Cancer Deaths in Hawaii - Charles Lindbergh, Ann Dunham, Terence McKenna, Madelyn Dunham, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Harold Sakata, Glen Grant (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Charles Lindbergh, Ann Dunham, Terence McKenna, Madelyn Dunham, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Harold Sakata, Glen Grant, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Kennedy, Peter Maivia, Kui Lee, Eugene Landy, Corky Trinidad, Rell Sunn, George Na'ope, Barbara Marshall, Gardner McKay, Jimmie Dodd, Ed Cobb, Carl Liscombe, Evelyn Ankers, John Sylvester White, Michael Knox, Ray Bumatai, Alfred Masini, Runa Takamura, Florence Rice, Loyal Garner, Malaetasi Togafau. Excerpt: Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 - August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20-21, 1927, from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh relentlessly used his fame to help promote the rapid development of U.S. commercial aviation. In March 1932, however, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century" which eventually led to the Lindbergh family fleeing the United States in December 1935 to live in Europe where they remained until the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Before the United States formally entered World War II by declaring war on Japan on December 8, 1941, Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate of keeping the U.S. out of the w...