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The Bowery Boys episode 472, the many mysteries of Amelia Earhart.

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Hey. Hi there, welcome to the Bowery boys.

This is Greg Young, flying solo this week, just like the subject of today's show, Amelia Earhart, the aviation hero who first took to the skies in the 1920s and came to embody the

Jazz Age as one of the world's most famous women. She's also one of these revolutionary figures

that people think they know a lot about, but probably don't. In fact, she's a woman of many mysteries,

both during her lifetime and long

after her seemingly strange disappearance over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. But much of that

artifice of Amelia Earhart was actually formed during her lifetime, thanks to the massive

publicity machine that essentially

created this image of Lady Lindy, as she was sometimes called, a machine primarily operated

by her publisher, benefactor, and later husband, George P. Putnam. And so later in this show,

I'll be peeling back some of the layers of her

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