Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 – 26 August 1974) ("Lucky Lindy"; "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator who was made world famous by being the pilot of the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic made solo from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Paris on 20 May-21 1927, in the single engine aircraft Spirit of St. Louis. Unfortunately, in the decade prior to U.S. entrance in World War II Lindbergh was a fervent isolationist and a leader in the America First movement which advocated keeping the U.S. out of the world conflict. Lindbergh was suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer because of his numerous scientific expeditions to Nazi Germany, combined with a belief in eugenics. Although Lindbergh was labeled "anti-Semitic" in some quarters for his admonishment of Jewish leaders who favored American involvement in foreign wars, he often argued that he actually respected and sympathized with the Jewish people. In his 11 September 1941 non-interventionist speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Lindbergh declared, "I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire." These words were immediately followed, however, by the statement that: “But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war. We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.” Lindbergh developed a long-term friendship with the automobile pioneer Henry Ford, who was well-known for his anti-Semitic diatribes and publications. In a famous comment about Lindbergh to Detroit's former FBI bureau chief in July 1940, Ford said: "When Charles comes out here, we only talk about the Jews."