Round 8: Tossup 11

This person’s family sailed to England as the SS American Importer’s only passengers. A “perfusion pump” this person created with Alexis Carrell allowed organs to survive outside the body. This husband of Anne Morrow spent more than sixty (15[1])hours awake while performing an Orteig Prize-winning (15[1])feat. (15[1])This first (-5[1])TIME Person of the Year’s Des Moines speech asked (15[1])“Who Are the War Agitators?" during (15[1])a 1941 (*) America First rally. Bruno (10[1])Hauptmann (10[1])was executed for the “Crime of the Century,” abducting (10[1])and killing this man’s baby son. For 10 points, name this aviator who flew from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. ■END■

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