Case file · 1937 · Vanished
Amelia Earhart
The Last Flight
The world's most famous pilot vanishes over the Pacific, almost within reach.
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This 8 min episode was written from the public record. These are the sources behind it.
- U.S. National Archives: Radio Log of the Last Communications of Amelia Earhart (USCGC Itasca radio log, 1937)
- Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections: George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers: Collection Description (digitised papers)
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Amelia Earhart (biography)
- Forensic Anthropology (University of Florida Press): Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques (Richard Jantz, 2018)
- Wikipedia: Amelia Earhart (overview)
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