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Astonishing Legends

Amelia Earhart Vanishes Part 2

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2014

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Legend:

Did Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan live short lives as castaways, or were they lost at sea after running out of fuel and ditching their Lockheed Electra 10E? Maybe they were taken prisoner, interrogated and eventually executed by the Japanese in Saipan? If none of those are right, maybe Amelia changed her identity and lived her days out as a woman named Irene Bolam who settled down in New Jersey?

This episode is part 2 of a special about aviation's most famous disappearance of all time, that of Amelia Earhart.

Stories:

Normally we break these down a little more, but it's Thanksgiving Day and I've got to get in the kitchen. All links as promised from this episode are below. If you can't click on these, visit our website.

Triangulating Amelia's last radio signals, Youtube. TIGHAR's Smoking Gun, Artifact 2-2-v-1, The Aluminum Panel The 1991 LA Times Article by Paul Dean discounting 2-2-v-1 Earhart and Noonan's Take-off from Lae, Papua New Guinea. TIGHAR's Wire & Rope Movie Mike Campbell's Blog, Earhart Truth. TIGHAR's Debris Field Analysis TIGHAR on the Bevington Object Prepping the Electra for the trip. The In Search Of on Amelia Earhart The SS Norwich City The Consolidated PBY on Wikipedia TIGHAR's PBY Rebuttal, posted just days ago TIGHAR's page on the Norwich City shipwreck. TIGHAR on feasibility of Betty Klenck hearing Amelia. A diagram of Betty Klenck's shortwave radio antenna. Betty Klenck's notes from the day she thought she heard Amelia. SKIP on CB Radios. Documentary, Earhart's Electra. World of Mysteries Documentary supporting Elgen Long's hypothesis. The Chater Report. Flight Route Map Nauticos Mike Campbell's Book, The Truth at Last on Amazon. Richard Martini's Film, Earhart's Electra on Amazon. Earhart on Saipan, Martini and Mike Harris' website.

For more information on this episode visit our website!

Credits:

Episode 005 - 'Amelia Earhart Vanishes (Part 2)' Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, Ryan McCullough Sound Design, Scott Philbrook Editing. Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2014, All Rights Reserved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I grew up in the 70s, you know, 70s, and I was in high school in the 80s, but I was already an adult.

0:05.6

Yeah, I know. I know you're older than I am, but not that much, but still. Do you remember the CB radio?

0:10.0

Yeah, we had one. We had several.

0:14.8

But you weren't truck drivers, were you?

0:16.3

You didn't have to be. That was the great thing. It's not just about truck drivers. I mean,

0:19.7

that's the thing. It was a way of, like you'd mentioned before, it was as a predecessor,

0:25.3

we're not using. And they take, we're not using. And in life, you say he's mentioned it, we've

0:29.6

talked about this before, just between us, because it was a fun, fascinating kind of thing for the time.

0:34.9

You didn't have anything else like that, where you could, for a minimal amount of money,

0:39.6

you could purchase the set up. You didn't need to, like we had an antenna, we put up in our house.

0:43.4

Nice. And my grandfather did. So he had, he actually had two, because there's a B antenna,

0:48.5

which looked like a big H. And then there was the Omni-directional kind of,

0:52.4

right? Amazing. I'm remembering this now at the Omni-directional would pick up from,

0:57.6

from all, omnidirectional would pick up from all directions. Right, but the range probably wasn't as good.

1:01.5

No, neither were, were really good. But we're going to get to this. I think what,

1:05.4

what Scott's leading up to here? Well, I mean, this thing, I, there was a point when I was young,

1:09.8

when my, my mom raised me alone, and I, because my parents were divorced, and a very close

1:14.1

relationship to my dad, so no bad blood there. But just, you know, there was a time which my mom and I

1:18.4

were moving from Colorado. Yes, I was born in California, but until I was in eight or nine,

1:24.0

I lived in Denver, Colorado, and my mom and I moved back to North Carolina, where the bulk of her

1:28.8

family was. And on this trip, we had a CB, and you know, we had the U-Haul truck with all our

1:34.2

worldly possessions in it. Did you have a CB in the car? Yeah, we bought it and brought it with us,

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