Ep 90: Chasing Amelia Earhart with Chris Williamson

“Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.”
– Amelia Earhart

 

LOCATION: Garapan Prison, Saipan

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BACKGROUND:

Join us tonight as we sit down with Chris Williamson, the project creator of Chasing Earhart.  Chris, along with his wife Vanessa and their dedicated team of researchers and producers, has created a podcast and are working on a documentary all about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart: her life, her persona, her fateful last flight and the controversy that surrounds her legacy.  The result is that Chasing Earhart has rapidly become one of the definitive repositories of information and interviews of the authorities who continue to devote their lives to solving her disappearance.  In our interview with Chris, we discuss the major researchers, their theories, and current investigations which aim to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th Century.  

Reference Links:

• The Chasing Earhart project website chasingearhart.com

• Chasing Earhart project on Facebook

• Follow Chasing Earhart on Twitter @chasingearhart

• Tod Swindell's definitive site on the Irene Bolam/Amelia Earhart conspiracy

• Jon Hagadorn's 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries podcast

• Amelia Earhart's Radio: America's Greatest Mystery by Paul Rafford, Jr.

• Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flight Path to the End By William Pennington Snavely, Jr.

• Dick Spink and his search for Amelia

• Gary LaPook's site about Celestial Navigation and links to his collected information

• Tom King, TIGHAR's Senior Archeologist's blog on Amelia

• Tracking Amelia Earhart - The Buka Hypothesis book by William Snavely

• Robert Wheeler and Harold Nicely's website for Amelia Earhart Betrayed

• The "Lost Flight Group"

• Ellie Norman's website Soaring for Equality

• The Mars Generation – Abigail Harrison's foundation website: www.themarsgeneration.org

• The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery or "TIGHAR"

Related Books:

Amelia Earhart's Radio

The Paragon Agency Publishers

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Credits:

Episode 90: Chasing Amelia Earhart with Chris Williamson.  Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2017 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.