In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Art & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum for a complex and delicate topic, Charles Lindbergh’s fall from grace just before World War II. 

Historian Melissa Peterson recently gave a presentation about the odd turn of events and radio broadcasts in Lindbergh’s life that took him from being a world-renowned American hero to him being labeled as a Nazi sympathizer and Anti-Semite. 

It could also be through this 80 year lens of history that we might find answers to some of today’s problems, as many seem to have come around again, because at what point does a hero stop being a hero even if they feel they are doing what’s right? The answer is just a better question.

This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.

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