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Lindbergh baby's brother dies: Deep-sea diver son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh dies aged 88 after battle with cancer - 90 years after sibling was kidnapped and killed in 'crime of the century'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/08/2021 | Melissa Koenig

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'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: aquanaut; brother; charleslindberg; diving; jonlindberg; jonlindbergobit; lindbergh; morrow; obit

1 posted on 08/08/2021 12:30:35 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Really Daily Mail, you couldn’t just say Charles Lindbergh’s son dies?


2 posted on 08/08/2021 12:52:51 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mean Daddy

Yeah, I mean, he was Lindbergh’s baby too.


3 posted on 08/08/2021 12:54:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DFG

A recent theory claims Charles Lindbergh murdered his child.


4 posted on 08/08/2021 12:55:42 PM PDT by dainbramaged (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: DFG

An accomplished man in his own right. RIP.


5 posted on 08/08/2021 1:00:44 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: DFG

Who knew ?


6 posted on 08/08/2021 1:28:37 PM PDT by 11th_VA (I just learned a new word - Honkified (Lol !))
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To: dainbramaged

Yep! It was on Family Guy. After all, they predicted that Bruce Jenner would become a chick.


7 posted on 08/08/2021 1:30:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: DFG

Wow, bonifide Blast From the Past.


8 posted on 08/08/2021 1:35:58 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: DFG

Wow, bonifide Blast From the Past.


9 posted on 08/08/2021 1:36:00 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: DFG
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.

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....

10 posted on 08/08/2021 1:38:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: dainbramaged

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.


11 posted on 08/08/2021 1:41:55 PM PDT by SFmom
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To: DFG

RIP


12 posted on 08/08/2021 1:58:29 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: dainbramaged
There is a theory that it was an accident, a practical joke gone wrong, and a darker theory that Lindbergh thought the child was deformed and acted on his eugenic beliefs. Also the theory that the child's aunt did it, whether accidentally or on purpose.

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.

13 posted on 08/08/2021 1:59:13 PM PDT by x
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To: DFG

RIP


14 posted on 08/08/2021 2:02:15 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: DFG

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.


15 posted on 08/08/2021 2:33:10 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
It was on Family Guy.
Guess I missed that one. I used to enjoy cartoons all the time, then I turned seven.
16 posted on 08/08/2021 2:38:07 PM PDT by dainbramaged (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Rummyfan

He and Goering were good buddies....


I wouldn’t be surprised. Goering was a pretty good pilot in WWI and I’m sure he and Lindy could share lots of flying stories. Lindbergh certainly chose to overlook how vile the Nazis were.


17 posted on 08/08/2021 4:36:01 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: dainbramaged

Not so recent; I remember reading an article in the National Enquirer in the seventies that made that claim.


18 posted on 08/09/2021 12:16:06 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: dainbramaged

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.


19 posted on 08/09/2021 12:32:34 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( "...To the barricades...")
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