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"Pages of history" features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News, the Evening Journal and the Every Evening.
May 23, 1927, from the Wilmington Morning News
Lindbergh felt peril worst at landing; hero describes trans-Atlantic flight
PARIS – Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, sheltered in his country’s embassy from a world filled with praise of him, awoke this afternoon from a sound ten hour sleep, seemingly innocent of the fact that the whole earth was eager to honor his exploit of flying alone from New York to Paris.
Soon after he had breakfast, the courageous and charming young man from the middlewest telephoned his mother in far away Detroit. It was the first time a private telephone call had linked France with America, but it was only one of many precedents that the world set today in this general desire to show its admiration for the sandy haired, soft spoken aviator, who made the trans-Atlantic flight in his little monoplane and in solitary glory….