Playback: Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Amelia Earhart’s statue was recently unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, and for good reason: Her adventurous spirit had implications for women around the country. Earhart went well beyond setting records as a pilot--her true end game was equality for women, a rarely explored side of her life story that goes well beyond the mystery of her disappearance. In today's Playback, we hit our archives and learn about a different Amelia. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard. This summer, adventure is never far away with a free one-month trial subscription to Nat Geo Digital. For starters, there’s full access to our online stories, plus every Nat Geo issue ever published in our archives! There’s a whole lot more for subscribers, and you can check it all out–for free–at natgeo.com/exploremore. Want more? Read “My Flight from Hawaii,” the 1935 article Earhart wrote for National Geographic about her voyage from Hawaii to California. Peruse the Amelia Earhart archive at Purdue University, which is filled with memorabilia and images from Earhart’s life, including her inimitable sense of fashion and some revolutionary luggage. Take a look through Earhart’s childhood home in Atchison, Kansas. It’s now the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum. And click here to learn more about the Amelia Earhart statue at the U.S. Capitol and the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum being built in Atchison. Also explore: Check out Earhart’s cherry red Lockheed Vega 5B, used to fly across the Atlantic solo in 1932. It’s on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. Learn about the Ninety-Nines, an organization founded in 1929 to promote advancement for women in aviation. Earhart was the Ninety-Nines’ first president. Today its membership is composed of thousands of female pilots from around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you in part by Geico, proud sponsor of National Geographic.
0:05.1	Geico, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.
0:15.3	If you're ever visiting Washington, DC, besides stopping by Explorers Hall here at Nangio,
0:20.3	another popular spot to go to is the US Capitol and within it, Statuary Hall.
0:25.2	It's a big room full of, you guessed it, statues. Every state gets to have two and from time to time,
0:31.9	states can swap out an old statue for a new one. In 1999, Kansas did just that when it decided to
0:38.1	send two new statues to Washington, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Amelia Earhart.
0:43.8	It took years of fundraising and design, but finally in July 2022, Amelia's statue was unveiled
0:49.9	in a ceremony at the Capitol. As of this recording, there aren't many statues of women representing
0:55.2	states there. After adding Amelia Earhart, the total only comes to 11. Amelia is a favorite of
1:02.0	ours at Nangio. We've sent missions around the world to explore her 1937 disappearance
1:07.4	and overheard just put out a two-part episode, not only about her mysterious death, but also her
1:13.1	exceptional life. To honor her, we thought we'd share it with you today.
1:21.0	I am Amelia Earhart. I am a famous pilot. More than 80 years after Amelia Earhart
1:28.2	disappeared, she still occupies a place in our imaginations. As a girl and woman,
1:32.9	people told me I would not be able to do things that I wanted to do late-time.
1:38.4	For this eight-year-old in New Jersey, Amelia Earhart is a badass.
1:43.7	Listen to her voice. It's filled with the same fearless enthusiasm as Amelia's.
1:50.2	Even shot rats with a gun. Suddenly, the details of the mystery vanish.
1:55.6	The distress calls, missing plane, the competing theories, the endless search for evidence.
2:00.8	They all fall away. And for a few minutes, Earhart is embodied and alive before our eyes,
2:07.1	any ears. Finally understood for who she is, not some lost soul, but a powerful and vibrant person.
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