To: Thomas Small, Mayor of Culver City and Megahn Sahli-Wells, Vice Mayor of Culver City
Reclaim our Park: Lindbergh Park named after Nazi Sympathizer
The city of Culver City must change the name of Lindbergh Park to better represent the values and ideals of our community. Charles Lindbergh, who the park is named after, was a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite and Culver City residents will not stand for it!
Why is this important?
As someone who was born and raised in Culver City, I learned the importance of celebrating all people who are a part of our community. Charles Lindbergh did not share those values and we should not have a park named after him. Here are a few things he said:
During World War II, Charles Lindbergh was the lead spokesperson for the America First Committee. Lindbergh gave a speech to a huge crowd in Des Moines, in which he described the agitators for the U.S. to enter the war. There were three groups: the British, the government, and “the Jewish race.” “Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government,” he told the audience.
He wrote, in an infamous essay published by Reader’s Digest in November, 1939, weeks after the war in Europe began, that Western nations “can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood.”
President Roosevelt disliked Lindbergh's outspoken opposition to his administration's interventionist policies, telling Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." In 1941 he wrote to Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "When I read Lindbergh's speech I felt that it could not have been better put if it had been written by Goebbels himself. What a pity that this youngster has completely abandoned his belief in our form of government and has accepted Nazi methods because apparently they are efficient."
Sign our petition to reclaim our park and demand the city of Culver City change the name of the park to better represent our community’s values.
During World War II, Charles Lindbergh was the lead spokesperson for the America First Committee. Lindbergh gave a speech to a huge crowd in Des Moines, in which he described the agitators for the U.S. to enter the war. There were three groups: the British, the government, and “the Jewish race.” “Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government,” he told the audience.
He wrote, in an infamous essay published by Reader’s Digest in November, 1939, weeks after the war in Europe began, that Western nations “can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood.”
President Roosevelt disliked Lindbergh's outspoken opposition to his administration's interventionist policies, telling Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." In 1941 he wrote to Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "When I read Lindbergh's speech I felt that it could not have been better put if it had been written by Goebbels himself. What a pity that this youngster has completely abandoned his belief in our form of government and has accepted Nazi methods because apparently they are efficient."
Sign our petition to reclaim our park and demand the city of Culver City change the name of the park to better represent our community’s values.