lindbergh did not have advanced and navigational tools like a gps. he did not have a compass, and he had this method called dead reckoning, which would using stores, maps to plot his path. he is going to fly the polar circle, polar outs instead of flying over shipping lanes. he's flying a much shorter distance over the curvature of the earth. and he just gambles that he's gonna fly this way, through an as soon as he gets to europe's gonna figure out where is that. and he's gonna make his way to paris. he does that over the course of a day and a half. and he lands at -- just north of paris. and he's met by over 100,000 adoring fans in le bourget, people cheering him on. and at that moment, the unknown lindbergh, with flight technology, the person who worked with john hall, created this airplane, he enters into this legendary status as probably the supreme aviator of the world, especially in the united states. and he becomes a household name. in which the growth in the aviation industry is seen as a result of what he has done in this flight. even out i

lindbergh goes on a tour of latin america. when you look at the front of the spirit, you see the flags of the nations lindbergh visited and you see military insignia, which are from the army and marine units he interacted with over the course of that tour. upon return of that flight in february and then spring of 1928, lindbergh gives the spirit of st. louis to the smithsonian institution. that artifact stays on display through the history of the old national air museum and is on dish play in 1976 for the opening of the national mall building of the national air and space museum, where it's been on display ever since. the art fact behind me is the spirit of st. louis. it's the original fabric and metal. one of those one of a kind original artifacts, that makes it so important and why you need to see it. lindbergh's flight from new york to pairess is a very important moment in history of aviation. this idea of reinventing the airplane and especially pushing farther, faster equation that builds to crescendo in the 1930s. just a

this pop culture phenomena that lindbergh becomes as a result of this flight. it is a moment in which america turns the page in terms of understanding the power play of the airplane and excitement for that. in the wake of this flight to paris, lindbergh returns with the spirit and he is going to do a national tour. flew 1927. through 1927 in which hundreds of thousands of americans will see him fly. they read about the flight and now they're going to see him come to their hometown. by the end of the tour he goes to latin america and extends relations to latin america and flying long-distance there as women. on the well. on the front you see the flags he visited during his american tour and you see military insignia from the army and marine units that he interacted with over the course of that tour. ed upon return of that upon return of that in february 1978 lindbergh gives it to the smithsonian institution. that artifact stays on display arts and industry building, old tin shed through the history of the museum and on display in the opening of the national mall

would eventually have 3000 cases including the famous lindbergh case and came be the fda's correct detective. and indeed he tracked the not seat spy case in my book explains how i tried to read and eight thriller style with footnotes. four people were friendly committed to a guy who posed as the crown and wrote the letter in the system shooting huffman that i mentioned was in connection with honey chat. was the person who betrayed the design of the american fighter planes. the trial in the autumn in the fall of 1938 was a spectacle. people were shocked by what it revealed. it was a gruesome entertainment the next slide please. someone who said she had been the nurse when he was fighting against polio in the 1920s. she said she'd got to note members of the american military in particular establishments because of that assignment. after close examination of the records of the estate examined and this is lie. and celaya she claimed, that is the end of that image. who is a new tours new york semite took her to meet. [inaudible] then they proceeded to the hotel in berlin, next image please. this

it was used in the lindbergh baby case, a case i teach in criminal law. it's really, really a tough defense. here is the real problem for the defense. it starts to implicate donald trump directly. this defense is, i'm an insurrectionist, but i was acting under trump's orders. that's obviously counter to his message which is, oh, i told them to all be peaceful, whatever nonsense he claims he said on january 6th. i think it's a real thing to watch because i think it can give ammunition to the prosecutors as they look at trump's involvement and the house investigators. >> it's fascinating you say that. it ties to exactly a similar argument we're hearing from someone who may not be yet in the same camp of january 6th defendants. rudy giuliani says he did everything at the behest of trump. they're putting out leaking, without financial substantiation, that he needs money while trump has $100 million that he raised. giuliani was out discussing things in the context of the 9/11 memorial, but now he's pushing back over this argument that he may have illegally act