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 hours awake while performing an Orteig Prize-winning feat. This first TIME Person of the Year’s (15[1])Des Moines speech asked “Who Are the War (15[1])Agitators?" during a 1941 (*) America First rally. Bruno Hauptmann was executed (10[1])for the “Crime of the Century,” abducting 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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