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 (15[1])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 (-5[1])Person of the (15[1])Year’s Des Moines speech asked “Who Are (15[1])the War Agitators?" during a 1941 (*) America First rally. Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the “Crime of the Century,” abducting and killing this man’s baby (10[1])son. For 10 points, name this aviator who flew from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. ■END■ (0[1])

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