Eddie Rickenbacker

The finding aid, biographical information and a limited selection of photographs from this collection which documents the lives of the Rickenbacker family, particularly Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker. The physical collection contains scrapbooks and newspaper clippings, photographs, sound recordings, 16 mm motion pictures, correspondence, diaries, legal documents in original and copies, condolence letters upon Eddie's death, maps, declassified reports to Army Air Force in World War II, other various reports of travels, affidavits taken by movie studio regarding loss of Eddie at sea, publications by and about Rickenbackers, material relative to Eastern Air Lines.