Posted on 07/11/2017 8:34:03 AM PDT by rdl6989
The History Channel documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, which aired in the US on Sunday, made the claim that the American and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ended up in Japanese custody based on a photograph discovered in the US national archives that purported to show them standing at a harbour on one of the islands.
The film said the image “may hold the key to solving one of history’s all-time greatest mysteries” and suggested it disproved the widely accepted theory that Earhart and Noonan disappeared over the western Pacific on 2 July 1937 near the end of their attempt at a history-making flight around the world.
But serious doubts now surround the film’s premise after a Tokyo-based blogger unearthed the same photograph in the archives of the National Diet Library, Japan’s national library.
The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Fake Documentary?
OOoops.
Yes, the newest version of fake news. I thought it was going to be all hype when I first heard about this photo. The History Channel needs to do...history.
This kind of speculation never dies.
Back in the ‘50s I read an article in “Argosy” magazine wherein a native islander in that area told of seeing a white woman and man being led into the bush by Japanese soldiers and then heard shots. The theme was that they were shot as spies.
but but, but- they had an ‘expert’ claim that the measurement between her shoulders and hips was ‘accurate’ and that there was a high degree of certainty that it was her (of course nearly ANY woman her height would have the same measurement- but let’s not let facts get in the way of a good story)- and they also pointed out the lean was ‘the same as amelia’s’ in some of her photos
They also superimposed a photo of a known dolan shot over the photo, and they both had ‘the teeth in the right position and receding hairline’ and a ‘largish nose’- so by gum - case solved- (of course many men have receding hairlines and their teeth ‘in the right place’ and large noses)
Research and establishing fact is not a strong American ethic anymore.
Who is to say that it isn’t Noonan (a good egg) and Earhart in the photo? Perhaps they were on that atoll two years earlier and happened to be photographed.
Hilarious!
Here is the link to the photo that was found in the travel book- same photo as the one in the documentary
http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1223403/99
The History Channel has long ago lost credibility to live up to it’s name. They are way too focused on repeating conspiracy theories and hunting hidden nazis or ancient aliens to be considered anything other than fringe entertainment..
The recent History Channel show stated that they were both beheaded at their grave side by the Japs. They had a woman on who was 8 at the time and said she saw it. The show was interesting but I don’t know how truthful.
This is the reason I quit watching. Years ago it was my favorite channel.
I haven’t watched them in a long time. Occasionally I’ll watch a video on youtube that happens to be from History Channel.
So much hype about her disappearance. I remember seeing, in a supermarket tabloid or book, many many years ago about her plane being found crashed...in Canada. Serial numbers on the plane matched her plane.
Now if we could just find Richard Halliburton....Last transmission...”Having a great time. Wish you were here instead of me!”
No kidding, assuming the blogger's claim is true. Sloppy research on someone's part not to check into the background of the photograph. Just because a photograph was found in the files of the Office of Naval Intelligence doesn't mean that it was taken by a spy.
TIGHAR (Gillespie) pretty much disabused the Milli Atoll to Saipan story prior to release of this latest info.
Good call.
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