Fake Documentary?
OOoops.
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.
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
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!”
TIGHAR (Gillespie) pretty much disabused the Milli Atoll to Saipan story prior to release of this latest info.
I watched the documentary. The photo was the one thing which I thought was interesting. Without it the whole story falls apart.
I have seen other investigations about her disappearance and several facts clash with what they said last night. One thing was they claimed she had plenty of fuel to have reached the Marshall Islands but in fact she was fighting unexpected strong head winds the whole way and just barely was going to make it to Howland.
Also the Itasca radio operators said her signal got really strong before it ended, indicating that they were really close to where they were supposed to be.
Never bought this. She didn’t look to be in custody in the pic.
The premise of their theory made ZERO sense for intelligence purposes, because is provides no useful intelligence. On-the-other-hand, the photo as a travelogue picture or tourist picture, the photo makes all kinds of sense when you consider the framing done for artistic purposes. The photographer was not trying to capture the people in the picture for identification purposes, but rather took the picture because it made an interesting photographic tableau.
These Earhart seekers can be totally off-the-wall. I read an article yesterday that got me thinking about the evidence. This ignorant bozo paid to bring a highly trained cadaver sniffing dog to where he thought Earhart's and Noonan's bodies might be buried 80 years after that burial making the unfounded assumption that a cadaver sniffing dog could even sniff out an 80 year old cadaver, and more distinguish it from all the other dead animals that may have died and been left to rot on and in the soil of that island! No, bozo, cadaver sniffing dogs are good to find only fairly fresh bodies, say less than a year old, not 80 year old dry bones. SHEESH!
The dog had a slight reaction to a TREE TRUNK—do you suppose it may have been smelling another dog's marking of the tree?—so the Bozo dug up the soil at the base of the tree to test for human DNA. Yes, you read that right. No doubt this Bozo is going to claim victory if he finds human DNA chains in any degraded DNA he may find in the soil at the base of a tree. He is hanging his "scientific" propeller beanie on non-peer-reviewed claims that Neanderthal DNA has been found, extracted, analyzed, and identified from the soil dug up in caves where Neanderthal men did cave drawings. (Hint: it has not been peer-reviewed because it's not replicable, there is not reliable sample of Neanderthal DNA for comparison to assure it WAS Neanderthal DNA they found, and their protocols were completely questionable, and literally zero basis for their conclusions!) This "searcher" thinks he'll be able to do the same and get similar and definitive results based on a cadaver dog's nose discovered soil sample Noonan or Earhart DNA? Give me a break! Great for hyperbolic headlines, but hardly dispositive or even useful.
The Pacific Ocean is a huge body of water and, in comparison, the limited number of islands on which they can land are few and small and far apart and hard to find if one makes even a small mistake in navigation or calculations. Occam's Razor says the simplest answer is usually the right answer: Earhart and Noonan got their bearings wrong and crashed when they ran out of fuel.
Next up from History Channel:
Found! Jimmy Hoffa in Disneyland Hotel!
I’ll admit, I was suckered by the photo.
In the travelogue version photo, “Noonan” looks a lot more Pacific-Islander than he does in the show.
The History, Aliens and Mermaids Channel.
Such phoniness from a channel that was once decent.
I miss the History Channel back when they did real history and the Gunny was their most popular host.
Oops. My theory that Earhardt had been brainwashed and led the raid on Pearl Harbor just got shot down...