Charles Lindberg First non-stop flight from NYC to Paris $25,000 prize on radio show 33 ½ hours Biggest celebrity of decade

‘Lucky’ Lindberg

Crashed mail plane (Lindberg was proponent of air mail)

Amelia Earhart Trans-Atlantic flight Disappears in the Pacific Ocean in 1937

Boxing Jack Demsey- boxing champ

Dempsey v. Carpenter First national radio coverage

Women’s sports Tennis, Swimming, Track events Few team sports available Gertude Ederle- women’s swimmer; record swim across English Channel

Mass Media of the 1920s First era of broadcasting to large numbers of people

Movies Silent movies until 1927 The Jazz Singer- Al Jolson was first “talkie”

Charlie Chaplin

Some stars lost jobs when movies began to have sound