1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: On this episode of Newts World, Amelia Earhart and her 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: crew at Ekland, California, ready for her great ariel at 3 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: Bencha around the World flight by way of the Equator, 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: a journey nail pirate has yet attempted. A machine is 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: heavy with extra petulance, and to take off is the 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: critical note. A long run on the ground and a 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: slow rise into the art and she's away. We're continuing 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: our series learning about Exceptional Americans with a look at 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart's life and legacy. Born in eighteen ninety seven 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: in Kansas, Amelia Marry Earhart was the first female aviator 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. But her story 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: from a tumultuous childhood filled with many family moves, and 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: then in her early twenties finding out she'd love to 14 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: fly and actually working hard to make a career out 15 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: of it makes her truly an exceptional American. This is 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart's story. On July twenty fourth, eighteen ninety seven, 17 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, to parents Amelia 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: amy Otis and Samuel edwin Stanton Ireheart. During her childhood, 19 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: Amelia worked with her maternal grandparents during the school year 20 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: and spent summers with her parents in Kansas City. Amelia 21 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: spent her childhood outside, climbing trees, sledding, and hunting, against 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: her grandmother's wishes. In nineteen o eight, Amelia moved back 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: with her parents full time in Des Moines, Iowa. Here 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: she sees an airplane for the first time at the 25 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: Iowa State Fair. She in a later interview, said she 26 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: was unimpressed by the plane, saying there was a thing 27 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting. 28 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: Between nineteen ten and nineteen fifteen, they were difficult years 29 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: to the Earhardt family. Amelia's grandmother, who raised her, died 30 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: in nineteen eleven. Her father struggled with alcoholism, lost his job, 31 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: and checked into a hospital for a month to try 32 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: to rehabilitate himself. After the family moved to Saint Paul, 33 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: Minnesota in nineteen thirteen, Amelia's father was unable to find 34 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: a job and continued struggling with alcoholism, so Amelia's mother 35 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: left him and moved both Amelia and her younger sister 36 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: to Chicago. In June nineteen nineteen, Amelia graduated from Hyde 37 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: Park High School in Chicago, excelling in science, however, she 38 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: had trouble making friends. Between nineteen sixteen and nineteen eighteen, 39 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: Amelia attended O'gant's School, a finishing school outside of Philadelphia. 40 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: She excelled in her studies and became vice president of 41 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: her class. However, she did not graduate, oppringt instead to 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: volunteer at Toronto's Spadina Military Hospital as a nurse for 43 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: wounded World War One soldiers. Between nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty, 44 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: Amelia entered the pre med program at Columbia University, but 45 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: then decided to leave to rejoin her parents, who got 46 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: back together and were living in Los Angeles. December twenty eighth, 47 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty, Amelia attended an air show in Long Beach, 48 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: California with her father and Frank Hawks, who later gained 49 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: fame as an air racer, gave her her first ride 50 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: in an airplane. The ride would change Airhart's life, she 51 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: later recalled, By the time I'd got two or three 52 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly. 53 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: January third, nineteen twenty one, Amelia had her first flying 54 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: lesson with pilot Nita Snook at Kinner Field near Long Beach, California. 55 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: To pay for these lessons, Amelia worked at a variety 56 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: of jobs, including truck driver, photographer, and stenographer. Six months later, 57 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: she saved enough money to purchase her first airplane, a 58 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: yellow Kinner, airst biplane she named Cutinary. December fifteenth, nineteen 59 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: twenty one, Amelia passed her flying license test given by 60 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: the National Aeronautic Association. Two days later, she flew on 61 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: the Pacific Coast Ladies Derby in Pasadena. On October twenty second, 62 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two, Amelia set an unofficial altitude record for 63 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: female pilots after flying to fourteen thousand feet. On May sixteenth, 64 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty three, Amelia's issued an international pilot's license, becoming 65 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: the sixteenth woman to earn it. In nineteen twenty four, 66 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 1: she took a break from flying after her parents got divorced, 67 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: driving with her mother from California to Massachusetts. In nineteen 68 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: twenty seven, mounting bills forced Amelia to sell her plane 69 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: and work as a teacher and then a social worker, 70 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: teaching English to Syrian and Chinese immigrants. In nineteen twenty seven, 71 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: Amelia also joined the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. 72 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: Between June seventeenth and eighteenth, nineteen twenty eight, Amelius thrust 73 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: into the spotlight after she, pilot Wilmer Stultz and co 74 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: pilot Lewis Gordon departed from Newfoundland and a trimotor seaplane 75 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,679 Speaker 1: and landed in Wales over twenty hours later. Amelia, however, 76 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: did not believe she deserved the acclaim for being the 77 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: first woman passenger on a transatlantic flight, because, as she 78 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: put it, Stultz did all the flying had to I 79 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: was just baggage, like a sack of potatus. Maybe someday 80 00:05:49,839 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: I'll try it alone. During the summer of nineteen twenty eight, 81 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: Amelia published a book about the flight titled Twenty Hours 82 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: Forty Minutes. She quickly became a celebrity after a book tour, 83 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: and she began to endorse products like Luky Strike cigarettes 84 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: and Modern Air Airheart luggage. August nineteen twenty nine, Amelia 85 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: buys another plane, a single engine Lockheed Vega, and participates 86 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: in the Women's Air Derby race from Santa Monica to Cleveland, 87 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: coming in third place. November second, nineteen twenty nine, Amelia 88 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: helped found the ninety nine inc, the first organization for 89 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: women aviators, becoming its first president in nineteen thirty one, 90 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: holding that position for two years. She used her celebrity 91 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: status to promote the growth of American commercial airlines. July fifth, 92 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty Amelia set the Women's War Old flying speed 93 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: record of one hundred and eighty one point eight miles 94 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: per hour. Between nineteen thirty and nineteen thirty five, she 95 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: set seven more women's speed and distance records. On February seventh, 96 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty one, Amelia married George Palmer Putnam. However, she 97 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: refused George's proposals six times before she said yes, being 98 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: wary of the institution of marriage. She emphasized her marriage 99 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: as a partnership with dual control. In nineteen thirty two, 100 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: Amelia wrote her second book, The Fun of It. Between 101 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: May twentieth and May twenty first, nineteen thirty two, Amelia 102 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 103 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: flying from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland. Prior to flying solo 104 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: across the Atlantic, Amelia addressed the nation, it's much easier 105 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: to bud the Atlantic Ocean now than it was a 106 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: few years ago. I expect to be able to enjoy 107 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: it in my lifetime. Yeah. This earned her the Distinguished 108 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: Flying Cross from the Ostogras, the Cross of Night of 109 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: the Legion of Honor from the French government, and the 110 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Hoover, 111 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: becoming the first woman to receive this award. Here's Amelia 112 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: explaining her flight path and the troubles she encountered while 113 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: flying her first transatlantic solo flight. I took off the 114 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: famous Harbor Grace runway at dusk about seven thirty. I 115 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: believe I flew for a couple of hours while sunset lasted, 116 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: and then two more hours as the moon came up 117 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: over a bank of clouds. I had fair weather for 118 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: four hours. Then I ran into a storm, which was 119 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: one of the most severe I have ever been in. 120 00:08:54,960 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: I milled around in the storm here for probably an hour, 121 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: and with difficulty kept my course. I had been troubled 122 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: with my exhaust manifold burning through all night. A weld 123 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: broke shortly after I left Harbor Grace, and I could 124 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: see the damage increasing. As the night wore on. I 125 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: found specific thunderstorms, probably three or four hundred miles off 126 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: the coast of Ireland. I believe I saw land first 127 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: about the middle I decided to come down anyway, in 128 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: the best available pasture. I got down without any trouble 129 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: and taxied to the front door of a surprised farmer. 130 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: Between August twenty fourth and twenty fifth, nineteen thirty two, 131 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: Emeli became the first woman to fly solo across the 132 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: North American continent. End back in nineteen thirty three, Amelia 133 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: visited the White House and befriended First Lady Eleanor Rooselt. 134 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty three, Amelia also flew across North America 135 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: for the second time, breaking her flight time record. In 136 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, Amelia received the Harmon Trophy from America's 137 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: Outstanding Airwoman for the third time in a row. Here 138 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,599 Speaker 1: is Amelia in a nineteen thirty five radio address on 139 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: a woman's place in science and how science has changed 140 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: the lives of women. This modern world of science and 141 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: invention is of particular interest to women, for the lives 142 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: of the women had been more affected by its new 143 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: horizons than those of any other group. Profound and stirring 144 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: as had been accomplishments in the remote fields of pure research, 145 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,599 Speaker 1: it is in the home that the applications of scientific 146 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: achievements have perhaps been most far reaching, and it is 147 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: through changing conditions there that women have become the greatest 148 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: beneficiary in the modern scheme. Science has released them from 149 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: much of the age old gudgery connected with the process 150 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: of living. Candle dipping, weaving, and crude methods of manufacturing 151 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: necessadies are things of the past for an increasing majority today, light, 152 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: heat and power may be obtained by pushing buttons, and 153 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 1: cunningly manufactured and appealing products of all the world are 154 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: available at the housewife's store. On January eleventh, nineteen thirty five, 155 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: Amelia became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, 156 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: Hawaii to Oakland, California. Between April nineteenth and twentieth, nineteen 157 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: thirty five, Amelia flu solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City, 158 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: and on May eighth, nineteen thirty five, Amelia flu solo 159 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: from Mexico City to New York City. In between these flights, 160 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: Amelia worked as a career counselor to women at Purdue University. 161 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: July nineteen thirty six, Purdue finance a new plane for Amelia, 162 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: a Lockheed Electra ten E Amelia and her husband begin 163 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: to plan for her world trip by raising money and 164 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: consulting with advisers, mechanics, and navigators. March seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven, 165 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan, along with Captain Harry 166 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: Manning and stunt pilot Paul Manse, fly the first leg 167 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: of the trip from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 168 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: fifteen hours and forty seven minutes. Daring into the Oakland Airport, 169 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: she brings to a triumphant finish her twenty four hundred 170 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: mile hop from Hawaii. After eighteen hours in the air. 171 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: Ten thows to cheer the end of the Apricot bike 172 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: and the Lady Lindy flied into a perfect land with 173 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: two records, first woman to fly, thetific of the first 174 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: person to fly at solo. She receives one of the 175 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: most tumultuous breetings ever accorded. A flyer, roses to Amelia 176 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: and the product of the world. To a veteran of 177 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: flights that have shown the way for aviation's progress, It's 178 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: their most frank chapter in a sixteen year aviation career. 179 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: How did the field to fly both oceans? Miss Erehart well. 180 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: It was very interesting to me to fly in southern 181 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: waters rather than in the north. On the Atlantic flight, 182 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: I had ice conditions and general storm. On this flight, 183 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: really no bad weather at all, except for few little 184 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: rain squalls. I saw the moon and stars lost to 185 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,719 Speaker 1: the night. Of course, in both flights, I was very 186 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: glad to see land. On June one, nineteen thirty seven, 187 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: Amelia departed from Miami, Florida, with the plan of traveling 188 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: from west to east. Fred Noonan is her only crew 189 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: member this time. They complete nearly twenty two thousand miles 190 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: of the flight, upping in South America, Africa, India, and 191 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: New Guinea jo I. Second nineteen thirty seven, Amelia and 192 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: Fred Noonan depart from Lao, heading to Lowland Island, a 193 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: tiny island the Pacific. Amelia and Noonan cannot find the 194 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: island and lose radio contact with the coast Guard. In 195 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: the official report, the US Navy reported that Earhardt and 196 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: Noonan ran out of fuel and crashed in the Pacific. 197 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: They disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Pacific on the last 198 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: lap of her magnificent flight, found the world by way 199 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: of the Equator. Miss Amelia Earhart was lost in mid 200 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: ocean on the two thousand, five hundred mile hoped to 201 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: Howland Island. She was reported missing. President Rosewalt issued a 202 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: massive search for them, and Amelia's husband finances his own 203 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: search until October nineteen thirty seven, but their efforts are unsuccessful. 204 00:14:51,120 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: Amelia was declared legally dead on January fifth, nineteen thirty nine. 205 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: There are several theories about what really happened to her. 206 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: Heart the first series, they crash landed in the ocean 207 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: after running out of fuel. In the official report, the 208 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: US Navy, after a lengthy and costly search, concluded on 209 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: July eighteenth, nineteen thirty seven, that Erhard and Noonan ran 210 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: out of fuel and crashed in the Pacific. According to 211 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: the radiologs, Earhart indicated that she thought they were near 212 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: the island and were running low on gas. However, a 213 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: photograph taken in October nineteen thirty seven, three months after 214 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: the disappearance, could point to a different explanation that they 215 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: landed on Nico Moraro Island, about three hundred and fifty 216 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: nautical miles from their intended destination. The US Coastguard received 217 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: multiple reports from radio operators that they heard messages over 218 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: the next five days after her disappearance that could have 219 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: been from Earhart. It was not confirmed that it was 220 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: from Earhart or noonon. Betty Clench, a teenager in Saint Petersburg, Florida, 221 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: reported that she heard a voice saying, this is Amelia Earhart. 222 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: Helped me on her father's shortwave radio. A few days 223 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: after she disappeared. Her father reported it to the Coast Guard. 224 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: Those messages had stopped on July thirteenth, nineteen thirty seven. 225 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: In nineteen forty, bones, men and women's shoes and a 226 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: navigation device was discovered near the remains of a campsite 227 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: on the island. The bones were shipped to Fiji, where 228 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: they were later lost. There are other less believed theories, 229 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: including that they were captured then executed by the Japanese, 230 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: or that the Navy faked the crash landing so they 231 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: had an excuse to search the area without suspicion, and 232 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: earharten and lived the rest their lives under fake names. However, 233 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: the plane has never been recovered, and it remains a 234 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: mystery to what really happened to Amelia Earhart. I think 235 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,239 Speaker 1: the combination of her a mysterious disappearance the notion that 236 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: she was trying to fly around the world. All of 237 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: the different things she had done to pioneer a woman's 238 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: role in American life, pioneering and aviation, pioneering in the 239 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: way in which she counseled young ladies, pioneering in the 240 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: books she wrote, created a romantic mystique, and I think 241 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: in a way, her name Amelia Earhart, works really well 242 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: to create this sense of mystery. The result was that 243 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: she was truly an exceptional American in almost every sense 244 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: of the word. She did an amazing range of things. 245 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: Taking care of the wounded, for example, in World War One, 246 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: was in passing just one part of a very complicated 247 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: and very interesting life. She was very determined to live 248 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: out a life as a pilot, and she managed to 249 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,239 Speaker 1: do so in a way that virtually no woman of 250 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: her generation could match. So I think it's fair to 251 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: say that she is truly an extraordinary American, and that 252 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: she is somebody who carved a path that both men 253 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: and women could look at with great admiration, and that 254 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: she was truly a romantic, exciting, and mysterious figure. You 255 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: can read more about Emelia Earhart's life on our show page. 256 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: At Newtsworld dot com. Newts World is produced by Gingwich 257 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: Sweet sixty and Iheartmedium. 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