This lesson supplements the book through video and images. It is to give you a sense for what you are reading about first-hand, since aspects of Lindbergh's flight were documented on film.
The first video, below, is an interview with Janet Lieberman who witnessed Lindbergh take off and then attended the parade in Brooklyn when he returned. She was six years old at the time, and the video helps provide some context for Kessner's focus on how Lindbergh's flight captured the imagination of so many Americans.
The next video is a short clip showing Lindbergh taking off from New York in 1927. Interestingly, the Nicholas Beazley Aviation Company in Marshall, Missouri, sold spare aircraft parts and also ran a flight school In Marshall in the 1920s and early 1930s. They have records showing they sold some of their parts to Lindbergh and he used them on his historic flight across the Atlantic.