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"I know how
Amelia Earhart absolutely disregarded all orders, and if we ever release this thing, goodbye Amelia Earhart's reputation."
1938 quote from FDR Presidential Cabinet Member, Henry P. Morgenthau, Jr. in response
to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's query on why the White House refused to release the 'official' report on Earhart's 1937
disappearance. (See two original transcript excerpts further down.)
"Amelia
Earhart definitely came to the Marshall Islands in 1937." A 2006 Associated Press quote from Alfred Capelle, United Nations Ambassador to the Marshall Islands. Until the U.
S. occupied it in 1944, Japan had been the ruling government authority in the Marshalls. Ambassador Capelle added, "Amelia
Earhart came to the Marshall Islands for a reason... to test some kind of equipment." (Ostensibly for Japan.)
Below: From the time she was reported missing,
Amelia Earhart's image required White House protection.
| From FDR's Cabinet, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr. |
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| His duties well exceeded his job description. |
In May of 1938 Eleanor Roosevelt's personal secretary,
Malvina Scheider delivered the above message to the First Lady in response to her query on why the White House refused to
release the true 'official report' on Amelia Earhart's July 1937 disappearance. Note: Although it is clear it knew
information the public did not know about it, to this day the White House has never officially commented about Amelia
Earhart's disappearance.
See What's New For 2012... Take A Look, Read,
Keep An Open Mind The following 'all but forgotten' admission from World War Two Pacific Fleet Admiral
Chester Nimitz was conveyed to CBS Radio Journalist, Fred Goerner: "I want to tell you, Amelia Earhart
and her navigator did go down in the Marshall Islands and were picked up by the Japanese." After
the U. S. occupied the Marshalls in 1944, liberating it from Japan, Nimitz was put in charge there. [Note: Admiral Nimitz
assisted Goerner with his 1960s investigative journalism quest that peered into the non-reported details of Earhart's last
flight.]
Above: General Douglas MacArthur, President Franklin Roosevelt, Admiral Chester Nimitz on the USS
Baltimore, July 1944. Famous figures from the World War Two era, there is no doubt they were aware of the Earhart post-loss
situation on a higher level than the general public. In 1965 Admiral Nimitz additionally admitted it was quietly "known
and documented in Washington" that Amelia Earhart had survived to exist under the auspice of Japan. Irene Craigmile
Bolam's later life friends in General MacArthur's widow, Jean MacArthur and United States Senator, Barry Goldwater of Arizona
were also linked to a greater understanding of the Earhart matter. As became the norm for certain war-time controversies
though, at some point it was decided the official U. S. disposition about Amelia Earhart's disappearance would evermore
be greeted with a let's move on attitude. Or otherwise, "official silence." And thus it remained.
"I hope
I've just got to never make it public." Part of Henry P. Morgenthau Jr.'s
initial May 13, 1938 transcripted reply to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt concerning what really became of Amelia Earhart. The
White House was aware of the 'Earhart situation' on a level the news media and the public never came to understand. (See transcript
excerpts further down.) "You're onto something that will stagger
your imagination." U. S. Navy Commander, John Pillsbury refers to the truth about Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance
to CBS Radio Journalist-Earhart Author, Fred Goerner in 1962. What became of Amelia Earhart? Evidently the truth was privately known by a few select
U. S. and Japan officials long ago, and the public is finally starting to catch on to it. Note: The mystery of Amelia
Earhart came to publicly exist because it was supposed to, not because it ever really did exist.
| 1966 Doubleday book by CBS Radio's Fred Goerner... |
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| A top ten New York Times 'Best Seller,' years later 'official silence' left few recalling it. |
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How The Amelia Earhart 'Disappearance
Controversy' Developed In The Modern Era These two great investigative books from the past combined for over ten years of documented research.
They clearly revealed how in 1937 the United States and Japan decided not to publicly disclose an awareness they shared on
what became of Amelia Earhart. [The Marshall Islands were under Japan's authority in 1937.] Those who inquired
about it were greeted with 'official silence,' and by the late 1970s the Smithsonian Institution, along with the families
of Amelia Earhart and the original Irene Craigmile shared a common agenda; one rejecting all ideas differing from the simple
'crashed-and-sank' suggestion of Amelia's demise. No matter what different people have described in recent decades, the United
States 'official' viewpoint has always encouraged the historically safe crashed-and-sank
opinion only. Forensically though, it recently became clear Amelia did not just crash and sink, nor did she disappear from
the face of the earth, nor was she executed for spying, nor did she perish with Fred Noonan on a remote desert island. A purpose
was served though, for the ongoing introductions of these and other ideas helped keep the 'mystery' idea going.
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| 1970 McGraw-Hill book by Joe Klaas w/Joe Gervais |
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| A best seller as well, later unjustifiably ridiculed, pontificated Amelia 'privately survived.' |
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Only recently was it forensically revealed;
there were three different women who were attributed to the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity, and the 'Gervais-Irene'
(below) was very special:
Note: Today people fail to recall how Amelia Earhart was an anti-war
pacifist. Just as Charles Lindbergh did in 1937, four years before Pearl Harbor occurred, Earhart favored maintaining FDR's
isolationist viewpoint for the United States. She was also a well loved hero in Japan then, just like Babe Ruth had been,
who so strongly influenced baseball there during his visit a few years earlier. The charade of the false promoted history
of Earhart's disappearance is easier understood when these historical truths are recognized. Contrary to the rumors, Japan
would have never harmed Amelia Earhart, especially where she actually opted to remain under their authority after
she was reported 'missing.'
Below: Referencing the
Malvina Scheider/Henry Morgenthau Jr. White House note, here are two excerpts from Morgenthau's original May 13, 1938 transcripted
response to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's request for the 'White House Official Report' on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
The White House never commented further beyond this document, that was no doubt intended to remain privately archived.
| From Morgenthau's conversation... |
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| ...with the First Lady's secretary Malvina Scheider about the withheld Earhart disappearance report. |
| 1938 White House transcript continued from above: |
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| The lack of a "proper search" referenced the U. S. never searching the Marshalls. |
Note: Henry Morgenthau
Jr. actually ended his conversation with Malvina Scheider by suggesting she "make something up" to appease the First
Lady's request. (In the follow up note at the top of the Home Page one can see her reply was more straight forward.) He also
professed to know what really happened at the end of Earhart's flight, with his assistant, Stephen Gibbon adding there was
'evidence' opposing the need for additional searching. It is apparent throughout the content of this message the White House
wished for the public to accept Amelia Earhart as 'gone forever.' It never admitted so much, but it seemed to wish for the
public to regard the conclusion of the Earhart saga, as if Amelia had died. Twenty years later, in the late 1950s an overwhelming
preponderence of circumstantial evidence surfaced describing how Amelia ended up existing under the auspice of Japan prior
to the outbreak of World War Two. To this day neither the White House nor Japan has ever issued a statement refuting this
suggestion as Earhart's ultimate post-loss reality.
| Monsignor Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980. |
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| The Gervais-Irene used the original Irene Craigmile's identity from the 1940s to 1982. |
"After all she'd been through,
she didn't want to be Amelia Earhart any more." Monsignor James Francis Kelley, former President of Seton Hall University
discusses his late close friend Irene Craigmile (Bolam) [AKA 'the Gervais-Irene'] in 1991. Kelley also admitted his involvement
with Cardinal Francis Spellman and Jackie Cochran in bringing Amelia home from Japan, and honoring her changed identity after
World War Two. See the Amelia Earhart Miscellaneous link on the upper left for more about Monsignor Kelley.
| Msgr. Kelley's sister Gertrude & the Gervais-Irene |
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| Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1976. |
| From a 10/18/82 New Jersey Tribune article: |
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| A decade later Msgr. Kelley verified his late friend Irene Bolam's (Gervais-Irene) 'dual' identity. |
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From 1970 on, even after the Gervais-Irene
died in July of 1982 people still weren't sure about her past or who she really was...
| Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam |
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| From Beyond 37's study, overlayed with Amelia Earhart. |
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...but the truthful nature of Father
Kelley's words became clear after Beyond 37's forensic analysis commenced in 2002.
| The Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...superimposed with Amelia Earhart. |
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| 1978, the Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...proud with her wings, she was identified nowhere as "Irene" prior to the 1940s. |
"Numerous investigations foundered on official silence in Tokyo and Washington,
leaving the fate of Amelia Earhart an everlasting mystery." From Marylin Bender
& Selig Altschull's Pan Am aviation history book, The Chosen Instrument, 1982, Simon & Schuster. Note: 'Official silence' created the 'mystery' of Amelia Earhart.
| A 1987 Marshall Islands Commemorative Stamp... |
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| ...plane hoisted, Japan naval officer with Noonan and Earhart. "Picked up, not captured." |
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| The Original Irene Craigmile (center) in 1930. |
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| The Gervais-Irene used her identity from the 1940s to 1982. |
"People need only
ask why an authorized biography was never published, or a movie was never made detailing the life of Irene Craigmile Bolam.
For beyond the uncertainty of where she actually came from when she began living on Long Island, New York the mid-1940s, she
was a worldly, classy, and fantastic person who was at times extraordinarily benevolent. She had government, clergy, and military leader friends in high places all over
the world, especially in Japan, England, and the United States. She was the corporate president of Radio Luxembourg in the
1970s, she claimed to have been well acquainted with Amelia Earhart and to have flown with her, and from the 1ate 1940s until
she died in 1982, she knew and even hung out with several of Amelia's old friends. She even knew NASA astronauts. Yet, after
the McGraw-Hill book, Amelia Earhart Lives made Irene Bolam a national news item in 1970, by showing how USAF Major
Joe Gervais had discovered the past connection between Irene and Amelia to have been no ordinary coincidence, the
book was quickly removed from the stores. Soon after all references to the controversy that became her were quietly swept
under the rug of official history. To the few who understood the truth the controversy never went away. At the same time official
history, through its use of national media resources, always fought back. For example, as recently as mid-2006 cable television
fell victim to entering the fray once again. It happened after a few 'false' Amelia Earhart iconic-image protecting stalwarts
learned how in April of 2006, Irene Bolam's 1934 born son had identified an entirely different woman as his childhood mother,
juxtaposed to the Irene Bolam who had been referenced in Amelia Earhart Lives. This re-solidified the 2003 forensic
realization of there having been more than one woman who had used the same 'Irene' identity. In response, suddenly a movement
arose to produce a new Earhart special on the National Geographic Channel. It was once again directed at influencing the American
public to avoid taking the decades old Irene-Amelia controversy too seriously, even though it never ended as an officially
settled issue. The National Geographic Channel premiered its show in November of 2006. It was careful not to mention Irene's
living son at all. Nor did it bring up the earlier forensic discovery of more than one woman having used the same 'Irene Bolam'
identity. Serving its purpose to help keep the mystery of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance in tact, (when it was
actually solved in the private sector decades ago) the show is still airing today using new titles to keep it fresh, as it
implies there was no real controversy connected to Irene Bolam, when indeed there was, and still is." Tod Swindell,
2011
| Amelia Earhart, age thirty in 1928. |
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| Photo taken after her Friendship flight. |
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| From a 1963 photo taken in Japan... |
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| ...the Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam, known as 'Irene' from the mid-1940s until her passing in 1982. |
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| The Gervais-Irene & Amelia Earhart |
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| Gervais-Irene,1963 / Amelia,1928 |
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| Equally blended... |
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| ...Amelia at age 30 and the Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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Above: In 1965 at a gathering
of well-known retired pilots in East Hampton of Long Island, New York; World War Two hero, USAF Major Joe Gervais (Ret.) met
one of three different women who were historically attributed to the same name of 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' (nee O'Crowley.)
The one he met is labeled in the Beyond 37' study as 'the Gervais-Irene.' The study revealed how the Gervais-Irene
appeared nowhere identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. Note: Contrary to what ended as an assumed public opinion
that it had been answered, as both Amelia's and the original Irene's families casually sidestepped the issue, the past 'true
identity' question of the Gervais-Irene was ultimately left unanswered by any means of 'official' historical authority. Instead,
official United States and Japan historians were guided to ignore the obvious truthful reveals exhibited by the Irene-Amelia
controversy.
Notwithstanding the influence of a few outspoken opposing Earhart theorists, who in recent years
hard steered the National Geographic Channel, Wikipedia, and Facebook to consider other ideas, certain new truths
about Earhart were recently discovered and revealed anyway. Among them: After four decades of debating over who she
really was, it turned out the Gervais-Irene (who died in 1982) head to toe and character trait wise did reveal
herself as a forensic match to Amelia Earhart. It was also revealed how more than one person was historically attributed
to the singular identity of 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'
| A Gervais-Irene Craigmile handwriting sample: |
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| From a 1967 Gervais-Irene letter, with Amelia's high school "Amelia M Earhart" signature added. |
Above: A Gervais-Irene/Amelia Earhart
handwriting comparison, with the Gervais-Irene veritably admitting she was 'known' as both Irene and Amelia. Taken
from a 1967 letter where she referred to two individuals; famous pilot Viola Gentry and Early Birds of Aviation President
Elmo Pickerill, the Gervais-Irene wrote "because they each knew us both well as Amelia Earhart and Irene Craigmile."
Note:
Although still protected by official silence,
to a select group of Earhart research experts
it is obvious anymore how Amelia Earhart lived on to change her name to 'Irene Craigmile.' [Again, she ultimately became
one of three different individuals who employed the same 'Irene Craigmile' identity.]
Important clarifications
about Beyond 37's founder, Tod Swindell (See brief bio in 'About Beyond 37' below the following.) 1.) An internet search on the name of "Tod Swindell"
will produce many hits concerning Amelia Earhart research and the motion picture industry. 2.) There is a substantial amount of misconveyed information
on the internet pertaining to Mr. Swindell's long term research study on Amelia Earhart's disappearance: A.) Although other researchers professed
it, Mr. Swindell never stated his own belief that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were 'captured and jailed' or 'arrested
as spies' by Japan as reported by the Associated Press. Rather, he merely referenced the 1965 statement made by U. S. Navy
Admiral, Chester Nimitz: "Amelia Earhart and her navigator did go down in the Marshall Islands and were picked up by
the Japanese." Mr. Swindell feels the flying duo was more than likely treated well by Japan's military and government
officials, after they were rescued at Mili Atoll of the lower Marshall Islands in early July of 1937. He also feels that flying
in the direction of the Marshalls was how Amelia Earhart "absolutely disregarded all orders" as
specified by White House Cabinet member, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr. to First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, nine months after Earhart
and Noonan went missing.
B.) Mr. Swindell adheres to the realistic probability of a statement posed by retired Air Force Major, Joseph
A. Gervais when he interviewed him in 2001: "Look, there are eight years missing from this person's life. Nobody knows
where she was actually living, or what she was actually doing from the time she disappeared in 1937 until after the end of
World War Two. All we've learned is she turned up on Long Island after the war with a new name and a slightly altered image,
and the public was never supposed to be aware of such a thing. According to official history Amelia Earhart was declared 'dead'
two years after she disappeared, and official history preferred to leave it that way." C.) From his research, Mr. Swindell strongly feels there
was no major international conspiracy linked to hiding Amelia Earhart's name changed survival. Rather, he feels it
was more of a private arrangement involving a few very close friends of hers, a few select government and clergy figureheads,
and a few of her close family members, to include some of the original Irene Craigmile's close knit family who Amelia
had known from the late 1920s on. D.) To date, no one has ever directly challenged Mr. Swindell's 2002-2007 Forensic Analysis,
although plenty have automatically decried it. Of note, in 2006 Noel Dockstater of the National Geographic Channel conveyed
how the "science was solid" in the Swindell analysis, where it displayed three different people who were historically
attributed the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' identity, with one of them, (the Gervais-Irene) who appeared nowhere identified
as Irene prior to the 1940s, head to toe and character trait wise bearing a haunting resemblance to Amelia Earhart. However,
without any explanation given, the National Geographic Channel ommitted these aspects of Mr. Swindell's analysis from its
2006 produced program still being rerun today. Instead, it chose to continue casting doubt on the (obvious anymore) reality
of Amelia's post-loss survival with a new name. E.) Mr. Swindell identifies a protective stance concerning the legendary
heroic image of Amelia Earhart; one long maintained by Amelia Earhart's survived family, the Smithsonian Institution, Tighar,
the Amelia Earhart Society, and Elgen Long and Nauticos at the forefront. He cites how since the 1960s there has existed a
'clear effort' to keep the mystery of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance alive in the eyes of the public by way of the combined
dominating influence of these entities and others, through national news media outlets.
About
Beyond 37'
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| Beyond 37's Tod Swindell |
Hello. My name is Tod Swindell
and I am the creator and editor of Irene-Amelia.com. I was born in Yonkers, New York in 1958 and I grew up in the greater
Los Angeles area and just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am a graduate of the University of Arizona and a member of
the International Documentary Association and the Directors Guild of America. Twenty years ago, inspired by my late grandmother,
Doris Clearwaters Eby, I began examining Amelia Earhart's full life story. Doris (who idol-worshipped Amelia Earhart) was
born in Indiana in 1900 three years after Amelia was born in Kansas. Doris ended up as a single working mother of two in Los
Angeles in the 1930s, near to where Amelia's last home was in Toluca Lake of North Hollywood. I remember Doris telling me
how she believed Amelia Earhart did not disappear in 1937, rather, that Amelia had left her husband with a wish not to live
as a famous 'hounded' person anymore. Of course I found such a thing hard to believe. But Doris was a very smart and well
studied person, and she had followed Amelia's career closely. In 2001, ten years after my 'Earhart
truth' research quest began I formed Beyond 37' with retired USAF Major Joe Gervais and retired USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck,
two decorated World War Two heroes. Joe Gervais was the first true Amelia Earhart investigative researcher. He began
his own quest in the late 1950s. In 1970 the book Amelia Earhart Lives (my grandmother, Doris had read it) featured
certain aspects of Gervais' research described by many as 'too controversial' for the public to appreciate, let alone comprehend.
Subsequently, the book was removed. I met Joe Gervais through Amelia Earhart author, Randall Brink in the mid 1990s and I
came to know Joe and his wife Thelma well the last ten years of Joe's life. Having always confronted the media placed historical
charades about Amelia Earhart--that remain abundant today--Joe Gervais passed away in 2005 still advocating the truthful nature
of the Irene-Amelia conveyance. Just like Doris had, Joe believed Amelia had intentionally optioned out of her life as a public
figure--to the point of changing her name for the sake of future anonymity. He also believed Japan and Pan Am Airways helped
her to do such a thing. Most people thought he was nuts. Except Joe was very smart and well studied too. Especially when it
came to subject matter of Amelia Earhart.
Joe Gervais first came to accept his 'Earhart quietly survived'
deduction in 1965, before making it public in 1970. Three decades later, after the initial findings of my 2002-2007 forensic
evaluation (arranged to test Joe's magnanimous effort and claim) displayed the results it did, [Note: I was surprised
to learn no one had ever forensically tested Joe's 'Amelia Earhart quietly survived' claim before] Joe's compatriot who I
came to know as well, USAF Colonel Rollin Reineck authored his 2004 book Amelia Earhart Survived inspired by my analysis;
one that included head to toe comparisons, speech comparisons, and handwriting comparisons among other things. Colonel Reineck
had been researching Earhart since the 1970s. His book featured certain elements of my study publicy for the first time, to
include the forensically verified plural-Irenes reality. Rollin passed away in 2007, also still advocating the truthful
nature of the Irene-Amelia conveyance. Meanwhile, anti-truth persuasions notwithstanding, and no matter what new breakthroughs
occurred over the years, the Irene-Amelia truth remained to be greeted by official silence in Washington. However,
it is important to realize the Irene-Amelia conveyance has never, ever been 'officially' disproved. Indeed, no matter
how hard Wikipedia and Facebook try to claim it was disproved based on the incomplete data presented by the National Geographic
Channel's Kevin Richlin, and no matter how hard the families of Amelia Earhart and the original Irene Craigmile try to persuade
the public to not take the Irene-Amelia truth seriously, (in stride with the Smithsonian) those who fully understand the Irene-Amelia
equation have no problem accepting it as a withheld historical reality. [Note: The learned understand how the mystery
always existed because it was supposed to exist, not because it really does, or ever did exist.] This includes the special
collections archivists at the University of Texas at Dallas where Joe Gervais donated his forty year trove of Amelia Earhart
research. There, they assert his claim as 'among the most plausible.' In any case, try to accept this website
for what it is, and believe in what you see that is so painfully obvious, as opposed to the variety of differing theories
pseudo Earhart research authorities such as The Amelia Earhart Society, Alex Mandel of the Ukraine, Gwen Gale of Wikipedia,
Elgen Long, and TIGHAR try to persuade you to believe in. Instead, here you can learn about, comprehend, and ultimately come
to terms with some historically buried truehoods you never knew about the world famous American pilot from the 1920s and 1930s,
Amelia Earhart. Thank you, Tod Swindell-2011
| WWII hero & retired USAF Major Joe Gervais... |
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| ...in 1983 on his way to Howland Island. Amelia never made there in 1937. |
"You will always hear important sounding people tell you the
Irene-Amelia equation isn't true. Well, it is true." 2001 quote
from retired USAF Major Joe Gervais (1924-2005)
| The original Irene Craigmile, 1930 |
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| After her mother died she was co-raised by her paternal grandmother and her aunt, I. R. O'Crowley. |
The Original Irene Craigmile and her
Aunt, I. R. O'Crowley After July 2nd, 1937 Amelia Earhart was listed as 'a missing person.' But did she really go missing, or disappear? History described it that
way, but in recent years new information about Earhart's final destiny managed to plainly surface. It included Amelia Earhart's
past close friendship and professional alliance with the original Irene Craigmile's aunt, attorney I. R. O'Crowley,
and the ZONTA's, an international organization of professional women I. R. O'Crowley and Amelia Earhart had been distinguished
members of.
Here's what is now understood:
The forensic analysis unearthed some startling information about the never settled controversy surrounding the book Amelia
Earhart Lives. It first made national news in 1970, only to be quietly swept under the rug of 'official history.' The
analysis revealed new information about the original Irene Craigmile (the niece of attorney I. R. O'Crowley
mentioned above) and her 1930s friend, Amelia Earhart. Most remarkably, it discovered how the original Irene Craigmile
was seen no more after she gave birth to a son in 1934. Additionally, the study revealed how three different women had been
historically identified as one in the same Irene (nee O'Crowley) Craigmile Bolam, and how one of them, referred to
in the study as "the Gervais-Irene," displayed a haunting resemblance to Amelia Earhart. [Note: In 2006 the son of the original Irene Craigmile did not
identify the Gervais-Irene as the mother he recognized from his early childhood.] See below:
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| The Original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, 1930. |
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| Amelia's 'pal' with her husband Charles Craigmile & her father Joe O'Crowley. |
Note: Joe O'Crowley (above right)
was the older brother of attorney I.
R. O'Crowley who was Amelia's close friend, contract advisor, and ZONTA sister.
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| The Gervais-Irene Craigmile, 1978 |
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| She was identified nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. |
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| The Non Gervais-Irene Craigmile |
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| Known as Irene Craigmile from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, then again in the 1970s. |
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| Gervais-Irene photo... |
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| ...blended with Amelia photo |
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The original Irene Craigmile was a 1930s 'flying pal' and 'friend' of Amelia
Earhart's. In April of 2006 the 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile admitted a good friendship had existed between
his mother's family, the O'Crowleys of Newark, New Jersey (particularly with his mother's aunt, attorney I. R. O'Crowley)
and Amelia Earhart. He also identified the third woman below on the right (ID'd as a third 'different' Irene Craigmile) as
his early childhood mother, who was not the original Irene Craigmile (shown below left,) nor was she the Gervais-Irene. The
forensic analysis clearly revealed how the original Irene Craigmile no longer appeared to exist beyond the mid-1930s, approximate
to the time of her son's birth. What became of the original Irene Craigmile remains a mystery unto itself.
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| The original Irene Craigmile, Amelia's friend. |
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| What became of her remains a mystery unto itself. |
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| A third 'different' Irene Craigmile |
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| She used the original Irene's identity, and served as an early mother figure to her 1934 born son. |
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| Gervais-Irene photo... |
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| ...blended with Amelia photo |
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Below: Since 1970, three
nationally published books proclaimed the Gervais-Irene to have been a person who was formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.'
Why did these books never receive much public attention or gain acceptance? The answer: 'Official silence' left them
'unofficially endorsed,' to where the general public refused to accept such a truth. Nevertheless, it was and still remains,
the truth.
| The 1970 Joe Klaas, Joe Gervais book... |
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| ...A New York Times best seller as well, determined Amelia 'privately' survived with Japan's help. |
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| By Robert Myers & Barbara Wiley, 1985 |
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| A first hand account; claimed Joe Gervais was right about the 'Irene' he met in 1965. |
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| By Colonel Rollin Reineck, 2004 |
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| First mentioned Beyond 37's forensic study, claimed the Gervais-Irene was 'formerly' Amelia Earhart. |
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The new paradigm of the Earhart mystery to be regarded is this: Evidently, it was determined via the will
of Amelia's own family, (to foremost include Amelia's sister, Muriel who died in 1998) the will of Amelia herself, and the
support of friends Amelia had in high places; after the public accepted Amelia as 'gone' a ruse to obfuscate her continued
existence was needed. So much led to the 'official silence' regard concerning what really became of Amelia Earhart.
With a closed blind-eye from the Smithsonian Institute, and where there was never an 'official investigation'
launched into Amelia Earhart's disappearance, such a regard continues to protect this life long biographical truth about Amelia Earhart
from being welcomed into the realm of publicly accepted information.
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Note: Historically, Four Prevalent
Theories Were Eventually Recocgnized When It Came To Suggesting What Possibly Could Have Happened To Amelia Earhart. (See
All Four Below.) Recall, According To Record, On The Morning Of July 2, 1937 Amelia Sent Her Final Radio Transmission As She
And Her Navigator, Fred Noonan Continued To Safely Fly Over The Pacific Ocean With An Ample Fuel Supply. Their Last Known
Coordinates Were Described As 'Near The Equator In The Vicinity Of Howland Island, Somewhere Between The Gilbert Islands
And The Marshall Islands.' Of The Four 'Most Presented' Theories Below, Which One Offered Credence To What Actually Became
Of The Famous Flying Duo? In recent years, after the reveal of the 'Irene' connection, anymore the answer is obvious.
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Theory 1.) After Continuing
To Fly On In Radio Silence, Eventually The Duo Perished After Earhart's Plane Finally Ran Out Of Fuel, Then Crashed And Sank
Into The Ocean (Note: The Last Leg The Duo Was Flying From Lae, New Guinea To Howland Island Measured 2,550 Miles In Distance,
While Their Plane Had A Fuel Range Capability Of 4,400 Miles. It Was Determined As Highly Unlikely, Where The Duo Would Not
Have Exercised A 'Plan B' Option To Head For The Nearest Civilized Land Mass With Its Remaining Fuel Supply. Surely They Would
Have After Not Locating Howland Island, Their Announced 'Intended Destination')
Theory 2.) The Duo Made It To The Marshall Islands Where They
Were Captured And Held As Spies By Japan. Accordingly They Were Later Executed, Or They Eventually Died While Being Held In
Captivity On Saipan (Note: There Was No Doubt The Duo Was Seen In The Marshalls And On Saipan By Chamorros, Saipanese, And
Japanese Military Personnel. However Their True Destinies Afterward Became Unclear, And Japan Denied 'Holding Captive' Or
Ever Harming Earhart Or Noonan)
Theory
3.) According To A Group Known As TIGHAR, The Duo Might Have Made It To Nikumororo Island of the Phoenix Islands Group
Where They Lived As Castaways And Eventually Perished. This Idea Included Their Having Safely Ditched Off The Island's Coast,
Before The Tide Took Their Plane Out To Sea Where It Sank (Note: Although TIGHAR Has Promoted This Theory Since The 1980s,
It Became Known Previous Ship Groundings And One Attempt At Colonization Had Left Debris Behind, And To Date Nothing Found
On Nikumaroro Has Ever Been Authentically Linked To Earhart's Flight)
Theory 4.) The Duo Was Picked Up At Mili Atoll Of The Marshall
Islands By Japan's Naval Authority. From There They Went On To Live Among The Imperial Nipponese Islands While Serving 'A
Specific Purpose' During the Early World War Two Years. Accordingly, Their Names Were Changed, Their Appearances Were Modified,
And The Duo Later Returned To The United States To Continue Living Their Individual Lives As Non-Public Figures. With His
New Identity, It Was Conveyed How Noonan Ended Up Advising Eisenhower During The Normandy Invasion. He Also Advised On Major
Airline Service Ocean Routes During The Following Decades Before Dying In 1978. Likewise With Her New Identity, Earhart Ended
Up Back In The Town Of Great Neck, A Past Favorite Long Island, New York Haunt Of She And Her Sister, Muriel's. The Name-Changed
Earhart Was Ensconced As A Bank Vice President There, And She Eventually Ended Up As The President Of Radio Luxembourg In
the 1970s. She died in 1982.
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[Note:
The Fourth 'More Controversial' Theory Remained Generally Passed Over By The National Media And Conventional Historians,
Even Though It Had Existed Since 1970 And Was Based On Substantiated Research. Despite Rumors To The Contrary Perpetuated
By Earhart's Own Family (And The Smithsonian,) The Extraordinary Claim Of Earhart and Noonan's Continued Existence As Individuals
Sporting New Names And Careers Was Never Off Base, And It Still Has Yet To Be 'Officially' Disproved. Not To Mention Official
U. S. History Representatives Have Never Publicly Commented On It, Nor Was There Ever An 'Official Investigation' Launched
Into Earhart's Disappearance. The Official Silence Credo Dating Back To The Time Amelia Earhart Was Reported Missing
In 1937 Became: "The Mystery Of Amelia Earhart Exists Because It's Supposed To Exist, Not Because It Really Does Exist"]
Note: The Irene-Amelia truth exists beyond the scope of convention. In 2006 even the National Geopgraphic
Channel expressed doubt towards the re-introduced, heavier supported claim. Yet their opinion was based on the light amount
of information it reviewed and traditional opposing influences. The
2006 produced show is still occasionally re-run by the National Geographic Channel, although curiously, the producer/director of the show,
Noel Dockstater remarked how the National Geographic Society is "not allowed" to even imply the Amelia Earhart
mystery to be a potentially solved one. There is little doubt 'official silence' has long influenced both the National
Geographic Society and The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to historically ride the fence about Earhart's final
fate.
Below: Other Earhart theories advanced by private sources through the media fell
short of delivering the truth. The most prevalent of these was offered up by the TIGHAR organization. For decades it tried
to sell the public on a desert island castaways ending for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan akin to a Gilligan's Island story.
To date TIGHAR has yet to deliver any authentic proof or officially substantiated logic supporting its claim, simply because
such support does not exist. TIGHAR does still grab headlines now and then, although for serious Earhart historians they
have long been the subject of ridicule. Note the following 1992 newspaper cartoon:
| Cartoon seen in the Detroit News March 18, 1992 |
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| Satire of TIGHAR expedition to Nikumaroro; Elvis' pick, Amelia's hairpin, Ric Gillespie, etc. |
"The castaways story of Earhart and Noonan's ending has evolved
into an ongoing, if not inadverdent media joke played on the Earhart curious public. Those who have seriously looked into
the Earhart case understand such a thing." USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (ret.) 2007
A Forensic Analysis Uncovers The Less-Known Amelia
Earhart,
And A Curious Side Of Her Still Greeted By 'Official Silence' Today
Webster's Dictionary defines the word Forensic as "Pertaining to, or used
in courts of law or public debate."
[Past attempts to solve the Amelia Earhart mystery are also scrutinized here
by way the Socratic Method.]
Below: To Re-Edify, although 'official
silence' still prevails, in recent years it was realized how the three different women displayed below used the same 'Irene
Craigmile' identity at different times, and the one shown in the middle who was known as 'Irene Craigmile' (later 'Irene Bolam')
from the mid-1940s to 1982 most definitely was, formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.'
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| Orville Wright & Amelia Earhart |
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| Below: Gervais-Irene, Amelia superimposition: |
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| The congruence exposed a strange but true chapter of United States history. |
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"It wasn't just a rumor
as people came to believe years ago. It was based on true research data the Smithsonian dismissed to the national press circuit.
The study finally proved it out; there were three Irene Craigmiles and the former Amelia Earhart was one of them in later
life." "Amelia Earhart survived and she eventually returned to the United States. There's no doubt about it anymore."
USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.), 2007.
What did a few World War Two 'Pacific Theater'
military leaders such as Admiral Chester Nimitz claim to know about Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance? By the great Admiral's
own admission, the following truth was quietly protected: Amelia Earhart did not simply 'disappear.' "Amelia Earhart and her navigator went down
in the Marshall Islands and were picked up by the Japanese." U. S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz in 1965, as spoken to
CBS Radio Journalist and Amelia Earhart investigative author, Fred Goerner "Amelia Earhart Survived and she eventually returned to the United
States." Pacific World War Two veteran, USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.) from a 2006 interview with the National
Geographic Society.
Re-Cap, and some additional information on the original
Irene Craigmile: In April of 2006, at his attorney's office in Manhattan, the seventy-two year old son of the original Irene
Craigmile, one 'Larry Heller' forensically confirmed more than one woman had been identified as his 'mother' in the past,
when he recognized an entirely different woman as his childhood mother figure. The woman he recognized was not the same woman
Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965, although she too had been identified as Mr. Heller's mother. By record, Irene Craigmile's
maiden name was Irene O'Crowley. Her first husband, Charles Craigmile died in 1931. In 1933 the widowed Irene Craigmile became
pregnant out of wedlock and married her baby's father, Alvin Heller. By the end of the decade their marriage had been annuled
though, and it was later noticed, after her baby was born to her in 1934, the original Irene Craigmile was never seen again.
In the meantime, by the mid-1940s the two other women shown below had been identified as 'Irene Craigmile.' In 1958 the woman
on the right below married the distinguished Guy Bolam of England, to further become known as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' Said
woman was identified nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. Notwithstanding official silence, nor the limited opinions expressed
by the Smithsonian and/or the National Geographic Society on the matter, many people today, rightfully so, accept the 'Gervais-Irene'
as a woman who was formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.'
| One of the two replacement Irene Craigmile's. |
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| Labeled the "Non Gervais-Irene." Note: 1982 surname 'Bolam.' |
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| This Irene Craigmile surfaced in the mid-1940s. |
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| Labeled "the Gervais-Irene" shown in Japan in 1963, she had married Guy Bolam in 1958.. |
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Above: Within months after Irene Craigmile Bolam died a well known Newark, New Jersey newspaper ran two weeks
of so-called 'investigative news articles' about her life. The purpose of the series was to once again raise the question
of who Irene Craigmile Bolam really was and to instigate further debate about it. Then after two weeks of teasing its readers,
it was to conclude the series by suggesting Mrs. Bolam's 'innocence.' The newspaper was The New Jersey News Tribune of Woodbridge.
It's Publisher, John Burk had been a good friend of Irene Bolam's. Mr. Burk (along with his wife) also volunteered to host
and emcee a lavish Memorial Dinner for her around the same time. Mr. Burk personally orchestrated the article series with
his reporters and oversaw it. The series began in mid-October and ran until 10/29/82. In 2002 it was discovered 'photo forgeries'
has been used to create a birth-to-death linear progression of Irene's life in order to blend the images of three different
identified 'Irenes' into one. Above Left: Article and photo from the October 29, 1982 New Jersey News Tribune. Apparently
it didn't seem odd to anyone how twelve years after the national hubbub over Mr. Heller's mother had died down, many people
to include Larry Heller and his wife Joan were still questioning her true identity. Above Right: More excerpts from the 1982
news series. Notice the Non Gervais-Irene's image used in the 'Irene Bolam's Prints A Secret' articles. The text insert above
it references Robert Myers, who with Barabra Wiley wrote the book Stand By To Die, Lighthouse Writers Guild, 1985. Meyers,
who briefly knew Amelia Earhart in the 1930s, also met and came to know Irene Bolam (the Gervais-Irene) in the 1970s, and
concurred entirely with Joe Gervais about her full life existence.
Note: In December of 1982 the
series briefly picked up again. By then Larry Heller was quoted to say he "wished for the mystery of his mother's identity
to remain a mystery." According to the series and himself in 2006, Larry Heller had attempted to get Mrs. Bolam's fingerprints
after she passed away and donated her body to Rutgers Medical School. (He was denied access to her remains.) A decade earlier,
when Mrs. Bolam sued the authors of Amelia Earhart Lives, the suit labored on, until the case she levied against them was
eventually settled for a ten dollar consideration fee paid by both sides, after she refused to allow her fingerprints to prove
her identity. (She settled separately with publisher McGraw-Hill for libel. Curiously, in the suit she never addressed nor
denied herself to have been one previously known as Amelia Earhart.) No matter, the 'never quite resolved' story ended up
mostly forgotten, until some 1996 & 97' meetings with Retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais literally stifled all other
post-Earhart loss information. During the next five years the first modern, privately conducted Irene-Amelia forensic comparison
analysis was finally underway.
As mentioned above, in 1991 the well known
American catholic priest Monsignor James Francis Kelley, who had known the Gervais-Irene, conveyed the story about her as
he knew it to be. He told the hardcore truth about Amelia Earhart, one withheld from the world public
dating back to the World War Two era.
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| 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene, harder exposure... |
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| ...different angle too, all of eighty years detectable. |
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| The Gervais-Irene, 1978; Amelia Earhart, 1923 |
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| Head to toe and character trait wise; a true match. |
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| Amelia, from a 1923 'into the mirror' taken self photo-portrait. |
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Who Was The Gervais-Irene?
Who was the Gervais-Irene? She
was discovered by Joe Gervais in 1965. Years later Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a distinguished catholic church emissary
and a former President of Seton Hall University revealed a forensic truth he had long been aware of about his long time
close friend, Irene Craigmile Bolam, AKA the 'Gervais-Irene.' True, nine years after his friend Irene died in 1982, Kelley
described how he had withheld his knowledge of her name having previously been 'Amelia Earhart.' The public debate about her
had existed since 1970. As recently as 2006 the National Geographic Society, without a real foundation for doing so, implied
to its television audience how they 'thought' the Irene-Amelia case had at last been disproved. Of course they were wrong,
and this website features the rest of the story National Geographic couldn't get to the bottom of.
Below: Like a decades-old paper tiger,
the ongoing Nikumaroro saga continues...
From a 12/18/10 Associated Press Story by Sean Murphy: "Bones
found on Nikumororo Island might be Amelia Earhart's."
The purveyors
of this theory have been pushing the same idea since 1982. Known as 'TIGHAR,' a club headed by one Richard Gillespie of Delaware,
it is the only organization of its kind. For thirty years it has all but exclusively dedicated itself to finding Earhart's
plane in Pacific Ocean waters near to Nikumaroro Island. It is there Mr. Gillespie claimed Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
ended up. It is his own theory shared by no other Earhart researchers, and it is backed by no 'officially authenticated' research
data. Richard Gillespie and TIGHAR have taken trips to Nikumaroro dating back to the 1980s. They have collected a trove of
debris items left behind by previous visitors and one attempt at habitation on the island. Bones there had been found or described
before; from a Chamorro child's to a narrative about some retrieved from a crude gravesite. Alas, to date no items found on
Nikumororo have ever been authentically linked to Earhart or Noonan, nor to their 1937 flight, and historians at the Smithsonian
Institute's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) have never supported Mr. Gillesp[ie's theory or his efforts. Not to mention
a serious core of World War Two veteran researchers contends the actual recorded history of Earhart's loss is quite different,
remains 'politically incorrect' to discuss national-media wise, and her flight path never came anywhere close to Nikumororo.
So why does TIGHAR even exist then? Mostly it is a good a media interest dodge. It doesn't take much to notice, there is nothing
controversial about the theory TIGHAR presents, especially as compared to what the 1960s & 1970s investigative research
of Joe Gervais and Fred Goerner yielded in a more historically straightforward way, concerning the touchy Earhart disappearance
subject matter.
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