The character, Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf played here by J.T. Walsh, was the father of Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm fame.
Father of Barbara Broccoli, Albert, waved to Lindbergh and he waved back, from the Spirit Of St.Louis in the air.
A TV movie for the HBO network.
This film's view that Bruno Hauptmann was entirely innocent of any involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case is an extremely contentious one. Certainly, its view of him as a warm, kind, loving family man seems highly sentimentalized - many accounts of the case include witness statements about his boorish, arrogant, unfriendly personality (although these do not, of course, preclude the possibility of his being innocent).