Posted on 08/08/2021 12:30:35 PM PDT by DFG
Jon Lindbergh, a pioneering aquanaut and the son of legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh, has died aged 88.
He passed away on July 29 after a battle with metastatic renal cancer, his daughter told the New York Times.
While his father took to the skies, Jon took to the ocean - carving out a name for himself scavenging the depths of the seas as one of the world's earliest aquanauts.
He pioneered cave diving and participated in dangerous underwater rescues - including one to find a hydrogen bomb that was lost in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain in 1966, and became an acclaimed deep-sea diver and underwater demolition expert.
Jon spent most of his life in the public eye, initially because of his impressive parents. His father Charles was the first person to pilot a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, and his mother Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the first woman in the United States to earn a glider pilot's license.
It was tragedy, however, that cemented the couple as a household name after their first child, Charles Jr, was abducted and murdered in 1932 in what was branded 'the crime of the century'.
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Really Daily Mail, you couldn’t just say Charles Lindbergh’s son dies?
Yeah, I mean, he was Lindbergh’s baby too.
A recent theory claims Charles Lindbergh murdered his child.
An accomplished man in his own right. RIP.
Who knew ?
Yep! It was on Family Guy. After all, they predicted that Bruce Jenner would become a chick.
Wow, bonifide Blast From the Past.
Wow, bonifide Blast From the Past.
Charles Lindbergh's public reputation and renown were irreparably damaged by his Nazi sympathies prior to our entry into the war. He and Goering were good buddies....
Elizabeth Morrow, mentally ill aunt (sister to Anne) did it
“Lindbergh: the crime” by Behn
But Lindbergh covered it up and sent an innocent man to death.
RIP
Reading about Charles Lindbergh, I wondered if he was on the autism spectrum, and yes, there's speculation that he had Asperger's. That might explain a lot about his life, if not about his son's death.
RIP
I remember a conversation with my uncle in 1977, on the 50th anniversary of Lindbergh’s flight. He was convinced that Lindbergh’s achievement was greater than that of the astronauts walking on the moon.
He and Goering were good buddies....
Not so recent; I remember reading an article in the National Enquirer in the seventies that made that claim.
If you read up on the real evidence against Richard Hauptmann and not just the publicity-seeking conspiracy nuts, it looks like Hauptmann was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
So it is a very unfair slap in the face against Lindbergh that he suffers the loss of a baby and then faces these nutty accusations.
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