Lindbergh

Roosevelt Field, Long Island, May 20, 1927.

1927 年 5 月 20 日，长岛罗斯福机场。

A 25-year old airmal pilot decides to take off for Paris, 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.

一名 25 岁的飞行员决定跨越大西洋 3,000 英里飞往巴黎。

Six men have already died in the attempt.

已有六人在这次尝试中死亡。

He is determined to do it alone.

他决心独自完成这件事。

NARRATOR: He was America's greatest hero, the most honored private citizen on earth.

旁白：他是美国最伟大的英雄，地球上最受尊敬的普通公民。

He lived a life of absolutes, never doubting his own abilities or the certainty of his own opinions.

他过着绝对的生活，从不怀疑自己的能力或自己观点的确定性。

He was a private man forced to endure agonizing personal tragedy in the full glare of a relentless press.

他是一个注重隐私的人，被迫在无情媒体的注视下忍受痛苦的个人悲剧。

In the air, he seemed to represent what was best about America, but back on the ground, his stubborn prejudice led many of those who had worshipped him to see him as a traitor.

在空中，他似乎代表了美国最好的一面，但回到地面上，他顽固的偏见导致许多崇拜他的人将他视为叛徒。

And yet, more than half a century after his flight, most people remember only the hero.

然而，在他逃亡半个多世纪后，大多数人只记得这位英雄。

REEVE LINDBERGH, Daughter: I think, really, that the country very much needed a hero at a certain time and he was there.

里夫·林德伯格，女儿：我真的认为，这个国家在某个时候非常需要一位英雄，而他就在那里。

I think there were people who needed a scapegoat or a villain at times and he was there.

我认为有些人有时需要替罪羊或恶棍，而他就在那里。

I think he represented a lot for people.

我认为他为人们代表了很多。

I think he represented something in the American spirit.

我认为他代表了美国精神。

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, Historian: I don't know.

历史学家阿瑟·施莱辛格：我不知道。

I think he was a man who very much misconceived the nature of the great struggle of the 20th century, which was a struggle between democracy and totalitarianism.

我认为他是一个对20世纪伟大斗争的本质有严重误解的人，这场斗争是民主与极权主义之间的斗争。

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Widow: He's been made an American hero, I think.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格（Anne Morrow Lindbergh），寡妇：我认为他已经成为美国英雄。

And partly that he did it alone and I think that's quite American, actually, to do things alone.

部分原因是他独自完成了这件事，我认为实际上，单独做事是非常美国化的。

ARNOLD FORSTER, Author: In my judgment, he was totally wrong in every area except in a pilot's seat in an airplane.

作者阿诺德·福斯特：根据我的判断，除了飞机飞行员的座位之外，他在所有方面都完全错误。

And I don't want to badmouth pilots, but pilots, if you'll forgive me, are chauffeurs.

我不想说飞行员的坏话，但请原谅我，飞行员是司机。

MAX LERNER, Historian: I think Lindbergh was not a simple American boy.

历史学家马克斯·勒纳：我认为林德伯格不是一个简单的美国男孩。

He was a very complex man.

他是一个非常复杂的人。

And I think he was someone who had recesses within recesses.

我认为他是一个有凹处的人。

And I don't think - I doubt whether anyone really knew him, with the possible exception of his wife.

我不认为——我怀疑是否有人真正认识他，除了他的妻子之外。

I'm not sure that he ever knew himself.

我不确定他是否认识自己。

NARRATOR: He was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902, and was raised on the family farm near Little Falls, Minnesota, on the West bank of the Mississippi.

旁白：1902 年 2 月 4 日，他出生于密歇根州底特律，在密西西比河西岸明尼苏达州利特尔福尔斯附近的家庭农场长大。

His father was a Swedish immigrant's son, a taciturn Minnesota lawyer and congressman so stoical that he once endured an operation on his stomach without anesthetic.

他的父亲是瑞典移民的儿子，是一位沉默寡言的明尼苏达州律师和国会议员，他非常坚忍，以至于他曾经在没有麻醉的情况下忍受了胃部手术。

He taught his son to be stoical, too.

他也教导儿子要坚忍。

When young Charles fell into the Mississippi, his father refused to jump in after him, confident the boy would teach himself to swim.

当年轻的查尔斯掉进密西西比河时，他的父亲拒绝跳进去追他，因为他相信男孩会自学游泳。

Charles' mother, Evangeline, was a high school teacher overprotective of her only child, but distant.

查尔斯的母亲伊万杰琳是一名高中老师，对她唯一的孩子过度保护，但却很疏远。

To the end of her life, she and her son shook hands before she went to bed.

直到生命的最后一刻，她和儿子在睡觉前都握手。

REEVE LINDBERGH: And I think she was unhappy, rather a hoverer over her son.

里夫·林德伯格：我认为她很不高兴，而是对她的儿子徘徊不前。

And my frivolous explanation - when people say, "Why on earth did he fly to Paris?" - my frivolous explanation was he did it to get away from his mother.

当人们说“他到底为什么飞往巴黎？”时，我做出了无聊的解释。 - 我轻率的解释是他这样做是为了逃离他的母亲。

NARRATOR: His parents' marriage fell apart when he was five and he spent a restless boyhood divided between them.

旁白：他父母的婚姻在他五岁时破裂了，他在父母的陪伴下度过了不安宁的童年。

Charles attended 11 schools, but did well at none, made few friends, showed no interest in girls, was subdued and serious and unfailingly solicitous of each of his parents.

查尔斯上过 11 所学校，但没有一所成绩很好，交的朋友很少，对女孩不感兴趣，性格内向、严肃，对父母总是很关心。

"I seem to be more of a kid than he does sometimes," his father told a friend.

“有时我看起来比他更像个孩子，”他的父亲告诉一位朋友。

In 1918, he served as his father's driver during his race for governor of Minnesota.

1918年，他在竞选明尼苏达州州长期间担任父亲的车手。

The campaign was a disaster.

这次竞选是一场灾难。

His father opposed America's entry into World War I and was denounced as a traitor, pelted with eggs and rocks, shot at, hanged in effigy.

他的父亲反对美国加入第一次世界大战，并被谴责为叛徒，被投掷鸡蛋和石块，被枪击，被绞死在肖像中。

His son never forgot the crowds and clamor and the danger they had posed or the proud silence his father displayed.

他的儿子永远不会忘记人群、喧嚣和它们所带来的危险，也不会忘记他父亲所表现出的自豪的沉默。

Young Charles loved speed and danger and testing his own courage.

年轻的查尔斯热爱速度和危险，也喜欢考验自己的勇气。

He enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Wisconsin, but ignored his studies and was asked to leave in his sophomore year.

他就读于威斯康星大学，是一名工程专业的学生，​​但他忽视了自己的学业，并在大二时被要求退学。

By then, he was determined to escape.

到那时，他就下定决心要逃走。

"When I was a child," Lindbergh remembered, "I spent hours lying on my back, watching white cumulus clouds drift overhead.

“当我还是个孩子的时候，”林德伯格回忆道，“我花了几个小时仰卧着，看着白色的积云在头顶飘过。

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if I had an airplane.

我想，如果我有一架飞机该多好啊。

Then I would ride on the wind and be part of the sky." He signed up for lessons with a Nebraska aircraft manufacturer and never forgot his first airplane ride.

然后我就会乘风而行，成为天空的一部分。”他报名参加了内布拉斯加州一家飞机制造商的课程，并且永远不会忘记他第一次乘坐飞机。

"Trees became bushes, barns toys.

“树木变成了灌木丛，谷仓的玩具。

Cows turned into rabbits as we climbed.

当我们攀登时，牛变成了兔子。

I lose all conscious connection with the past," he wrote.

我失去了与过去的所有有意识的联系，”他写道。

"I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger." MOYE STEPHENS, Test Pilot: Well, I think, of course every pilot - and I'm sure Lindbergh had it, too - that when you're up there, you're God.

“我只活在这个陌生的、不朽的空间里的当下，这里充满了美丽，却充满了危险。”莫耶·史蒂芬斯（MOYE STEPHENS），试飞员：嗯，我想，当然，每个飞行员——我相信林德伯格也有这样的想法——当你在上面时，你就是上帝。

You look down and you see the ants crawling around on the surface of the ground and you're above it all.

你往下看，你会看到蚂蚁在地面上爬来爬去，而你就在这一切之上。

WALT BALLARD, Barnstormer: Well, yeah, I felt like a king because that's the way people treated you.

沃尔特·巴拉德（Barnstormer）：嗯，是的，我感觉自己像个国王，因为这就是人们对待你的方式。

Treated you like you were a king.

像对待国王一样对待你。

People around the country had never seen an airplane before and that's what made the barnstorming popular.

全国各地的人们以前从未见过飞机，这就是巡回演讲之所以受欢迎的原因。

NARRATOR: Lindbergh began as a barnstormer's assistant.

旁白：林德伯格一开始是一名巡回演讲者的助理。

He was billed as "Daredevil Lindbergh," but his fellow barnstormers called him "Slim." In 1923, even before he had received his pilot's license, he sold his motorcycle and borrowed the rest of the $500 he needed to buy his first plane, a World War I surplus Jenny.

他被称为“夜魔侠林德伯格”，但他的巡回演讲者同伴却称他为“斯利姆”。 1923 年，在他获得飞行员执照之前，他就卖掉了摩托车，并借了剩下的 500 美元购买了他的第一架飞机，这是一架第一次世界大战剩余的珍妮飞机。

Lindbergh flew all over the West with a Brownie camera, his friend Leon Klink and a dog named Booster.

林德伯格带着布朗尼相机、他的朋友利昂·克林克和一只名叫助推器的狗飞遍了整个西部。

Spirals, barrel-rolls, tailspins, figure eights: Lindbergh learned to do them all.

螺旋、桶滚、尾旋、八字形：林德伯格学会了所有这些。

He flew anything he could get his hands on, was graduated as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Service reserve and in 1926, took a job flying the mail.

他驾驶过任何他能接触到的飞机，并以陆军航空兵预备役中尉的身份毕业，并于 1926 年找到了一份运送邮件的工作。

Thirty- one of the first 40 airmail pilots would be killed.

首批 40 名航空邮递飞行员中有 31 人丧生。

Lindbergh pioneered the route between St. Louis and Chicago.

林德伯格开创了圣路易斯和芝加哥之间的航线。

He landed in farmers' fields by flashlight, survived two crashes and soon grew bored.

他用手电筒降落在农田里，在两次坠机事故中幸存下来，很快就感到无聊。

"There's nothing to match yourself against," he said.

“没有什么可以与你相比，”他说。

For seven years, aviators had dreamed of flying nonstop from New York to Paris and winning the $25,000 Orteig prize.

七年来，飞行员们一直梦想着从纽约直飞巴黎，并赢得 25,000 美元的奥泰格奖金。

In September of 1926, French ace, Rene Fonck crashed with a crew of three.

1926 年 9 月，法国王牌飞行员雷内·丰克 (Rene Fonck) 与三名机组人员坠毁。

Two men burned to death.

两名男子被烧死。

A few days later, flying the mail from Peoria to Chicago, Lindbergh convinced himself that a lone flyer in a far lighter single-engine plane might succeed where Fonck and his crew had failed.

几天后，林德伯格将邮件从皮奥里亚空运到芝加哥，他说服自己，乘坐一架轻得多的单引擎飞机的孤独飞行者可能会在丰克和他的机组人员失败的地方取得成功。

BRENDAN GILL, Writer: At the time that he flew the Atlantic, there were other people who were flying with two and three people.

布伦丹·吉尔，作家：当他飞越大西洋时，还有其他人与两三个人一起飞行。

And he could have thought of wanting to fly with others, but it never would have crossed his mind to want to share that particular adventure with anybody else because the test that he was making was of himself.

他本可以想到想要与其他人一起飞行，但他从来没有想过想要与其他人分享这次特殊的冒险，因为他正在做的测试是针对他自己的。

NARRATOR: He withdrew his savings, convinced a band of St. Louis citizens that sponsoring the flight would be good for business and persuaded the president of Ryan Airlines of San Diego to build him a plane for $6,000, engine and instruments extra.

旁白：他提取了自己的积蓄，让一群圣路易斯市民相信赞助这次航班对生意有利，并说服圣地亚哥瑞安航空公司总裁以 6,000 美元的价格为他建造一架飞机，另外还包括发动机和仪器。

ED MORROW, Mechanic: We thought we had 90 days, but less than a week afterward, we found out it was only going to be 60.

机械师 ED MORROW：我们原以为还有 90 天的时间，但不到一周后，我们发现只剩下 60 天了。

And I'd thought we'd do well if we did it in 90.

我认为如果我们在 90 年代做到这一点，我们会做得很好。

NARRATOR: To Lindbergh, the weight of his plane was critical.

旁白：对于林德伯格来说，飞机的重量至关重要。

Everything unnecessary was to be left out: a radio, sextant, nightflying equipment, even a parachute.

一切不必要的东西都被排除在外：收音机、六分仪、夜间飞行设备，甚至降落伞。

The cockpit was to be placed behind the huge gas tanks because it was safest there in case of a crash, but it also meant unless he peered through a periscope or stuck his head out the side, Lindbergh would be flying blind.

驾驶舱被放置在巨大的油箱后面，因为在发生坠机事故时那里是最安全的，但这也意味着除非他通过潜望镜观察或将头伸出侧面，否则林德伯格将盲目飞行。

On April 28, right on schedule, his plane was finished.

4 月 28 日，他的飞机如期完工。

To please his backers, he had named it "The Spirit of St. Louis" On May 10th, Lindbergh left San Diego and headed for New York, the first stop on his way to Paris, navigating with a 50-cent Rand-McNally railroad map spread across his lap.

为了取悦他的支持者，他将其命名为“圣路易斯精神”。 5 月 10 日，林德伯格离开圣地亚哥，前往纽约，这是他前往巴黎的第一站，他的腿上铺着一张 50 美分的兰德-麦克纳利铁路地图。

Meanwhile, the race to Paris had continued to take its toll.

与此同时，前往巴黎的比赛继续造成损失。

A team led by the ace Clarence Chamberlain ran into trouble.

由王牌克拉伦斯·张伯伦领导的球队遇到了麻烦。

Richard Byrd, the first man to fly over the North Pole, crashed his tri-motor on a test flight.

理查德·伯德（Richard Byrd）是第一个飞越北极的人，他的三电机在试飞时坠毁。

On the other side of the Atlantic, two Frenchmen, Charles Nungesser and Francois Colli, took off from Paris for New York and were never seen again.

在大西洋的另一边，两名法国人查尔斯·南杰瑟和弗朗索瓦·科利从巴黎飞往纽约，之后就再也没有出现过。

When Lindbergh finally landed on Long Island, he was a sensation.

当林德伯格最终登陆长岛时，他引起了轰动。

He wanted publicity for the flight, he remembered, but he was put off by the reporters who rushed across the field even before the propellers stopped turning.

他记得，他想为这次飞行进行宣传，但在螺旋桨停止转动之前，记者就冲过机场，阻止了他。

The odds were so stacked against his lone flight to Paris, the newspapers called him, "The Flying Fool." His mother came to New York to see her son.

他独自飞往巴黎的可能性非常大，报纸称他为“飞行的傻瓜”。他的母亲来纽约看望她的儿子。

"We refused to take the maudlin positions some of the photographers had asked for," he wrote.

“我们拒绝采取一些摄影师要求的伤感立场，”他写道。

"The next day, I was startled to see newspaper photographs showing us in exactly those positions.

“第二天，我惊讶地看到报纸上的照片显示我们的位置完全相同。

I thought it cheaply sentimental and dishonest." For eight days, Lindbergh and his rivals were grounded by rain.

我认为这是廉价的感伤和不诚实的行为。”林德伯格和他的对手们因大雨而停飞了八天。

Then news of a break in the weather sent Lindbergh rushing to the field.

随后，天气好转的消息让林德伯格赶到了现场。

He had not slept for 23 hours on the morning he decided to take off.

决定起飞的那天早上，他已经23小时没有睡觉了。

Tension and a newspaperman's noisy poker game had kept him awake all night.

紧张的气氛和记者吵吵闹闹的扑克牌让他整晚都睡不着。

And all he packed to keep up his strength during the flight was a quart of water and five sandwiches.

他在飞行过程中为了保持体力只带了一夸脱水和五个三明治。

"If I get to Paris, I won't need any more," he explained, "and if I don't get to Paris, I won't need any more, either." Shortly after dawn on May 20th, he pushed down on the throttle and the plane began to move.

“如果我到了巴黎，我就不再需要任何东西了，”他解释道，“如果我不去巴黎，我也不再需要任何东西了。” 5月20日黎明后不久，他踩下油门，飞机开始移动。

"The Spirit of St.Louis" had never taken off with a full load of gasoline.

“圣路易斯精神号”从未满载汽油起飞。

It now weighed 2-1/2 tons.

它现在重2-1/2吨。

He cleared the telephone wires at the end of the field by less than 20 feet and disappeared into the fog.

他离开球场尽头的电话线不到 20 英尺，消失在雾中。

Newspapers reported Lindbergh over New England, then Nova Scotia.

报纸报道了林德伯格在新英格兰和新斯科舍的报道。

Then, he vanished.

然后，他就消失了。

JAMES NEWTON, Friend: When he disappeared after he left Newfoundland for 16 hours, no radio, no ships, no nothing, the world stood in awe.

詹姆斯·牛顿（JAMES NEWTON），朋友：当他离开纽芬兰16个小时后失踪时，没有无线电，没有船只，什么也没有，全世界都为之惊叹。

Here was this young man, in a day when aviation was almost unknown, he had disappeared.

这就是这个年轻人，在航空几乎不为人所知的日子里，他消失了。

And of course, the odds were totally against him.

当然，情况对他来说完全不利。

NARRATOR: Alone, Lindbergh flew on.

旁白：林德伯格独自飞翔。

After 17 hours, 40 without sleep, he had to hold his eyes open with his fingers.

17个小时之后，40个小时没有睡觉，他不得不用手指睁开眼睛。

Ghosts, he recalled - transparent, mistlike, with semi-human form - seemed to drift in and out of the fabric walls.

他回忆道，幽灵——透明、雾状、半人形——似乎在织物墙里进进出出。

One thought kept repeating itself: no alternative but death and failure.

有一个想法不断重复：除了死亡和失败，别无选择。

At last, in his 26th hour.

终于，在他的第26个小时里。

Ireland appeared through the clouds.

爱尔兰出现在云端。

"It is like rain after a drought," he wrote, "spring after a Northern winter.

“这就像干旱之后的雨，”他写道，“北方的冬天之后是春天。

I know how the dead would feel to live again." He flew on toward Paris, pleased that everything had gone just as he had planned, but he could never have foreseen what was waiting below.

我知道死者重生会是什么感觉。”他继续飞往巴黎，很高兴一切都按照他的计划进行，但他永远无法预见下面等待着的是什么。

At 10:22 p.m.

晚上 10 点 22 分

on May 21, 1927, after 33-1/2 hours in the air, his wheels finally touched the earth.

1927年5月21日，在空中飞行了33-1/2小时后，他的轮子终于接触了地面。

"Never in my life have I seen anything like that human sea," Lindbergh remembered.

“我一生中从未见过像人海这样的东西，”林德伯格回忆道。

"Dozens of hands took hold of me, my legs, my arms, my body.

“几十只手抓住了我，我的腿，我的手臂，我的身体。

I found myself on top of the crowd, in the center of an ocean of heads that extended as far out into the darkness as I could see." Two French pilots finally rescued him and he spent the rest of the night in the American embassy, wearing pajamas borrowed from the ambassador.

我发现自己站在人群的顶端，在一片头颅海洋的中心，头颅一直延伸到我所能看到的黑暗中。”两名法国飞行员最终救了他，他穿着从大使借来的睡衣在美国大使馆度过了余下的夜晚。

Overnight, Lindbergh had become the world's hero, but Americans had other ideas.

一夜之间，林德伯格成为了世界英雄，但美国人却有不同的想法。

Charles A.

查尔斯·A.

Lindbergh: When I landed at Le Bourget, I landed with the expectancy of being able to see Europe, but I found that it didn't make much difference whether I wanted to stay over there or not, as I was informed that while it wasn't an order to come back home, that there would be a battleship waiting for me next week.

林德伯格：当我降落在勒布尔热时，我满怀着能够看到欧洲的期待，但我发现我是否想留在那里并没有多大区别，因为我被告知虽然不是回家的命令，但下周会有一艘战舰在等着我。

NARRATOR: President Calvin Coolidge dispatched a warship to bring America's hero home.

旁白：卡尔文·柯立芝总统派遣一艘军舰将美国英雄带回家。

"The Flying Fool," had become "The Lone Eagle." Four and a half million New Yorkers turned out for a glimpse of him as he arrived in New York Harbor and rode up Broadway.

“飞翔的傻瓜”变成了“孤鹰”。当他抵达纽约港并沿着百老汇上行时，四百五十万纽约人前来一睹他的风采。

RADIO ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, this is Graham MacNamie speaking from Washington, D.C., awaiting Lindbergh.

广播播音员：广播听众的女士们、先生们，我是格雷厄姆·麦克纳米在华盛顿特区发言，正在等待林德伯格。

Lindbergh is coming down the gangplank, walking slowly, a darn nice boy.

林德伯格正走下跳板，慢慢地走着，真是个好孩子。

NARRATOR: Lindbergh was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor and the British Air Force Cross.

旁白：林德伯格荣获国会荣誉勋章、法国荣誉军团勋章和英国空军十字勋章。

Four thousand poets composed verse in his honor.

四千名诗人为他创作了诗歌。

He received 100,000 telegrams and cables, 14,000 packages and 3-1/2 million letters: requests for funds, proposals of marriage, the award of the Silver Buffalo from the Boy Scouts, a German shepherd, an airplane, a lifetime pass from the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues.

他收到了 100,000 份电报和电报、14,000 个包裹和 3-1/2 百万封信件：资金请求、求婚、童子军授予的银水牛奖、一只德国牧羊犬、一架飞机、美国职业棒球联盟协会颁发的终身通行证。

And there were job offers that would make him a wealthy man.

还有一些工作机会可以让他成为一个富有的人。

Mr. GILL: Nobody is prepared for what happens on a scale of what happened to Lindbergh.

吉尔先生：没有人对发生在林德伯格身上的事情做好准备。

Nobody could be ready for that.

没有人能为此做好准备。

He made his way, he found his way, he became something that he had it in him to become.

他创造了自己的道路，他找到了自己的道路，他成为了他有能力成为的人。

But it couldn't have been clear from one moment to the next.

但从这一刻到下一刻，它都不可能清楚。

NARRATOR: In the air, he still enjoyed the independence and total control he loved, but on the ground, they were increasingly denied to him.

旁白：在空中，他仍然享受着他所热爱的独立和完全控制，但在地面上，他却越来越无法获得这些。

The crowds believed he belonged to them.

人们相信他属于他们。

He wished to belong to no one.

他不想属于任何人。

At Kansas City, admirers rushed onto the airstrip as he came in, forcing him to crash-land in a cornfield.

在堪萨斯城，他一进来，崇拜者就冲上飞机跑道，迫使他迫降在玉米地里。

In St. Louis, women fought over a corncob he had gnawed.

在圣路易斯，妇女们为了他咬过的玉米芯而打架。

When he sent his shirts to the laundry, they were kept as mementos.

当他将衬衫送到洗衣店时，它们被保留下来作为纪念品。

In Little Falls, Minnesota, where the water tower was proudly painted "Hometown of Charles A.

在明尼苏达州小瀑布城，那里的水塔被自豪地涂成“查尔斯·A·查尔斯的故乡”。

Lindbergh," souvenir hunters tore the doorknobs off his boyhood home.

林德伯格，”纪念品猎人把他儿时家的门把手撕了下来。

And he came to resent the newspapers' insatiable, intrusive curiosity about him and to do all he could to thwart it.

他开始憎恨报纸对他永不满足的、侵入性的好奇心，并竭尽全力阻止这种好奇心。

"What is your destination, Colonel Lindbergh?" a reporter asked as he walked to his plane.

“你的目的地是哪里，林德伯格上校？”当他走向飞机时，一名记者问道。

"Indefinite, as always." "What general direction are you headed?" "up." Some editors wearied of the chase.

“一如既往，无限期。” “你的大致方向是什么？” “向上。”一些编辑厌倦了这种追逐。

"No more Lindbergh stories," one told his staff, "unless he crashes." On December 13, 1927, Lindbergh set off on a goodwill tour of Latin America.

“不再有林德伯格的故事了，”一位员工告诉他的员工，“除非他坠毁了。” 1927年12月13日，林德伯格启程前往拉丁美洲进行友好访问。

In Mexico City, 150,000 people cheered him as he landed, but the person he noticed most was the American ambassador's daughter, Anne Morrow.

在墨西哥城，当他降落时，15万人为他欢呼，但他最注意到的人是美国大使的女儿安妮·莫罗。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: I just remember him as this rather tall and good-looking and shy young man, that's all, standing in the door, standing at the top of the stairs.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：我只记得他是一个相当高大、英俊、害羞的年轻人，仅此而已，站在门口，站在楼梯顶上。

NARRATOR: She was a quiet, gifted poet, on Christmas vacation from Smith College and determined not to make a fool of herself over the most celebrated young man on earth.

旁白：她是一位安静、有天赋的诗人，在史密斯学院度假时，她决心不让自己在地球上最著名的年轻人身上出丑。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: I had different beaux who used to take me out and none of them were anything compared to him.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：我有不同的男友，他们经常带我出去，但他们中没有一个能与他相比。

But I don't think he was interested in me and my mother warned us, "He won't talk at the table and don't try to make conversation with him." So I didn't.

但我认为他对我不感兴趣，我母亲警告我们，“他不会在餐桌上说话，也不要试图与他交谈。”所以我没有。

I just sat absolutely quiet, quietly.

我只是静静地坐着。

And that's what he said he had remembered.

他说他记得的就是这些。

I was the first woman he sat next to who didn't try to talk to him.

我是他旁边第一个没有试图和他说话的女人。

REEVE LINDBERGH: I don't think my parents had any idea why they fell in love.

里夫·林德伯格：我认为我的父母不知道他们为什么会相爱。

They got to know each other not so much during the courtship, which was, I think, a real sort of thunderbolt for both of them.

在求爱期间，他们对彼此的了解并不多，我认为这对他们俩来说都是真正的晴天霹雳。

In large part, it was a physical relationship, a passionate, inexplicable - and always described by each of them as inexplicable connection.

在很大程度上，这是一种身体上的关系，一种充满激情的、莫名其妙的关系——而且总是被他们每个人描述为莫名其妙的联系。

NARRATOR: Looking back many years later, Lindbergh saw his courtship in genetic terms.

旁白：多年后回想起来，林德伯格从基因角度看待他的求爱。

"From the standpoint of both individual and species," he wrote, "mating involves the most important choice of life.

“从个人和物种的角度来看，”他写道，“交配涉及到生命中最重要的选择。

One mates not only with an individual, but also with that individual's environment and ancestry." Back in the United States, he began to teach Anne to fly a plane.

一个人不仅与一个人交配，而且还与该人的环境和祖先交配。”回到美国后，他开始教安妮驾驶飞机。

On May 27, 1929, they managed to be married quietly at the Morrows' home.

1929 年 5 月 27 日，他们在莫罗斯家悄悄结婚。

[song: "Lucky Lindy's lucky day".]But reporters followed them on their secret honeymoon cruise, circling 'round and 'round their motor launch for eight hours, hurling bottles in the hope that they could force the couple out on deck for photographs.

[歌曲：“幸运林迪的幸运日”。]但记者们跟随他们进行秘密蜜月巡游，在他们的机动汽艇上绕了一圈又一圈，长达八个小时，投掷瓶子，希望能迫使这对夫妇到甲板上拍照。

The newlyweds had no private life, Anne recalled, only public life.

安妮回忆说，这对新婚夫妇没有私人生活，只有公共生活。

"We had no home." In the quiet countryside near Hopewell, New Jersey, the Lindberghs built themselves a secluded house.

“我们没有家。”在新泽西州霍普韦尔附近安静的乡村，林德伯格一家为自己建造了一栋僻静的房子。

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Junior was born on June 22, 1930.

小查尔斯·奥古斯都·林德伯格 (Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Junior) 出生于 1930 年 6 月 22 日。

Anne called him, "My fat lamb." [song: "Hello Young Lindy".] On March 1, 1932, Anne and Charles were spending a quiet evening at their new house in Hopewell.

安妮称他为“我的肥羊羔”。 [歌曲：“Hello Young Lindy”。] 1932 年 3 月 1 日，安妮和查尔斯在霍普韦尔的新房子里度过了一个安静的夜晚。

Shortly after 10:00 p.m., the nurse went up to check on their son.

晚上10:00刚过，护士就上楼查看儿子的情况。

The baby was gone.

孩子不见了。

Rushing to the nursery, Charles found nothing but the warm blankets in which the baby had been sleeping.

查尔斯冲到育婴室，除了婴儿睡着的温暖毯子外什么也没找到。

1st NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: Now you are looking at the scene of the kidnapping.

第一个新闻片播音员：现在您正在观看绑架现场。

Up the rungs of this ladder, one of the kidnappers crept at night, to descend a few moments later with his tiny burden.

一名绑匪在夜间爬上梯子的横档，片刻后带着他那小小的担子爬了下来。

This ladder, some footprints and a warning note put into the empty crib were the only clues left behind for the police to work upon.

梯子、一些脚印和放在空婴儿床上的警告纸条是警方留下的唯一线索。

And here are motion pictures of the baby given out by Colonel Lindbergh to aid the public in recognizing him.

以下是林德伯格上校发放的婴儿的电影，以帮助公众认出他。

Only the gravity of the emergency led the colonel to depart from his wellknown aversion to publicity in everything concerning his family and personal matters.

只是紧急情况的严重性才导致上校在涉及家庭和个人事务的所有事情上一改他众所周知的厌恶公众形象的态度。

NARRATOR: Lindbergh insisted on directing the investigation himself and ransom money was duly delivered at night to a man in a Bronx cemetery, but the child was not returned.

旁白：林德伯格坚持亲自指挥调查，并在夜间将赎金按时交付给布朗克斯墓地的一名男子，但孩子没有归还。

Thirty-eight thousand letters arrived in five weeks.

五周内收到了三万八千封信。

Five thousand were from lunatics.

其中有五千人是疯子。

Another 12,000 described dreams about the kidnapping.

另外 12,000 人描述了有关绑架的梦。

Several letter writers offered the Lindberghs their own children as substitutes.

几位写信人提出，林德伯格夫妇愿意用自己的孩子作为替代品。

Then, 72 days after the kidnapping, a baby's corpse was found in a shallow grave not far from the house.

然后，在绑架发生 72 天后，在离房子不远的一个浅坟里发现了一具婴儿的尸体。

He had been dead since the night he was taken.

自从他被带走的那天晚上起，他就已经死了。

Reporters tried to break into the mortuary to snap a photograph.

记者试图闯入太平间拍照。

Lindbergh was able to identify his son's decomposed body by examining its teeth.

林德伯格通过检查牙齿辨认出了儿子腐烂的尸体。

REEVE LINDBERGH: I thought, "My God, how could you do this at such a time?" And then, I thought, immediately, no, that's exactly what he would do at such a time.

里夫·林德伯格：我想，“天啊，你怎么能在这种时候这么做？”然后，我立即想，不，这正是他在这种时候会做的事情。

He wouldn't be able to dissolve in grief or weep and wail or even talk about it, but he could examine carefully and clinically.

他无法沉浸在悲痛中，无法哭泣、哭泣，甚至无法谈论它，但他可以仔细地、临床地检查。

And that really was his strength - some people felt his weakness - but it was certainly the way he got through his life.

这确实是他的优势——有些人感觉到了他的弱点——但这肯定是他度过一生的方式。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: I have a theory that men and women treat tragedy differently and I think he had to escape.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：我有一个理论，认为男人和女人对待悲剧的方式不同，我认为他必须逃避。

He went flying and went on with his work.

他飞了起来并继续他的工作。

But I couldn't take it in one draft at all and I still can't.

但我根本无法在一稿中接受它，而且现在仍然不能。

I mean, when I draw the curtains at night, I- I think it's good to draw the curtains.

我的意思是，当我晚上拉上窗帘时，我-我认为拉上窗帘很好。

Somebody must have known that we were in the house, that I drew the curtains, you know.

你知道，一定有人知道我们在房子里，我拉上了窗帘。

These things come back to you.

这些事情都会回到你身边。

NARRATOR: Three months after the baby's body was found, Anne Lindbergh gave birth to a second son named Jon.

旁白：婴儿尸体被发现三个月后，安妮·林德伯格生下了第二个儿子，名叫乔恩。

Her husband implored the press to allow his new child to grow up normally.

她的丈夫恳求媒体让他的新孩子能够正常成长。

Then, on January 2, 1935, a German-born carpenter, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby.

随后，1935 年 1 月 2 日，出生于德国的木匠布鲁诺·理查德·豪普特曼 (Bruno Richard Hauptmann) 因谋杀林德伯格婴儿而受审。

Ransom money had been found hidden in his garage.

在他的车库里发现了藏匿的赎金。

He denied everything.

他否认了一切。

2nd NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: A placid town.

第二个新闻片播音员：一个平静的小镇。

An old-fashioned courthouse turns into a bedlam carnival.

老式法院变成了混乱的狂欢节。

Battalions of photographers with a concentration of lenses tell that Bruno Hauptmann is coming to trial in the little courtroom at Flemington, New Jersey.

大批摄影师集中镜头告诉人们，布鲁诺·豪普特曼即将在新泽西州弗莱明顿的小法庭受审。

NARRATOR: Novelists, movie stars, society matrons all competed for seats in the courtroom.

旁白：小说家、电影明星、社会名流都在争夺法庭的席位。

Peddlers did a brisk business in toy "kidnap ladders." Lindbergh made his way through the gawking crowd to court every day.

小贩的玩具“绑架梯”生意很红火。林德伯格每天都穿过目瞪口呆的人群来到法庭。

Both he and Anne took the stand.

他和安妮都出庭作证。

Hauptmann was found guilty and was sentenced to the electric chair.

豪普特曼被判有罪并被判处电椅。

"We Americans are a primitive people," Lindbergh told a friend.

“我们美国人是原始民族，”林德伯格告诉一位朋友。

"It shows in the newspapers, the morbid curiosity over crimes and murder trials.

“报纸上显示出人们对犯罪和谋杀审判的病态好奇。

Americans seem to have little respect for law or the rights of others." After three years of ceaseless harassment, Lindbergh could no longer bear to live in his own country.

美国人似乎不太尊重法律或他人的权利。”经过三年不断的骚扰，林德伯格再也无法忍受在自己的国家生活。

In December 1935, after receiving kidnap threats against his surviving son, he took his family and sailed for England.

1935 年 12 月，在收到对幸存儿子的绑架威胁后，他带着家人乘船前往英国。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: Well, it was very difficult, but I was very much concerned with my boy who was, what, I think about three.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：嗯，这非常困难，但我非常关心我的儿子，我想他是三个。

And my husband felt very strongly that we should live in a country where these things don't happen.

我丈夫强烈地认为我们应该生活在一个不会发生这些事情的国家。

JON LINDBERGH, Son: The kidnapping was always sort of in the background, but it had a very strong impact on both of my parents' lives.

乔恩·林德伯格，儿子：绑架事件总是在幕后发生，但它对我父母的生活产生了非常强烈的影响。

They tried to protect us as much as they could.

他们尽力保护我们。

As years went by, it eased off.

随着岁月的流逝，它逐渐减弱。

People were always worried.

人们总是很担心。

NARRATOR: They found sanctuary in the English countryside.

旁白：他们在英国乡村找到了避难所。

"I do think we did the right thing," Anne wrote home.

“我确实认为我们做了正确的事，”安妮在家里写信说。

"We have been bothered very little and seem to be left quietly alone here." His family was safe, but nothing in Charles Lindbergh's life as an aviator had prepared him for the role he would soon choose to play.

“我们很少受到打扰，似乎被安静地单独留在这里。”他的家人很安全，但查尔斯·林德伯格作为飞行员的生活并没有让他为他即将选择扮演的角色做好准备。

3rd NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: Brittany.

第三个新闻片播音员：布列塔尼。

Colonel Charles Lindbergh, America's most prominent expatriate, is in the news again.

美国最著名的侨民查尔斯·林德伯格上校再次成为新闻焦点。

He's turned up now off the coast of Northwestern France, where he's bought Illiec Isle and its old-world castle.

他现在出现在法国西北部海岸附近，在那里他买下了伊利克岛及其旧世界的城堡。

Lindbergh's nearest neighbor is Dr. Alexis Carrel .

林德伯格最近的邻居是亚历克西斯·卡雷尔博士。

They're going to do research together, a scientific hideaway.

他们将一起进行研究，这是一个科学的隐匿处。

NARRATOR: Lindbergh was fascinated by science, but largely self-educated and drawn to Dr. Alexis Carrel, a strange, brilliant French surgeon and winner of the Nobel prize.

旁白：林德伯格对科学着迷，但主要是自学成才，并被亚历克西斯·卡雷尔博士所吸引，他是一位奇怪而才华横溢的法国外科医生，也是诺贝尔奖获得者。

The two men had first worked together at the Rockefeller Institute, developing a pump that was a precursor of the artificial heart.

两人最初在洛克菲勒研究所合作开发了一种泵，这是人造心脏的前身。

In a book published in 1935, Carrel argued that men were definitely not created equal.

卡雷尔在 1935 年出版的一本书中指出，人人生来绝对不平等。

Scandinavians were the most highly civilized race, he wrote, "and instead of encouraging the survival of the unfit and the defective, we must help the strong.

他写道，斯堪的纳维亚人是最文明的种族，“我们不应该鼓励不健康和有缺陷的人生存，而必须帮助强者。

Only the elite makes the progress of the masses possible." In Carrel's Utopia, the violent, the criminally insane were to be gassed.

只有精英才能使大众的进步成为可能。”在卡雷尔的乌托邦中，暴力分子、精神错乱者将被处以毒气。

Lindbergh thought Carrel an extraordinarily great man and shared his belief that democracy was dying.

林德伯格认为卡雷尔是一位非凡的伟人，并与他一样相信民主正在消亡。

Mankind's future, both men agreed, seemed to lie elsewhere.

两人都同意，人类的未来似乎在别处。

Berlin, 1936.

柏林，1936 年。

While Nazi Germany played host to the summer Olympics, Adolf Hitler was building a mighty air force.

当纳粹德国主办夏季奥运会时，阿道夫·希特勒正在建设一支强大的空军。

He already claimed to command more warplanes than Britain, but no one knew precisely how large or how powerful his "Luftwaffe" really was.

他已经声称指挥的战机比英国还多，但没有人确切知道他的“德国空军”到底有多大、有多强大。

To find out, Lindbergh was invited to visit Germany by the American military attaché at Berlin.

为了找到答案，林德伯格应美国驻柏林武官的邀请访问德国。

The United States government hoped that the presence of the best-known aviator in the world would persuade Air Marshal Hermann Goering to show off German air power.

美国政府希望世界上最著名的飞行员的到来能够说服空军元帅赫尔曼·戈林展示德国的空中力量。

Lindbergh visited Germany three more times during the next two years.

在接下来的两年里，林德伯格又三次访问德国。

He was given unprecedented access to factories, took the controls of brand-new bombers and took note of fast-multiplying military airfields.

他获得了前所未有的进入工厂的权限，控制了全新的轰炸机，并注意到了快速增长的军用机场。

RICHARD KETCHUM, Historian: It was German policy at that time, I think, to magnify their military might in any way they possibly could.

历史学家理查德·凯彻姆：我认为，当时德国的政策是尽其所能地增强他们的军事力量。

And one of the best ways they could do it was to take a figure like Lindbergh, who was universally respected, and tell him that this was the size of their air force.

他们能做到的最好方法之一就是找像林德伯格这样受到普遍尊重的人物，并告诉他这就是他们空军的规模。

Mr. SCHLESINGER: And he frightened Joe Kennedy, who was our ambassador in London, he frightened Bill Bullit, who was our ambassador in Paris, with these recitals of German invincibility in the air.

施莱辛格先生：他在空中宣扬德国所向披靡，吓坏了我们驻伦敦大使乔·肯尼迪，也吓坏了我们驻巴黎大使比尔·布利特。

And he believed it himself.

而他自己也相信这一点。

NARRATOR: Lindbergh's conclusions pleased his hosts.

旁白：林德伯格的结论令东道主很满意。

"The Germans are a great people," he wrote.

“德国人是一个伟大的民族，”他写道。

He admired their technological skill, their virility, efficiency and emphasis on order.

他钦佩他们的技术能力、活力、效率和对秩序的重视。

And he made tentative plans to move his family to Berlin where the press could be kept away and he could be near the latest developments in aviation.

他还初步计划将家人搬到柏林，在那里可以远离媒体，也可以接触到航空业的最新发展。

In October of 1938, at a stag dinner at the American embassy in Berlin, Goering surprised Lindbergh by awarding him, on behalf of the Fuehrer, the Service Cross of the German Eagle for his contributions to aviation.

1938 年 10 月，在柏林美国大使馆举行的单身晚宴上，戈林代表元首授予他德国鹰服役十字勋章，以表彰他对航空的贡献，这令林德伯格感到惊讶。

When he showed the medal to Anne, she called it "the albatross," worried at what Americans might make of his accepting a Nazi decoration.

当他向安妮展示这枚奖章时，她称其为“信天翁”，担心美国人会如何看待他接受纳粹勋章。

Lindbergh was unconcerned.

林德伯格并不关心。

Even the savage assault on Jews, called "Kristallnacht," that left scores dead, thousands of Jewish businesses destroyed and hundreds of homes and synagogues in ruins, failed to arouse much indignation in him.

即使是对犹太人的野蛮袭击，即所谓的“水晶之夜”，造成数十人死亡，数千家犹太企业被毁，数百所房屋和犹太教堂成为废墟，也未能激起他的极大愤慨。

"I do not understand these riots on the part of the Germans," he wrote.

“我不理解德国人的这些骚乱，”他写道。

"It seems so contrary to their sense of order and intelligence.

“这似乎与他们的秩序感和智慧背道而驰。

They have undoubtedly had a difficult 'Jewish problem,' but why is it necessary to handle it so unreasonably?" But he did cancel plans to move to Germany.

他们无疑面临着一个棘手的‘犹太人问题’，但为什么要如此无理地处理呢？”但他确实取消了搬到德国的计划。

Convinced that a European war was inevitable and German victory certain, Lindbergh was determined to keep his country out of the struggle.

林德伯格深信欧洲战争不可避免，德国必将获胜，因此决心让自己的国家卷入这场斗争。

In April of 1939, he took his family and set sail for America.

1939年4月，他带着家人启航前往美国。

Five months later, Nazi troops stormed into Poland, supported by wave after wave of stuka dive bombers.

五个月后，纳粹军队在一波又一波斯图卡俯冲轰炸机的支援下攻入波兰。

Britain and France declared war on Germany.

英国和法国对德国宣战。

Both President Franklin Roosevelt and Lindbergh hoped that America could remain above the struggle, but Roosevelt also believed the survival of Western civilization demanded the defeat of the Nazis and he resolved to do all he could short of war to aid the Allies.

富兰克林·罗斯福总统和林德伯格都希望美国能够保持在斗争之上，但罗斯福也相信西方文明的生存需要击败纳粹，他决心在战争之外尽一切努力援助盟军。

Lindbergh was still America's greatest hero in spite of his frequent visits to Germany.

尽管林德伯格经常访问德国，但他仍然是美国最伟大的英雄。

Now, he set out to stop the president.

现在，他开始阻止总统。

Asked by a congressman who he hoped would win the war, Lindbergh answered, "I want neither side to win." CHARLES A.

当一位国会议员问他希望谁能赢得这场战争时，林德伯格回答说：“我不希望任何一方获胜。”查尔斯·A.

LINDBERGH: These wars in Europe are not wars in which our civilization is defending itself against some Asiatic intruder.

林德伯格：欧洲的这些战争并不是我们的文明为了抵御亚洲入侵者而进行的战争。

This is not a question of banding together to defend the white race against foreign invasion.

这不是一个团结起来保卫白人免受外国入侵的问题。

We must not permit our sentiment, our pity or our personal feelings of sympathy to obscure the issue, to affect our children's lives.

我们决不能让我们的情绪、我们的怜悯或我们个人的同情心掩盖这个问题，影响我们孩子的生活。

We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife.

我们必须像外科医生用刀一样客观。

NARRATOR: The real threat, Lindbergh believed, came from Asia and Africa and from Russia.

旁白：林德伯格认为，真正的威胁来自亚洲、非洲以及俄罗斯。

"Racial strength is vital," he said, "politics a luxury." In a "Readers' Digest" article, he wrote, "Only a Western wall of race and arms can hold back the infiltration of inferior blood and permit the white race to live at all in a pressing sea of yellow, black and brown." Mr. FORSTER: And I have to say, to my own regret that here was much racism across the entire white world in those years.

“种族力量至关重要，”他说，“政治是一种奢侈。”他在《读者文摘》的一篇文章中写道，“只有西方的种族和武器之墙才能阻止劣等血液的渗透，让白人生活在黄、黑、棕的逼迫海洋中。”福斯特先生：我不得不说，令我遗憾的是，那些年整个白人世界都存在很多种族主义。

He was not unusual.

他并不罕见。

He was part of the crowd in feeling that there was racial superiority in the white race.

他和其他人一样认为白人具有种族优越性。

NARRATOR: For more than two years, Lindbergh spoke for millions who opposed American intervention in another European war.

旁白：两年多来，林德伯格为数百万人反对美国干预另一场欧洲战争发声。

In 1941, he joined the board of the America First Committee a broad coalition that ranged from ardent pacifists to some who wished a Nazi victory.

1941 年，他加入了美国第一委员会的董事会，这是一个广泛的联盟，成员包括热心的和平主义者和一些希望纳粹胜利的人。

CHARLES A.

查尔斯·A.

LINDBERGH: France has now been defeated and despite the propaganda and confusion of recent months, it is now obvious that England is losing the war.

林德伯格：法国现在已经被打败了，尽管最近几个月进行了宣传和混乱，但现在很明显英国正在输掉这场战争。

I believe and I have been forced to the conclusion that we cannot win this war for England, regardless of how much assistance we send.

我相信并且我被迫得出这样的结论：无论我们提供多少援助，我们都无法为英格兰赢得这场战争。

NARRATOR: The debate had split the country.

旁白：这场辩论使国家分裂。

Lindbergh's old friends fell away.

林德伯格的老朋友们都疏远了。

Anne's mother publicly opposed him.

安妮的母亲公开反对他。

So did her sister.

她的姐姐也是如此。

President Roosevelt privately believed Lindbergh was a Nazi and publicly called him a defeatist, a "sunshine patriot." Lindbergh angrily resigned his commission as a colonel in the U.S. Air Corps Reserve.

罗斯福总统私下认为林德伯格是纳粹分子，并公开称他为失败主义者、“阳光爱国者”。林德伯格愤怒地辞去了美国空军预备役上校的职务。

Mr. LERNER: Yes.

勒纳先生：是的。

Of course, Franklin Roosevelt saw him as a symbol, a heroic symbol that was strengthening the isolationists.

当然，富兰克林·罗斯福把他视为一个象征，一个加强孤立主义者的英雄象征。

And so he saw him as the enemy and had to denounce him as the enemy.

所以他视他为敌人，不得不斥责他为敌人。

NARRATOR: In a speech at Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941, Lindbergh struck a troubling new note.

旁白：1941 年 9 月 11 日，林德伯格在爱荷华州得梅因的一次演讲中提出了一个令人不安的新观点。

There were three groups pressing the country toward war, he said, the British, the Roosevelt Administration and the Jews.

他说，有三个团体迫使这个国家走向战争，即英国人、罗斯福政府和犹太人。

"Instead of agitating for war, Jews in this country should be opposing it in every way," he warned, "for they will be the first to feel its consequences.

“这个国家的犹太人不应该煽动战争，而应该以各种方式反对战争，”他警告说，“因为他们将是第一个感受到战争后果的人。

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

宽容是一种美德，它依赖于和平与力量。

History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation." And he went still further.

历史表明它无法在战争和破坏中幸存下来。”他还走得更远。

"Large Jewish ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government," he charged, "constituted a great danger to our country." The press exploded.

他指责说：“犹太人在我们的电影、新闻、广播和政府中拥有巨大的所有权和影响力，这对我们的国家构成了巨大的危险。”媒体爆炸了。

"The voice is Lindbergh's," said the "San Francisco Chronicle," "but the words are the words of Hitler." "The speech was so intemperate, so unfair, so dangerous in its implications," said the "Des Moines Register," "that it disqualifies Lindbergh from any pretensions of leadership." ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: I was against his making that speech and he said, "But why?

《旧金山纪事报》称：“声音是林德伯格的，但文字却是希特勒的。” 《得梅因纪事报》称，“这次演讲的含义如此过激、如此不公平、如此危险，以至于林德伯格没有资格自诩为领导者。”安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：我反对他发表那次演讲，他说：“但是为什么呢？

It's perfectly true, isn't it?" I said, "Yes, but it's like lighting a match next to a heap of excelsior.

这是完全正确的，不是吗？”我说：“是的，但这就像在一堆精益求精旁边点燃一根火柴。

That's what you're doing," and which it turned out to be.

这就是你正在做的事情”，结果也确实如此。

But I didn't want him to mention the Jews because I felt he would be called anti-Semitic and he never got over that label.

但我不想让他提及犹太人，因为我觉得他会被称为反犹太主义者，而他从未摆脱这个标签。

Mr. FORSTER: It was my judgment that from the beginning, this man believed that Jews were on the other side of him and his position and he took out after them, the America First Committee suffered when he made that stupid and, I think, bigoted speech.

福斯特先生：我的判断是，从一开始，这个人就相信犹太人站在他和他的立场的另一边，他追随他们，美国第一委员会因他发表这种愚蠢且我认为偏执的言论而遭受损失。

NARRATOR: Even prominent isolationists now disassociated themselves from Lindbergh.

旁白：即使是著名的孤立主义者现在也与林德伯格划清界限。

For millions of Americans, the "Lone Eagle" had fallen from grace.

对于数百万美国人来说，“孤鹰”已经失宠。

In Charlotte, North Carolina, Lindbergh Drive became Avon Avenue.

在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特，林德伯格大道变成了雅芳大道。

Trans World Airlines stopped billing itself as the "Lindbergh Line." And 'back in his hometown of Little Falls, Minnesota, the water tower that proclaimed his birthplace was quietly painted over.

环球航空公司不再将自己称为“林德伯格线”。回到他的家乡明尼苏达州小瀑布市，宣告他出生地的水塔被悄悄地涂掉了。

Lindbergh stubbornly held his ground, never repudiated his Des Moines speech, never returned his Nazi medal.

林德伯格顽固地坚持自己的立场，从未否认他的得梅因演讲，也从未归还他的纳粹勋章。

Two days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh volunteered to serve in the war he had so vehemently opposed, but FDR refused to have him.

日本轰炸珍珠港两天后，林德伯格自愿参加他强烈反对的战争，但罗斯福拒绝接受他。

"You can't have an officer leading men who thinks we're licked before we start," an aide explained, "and that's that." It was a humiliating insult.

一名助手解释说：“你不能让一名军官在开始之前就认为我们被打败了，就是这样。”这是一种令人羞辱的侮辱。

Lindbergh found work as a civilian aviation consultant instead and in 1944, convinced United Aircraft to send him to the Pacific as an observer.

林德伯格找到了一份民用航空顾问的工作，并于 1944 年说服联合飞机公司将他派往太平洋担任观察员。

There, he convinced his superiors to let him fly combat missions against the Japanese.

在那里，他说服了上级让他执行对抗日本人的作战任务。

The 42-year-old Lindbergh showed the younger pilots how to save enough gas to extend their effective range by 500 miles, made strafing runs, flew 50 combat missions and shot down at least one enemy fighter in a dogfight.

42 岁的林德伯格向年轻飞行员展示了如何节省足够的燃油以将有效航程延长 500 英里，进行扫射飞行，执行 50 次战斗任务，并在混战中击落至少一架敌方战斗机。

REEVE LINDBERGH: To be flying a plane that was a bomber after "The Spirit of St. Louis," I think, was a very ambivalent thing for him, although I think he was very happy in the military.

里夫·林德伯格：在《圣路易斯精神》之后驾驶一架轰炸机，我认为对他来说是一件非常矛盾的事情，尽管我认为他在军队里很开心。

Everything was very well ordered and there was a kind of camaraderie and there wasn't the confusion and the tension of the rest of the world.

一切都井井有条，有一种友情，没有世界其他地方的混乱和紧张。

NARRATOR: In June 1945, Lindbergh flew into defeated Germany, saw the damage Allied bombing had done and visited part of the Belsen concentration camp.

旁白：1945 年 6 月，林德伯格飞往战败的德国，目睹了盟军轰炸造成的破坏，并参观了贝尔森集中营的部分地区。

He was led to the crematorium by a skeleton of a boy still dressed in his camp stripes.

他被一具仍穿着营地条纹的男孩骨架带到了火葬场。

He looked down on a row of large pits filled with ashes.

他俯视着一排布满灰烬的大坑。

"Twenty-five thousand in a year and a half," the boy told him, "and from each, there is only so much." He cupped his hands together to show the measure.

“一年半的时间里，有两万五千个，”男孩告诉他，“而每一个，也只有这么多。”他双手合拢，展示尺寸。

But Lindbergh could see no difference between victims of Nazi extermination and soldiers who died in combat.

但林德伯格认为纳粹灭绝的受害者和在战斗中阵亡的士兵之间没有任何区别。

"What the German has done to the Jew in Europe," he wrote, "we are doing to the Jap in the Pacific." He still believed he had been right about the war.

“德国人对欧洲犹太人所做的事情，”他写道，“我们正在太平洋地区对日本人做同样的事情。”他仍然相信他对战争的看法是正确的。

Mr. LERNER: He never really faced radical evil in the shape of the Nazis.

勒纳先生：他从未真正面对过纳粹形式的激进邪恶。

And it may be that he wasn't able to face it because he was way up there in the skies looking down and all of us were little tiny ant-like figures.

也许他无法面对它，因为他在高高的天空中往下看，而我们所有人都是蚂蚁般的小人物。

Mr. SCHLESINGER: Lindbergh, who was a man of invincible confidence in his own rectitude and infallibility, never wavered in the conviction that he had been right.

施莱辛格先生：林德伯格对自己的正直和正确无误有着无可战胜的信心，他坚信自己是对的，从未动摇过。

But he went on to other things.

但他继续做其他事情。

The world went on to other things.

世界继续做其他事情。

NARRATOR: The role that Lindbergh had played before the war was soon forgotten.

旁白：林德伯格在战前扮演的角色很快就被遗忘了。

It was Lindbergh, the hero, not the admirer of Hitler's Germany; Lindbergh the aviator, not the believer in racial superiority whom most Americans wanted to remember.

这是林德伯格，英雄，而不是希特勒德国的崇拜者；林德伯格是一位飞行员，而不是大多数美国人想要记住的种族优越论的信徒。

President Dwight Eisenhower restored him to the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a brigadier general and he won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Spirit of St. Louis," a book about the flight that had made him famous.

德怀特·艾森豪威尔总统将他恢复为美国空军预备役准将，他因《圣路易斯精神》一书获得普利策奖，这本书讲述了他的成名飞行经历。

But aviation alone no longer held his interest.

但航空不再引起他的兴趣。

He was soon in flight again from the everyday world of ordinary people, seeking in Nature this time, the order and solitude that had eluded him ever since his troubled boyhood.

很快，他再次逃离了普通人的日常生活，这一次，他在大自然中寻找秩序和孤独，而自从他童年时期陷入困境以来，这种秩序和孤独就一直困扰着他。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: Well, I think he was very disturbed by what the country that he knew and had flown over, what it was becoming.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：嗯，我认为他对他所了解并飞越的这个国家以及它正在变成的样子感到非常不安。

You notice this when you fly, how there's so little left of the real country.

当你飞行时你会注意到这一点，真正的国家已经所剩无几了。

He was disturbed by it and wanted to get further and further into the wilderness.

他为此感到不安，想要向荒野越走越远。

NARRATOR: Now the parents of five grown children, Charles and Anne built themselves a hideaway on the Eastern tip of the Hawaiian island of Maui.

旁白：现在，查尔斯和安妮是五个成年孩子的父母，他们在夏威夷毛伊岛的东端为自己建造了一个隐居处。

"Real freedom," Lindbergh came to believe, "lies in wildness, not civilization." "The construction of an airplane," he wrote, "is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird.

林德伯格逐渐相信，“真正的自由在于荒野，而不是文明。” “与鸟类的进化成就相比，”他写道，“飞机的构造很简单。

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." Lindbergh campaigned for sconservation around the globe and he opposed the development of the supersonic transport.

如果我必须选择的话，我宁愿选择鸟类，也不愿选择飞机。”林德伯格在全球范围内开展环境保护活动，并反对超音速运输机的发展。

It was a technological advance, he said, purchased at too great an environmental cost.

他说，这是一项以巨大的环境成本为代价换来的技术进步。

He began to revisit his own past, too, publishing his wartime diaries, beginning an autobiography, writing to old friends estranged before the war and stopping by to see "The Spirit of St. Louis" at the Smithsonian.

他也开始回顾自己的过去，出版战时日记，开始写自传，给战前疏远的老朋友写信，并顺便去史密森尼博物馆看《圣路易斯精神》。

REEVE LINDBERGH: My mother speaks of it often, that he would sigh and he would say, "No matter where I've been, no matter what I do, no matter what I want to talk about, the ladies - actually, he said, "the little old ladies always want to fly me to Paris.

里夫·林德伯格：我母亲经常提到这一点，他会叹息，他会说，“无论我去过哪里，无论我做什么，无论我想谈论什么，女士们 - 事实上，他说，“小老太太总是想带我飞往巴黎。

They just keep on flying me to Paris." NARRATOR: Toward the end of 1973, Lindbergh fell uncharacteristically ill, lost weight, could not stop coughing.

他们只是继续带我飞往巴黎。” 旁白：1973 年底，林德伯格患上了不同寻常的病，体重减轻，并且无法停止咳嗽。

Doctors diagnosed cancer.

医生诊断出癌症。

He asked to be flown home to Maui.

他要求乘飞机返回毛伊岛。

Lindbergh prepared for his own death as carefully as he had planned his flight to Paris, even saw that his physician filled out and signed his death certificate in advance, leaving only the date blank.

林德伯格为自己的死亡做的准备就像他计划飞往巴黎时一样仔细，甚至看到他的医生提前填写并签署了他的死亡证明，只留下日期空白。

JON LINDBERGH: And his last week was what he wanted.

乔恩·林德伯格：最后一周就是他想要的。

Dying of cancer is not easy and it gave him enough time to die the way he wanted to die and not too long.

死于癌症并不容易，这给了他足够的时间以他想要的方式死去，而不是太长。

If it had been another week, it would have been too much.

如果再过一周，那就太多了。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: And I think that- the last ten days were - he lived ten days after he left the hospital - were very peaceful and quite timeless, really rather timeless.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：我认为，过去的十天是他出院后的十天，非常平静，非常永恒，真的相当永恒。

NARRATOR: He died early in the morning of August 26, 1974.

旁白：他于1974年8月26日凌晨去世。

His funeral was held within three hours so that no reporter could intrude upon his family's private grief.

他的葬礼在三个小时内举行，这样任何记者都无法打扰他家人的私人悲痛。

At his request, he was buried in khaki work clothes and wrapped in an old Hudson's Bay blanket within a plain wooden coffin, as if he wanted to return as quickly as possible to the earth he had so often sought to flee.

在他的要求下，他被埋葬在卡其色的工作服中，并用一条旧哈德逊湾毯子包裹在一个普通的木棺材里，仿佛他想尽快回到他经常试图逃离的地球。

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH: [reading] "Night already shadows the Eastern sky.

安妮·莫罗·林德伯格：[读]“夜色已经笼罩了东方的天空。

To my left, low on the horizon, a thin line of cloud is drawing on its evening sheath of black.

在我的左边，地平线低处，一条细细的云线正在傍晚的黑色云层上绘制。

A moment ago, it was burning red and gold.

刚才，它还燃烧着红色和金色。

Trees and buildings and stacks of grain stand shadowless in the diffuse light of evening.

树木、建筑物和成堆的谷物在夜色的漫射光中无影无踪。

In a few moments, it will be dark and I am still south of Peoria."

过一会儿，天就会黑，而我仍然在皮奥里亚以南。”