Cumulative Report on Laura Ingalls

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Title	Cumulative Report on Laura Ingalls
Description	The Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee had, by the late 1930s, put into place a comprehensive plan to infiltrate, investigate, and report on the activities of groups and individuals sympathetic to the Nazi cause. One of the people investigated by the JCC at this time was Laura Ingalls, a famous aviatrix of the time. By the mid-1930s, she had set several records not only for flight distance, but for feats such as the number of consecutive loops and consecutive barrel-rolls. It would later become clear that she spent nearly as much time working on behalf of the German government as she did accumulating flight time. This fascinating 9-page document details the activities of Ingalls during 1941, including many speaking engagements on behalf of America First; flights to deliver political petitions to Washington and to distribute anti-war, pro-isolationism pamphlets; and a flight to Germany. The information was collected by JCC informant Sylvia Comfort, referred to throughout the document as "S2". Comfort was able to forge a close relationship with Ingalls, making her privy to a great deal of useful information. In December of 1941, Ingalls would be arrested for being a German spy, or, more accurately, for "failing to register as a foreign agent." Other individuals mentioned in the report include: Charles Lindbergh; Adolf Hitler; Eddie Rickenbacker; Gerald L. K. Smith; Louise Ward Watkins; Ellis O. Jones; Fritz Wiedemann; William Randolph Hearst; Franz Ferenz. 11 x 8.5 in.
Subject	Subversive activities Neutrality -- History -- 20th century Women air pilots Comfort, Sylvia Anti-fascist movements Ingalls, Laura
Keywords	Isolationism;
Location	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date	1941-12-16
Donors and Others	Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles
Media	Report
Media Measurement	28 x 21.5 cm
Identifier	CRCms045
Language	eng
Type	text
Format	text/jpeg
Repository Name	Delmar T. Oviatt Library. Urban Archives Center
Collection	Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles Collection
Repository Number	Box CRC/2 176-01, MF6689
Exhibition information	Case 4, #8
Rights	http://digital-library.csun.edu/copyright.html
Project Name	In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945
Date Digitized	2008-04-04
Date cataloged	2008-04-04
Publisher	Delmar T. Oviatt Library

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