Charles Lindbergh Parade in D.C.

Here’s a great find from the Internet Archive. It’s film footage of a ticker tape parade in honor of Charles Lindbergh in 1927, after he successfully crossed the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis.

Below is a great photo of him in front of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis.

Charles Lindbergh with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis

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  1. It is possible this is footage from the famous “Lindbergh race” where unprocessed film from the parade was put on a train and and plane and they raced to see which would be seen in NYC theaters first. The train, pulled along what we today call the Amtrak/Penn Line, by PRR engine #460, now preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, in Strasburg, PA, won on account of the film being processed and copied in a baggage car en-route, where the film on the plane was not processed until after landing. Engine #460 averaged 82 mph during the run, with a top speed of 115 mph, making the run in 2 hours 56 minutes.

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