is born. Anne Morrow – born on June 22, 1906, in Englewood, New Jersey – met the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh while her father was ambassador to Mexico. They married in 1929, just two years after he’d flown his “Spirit of St. Louis” plane from New York to Paris, and one year after she’d graduated from college with two literary awards. Over the next two years, Lindbergh learned to fly, became the first American woman to get her glider’s license and earned her private pilot’s license. The couple spent their early years of marriage flying and charting routes all over the world. In 1934, Lindbergh became the first woman awarded the Hubbard Gold Medal from the National Geographic Society, for logging 40,000 miles over five continents with her husband. In her first book, North to the Orient, Lindbergh told of her single-engine flight from Canada to Japan and China, over uncharted routes. She went on to publish 12 books and five volumes of diaries and letters. Tragedy struck when one of the Lindberghs’ six children, a 20-month-old son, was kidnapped for ransom in 1932. Two months later, his body was found just two miles from the family home. Among Lindbergh’s many awards was being named into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She died on February 7, 2001.

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