1. Charles Lindberg First non-stop flight from NYC to Paris- 1927 $25,000 prize on radio show 33 ½ hours Biggest celebrity of decade

2. ‘Lucky’ Lindberg

3. Crashed mail plane (Lindberg was proponent of air mail)

4. Amelia Earhart 1932- Trans-Atlantic flight Disappears in the Pacific Ocean in 1937

5. Boxing Jack Demsey- boxing champ

6. Dempsey v. Carpenter-1921 -First national radio coverage

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

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

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

10. Charlie Chaplin

11. Some stars lost jobs when movies began to have sound