Four million line Fifth Avenue as Lindbergh rides home through a cascade of paper

Three weeks after landing in Paris, Charles Lindbergh came home to a city that had run out of words for what he had done. On June 13, 1927, accompanied by his mother and Mayor Jimmy Walker, Lindbergh rode up Fifth Avenue through a cascade of paper while an estimated four million people lined the route. That evening, 500 guests gathered at Harbor Hill, Clarence MacKay's Long Island estate, for a banquet and dance in his honor — a day that opened the most celebrated homecoming in American aviation history…