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The modern Forensic Analysis of the Amelia Earhart
to Irene Craigmile Bolam odyssey By way of the Socratic Method, misguided 'Earhart mystery' theorists
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Note: Rare 1935 photos of Amelia in Hawaii were just released to celebrate her July 24 birthday. Below: Controversial
information about the recently revealed 'shared identity' issue:
| The 'Gervais-Irene' |
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| Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam in Japan, 1963 |
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| The original Irene Craigmile, 1930. |
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| A past friend of Amelia's shown with her husband and father, she was seen no more after the 1930s. |
According to record Irene Craigmile
of New York married Guy Bolam of England in 1958. She became known as the world travelling,
multilingual 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' from that
point on. Except it is now known how the Irene Craigmile
Bolam on the left was only recognized as
'Irene' after 1940. More and more in light of new controversial evidence, people are accepting how before 1938
the Gervais-Irene was known as Amelia Earhart. Contrarians have always stressed otherwise of course, as official history steadfastly avoided the Amelia-to-Irene issue.
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| Irene-Amelia overlay blend... |
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| ...of Amelia at age 30 and the Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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""" You're onto something that will stagger your imagination". Retired U. S. Navy Commander John Pillsbury's past
comment to CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner, about Goerner's investigation into Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance.
| 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam |
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| Shown at Cocoa Beach, Florida in 1965. |
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| The transition begins... |
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| ...see Amelia's image becoming apparent. |
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| Amelia's image starts to take over... |
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| ...notice the congruent alignment; face, chin, neck, shoulders, et al. |
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| Amelia's image dominant. |
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| From a 1935 photo taken during Amelia's pre Hawaii to Oakland flight sea voyage. |
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| 1966 Doubleday book by CBS Radio's Fred Goerner... |
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| For weeks a top ten 'Best Seller' in the NY Times; subsequent silence left few recalling it. |
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These two great investigative books combined for over ten years of hard,
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 Earhart. Those who inquired about it were greeted by 'official silence,' and by the late 1970s
the Smithsonian Institute along with the families of Amelia Earhart, the original Irene Craigmile, and Fred Noonan were engaged
in a common campaign; one rejecting all theories that differed from the simple 'crashed-and-sank' suggestion of Amelia's demise.
No matter what other theorists have described in recent decades, the United States 'official history' version has only ever
favored the 'safe history' crashed and sank opinion.
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| 1970 McGraw-Hill book by Joe Klaas w/Joe Gervais |
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| ...a best seller as well, claimed Amelia survived and changed her name. |
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"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
Below: In 1991 a distinguished United States catholic church emissary finally revealed
a truth he knew...
| Monsignor Kelley & the Gervais-Irene |
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| Menlo Park, New Jersey 1980 |
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| Msgr. Kelley's sister Gertrude & the Gervais-Irene |
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| Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1976. |
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| 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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| Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam |
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| From Beyond 37's study, overlayed with Amelia Earhart. |
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| Gervais-Irene + Amelia |
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| = Irene-Amelia |
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Above: In 1991 Monsignor James Francis
Kelley, a former President of Seton Hall University admitted in a taped interview how his late long time friend, Irene Craigmile
Bolam was formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart,' and how he was 'instrumental' with helping to receive her back from Japan adjacent
to the Word War Two era. Father Kelley held doctorates in psychology and philosophy, and Irene Bolam's 1982 obituaries described
him as her "close friend" and "confessor." Dissenters called him crazy and the press ignored his truthful
reveal. Decades before in 1965, Admiral Chester Nimitz who
Monsignor Kelley also knew had admitted to CBS radio journalist-author, Fred Goerner how it existed as 'long withheld' information
in Washington, that Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan were "picked up by Japan" in 1937. He also added
the duo's future dispositions remained 'unclear' to himself and others on his level. Those who opposed the idea of Amelia
ending up under the auspice of Japan claimed Admiral Nimitz didn't know what he was talking about. Note: Still to date, there has never been an 'official investigation' into the 1937 disappearance of Amelia
Earhart and Fred Noonan.
 General Douglas MacArthur, President Franklin Roosevelt, Admiral Chester Nimitz on the USS Baltimore, July 1944.
Above: According to the past most
formidable United States historians, most specifically from the World War Two era carrying into the 1970s; General Douglas
MacArthur, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Admiral Chester Nimitz all maintained a higher level of awareness on what
actually became of Amelia Earhart. Of course in more recent decades the collective American conscience has been steered away
from recognizing the extant historical controversy of Amelia Earhart, while being media-fed a wide variety of invented explanations
for her disappearance. Recall though, how General MacArthur co-ran Japan with Emperor Hirohito after World War Two,
and how few were aware in the 1960s and 1970s that Irene Craigmile Bolam was a recognized 'New York friend' of General McArthur's
widow, Jean. Recall as well, Admiral Nimitz was placed in charge of the former Japanese mandated Marshall Islands in 1944
after the U. S. occupation there, and how his controversial 1960s statements about Earhart's fate being withheld in Washington
were all-but swept away by the 1990s. (Note: See the 'Morgenthau to Eleanor Roosevelt' quote
a little farther down.) However in 2002, not long after the modern forensic analysis of the 1937 Earhart incident commenced,
United Nations Marshall Islands Ambassador, Alfred Capelle was quoted by the Associated Press to say it was always "common
knowledge" in his country Amelia Earhart did not 'vanish' in 1937, and how she made it to the Marshall Islands with her
navigator, Fred Noonan where Japan's naval authority actually helped them. Ambassador Capelle also mentioned how he understood
Amelia Earhart was not held in captivity, rather, she ended up "serving some kind of purpose" in Japan's imperial
mandate islands for awhile, before the U. S. entered World War Two.
What else is new and controversial about this story? Some new learned truths: In the 1930s Amelia Earhart had a friend by the name of Irene Craigmile. It was
recently learned though, what became of the original Irene Craigmile back then remains unknown. Historians are also uncomfortable with some non-publicized information now being revealed about Amelia Earhart,
and how the original Irene's past existence was used to obfuscate Amelia's story and protect her
famous image. Sure the Smithsonian Institute has always encouraged the crashed
and sank version of Amelia Earhart's demise, but never with one hundred percent certainty. Again, much of what you are about
to read and observe here is recent or newly gained information:
| Beyond 37' Gervais-Irene handwriting sample: |
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| From a 1967 letter to Joe Gervais, and Amelia's high school senior "Amelia M Earhart" signature. |
Are the above photo and handwriting comparisons just a coincidence? After all according to record, in the 1930s Irene
Craigmile and Amelia Earhart knew each other. Did they really look and write so much alike? Of course not. For the Gervais-Irene
was not the original Irene, even though U. S. history 'official silence' left people thinking she was. Meanwhile for years,
important sounding contrarians have claimed it is 'almost certain' Amelia Earhart did not survive her disappearance to eventually
change her name. Yet anymore one can see how they lacked accuracy. It's that simple.
Below: Although the National Geographic Channel edited out this information in its public TV version, it does know about
it and did film it. The updated edition of this story exists where it was recently learned there were three different women
who used the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' identity. Shown here, Beyond 37's forensic study labeled them as: 1.) The
Original Irene, 2.) The Gervais-Irene, and 3.) The Non Gervais-Irene:
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1. 1930
| The original Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1930. |
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| Amelia's friend, with her husband Charles and her father, Joe. She was seen no more after the 1930s. |
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2. 1945
| The 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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| AKA the 'Gervais-Irene' ('Irene Craigmile Bolam' after her 1958 marriage to Guy Bolam of England.) |
| Below: Familiar? Amelia always had sinus trouble. |
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| Info on her post-loss 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' and dental work is included in this website. |
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3. 1947
| The 'third' Irene Craigmile Bolam in the 1940s. |
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| AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene.' By 1945 she'd left, leaving only the Gervais-Irene as Irene Craigmile. |
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"History is the expression of feelings peculiar to humanity."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The weak in character are coercible when it comes to
a non-truth, and why it should be promoted. The
courageous on the other hand, believe in truth exclusively, and strive to embrace it."
"Courage
is the price that life exacts for granting peace." Amelia Earhart
Note: There has never been an 'official investigation' into the disappearance
of, or post-loss continued survival assertion of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. The world public has always been encouraged
by United States 'offical history' guiding forces, as well as friends and relatives of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and the
original Irene Craigmile to simply accept the crashed and sank version of the flying duo's ending, and to dismiss everything
else. All ideas and theories that differ from the crashed and sank version have been suggested by private citizens only. A
few of them who head-up money making ventures that capitalize on Earhart's name, have been receiving national news attention
for the past three decades. But not one of their mystery solving ideas has ever come close to being officially endorsed as
true history. Here, consider the following 'withheld since 1937' Executive Branch information:
" Official Silence In Washington" Below: Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s reply
to Eleanor Roosevelt
| 1978, wings pinned below left shoulder... |
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| ...the Gervais-Irene in Jamestown, New Jersey |
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| FDR right hand man, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr. |
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| He oversaw FDR's secret service division beyond his Secretary of the Treasury post. |
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| A 1987 Marshall Islands Commemorative Stamp... |
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| ...plane hoisted, Japan naval officer with Noonan and Earhart. "Picked up, not captured." |
(Above: It's amazing how historical censorship is known for diverting
the public away from accepting historical reality.)
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" I hope I've just got to never make it public." The above quote was excerpted from a 1938 White House transcript. It reveals how
the U. S. Executive Branch maintained a different awareness on what became of Amelia Earhart. FDR Cabinet member Henry P.
Morgenthau Jr. included this sentence in a statement to Eleanor Roosevelt. The First Lady had, with sure hesitancy on Jackie
Cochran's behalf, brought up the idea of 'renewing the search' for her gone friend Amelia, thus prompting Morgenthau's tacit
response about Amelia Earhart's real fate. Later, in 1965 Admiral Nimitz admitted it was quietly "known and documented
in Washington" how Amelia Earhart actually survived her 1937 disappearance, and she somehow ended up existing under the
auspice of Japan for an 'undetermined' amount of time; something caused either by circumstance, or possibly Amelia's own will.
[Note: Henry Morgenthau Jr. also included in his transcripted message to Mrs. Roosevelt, how Amelia "absolutely disregarded
all orders" during the final phase of her last flight.]
"She certainly
knew flying. She knew everything there was to know about Japan." 1982 New Jersey Tribune newspaper article quote from one of Irene's friends, John
Malloy of Rumson, New Jersey. Mr. Malloy expressed his opinion three months after Irene's passing. He and
other survived friends of the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam (Gervais-Irene) always viewed the issue of her true
identity as suspect. Contrary to popular belief, the claim of the Gervais-Irene having been known as 'Amelia' in the 1930s
was never proven false. It had been dismissed by friends and family of both Irene and Amelia, and negated by the press and
the public as a non-likelihood for decades, but again, never was it proven false.
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of Irene Craigmile Bolam When it comes to Amelia Earhart believe what you clearly understand with your own mind, and clearly see with your
own eyes. Do not believe the more recent suggestions of rogue charlatans and upstarts who describe 'castaway deaths,' or 'spy
conspiracies,' or 'some knowledge about the location of Earhart's plane at the bottom of the ocean.' No matter how impressive they appear to be, they eminated from mere
'Earhart cottage industries' that push their glossy looking theories onto the media, in the interest of raising capital from
the public for their false endeavors. By taking advantage of the 'Earhart mystery's intrigue,' they prey on less-informed
romantics, all the while knowing how 'official silence' protects their ability to do so. No matter how much you want to believe,
don't give them one dime. Be smart and wary about the actual history of Amelia Earhart.
Believe in the truth, believe in what is real.
Recap: In 1958 one of the two 'non-original, identity sharing' Irenes (see two panels down) married Guy
Bolam of England, thus making her final legal name Irene Craigmile Bolam. So in all, according to non-conveyed true
history there were three different women attributed to the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity. More and more people who see
through the anti-truth efforts are accepting the one who married England's Guy Bolam, who Earhart research scholar Joe A. Gervais met and photographed among other famous
retired pilots in 1965, to have formerly been known as Amelia Earhart. Notice
as well, how Wikipedia and other contrarians do not include the recent plural Irenes discovery in their counterpoint arguments.
So much reveals the protective cover of 'people in the know' over this four-decades old controversy. Self-proclaimed Earhart
research experts (private citizens all) such as Carol Linn Dow (The Amelia Earhart Project), Bill Prymak (The Amelia Earhart
Society), Richard Gillespie (TIGHAR), and Elgen Long (Nauticos) have all been offering completely different 'historically
safe' versions of Earhart's ending through the media for years. Except they do share one common-ground soapbox; for a long
time now, to even precede the recent forensic analysis by decades, all of them have been campaigning against and/or shouting
down the Irene-Amelia conveyance to the public.
| The original Irene Craigmile, 1930... |
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| Amelia's friend, shown between her first husband and father. |
NOTE: Click on this photo to go to
the 'Will The Real Irene Please Stand Up' page.
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| Mnsgr. Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980 |
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| The former Seton Hall Univ. President finally told the truth about his friend Irene on tape in 1991. |
NOTE: Click on this photo to go to the 'Monsignor
Kelley Information' page.
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| Irene-Amelia overlay blend... |
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| ...of Amelia and the 1945-1982 ID'd Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
NOTE: Click on this photo to go to
the 'Irene-Amelia Comparisons' page.
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The new controversy about this
story begins with the original Irene Craigmile. She became "Irene Craigmile" when she married Charles Craigmile
in 1927. She was also a friend of Amelia Earhart's. After Charles Craigmile died suddenly in 1931 the original Irene married
Alvin Heller in 1933. In 1934 Al and Irene Heller had a son they named 'Clarence,' except it is now known the original Irene
was no longer seen in public from that point on. Still, by 1940 the Heller-Craigmile marriage had been annulled, reverting
her name back to Irene Craigmile. Subsequent to the annulment, photo records show two different women who employed the same
Irene Craigmile identity appearing after 1940. (See below.) Both helped raise the original Irene's son. Yes, this fairly recent
discovery, along with the 'Earhart correlative' forensic comparison results (seen throughout the site) are what is new about
this story.
| Irene Craigmile |
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| Gervais |
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| Irene Craigmile |
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| Non Gervais |
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Above: These
two different women as they appeared in the 1940s had the same identity attributed to them, one that used to belong to the
original Irene Craigmile who was no longer publicly evident. The one on the left, referred to as 'the Gervais-Irene' by Beyond 37' appeared nowhere identified as Irene
prior to the 1940s. She lived in New York and New Jersey mostly, although she also spent much time in Japan, Scotland, and
Luxembourg among other overseas places with her British husband, Guy Bolam after the two were married in 1958. She spoke several
languages just like Amelia used to, she was a Zonta member just like Amelia had been, and she knew many of the same people
Amelia did. Guy Bolam and the Gervais-Irene both served as corporate Presidents of Radio Luxembourg; Guy doing so in the 1960s,
and the Gervais-Irene doing so in the 1970s. (There was also 'noticeable evidence' of a 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' procedure
having been performed on the Gervais-Irene at some point.) The Gervais-Irene died in 1982. The
final dispositions of the 'original Irene' and 'the Non Gervais-Irene' remains unknown in a public sense. See below the following
'What We Now Know" section for a clear separation of the different Irenes.
What We Now Know We now know, nothing was ever realized
post-loss wise about Earhart and Noonan except for the basic Amelia-to-Irene conveyance, that in the last decade has grown
to become obvious. The Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society still detour the curious and do their best
to discount it, although their combined focus is diminished anymore with questions being asked they cannot answer. The
Original Irene's Son Even the still living 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile, Clarence 'Larry' Heller indicates how as long
as history books say his mother was always one person, so will he. Yet in 1982 after Irene Craigmile Bolam's death occurred,
Mr. Heller actually requested her fingerprints from Rutgers University where she had donated her body, and his wife Joan admitted
to the press at the time how she and her husband were "no longer sure" about Mrs. Bolam's true identity. Mr. Heller's
published request for fingerprints was refused and he was denied access to Mrs. Bolam's remains. Rutgers later mentioned how
Mrs. Bolam was summarily cremated and buried in a common grave. In 2004 Mr. Heller described in a phone conversation how he
was 'aware' more than one person had been identified as his mother in the 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune series about
Irene Craigmile Bolam's life. In 2006, after signing a contract with Beyond 37' wherein he received ten thousand dollars consideration
for the exclusive option right to his version of his mother's life story, he verified he and his wife's published controversial
statements (at a meeting at his attorney's office in New York) while affirming how he grew up never suspecting his mother
had been portrayed by more than one person. However, he clearly recognized the Non Gervais-Irene as the late 1930s to early
1940s mother figure he recalled, before he was placed in a boarding school from age nine to age thirteen. He added the earliest
photo he held of his 'mother' displayed him with her in 1947 at his junior high boarding school graduation ceremony. The woman
in said photo is none other than the Gervais-Irene.
Monsignor James Francis Kelley
and Astronaut Wally Schirra Even though Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a former President of Seton Hall University who was a close friend of
Mrs. Bolam's from the 1940s until she died in 1982, admitted in a 1991 taped interview how she truly was formerly known as Amelia Earhart, anti-truth advocates have been calling him 'crazy' ever since for having
said such a thing. As well, in 1979 and 1985 during two separate conversations, (the second one recorded on film) the now
late NASA astronaut, Wally Schirra described to reporter Dean Magley of Detroit, Michigan how he had 'seen' and even 'met'
the woman formerly known as Amelia Earhart (1979), and how "reliable people" he knew at NASA (1985) had advised
him of her true past identity. Yet ever since, dissenters have been saying Schirra was mistaken, or just not telling the truth.
The National Geographic Channel A few years ago National Geographic Television featured a forensic detective named Kevin Richlin on a program about
the Earhart mystery. (Still in reruns today.) They supplied him with a mere few comparison samples, with no information on
the recent discovered plural identity issue of Mrs. Bolam, and no medical explanation at all on the Gervais-Irene's noticeable
deviated septum rhinoplasty. Mr. Richlin, obviously 'uniformed' on the real controversy of Amelia Earhart's disappearance,
and given the limited information he was supplied with suggested if the few items given to him were all there was to promote
the Irene-Amelia conveyance, the people doing so did not afford a solid enough foundation in his opinion. The independent
producers who supplied him with the limited information, were no doubt coerced to control how he was to express his opinion
to the National Geographic Channel's national television audience. Not to mention Alex Mandel of the Ukraine completely altered
Mr. Richlin's expressed opinion in the information he supplied to Wikipedia, to describe how he concluded the Gervais-Irene
and Amelia Earhart were never the same human being, something even Mr. Richlin himself admits he did not do.
Below: The Gervais-Irene photo of Guy and Irene Craigmile Bolam that appeared in the
controversial 1970 book Amelia Earhart Lives. At the time it was published
by McGraw-Hill, Joe Gervais & Joe Klaas who equally shared the book's copyright, were not aware of how three different
women had been attributed to the identity of 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' Nor did they know how the one shown here, standing next
to her British husband, Guy Bolam... while appearing a bit heavier than one might have been accustomed to... did align in
head to toe physical comparisons and various character trait comparisons to include handwriting, with those attributed to
Amelia Earhart's person. In the photo history of Irene's person, thie Irene below appears nowhere identified as 'Irene' prior
to the 1940s.
| Guy and Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1965. |
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| Photo taken by Joe Gervais who found them to be 'a curious couple.' |
Below: The 1945-1982 identified 'Gervais-Irene.' She appeared nowhere
in photos identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. However two other women; the Original Irene and the Non Gervais-Irene did. In the next panels down following this one, see
how closely the Gervais-Irene aligned with Amelia Earhart.
| 1945-1982 'Gervais-Irene' |
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| Married to Guy Bolam of England in 1958. |
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| Left and right images combined display the congruence. |
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| 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene in 1965. (Gervais photo.) |
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| AKA "Irene Craigmile" AKA "Irene Bolam." |
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Below: Who was this
woman? Really. She wasn't the original Irene, nor was she the Irene who retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais met and photographed
in 1965 at a gathering of well known retired pilots. Still, the son of the original Irene, Larry Heller recognized her right
away as his 'early childhood mother.' By 1945 Larry Heller was living at a boarding school as the Non Gervais-Irene segued out of his life, and the Gervais-Irene (shown next panel down)
continued to use his birth-mother's identity from that point
on.
| Younger 'Non Gervais-Irene' |
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| c. 1947, age 23 |
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| Left (younger) and right (older) in an overlay congruence. |
Lucy McDannel, a family friend of the
O'Crowley's (the original Irene's family) described an enigmatic girl who had been taken in to be raised by the O'Crowleys.
She recalled her as "16 or 17" in 1940, adding how she was affectionately known as 'Irene Jr.' She also included
how by 1945 'Irene Jr.' was no longer intimate with the O'Crowleys. Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, who was a prominent New York
attorney, Zonta figurehead, and friend and advisor of Amelia's (and was the original Irene's Aunt) had primarily cared for
'Irene Jr.,' who by the late 1930s was serving as a sitter, and later as a live-in nanny figure for
the original Irene's son, Larry Heller.
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| Older 'Non Gervais-Irene' |
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| 1982, age 58 |
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Above Continued: After Irene Bolam's
death was reported in 1982, the Memorial Dinner cover photo on the right, along with the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune series
marked the first time the Non Gervais-Irene's image was again identified as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' in four decades. It is
considered how by the mid-1940s the Non Gervais-Irene had relocated to Scotland where she had a child of her own, and at some
point she returned to the United States to resume a quiet life in Connecticut. Again, to date she has yet to be identified
for who she truly is, or was.
Once
more, from the mid-1940s until her passing in 1982, only the Gervais-Irene appeared as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' In the end,
the obfuscation of blending three different human beings into one identity, void of public awareness, appeared to have been
done with a purposeful intent. It is also evident how the survived
families and close friends of Amelia and the original Irene traditionally dismissed the Irene-Amelia conveyance out of hand while encouraging curious historians to do the same
thing. No matter, the controversy was always very real.
The
study includes head to toe comparisons, a handwriting comparitive analysis, other character trait comparisons, and past friend
and family relationships to complete the overall forensic argument.
Note: While this Home Page
is comprehensive, for a Table of Contents click on the 'Introduction' link, top upper left.
Beyond
37's study results reveal how the 'Gervais-Irene,' who appears nowhere identified as 'Irene Craigmile' prior to the 1940s,
surely did display a haunting congruence to Amelia Earhart.
| Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1976 |
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| The Gervais-Irene |
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| The transition back begins... |
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| ...images in alignment... |
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| Gervais-Irene + Amelia |
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| = Irene-Amelia |
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| The 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile. |
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| A look to the right shows how a few 'changes' made her harder to recognize here. |
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| Before deviated septum rhinoplasty... |
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| ...prior to a slight weight gain, dental work, & cosmetic adjustments: The Gervais-Iene. |
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Below: Different looks of 'the Gervais-Irene.' She was dubbed the 'Gervais-Irene'
to distinguish her as the 'Irene' who retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 at a gathering of well-known
retired pilots. After researching her background for years, Gervais found her to be a true enigma who was familiar with the
same people and interests Amelia used to be.
| 1945 |
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| Long Island, New York |
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| 1963 |
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| Kobe, Japan |
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| 1965, Joe Gervais photo. |
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| Long Island, New York |
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| 1976 |
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| Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia |
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| 1978 |
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| Jamestown, New Jersey |
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Beyond
37's Tod Swindell first received attention from the Associated Press in 2002 via a national wire service story by John Staton. Since then the forensic analysis verified how the Gervais-Irene did not appear as 'Irene
Craigmile Bolam' in the United States prior to the 1940s, and she did display a significant head to toe congruence to Amelia
Earhart. Some researchers now believe the public never understood the real Amelia Earhart and privacy became her preference. There also exists a hub of aviation history scholars
who have grown to accept the hidden reality of Amelia's name-changed survival as a
new 'Irene Craigmile (Bolam),' citing no other explanation for who else she possibly could have been.
| 1930 |
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| The 'Original' Irene Craigmile. |
The new question realized; What became of the original
Irene? Evidently by the 1940s she had, unknown to the general public, become the actual 'missing person' (as opposed
to her friend Amelia Earhart, who also unknown to the general public had continued to exist after she was said to have 'disappeared.')
Realize as well, people remained unaware of this reality until recent
years, and many contrarians still campaign over the internet against the new Irene-Amelia truth using false argument foundations
while doing so. Those (such as Alex Mandel of the Ukraine) who supplied non-truthful information to Wikipedia about Irene
Craigmile Bolam, mark a prime example of such false counterpoint argumentations.
(See the 'Wikipedia' link on the left for more info.)
Anymore it is prudent to question
the status quo Earhart history protectors who have been rebuking the Irene anomally for years, as if to keep the 'mystery'
idea in tact. For it now appears theirs has always been a smoke and mirrors effort, although they still try hard to shout
down the above 'new discovered truths.' Less recalled as well; there has never been an official investigation launched into the 1937 'disappearance'
of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Any national news reporting done over the years, or statements issuing the opinions of
the Smithsonian Institute
or the National Geographic Society always exclusively focused on what various 'private citizen' theorists came up with or suggested. But too, the Smithsonian
and National Geographic have never falied to include their final offering time and again when asked, how it is most advisable
in their conjoined opinions, to accept the crashed and sank version of the Earhart-Noonan story ending only, and forget about
everything else. Needless to say of course the Smithsonian, the higher opinion source of the two, has always existed as a
ward of the United States government, where herein one will realize, played its hand in not disclosing some hard data it did
know, concerning non-publicly realized information on the fates of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
Note: Oddly enough, in the 1960s and 1970s Joe Gervais never did any serious forensic comparing, nor did
anyone else for that matter. About a decade ago the idea of comparing photos, handwriting, character traits, and life habits
(to include past friends) of the Gervais-Irene to those of Amelia Earhart was finally initiated. It took a lot of doing for
Beyond 37' to come up with the required personal data to conduct a substantial enough comparison study. Friends and relatives
of both Amelia and the original Irene did not favor the comparison idea, and it appears clear now why they didn't.
| CBS Radio Journalist, Fred Goerner's book... |
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| A New York Times 'Best Seller,' 1966 |
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| The 1970 Klaas, Gervais 'Best Seller'... |
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| ...determined Amelia had changed her name and was still living. |
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| Randall Brink's 1994 'Best Seller'... |
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| ...combined the previous two books and left Amelia's true fate open ended. |
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Above: The three most prevalent investigative research books about Earhart's 1937 disappearance:
CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner's best selling classic, The
Search For Amelia Earhart, (Doubleday, 1966); Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas
(McGraw-Hill 1970) [copyright shared by Joe Gervais]; and Lost
Star by Randall Brink, W.W. Norton 1994. (Brink also chiefly collaborated
with Joe Gervais.) All three books were best sellers, and all three cited the U. S. executive branch and World War Two era
'military intelligence' as participants in the decision making process, that led to keeping the real story of Earhart's disappearance
away from the public. Thus created the 'mystery' of Amelia Earhart.
Note:
After perusing the additional comparisons and information below, see the "What Reality Now Tells Us" link for a
condensed history explanation.
"The Irene-Amelia conveyance was always
based on serious research, although the public remains misled about it. Official silence dominated this story, and the participants
refused to cooperate when it came to explaining it all. The National Geographic Channel's recent 'Earhart mystery' profile
was also a good example of evasion. After it was realized three different people had used the same 'Irene' identity, we were
lucky to sign the 1934 born son of the original Irene (Larry Heller) to a contract, who verified the study's ID placements. This was edited out by
National Geographic Television. To date, the Smithsonian has also managed to sidestep dealing with such recently learned information
where the study concluded: Three different women were at various times identified as one-in-the-same Irene Craigmile Bolam, and one of the Irenes aligned with Amelia Earhart
quite well from head to toe and character trait wise. Until recently nary a soul, including Larry Heller himself who was surprised
and had trouble with it, had been aware of these new-gained truths. Yet the study's entire body of information speaks for
itself. The National Geographic Channel displayed only a small portion of it, and prevented a greater truth from being absorbed
by the public in doing so." Tod Swindell for Beyond 37',
2010
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To
Beyond 37' the 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile, Clarence 'Larry' Heller identified the woman in this photograph
as a 'mother' figure he recalled from his early 1940s childhood. And where it is true this woman did help to raise the original
Irene's son, she was not the woman who gave birth to him in 1934, although Larry Heller believed she was. Note: National Geographic
chose not to display this woman's image on its recent television special, after originally committing to and even filming
it, no doubt to avoid the controversy it would have caused:
| Irene Craigmile (Bolam) |
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| AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene,' 1940s, positively ID'd as Irene Craigmile (Bolam.) |
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True, historically the woman on the left was identified as 'Irene Craigmile (& later Bolam)' in
both younger and older versions. (See further below.) The new realized problem is, she was not the woman shown here at a press
conference in 1970, who was also identified as the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' And this one as well was not the 'original' Irene. (Note: To learn about the lawsuit Mrs. Bolam levied against McGraw-Hill and the
authors of Amelia Earhart Lives (shown in her hand) click on the 'Did You
Know?' link.)
| In November of 1970 this Irene Craigmile Bolam... |
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| ...held a major press conference in New York to refute the new book 'Amelia Earhart Lives.' |
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Note: Status-quo Earhart enthusiasts downplay
or dismiss the realities shown here. No matter; four decades later the Amelia Earhart vs. Irene Craigmile Bolam controversy
still remains, and has yet to be 'officially' addressed by the Smithsonian Institute.
| Irene-Amelia overlay blend... |
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| ...of Amelia and the 1945-1982 ID'd Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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| The transition back begins... |
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| ...to the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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| News photo, 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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| AKA 'The Gervais-Irene' in Japan, 1963. |
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| Is This Real? |
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| Click on this photo overlay and decide for yourself. |
Below: Amelia Earhart's image (left) and the
Irene Craigmile Bolam's image (right) who was met and photographed by retired Air Force Major, Joe Gervais in 1965. Notice
how closely they align in the middle photo overlay.
| Amelia Earhart in 1933. |
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| The 'mystery' of her disappearance began four years later. |
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| Amelia's 1933 Image blended equally with... |
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| ...the 1940s-on Irene, AKA 'The Gervais-Irene.' (See more comparisons below.) |
Click on above photo to go to the "What Reality Tells Us..." link.
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| 1945-1982 ID'd 'Gervais-Irene' shown in 1965. |
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| AKA "Irene Craigmile" AKA "Irene Bolam" after her 1958 marriage. |
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It is astounding how closely the Gervais-Irene's
image aligned with Amelia's. What's equally curious (or maybe not depending on how one looks at it) is how the Gervais-Irene
does not appear as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. It's as if she somehow emerged from nowhere in the 1940s to assume such an
'Irene' identity. In 1991 Monsignor James Francis Kelley (see his photo with the Gervais-Irene further down) a former President
of Seton Hall Unversity who knew the Gervais-Irene well, described in a taped interview how he 'helped' her with her new identity
after she returned from Japan in the mid-1940s.
| 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam |
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| Shown at Cocoa Beach, Florida in 1965. |
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| The transition begins... |
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| ...see Amelia's image becoming apparent. |
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| Amelia's image starts to take over... |
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| ...notice the congruent alignment; face, chin, neck, shoulders, et al. |
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| Amelia's image dominant. |
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| From a 1935 photo taken during Amelia's pre Hawaii to Oakland flight sea voyage. |
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Above: About
Cocoa Beach; survived family described how the Gervais-Irene "knew people at NASA" to include "some astronauts."
Curious as well, in 1979 original seven astronaut Wally Schirra described to Detroit TV reporter, Dean Magley how he had recently
seen the woman formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.' When Magley later interviewed
Schirra on film in 1985 about it, Schirra is shown describing how "reliable people" had clued him in about the true
past identity of the woman he had previously referenced. Magley also met and interviewed former Seton Hall University President,
Monsignor James Francis Kelley who he knew had been a close friend of the Gervais-Irene's since the 1940s. Dean Magley was
working on a book about the Amelia-to-Irene story when he passed away in 1989.
[A brief note about Beyond 37': The Irene-Amelia subject matter is one the Smithsonian Institute and the National
Geographic Society avoid addressing on their tours or in their various programs. This includes
the National Geographic Channel's recent 'limited profile' about it. Filmmaker, Research Journalist Tod Swindell (the most
noted promoter of the Irene Bolam-Amelia Earhart account) has been involved with Earhart's true-story research since the 1990s,
and specifically with the Gervais-Irene story since he first met Lost Star
Author Randall Brink and World War Two hero Joe Gervais in 1996. The Beyond 37' forensic analysis and argument was the brainchild
of both Swindell and Gervais; Gervais being the one who originally met, photographed, and researched the background of the
later named-for-him 'Gervais-Irene' beginning in 1965. (Gervais passed away in 2005.) Long time Earhart researcher
& war hero Rollin Reineck (who passed in 2007) had also joined the effort a few years into it.]
Below: Larger sample of the 1987 '50th Anniversary' Marshall
Islands stamp series depicting the 1937 rescue of Earhart and Noonan. As recently as 2006, even the United Nations Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Alfred Cappelle described to the National
Geographic Society how Amelia Earhart "definitely came to the Marshall Islands in 1937" and so much is viewed as
"common knowledge" in his country. No matter, the Smithsonian Institute (a ward of the U. S. Government) has never
been permitted to conduct its own investigation into Earhart's disappearance, and due to 'official silence' towards the matter,
historically it has dismissed-out-of-hand all accounts about Earhart and
Noonan's fate that differ from the simple 'crashed and sank' explanation. See the complete enlarged stamp series further down.
| In the 1987 Stamp series a Japan naval officer... |
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| ...stands with Noonan (knee bandaged) and Earhart. "Picked up, not a capture." |
Note: Great
strides were made since 2006, the year the multiple Irenes equation was verified through the identity placements made by the
original Irene's son, Larry Heller who was under contract with Beyond 37's Tod Swindell. Even the National Geographic Channel,
while fully made aware of them, declined to address such new realized truths in its recent Earhart television special, most
likely to avoid controversy. Rather, they stuck with tradition by not mentioning the new plural Irenes reality, and by describing
Beyond 37's Irene-Amelia forensic alignments as 'a coincidence.' Be it known the multiple Irene's equation with the forensic
overlay alignments, and much of the additional research information displayed here have never appeared in published books
or magazines, nor have they been displayed on broadcast television. A few preliminary samples were afforded for Rollin Reineck's
2004 book Amelia Earhart Survived and the 2006 National Geographic Channel
special still in reruns today. However, this website is the only place one will find Beyond 37's authorized 'more comprehensive' display.
U.
S. Navy Admiral Chester Arthur Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific Fleet during World War Two willfully
cooperated with CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner for five years as Goerner investigated Earhart's 1937 disappearance. Nimitz
was instrumental in creating avenues for Goerner to pursue by way of declassified military intelligence channels in Washington
DC, and certain military individuals Goerner interviewed. There is no doubt anymore something happened, or was happening with
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937 the public was left unaware of. Again, years ago Admiral Nimitz admitted it was quietly
"known and documented in Washington" how Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ended up existing under the auspice of Japan
after their purported disappearance, although 'circumstances' left the U. S. Executive Branch unable to publicly explain it.
It's amazing how the people of the United States lost sight of this, but it is how The Mystery of Amelia Earhart was born in a more modern sense in the 1960s. Got truth? If you're looking
for a quick synopsis click on the upper left 'Conclusion' link.
Again, recently gained information: It is now recognized how three different women were attributed
to the same Irene Craigmile (Bolam) identity, and how the Gervais-Irene only used such an 'Irene identity' dating back to
the 1940s. Once more, here are the three 'different' Irenes as well as Amelia's now late sister, Muriel with 'family friend'
Grace McGuire of Scotland. Grace is also a friend of Larry Heller, the 1934 born son of the orginal Irene Craigmile Bolam,
and she also knew well the Gervais-Irene, as did Muriel:
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1.) The Gervais-Irene
| 'Gervais-Irene' (Craigmile Bolam) 1963. |
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| News photo, taken in Japan. The Irenes to the right were different women... |
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2.) Non Gervais-Irene
| Different Irene (Craigmile Bolam) c. 1947 |
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| Young 'Non Gervais-Irene' identified by the original Irene Craigmile's son in 2006. |
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(Non Gervais-Irene)
| 1982 New Jersey News Tribune photo. |
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| Older version of the 'Non Gervais-Irene' also ID'd as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' |
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3.) The Original Irene
| The orginal Irene Craigmile, 1930... |
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| ...no longer seen after the 1930s, she and Amelia were past friends. |
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| 1985, Amelia's sister Muriel & Grace McGuire. |
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| Grace is reticent but she is now being advanced as intricately involved with Amelia's true story. |
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More about the Non Gervais-Irene: Some consider her as tangible proof of the rumored 'hidden' 1924 born daughter
of Amelia Earhart and Lloyd Royer. (Royer had known Amelia from the time she started flying in early 1922 until her disappearance
was reported in 1937. A great plane mechanic and designer, he was a California business partner of Amelia's and even proposed
marriage to her in 1923. What's amazing is how he is hardly ever mentioned, if at all, in Amelia's biographies.) Information gleaned in 2004 described the Non Gervais-Irene as 'still
living' at that time. Peggy O'Crowley, a writer for the New Jersey Star Ledger who
is listed as the 'survived niece' of Irene Craigmile Bolam proved
reluctant in
discussing the plural identiy issue of her late Aunt Irene, who she referred to as "my Aunt Bee." It is clearly
evident however, Peggy O'Crowley grew up only recognizing the Gervais-Irene as her 'Aunt Bee.' Where
the rumored 'pre-fame hidden child' Amelia had has long existed (born 'illegitimately' some four years before Amelia became
famous in 1928) it has also been enumerated how Grace McGuire (shown to the far right above and below, standing next to Amelia's
sister, Muriel) may be the living, non-publicly recognized biological granddaughter of Amelia Earhart. Grace was born in Scotland
in 1945, adopted into a good home and raised there. Grace remains in touch with Larry Heller today, the son of the original
Irene. Together Grace and Larry were scheduled to duplicate Amelia's around the world flight in 2006 in Grace's Lockheed Electra. Their tribute-adventure
was cancelled due to logistical concerns. When Grace turned twenty-one in the mid 1960s she relocated to Rumson, New Jersey from Scotland, where
the Gervais-Irene lived nearby, and where she had also stayed with Monsignor Kelley at his Rumson mansion home after her return
from Japan in the mid 1940s, according to Kelley himself. (See more Kelley info two photos down.) In 1988 Grace made the long
journey to, and was photographed on Howland Island waving two flags; the Kansas state flag as a tribute to where Amelia was
born, and the flag of Scotland where Grace was born. She rebuilt a Lockheed Electra she named 'Muriel' after Amelia's sister, whose middle name was
'Grace.' Muriel, a past Zonta sister and friend of the Gervais-Irene's, passed away in 1998.
| Again, 1985, AE's sister Muriel & Grace McGuire. |
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| They knew the Gervais-Irene; Grace was to fly around the world with the original Irene's son in 2006 |
Below: The past suggestion of the original Irene
having been renderred invalid due to 1934 childbirth complications may not be too outlandish, as her demise back then was
never reported. And as her aunt was a well known attorney and friend of Amelia's, and her uncle a well known physician, she
was of fair prominence. Her first husband, Charles Craigmile shown below, died tragically a year after this photo was taken.
See a brief bio about the original Irene in the 'Will The Real Irene Please Stand Up' link.
| Again, the original Irene Craigmile, 1930 |
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| Husband Charles Craigmile (left), and her father Joe O'Crowley (Right). What became of her? |
Below: The ten-day 1982 New Jersey News Tribune series featured several curious articles that seemed to only
fuel the debate on who Irene Craigmile Bolam really was, or had been. Reprinted from above, the excerpt on the left was taken
from one of them. Later, to Dean Magley and Rollin Reineck, Monsignor Kelley (shown on the right with the Gervais-Irene) did
disclose crucial truths he knew about his long time good friend
Irene Craigmile Bolam, AKA the 'Gervais-Irene':
| From a 10/18/82 New Jersey Tribune article: |
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| A decade later Msgr. Kelley told the truth about his late friend 'Irene' in a taped interview. |
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| Mnsgr. Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980 |
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| The former Seton Hall Univ. President finally told the truth about his friend Irene on tape in 1991. |
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R. Reineck: "We believe Jackie Cochran was sent to Japan to help bring Amelia home. Are you aware of that?" Monsignor Kelley:
"Yes, I was involved with that." The above exchange was excerpted from a 1991 taped conversation between USAF Colonel
Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.) and Monsignor James Francis Kelley of Rumson, New Jersey. It was recently verified how the well known
Monsignor Kelley knew well and actually helped the Gervais-Irene after World War Two. Msgr. Kelley admitted, in the face of
'official silence' and dismissals emanating from Irene's and Amelia's survived relatives, as well as the Smithsonian Institute
and the National Geographic Society, yes all of this notwithstanding, to Monsignor James Francis Kelley the Gervais-Irene
still formerly was, no doubt... known as 'Amelia Earhart' in the 1930s. (See more photos and comparisons below.)[Click on
the Kelley/Bolam photo above to read more about Msgr. Kelley.]
| The Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...photo overlayed with Amelia Earhart. [From the Beyond 37' Study] |
Below: Reprinted from above, Beyond 37's study
includes several pages of a handwriting comparison/analysis. Shown here, from a 1967 handwritten letter to Joe Gervais, Irene
Craigmile Bolam (the Gervais-Irene) plainly describes how two of her close friends (Viola Gentry and Elmo Pickerill) "knew
us both well as Amelia Earhart and Irene Craigmile." Note the signature comparison too. However, as she had been living
as Irene since the 1940s, in the present tense she would deny herself to be the living Amelia Earhart by saying, "I am
not she." Former Seton Hall University President Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a good friend of hers from the 1940s
until her passing in 1982, described to Donald Dekoster how she had opted for privacy and she "didn't want to be Amelia
Earhart anymore."
| From the Beyond 37' study... |
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| Gervais-Irene's handwriting in 1967, and Amelia's own "Amelia M Earhart" signature at age eighteen. |
Above: In 1967 Joe Gervais wrote to the 'Irene'
he had met two years earlier. He did so while still curious about her true past identity. He'd investigated the background
of Irene Craigmile in the meantime, only to find out she'd been a virtual nobody in the world of aviation. So much left it
fairly illogical to him how she would be regarded so highly in the 1960s by other famous pilots. Here, shown in her handwritten
reply, she had just referred Gervais to two individuals for him to question further; Viola Gentry and Elmo Pickerill. Viola,
a famous pilot herself had been a good friend of Amelia's in the 1920s and 1930s. Elmo Pickerill had also known Amelia. Notice
the curious reason she referenced them to Joe Gervais: "because they each knew us both well as Amelia Earhart and Irene
Craigmile." There, it was almost as if she was outright describing herself as two different people. In the full letter
obtained from Joe Gervais in 2001 by Beyond 37's Tod Swindell, (a copy of the same one reprinted in typeface in the 1970 book
Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas) in the present tense she carefully denied
herself to be Amelia Earhart, (anymore) writing in proper english, "I am not she." [NOTE: Amelia Earhart's handwriting
as an adult was inconsistent. Sometimes she would print, sometimes she wrote very controlled and neat, (as in her letters
to Eleanor Roosevelt) then again, sometimes she demonstrated a sloppy or 'rushed' cursive style. The Beyond 37' study also
features several pages of handwriting comparisons. The sample above was first displayed by Swindell a year before Rollin Reineck
reproduced it for inclusion in his book, Amelia Earhart Survived.] Even where
she wasn't she anymore, she sure used to be... she. Below: Elmo
Pickerill responded to Gervais, reaffirming how he knew Irene Craigmile (Bolam) while also confirming her past friendship
with Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry. Mr. Pickerill expressed his belief Irene was bonafide, and he appeared to know nothing
about the shared identity of Irene Craigmile (Bolam), or at least, it seemed that way. He also appeared not to know the original
Irene Craigmile hardly ever flew at all. As well, where forensic comparisons were not conducted back then, no one realized
how Viola Gentry would have had two friends who looked so hauntingly similar to each other in Amelia Earhart, who disappeared
in 1937, and in the Gervais-Irene, who appeared from out of nowhere in the 1940s to become a 'new' Irene Craigmile:
"IT WASN'T A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY AT ALL. 'CONSPIRACY' IS AN UGLY WORD, A TURN-OFF.
IT WAS MORE OF A PRIVATE ARRANGEMENT AMONG SELECT TRUSTED FRIENDS, TO INCLUDE AMELIA'S SISTER MURIEL AND THE ORIGINAL IRENE
CRAIGMILE'S AUNT, AN ATTORNEY AND FRIEND OF AMELIA'S WHO WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL WITH IT ALL. FEW INDIVIDUALS WERE AWARE IT
HAD HAPPENED, YET SINCE 1965, THE YEAR JOE GERVAIS WAS FIRST ALERTED TO IT, PEOPLE SUSPECTED THIS WAS THE TRUE HIDDEN REALITY
ABOUT AMELIA EARHART. ONLY DURING THE PAST DECADE DID WE BEGIN TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT. THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE SURVIVED FAMILIES
OF AMELIA AND IRENE STILL DISMISS IT AND AVOID COOPERATING. AT THIS POINT PRESSURE FROM THE NATIONAL MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC
WILL BE THE ONLY WAY TO CONVERT SUCH A NEW REALITY INTO THE REALM OF CONVENTIONAL ACCEPTANCE. UNLESS THIS HAPPENS PEOPLE WILL
ALWAYS FIND THIS HISTORIC TRUTH HARD TO BELIEVE." Beyond 37's Tod Swindell, 2009
| Another of the study's Irene-Amelia 'morphs.' |
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| Click on the photo to see more comparisons. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt & Amelia Earhart |
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| Amelia's image + the Gervais-Irene's image... |
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| ...displays a congruence. |
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| Orville Wright & Amelia Earhart |
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| Amelia's image + the Gervais-Irene's image... |
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| ...displays a congruence. |
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"Believe what
you will, and accept how important sounding people will still try to tell you this isn't true. Yet always question their authority
as 'official historians' where official silence has forever plagued this story. Hence, no 'Official Historians' have ever expounded on
Amelia's 1937 disappearance. True, the national media has only ever reported on theories presented by private citizens, to
include Elgen Long's Nauticos theory (Elgen, a private citizen) Richard Gillespie's
TIGHAR theory (Richard, a private citizen) and Bill Prymak's Amelia Earhart Society theory (Bill, a private citizen.) Notice how all of these theories are completely
different ones, and the various organizations that promote them, or 'cottage industries' are also privately run and have absolutely
no connection to those who are endorsed to write the pages of official United States history books. Realize too, the mystery
of Amelia Earhart exists because it's supposed to exist, not because it ever really did exist among the people who knew what
happened, and who knew what ultimately became of Amelia Earhart. They simply chose silence instead of talking about it, leaving
the story of Earhart's disappearance and fate fair game for anyone else's inventive mind to try and explain. Yet to simplify
such a quandary try puting it this way: How does one solve a missing person case? Answer: Find the person, or find the body
of the person. I believe it's clear anymore, the body evidence of Amelia Earhart blatantly existed in the form of the Gervais-Irene,
except for many years, decades even, the American public was persuaded not to believe it, mostly by 'official silence.'"
Beyond 37's Tod Swindell, 2009
| The Gervais-Irene, 1978. |
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| A long-hidden-from-the-public official truth now appears to be revealing itself. |
It made national news in 1970, still, wonder why the truth about Amelia Earhart was left unendorsed to the public? Or why for the last thirty years only
a few 'media dominating' theorists controlled how Amelia Earhart's disappearance story has been portrayed? Or why the child
Amelia supposedly had out of wedlock in 1924 (and hid) is never mentioned in her biographies? This website takes a comprehensive
look at the entire history of Amelia Earhart investigative research. It is not only about the newly proven 'Irene' conveyance,
for it also covers the more traditionally embraced theories used to divert the curious away from the positively beautiful,
albeit 'hidden from
the public' reality... of Amelia Earhart. Left
over 'world history' appeared to have preferred ignorance, but there seems to be no denying anymore how the Gervais-Irene
was formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.' The forensic argument is far too compelling anymore. Throughout Irene-Amelia.com one
will find many comparison examples and thought provoking quotes, statements, and visuals.
|
| 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene, harder exposure... |
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| ...different angle too, all of eighty years detectable. |
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| Amelia Earhart, age twenty-six. |
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| 1923 into a mirror self-photo portrait. She would become famous in 1928. |
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| As Anyone Can See... |
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| ...Amelia Was Still In There |
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What
have you read or heard about the Amelia Earhart 'mystery' from the news media? What did you learn
about it in all of the history classes you took from elementary school through high school? How about college... what did
your history professors say about it? Likely not much, as it was never a recommended subject for general academia in the United
States. There was always a reason for such a regard towards the Earhart disappearance story. It was meant to be left as 'a
mystery.' But not in an aethereal way, rather, in an international politics 'world history' way. Except, in recent years the
truth finally revealed itself. Over a hundred pages of material on Amelia Earhart's disappearance are featured in this website,
culled from thousands over the course of the last twenty years.
| WWII hero & retired USAF Major Joe Gervais... |
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| ..aboard The Flying Lady on his way to Howland Island, 1983. Amelia never made there in 1937. |
About
Joe Gervais' 1965 Meeting With Irene
How It All Began: Back
in 1965 a World War Two pilot-hero named Joe Gervais met a curious woman known as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' He noticed how
she was held in high esteem by her peers, most of whom were well known retired pilots. She described to Joe Gervais how she
had been a friend of the famous pilot, 'Amelia Earhart.' She mentioned how she 'used to fly' with Amelia. Joe Gervais was
an aviaton history scholar, so he found it odd how a former pilot who was so importantly regarded was someone he'd never heard
of before. Beyond
his suspicion of the Irene Craigmile Bolam he met in 1965, Joe Gervais had been studying the disappearance of Amelia Earhart
and he noticed how she looked like 'an older Amelia.' Said Irene had been married to a British gentleman named Guy Bolam since
1958, and she was good friends with Viola Gentry who was also a famous pilot and a past friend of Amelia's. Ultimately, Joe
Gervais suspected the Irene he met might have been the 'former' Amelia Earhart. He carefully traced her past and found one
hole after another. Both Irene's and Amelia's families refused to cooperate with him. Irene agreed to meet him a few times
to 'explain things,' but she never showed up. In 1970 Gervais released his decade's worth or investigative research on Amelia
Earhart 's disappearance in the form of McGraw-Hill's Amelia Earhart Lives
by Joe Klaas. (Note 'classic books' photos above.) In it, he strongly
implied how the Irene he met and photographed in 1965 was not the original Irene Craigmile, rather, she was the living 'former'
Amelia Earhart. He determined she had opted out of her public life during the World War Two era adjacent to the odd circumstances
of her disappearance. Joe Gervais was never proven wrong. Instead, dismissive attitudes notwithstanding, there is no doubt
anymore he was right.
"It is true. It's even obvious
anymore. But official history wont budge on it. That's why it stays right where it is, protected by official silence."
USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.), 2007 "(By refusing
to address it, official history) knows it has long been misleading the public about this." USAF Major Joseph A.
Gervais (Ret.), 2001
| Joe Gervais, 1983, on Howland Island... |
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| ...shown standing next to the Amelia Earhart Memorial there. |
Joe
Gervais, 1924-2005
From the
late 1960s until his passing in 2005, Major Joe Gervais, who had researched and investigated Amelia Earhart's life story as
thoroughly as anyone, described how Amelia actually survived her controversial disappearance in 1937 with the
national news media, and therefore the general public never being 'officially' clued in. Is this why the governments of the United States and Japan to this day maintain
'official silence' when it comes to the subject matter of Amelia Earhart's loss? In the faces of many naysayers Gervais
unwaveringly maintained his assertion of Earhart's post-loss survival as correct, and how adjacent to the WWII era it became
the former Amelia Earhart's own preference to return to and live on in the United States as a non-public, all-be-her 'still
prominent' person, who traveled quite a bit internationally until she passed away in 1982. Joe Gervais concluded how
Amelia had acquiesced the identity of a friend of hers from the 1930s by the name of 'Irene Craigmile.' (The original 'Irene
Craigmile' whose image appears nowhere in photos after the 1930s, was a person whose past existence and family history Joe
Gervais had also researched.) He also agreed with the determination of how the former Amelia had altered her familiar look
a bit, to include the 'detectible' deviated septum rhinoplasty she no doubt
endured. Although the National Geographic Channel recently downplayed the decades-old Joe Gervais claim, and the Smithsonian
Institute has traditionally managed to steer clear of seriously addressing it, after his passing the University of Texas at Dallas archived the four decades worth of accumulated Joe Gervais investigative research
on Amelia Earhart's life and disappearance, and it currently attests how the Gervais theory represents the 'more plausible'
one. Of note, to date the Gervais Irene-Amelia claim has never been 'officially'
disproved. At the same time, ostensibly in the interest of maintaining the status quo regard of Amelia's heroic legacy
and the sanctity of the 'mystery' of her disappearance, the survived family members of both Amelia and Irene only encourage
people to look beyond the years (decades) of intense investigation efforts of USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais; a WWII pilot-hero
who logged almost twenty-thousand hours of military flight time. (Gervais had served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.) Few recall
anymore, in 1960 while touring among the former Imperial Islands of Japan, then 'Captain' Gervais with his 'Operation Earhart'
partner, Captain Bob Dinger gathered over seventy sworn affidavits of local residents and officials recalling Amelia Earhart's
survival there after she turned up 'missing' in 1937. No matter, U. S. military brass stationed at the Fuchu Air Base in Japan
soon confiscated the material, along with other information learned and gathered by the two Captains during their early investigation
time period. Forty years later in 2001, Joe Gervais remarked how given the circumstances of his 1965 meeting with Irene and
her appearance, he knew who she used to be right then and there. He also was sure to notate how for some undisclosed reason,
dating back to FDR's administration, the public was never supposed to know Amelia Earhart had survived in any way, shape,
or form. * * *
Note: To read the curious biography of the original Irene Craigmile click on the following photo:
Amelia had known the original Irene's family well (the O'Crowley family of Newark, New Jersey.)
The public has been led to believe by Amelia's and Irene's families and official history itself, how the recently discovered
and revealed information is all a coincidence, nothing more. Still, even in the face of historical obfuscation, denials, and 'official silence,' it is clear anymore
how the Gervais-Irene was formerly known as Amelia Earhart.
| The Original Irene |
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| Click on photo for more 'original Irene' info. |
Re-cap: The 1945-1982 'Gervais-Irene' exists nowhere in photos identified as Irene prior to the 1940s; the 'original' Irene
Craigmile (shown above) was a past friend of Amelia's, although she was seen no more after the 1930s; and the Non Gervais-Irene
was in 2006, identified by the original Irene Craigmile's 1934 born Son, Larry Heller as his 'early childhood mother figure.'
The Gevais-Irene was the image altered and identity changed 'former' Amelia Earhart. As a result of years of investigating
the matter, Beyond 37' asserts this as a non-recognized historical truth, left intentionally unendorsed by Amelia's and Irene's
survived families, and official United States history. This hidden truth is not so far out as it sounds on the surface.
Take a look:
Below: In 1991 Monsignor James Francis Kelley at last admitted
(in a taped interview) how his dear friend Irene who died in 1982, had in reality been the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Monsignor
James Francis Kelley, 1902-1996
| Mnsgr. Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980 |
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| Monsignor Kelley finally admitted the truth about his friend 'Irene' on tape in 1991. |
Above: Monsignor James Francis
Kelley, a former President of Seton Hall University was a dear friend and confidante of the Gervais-Irene's since the mid-1940s.
While she was living he refused to disclose anything revealing about her or his place in her life. Almost a decade after her
passing though, he admitted in a taped interview how he had helped her become readjusted with her new identity in the U. S.
after her return from Japan. When asked if the Irene he knew (the Gervais-Irene) was formerly Amelia Earhart he plainly replied,"Yes,
that's right." Msgr. Kelley held doctorates in Psychology and Philosophy, had studied under Carl Jung, and was described
in the newspaper article shown further down as Irene's "close friend and confessor." He died in 1996. Before the
forensic study took place, people said he was 'crazy' and 'making it all up.' Those who knew him felt otherwise.
Monsignor Kelley offered how his post WWII friend 'Irene' sought privacy, and he described how she
'didn't want to be Amelia Earhart anymore.' Given Amelia's known pacifist beliefs and the humanitarian 'anti-war' viewpoint
she maintained in the 1930s, so much should not be hard to understand or accept in today's world. Yet for some reason, it
is. On the other hand it is true; changing (correcting) the history books about Amelia Earhart's complete life story at this
point would be a magnanimous undertaking. It is believed this is the main reason the Smithsonian Institute leaves the story
of Amelia Earhart's post disappearance survival alone. Thus, the following idea at the Smithsonian has long existed; 'To the
public, the mystery of Amelia Earhart exists because it's supposed to exist, not because it really does exist.' There is no
doubt (anymore) Amelia survived her 1937 disappearance and changed her name to 'Irene' at some point during the World War
Two era. It is considered how the long-rumored 'family secret' child she had in 1924 (four years before she became famous
at the age of thirty) had something to do with her final decision to exit her public life, and how such a child had been privately
taken in to be further reared by the original Irene Craigmile's family after Amelia's fame struck. So much was the reason people never knew about the
friendship Amelia had with the original Irene, and more specifically with the original Irene's well known attorney aunt, Irene
Rutherford O'Crowley. (Beyond 37's analysis also includes extensive research on the original Irene's O'Crowley family history.)
Question: Has It been, And/Or Is The National News Media Still Being Used To Help Cover-Up The Irene-Amelia Truth? 1.) In the late 1970s one Elgen Long, a friend of Muriel
Earhart Morrissey who was Amelia's survived living sister, suddenly began to insist he had proved Amelia and her navigator,
Fred Noonan simply crashed and sank. Of course he never proved such a thing, although the national press supported him. Mr.
Long is still saying the same thing today with national press attention. Meanwhile, even though it's historically real, the
media avoids the Irene story.
2.)
In the early 1980s one Richard Gillespie, also with national press attention, founded the TIGHAR organization and began claiming
Amelia and Fred went down on the desert Island of Nikumororo where they died of starvation. Any evidence he provided or claimed
was never authenticated, yet he still claims the same thing today with media attention always paid.
3.) In 1989 Bill Prymak founded the Amelia Earhart Society. Its constituency generally claimed Amelia
was possibly a spy who likely went down in the Marshall Islands, was moved to and detained on Saipan by Japan's Naval Authority,
and she either died there of sickness or was executed for having been a spy. Mr. Prymak is still saying the same thing today.
In fact, all three 'media touted' theorists; Elgen Long, Richard Gillespie, and Bill Prymak promote the same ideas today they
have for decades. They are also, all independently wealthy in support of their their own cottage industry interests, commonly
agreeing Amelia died long ago. But the truth is different. World War Two hero Joe Gervais met and recognized the former Amelia
Earhart in 1965. She had changed her name after having gone 'missing' in 1937. Since this revelation first became public in
1970, not a soul has proved it to be incorrect information.
"We were always conditioned to fear the truth about Amelia Earhart. To ignore
addressing it, or plain not believe in it. We still are today. That's why so much hogwash and misinformation came to exist
about it. But there was nothing to fear except the silence that refused to reveal the known truth. In 1965 Admiral Nimitz
admitted Amelia Earhart survived; later in 1972 the 'Amelia Earhart: Special War Problems' file was leaked... basically she
wanted her privacy, except she ended up having to pull a kind of Greta Garbo escape after things didn't turn out as she hoped.
The difference was she changed her name to assure her anonymity, and Garbo didn't."
From a 2001 interview with USAF Major Joe Gervais (Ret.)
"Even the Smithsonian Institute has never been allowed to seriously address
the Earhart disappearance story, so the press has always been left hungry for any information about it offered by private
sources. After the 1960s controversy about Amelia was buried, the press began reporting on any garbage it could get its hands
on about the so-called 'mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance,' and it hasn't stopped since."
USAF Major Joe Gervais, (Ret.) 2001 No
matter what Irene-Amelia adversaries might write or say sbout this information, to date the conveyance of Amelia Earhart's
survival as a new Irene Craigmile has not been disproved.
Below: Photo of
U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under FDR, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr. Monsignor Kelley wrote in his 1987 autobiography, how in
1941 Morgenthau had awarded him a citation for "Three Years of Patriotic Service To His Country." H. P. Morgenthau
Jr. had been intricately entwined with the 1937 Earhart disappearance case. Read below:
" I hope I've just got to never make
it public." 1938 quote from FDR White House Cabinet member, Henry Morgenthau Jr. on the known yet withheld circumstances of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance. Part of an official transcript, the
U. S. Executive Branch never allowed what it knew about Amelia Earhart's disappearance to become public information. Two months
after Morgenthau sent the above quote about Amelia's loss to Eleanor Roosevelt, he released the innocent version of Earhart's
final words. Add to this the telling quote from U. S. Navy Commander John Pillsbury, who described how her post loss reality
would "stagger" the imagination, as well as the 1965 Admiral Chester
Nimitz mention of how years ago it was quietly "known and documented in Washington; Amelia Earhart and her navigator
went down in the Marshall Islands and were picked up by Japan." (As opposed to 'captured' or 'imprisoned.')
Admiral Nimitz also intimated what became of the flying duo after they were rescued
was 'unclear' to him.
About the Earhart disappearance information withheld by FDR'S Administration Cabinet member Henry P.
Morgenthau Jr.; in 1938 Morgenthau was pressed to release the Itasca log by Jackie Cochran and Paul Mantz, as it was said
to have recorded Amelia Earhart's final moments in July of 1937. Morgenthau refused to do so, describing how he couldn't release
it to anyone, not even to one person, for it would mean having to make it public for all. Oddly enough, A few months later
Henry Morgenthau wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt how he (suddenly) 'found it possible' to release the Itasca log. Yet the version
he released later evidenced major discrepencies.
"She stated she was turning north and they continued
to hear her at intervals, her signals becoming fainter each time received."
From a statement made by Colonel H. H. C. Richards, Air Liaison
Australia, as read in a U. S. O2 Intelligence Memo, 11/1/38. This 1980 declassified document differed greatly from the final
Earhart transmission report released by White House Cabinet member, Henry Morgenthau Jr. a year after Amelia vanished. Evidently,
after realizing no choice but to offer something about Amelia Earhart's final moments, what he released differed from the
Coast Guard Cutter Itasca's initial version of Earhart's final words. Instead of "turning north," the public version
of Amelia's final words became "We are running north and south," elimnating the last specified direction she was
flying in. Add to this the less recalled fact, of how within three weeks of Amelia's disappearance Morgenthau had travelled
all the way to Hawaii from Washington DC. There he personally met with and debriefed the Itasca's Commander, Warner Thompson
about the Earhart situation. The very idea of such a long travel journey at that time, unplanned and extravagant for the U.
S. Secretary of the Treasury to be suddenly taking in 1937, is a true indication of how important keeping an upper hand over
the Earhart disappearance case was to the White House.
In 1987 the Republic
of the Marshall Islands actually issued a commemorative stamp series depicting Japan's rescue of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
at Mili atoll. So much remains a recognized part of their country's 'commonly accepted' history today. Still, U. S. Executive
Branch 'Official
Silence' about Amelia Earhart's
loss has remained ever since she and Noonan were described to have 'vanished without a trace' in 1937, just five days before
the sudden outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. The new war immediately dwarfed the headlines of the disappearance of Earhart
and Noonan, and placed a severe strain on United States diplomatic relations with Japan. Contrary to popular belief from days
of yore however, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and its Imperial Navy Admiral, Isoroku Yamamoto would never have permitted the mistreatment
of the world-loved and 'recognized pacifist,' Amelia Earhart.
| "50th" Anniversary (1937-1987) |
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| Stamp series issued by Marshall Islands, depicts Japan's rescue of Earhart and Noonan at Mili atoll |
| In the 1987 Stamp series a Japan naval officer... |
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| ...stands with Noonan (knee bandaged) and Earhart. A "rescue," not a "capture." |
| The first stamp series image.... |
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| ...the 'takeoff' from Lae, New Guinea. |
| Final stamp series image... |
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| ...shows the bigger picture. |
"Regarding any past Executive Order Seal, [where no doubt President
Franklin Roosevelt ended up having to do such a thing concerning what he and his inner circle of advisors knew about the Earhart
incident] only
a sitting President can undo an Executive Order Seal from the past." Joe Gervais, 1996 [So much ultimately amounted to the 'official silence' always
known to greet the subject of Earhart's 1937 disappearance in Washington DC. In a way, everything written or said about it
otherwise was done so non-authoritatively. As well, certainly the Marshall Islands rescue of Earhart and Noonan would have
been something the U. S. national news media would have been influenced to 'steer clear' of promoting. Address it when asked?
Sure. But 'do not promote it.'
Definitions From Websters:
forensic: 1. of, characteristics of, or suitable for a law court,
public debate, or formal argumentation. science: 1. the state
or fact of knowing; knowledge. 2. systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on to
determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. Note: As anyone
who considers the full volume of the following information and various links to the left will observe; complete head to toe
body comparisons were achieved, as were character trait comparisons accomplished, and family histories were thoroughly researched.
Something Different Was Brewing
In Amelia Earhart Investigative Research While The Hilary Swank Movie 'Amelia' Was Being Made. The Forensic Analysis Displays
'New Controversial Information' About The Beautiful Person Who Was Amelia Earhart, And Her 1930s Friend, Irene Craigmile.
It Also Marks A New Forensic Reality. Those Who Dominate The Earhart Mystery In The News Media Argue Against It, But The Irene-Amelia
Conveyance Has Been Around For A Long Time And No One Has Ever Proved It Wrong. Now, It Looks Like Amelia Survived After All,
To Become One Of Three Women Who Used The Same Irene Craigmile Bolam Identity.
What did Commander Pillsbury mean by his 'it staggers the imagination' comment about the outcome
of Amelia's 1937 disappearance? And what about the highly regarded international traveling woman from the 1960s and 1970s,
the 'Gervais-Irene' who was also known as Irene Craigmile Bolam? A true enigma of a person, again she is seen nowhere in photographs
identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s; in 1958 she wed a British MI-6 operative; she could speak several languages and was an expert on Japan and oriental
cultures; she served as President of Radio Luxembourg in the 1970s... was her story in the lining of Pillsbury's 1962 remark?
No doubt.
The 'shared identity of' and other recent Beyond 37' discoveries about Irene's person, further fueled its complete 'forensic
evaluation' of Irene Craigmile Bolam's life history. It was verified the original Irene Craigmile and Amelia Earhart were
past friends, and how just as Amelia had disappeared in the 1930s, so too did the original Irene Craigmile, although the original
Irene's disappearance and/or demise those years ago was never reported on.
It is now clear how when this controversy first broke in 1970 it was deliberately pushed aside by historical
dictum. As well, Amelia's 1930s friend and fellow famous flier, Viola Gentry (who was also a later life good friend of the
'Gervais-Irene') had worked with Amelia's Sister, Muriel to cover the story. Also, and most importantly missed since the 1960s,
was how no national press circuit reporter since Fred Goerner of CBS has ever been endorsed, let alone 'permitted' to conduct
a thorough forensic investigation into Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance, or into the complete life history of Irene Craigmile
Bolam for that matter. References about the Irene story occassionally surfaced now and then, to include mentions by the Smithsonian
and the National Geographic Society, but they have never been of a first person nature, while they always appeared diminished
and carefully obfuscated as they were conveyed. In one way, national news circuit wise it's referred to as 'playing ball'
in order to keep 're-sweeping' a controversial story under the rug of official history.
| It may be hard for people to believe or accept... |
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| ..yet the long-hidden-from-the-public 'official truth' was/is, Amelia survived and changed her name. |
Amelia And The Original Irene Craigmile
It Is Now Known: Amelia Earhart's Survival During the WWII Era And Post WWII Era Was
Quietly Covered By A Few Of Her Less Recalled 'Important' Friends. One Such Person, The Esteemed Irene Rutherford O'Crowley
Was An Attorney, A Zonta President, And The Aunt Of The Original Irene Craigmile. Beyond 37's Controversial Forensic Analysis Discovered And Revealed; After The Original Irene Craigmile Gave
Birth To A Child In 1934 She Was Seen No More. Yet There Was No Record Of Her Disappearance Or Demise. The Original Irene
Craigmile Led A Hard Life. An Only Child, When She Was Twelve Years Old Her Mother Died. Her Father Was Rough-Edged So She
Was Taken In To Be Further Raised By Her Paternal Grandmother And Aunt, (The Same Aunt Described Above, Who Would Later Become
A Friend Of Amelia's.) In 1931 While She Was In Her Mid-Twenties Her First Husband, Charles Craigmile Tragically Died.
Twice She Became Pregnant Out Of Wedlock; Once Before She Married Charles, And Then Two Years
After His Passing. The Last Time Inadverdently Involved Amelia. True, It Was Late 1932 When Amelia Earhart And Viola Gentry
Tried To Help The Original Irene Re-Find Happiness By Introducing Her To Flying. Their
Effort Backfired Though, As In Mid-1933 The Original Irene Craigmile, Right After Earning Her Pilot's License
Realized She Was An Unwed Mother-To-Be...
Courtesy Of Her Last Flight Instructor, Al Heller. The Two Eloped Before Their Child Arrived in Early 1934. Veritably However, The Human Being Trail Of The Original
Irene Craigmile Ended At That Point. No One Knows What Became Of The Original Irene Craigmile. It Is Also Plain
To See The Years Of 1924 And 1934 Marked Major Transition Periods In Amelia Earhart's Own Life. And Anymore It Is Absolutely
Certain, No Matter What Is Said Or Written About It, And Regardless Of Hilary Swank's Movie That Basically 'Dumbed Down' The Public Perception Of Amelia's Complicated
Fame Years; Amelia Earhart Survived The WWII Era. True, She Slightly Altered Her Appearance before Living From The 1940s Until 1982 Reidentified As A New Irene Craigmile. Apparently She Did Such
A Thing For Personal Privacy And Political Historical Correctness. The TIGHAR Organzation, The Amelia Earhart Society, And
Elgen Long Conjured Misleading Information The National Geographic Channel And Wikipedia Still Convey About This, Proving
Out How The Status Quo Cover-Up Of Amelia's True History Is Still Active Today. Try to steer clear of them. TIGHAR says Amelia
died on the desert island of Nikumororo. She didn't. The Amelia Earhart Society implies Amelia was a spy who likely died while
in Japan's custody. She wasn't, and she didn't. Elgen Long says Amelia simply ran out of gas before crashing and sinking into
the ocean. She didn't. No Matter, these news-media dominating theorists have been feeding their 'different' mystery solving
ideas to the public since the late 1970s. Now, finally, Irene-Amelia.com represents the new truth-serum paradigm on what really
became of Amelia Earhart... after she was said to have "Vanished Without A Trace" in 1937.
| This is not the original nor the Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...but her younger and older images were repeatedly ID'd as Irene Craigmile Bolam, making three. |
[NOTE: See the various links
(towards the top on the left) for the forensic separation of the 1940s-and-on women who employed the same 'Irene' identity.
Especially review the 'Closer Comparison of Eyes and Faces' link. The 'third Irene' shown above, AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene'
featured on the Irene Bolam Memorial Dinner program remains a curiosity. There are some physical traits shared by the Gervais-Irene
and the Non Gervais-Irene, adding fodder to Amelia Earhart's long rumored yet otherwise well hidden 'maternal reality.' In other words it appears as plausible; there
may have been a hidden biological connection between the Gervais-Irene and the Non Gervais-Irene. To this day no one in the
public realm knows who the 'third' Irene really was. Some feel 'Mary Eubank' was a name
she used. If so, it still would not eliminate the suspected biological connection.]
Before the recent-years forensic analysis
took place it was never ascertained how three different women had been attributed
to the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity. Still, due to 'official
silence' on the matter both the
Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society have realized no choice but to close a blind eye to the full implications
of the study. It
may be difficult to accept, but
anymore it appears Joe Gervais was correct with his long ago assertion of Amelia Earhart's survival as a reidentified person.
After thoroughly investigating her past, Gervais lived the remainder of his days (he passed away in 2005) attesting to the
non-recognized fact, of how the 'Irene' he met and photographed in 1965 was formerly known as Amelia Earhart. Most people were quick to discredit
him, the families of both Irene and Amelia ignored and/or quickly dismissed his bold assertion as well, but nary a soul ever
proved him wrong, which is why a major curiosity about the Gervais-Irene's true past always remained.
[Click on either of the next two photos down to go to the 'Forensic Comparison Samples' link. Recently the National Geographic
Channel downplayed the long held Irene-Amelia controversy. This website displays decades of important investigative research it omitted.]
"After
watching some [of his] video and looking at the self-published book by researcher, Tod Swindell, who employed the methods
and expertise of forensic anthropologists to compare AE and IB physically, I think Joe Gervais was right." International News Journalist, Rosalea Barker of New Zealand from an edition of 'Stateside.' Ms. Barker had just
covered an Oakland Western Aerospace Museum symposium about Amelia Earhart attended by three hundred Earhart-curious individuals.
"Foudray also thinks Gervais' and Swindell's research is 'just the tip
of the iceberg.'" "All the evidence all put together, I feel
like she (Amelia) did survive." "I think she survived and came back to the United States." Excerpts from two interviews with Lou Foudray of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum on the investigative
research of Joe Gervais and Tod Swindell; from a Topeka Capital Journal article by Jan Biles and a 2009 interview conducted
by Lara Moritz of KMBC TV Kansas City. [See Press Notices link for more.]
| 'Look familiar? Amelia always had sinus trouble. |
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| Info on her post-loss 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' and dental work is included in this website. |
| A rare philatelic cover left behind by Amelia. |
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| This one she signed and gave to Margot DeCarie, her personal secretary. |
"We
don't discuss that around here." President Richard Nixon, 1970, responding to the then national news story about
the just released McGraw-Hill book, Amelia Earhart
Lives. The book implied Irene
to be the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Irene held a press conference at the Time-Life building in New York, (alone) damned the
book as "a pack of lies" and "a fantastic story," and strongly stated "I am not a mystery woman and
I am not Amelia Earhart." She then stormed out after fielding no questions. Joe Gervais remarked,"She handled the
press like a pro." Years later her good friend, Monsignor James Francis Kelley indicated she saw no choice but to react
as she did. He also pointed out by 1970 she had 'not been' Amelia Earhart for many years so her denial in the present tense,
especially to her, was not necessarily a non-truthful statement. In 1979 Kelley also told his friend, Donald Dekoster how
by the 1960s she "barley recognized herself anymore for who she used to be." Irene sued McGraw-Hill but after five
years refused to submit her fingerprints as 'proof positive' of her identity, so in early 1976 a ten dollar consideration
was paid by her to Gervais and the book's author, Joe Klaas, who in turn paid her the same amount to end a separate suit she
levied against them. McGraw-Hill did pay a mid five-figure settlement to her for 'damaging her reputation' by way of a few
specified false allegations, to include the suggestion she was never legally married to her British husband, Guy Bolam who
she had wed in New York in 1958.
* * *
After
initially agreeing to do so, observe here what independent filmmaker Noel Dockstader did not discuss or show in his self-produced
film 'Where's Amelia Earhart' occasionally seen on the National Geographic Channel. Mr. Dockstater declined to address the recent discovery of more than one person having used the same Irene Craigmile Bolam
identity. According to the history of Irene Craigmile Bolam she was born in 1904 and died in 1982. Yet the Irene Craigmile
Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965, then spent several years investigating the background of, only appeared
in the photograph history of Irene Craigmile Bolam from 1945 to 1982. Again, just recently this became newly recognized forensic reality information. Shown directly below,
the woman featured on the cover of Irene Bolam's 1982 Memorial Dinner program was not
the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 at a Long Island, New York gathering of well know retired
pilots.
| Eyes and Faces forensically compared... |
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| ...this 1982 'family ID'd' Irene Craigmile Bolam was a different person than the 1945-1982 Irene. |
The National News Media 'Big Three' Earhart
Investigators
It is essential to realize: Although they represent completely different theories, one Elgen Long of the Nauticos Group, one Bill Prymak who heads
the Amelia Earhart Society, and Richard
Gillespie who maintains the TIGHAR organization, (all fairly wealthy
and influential private citizens) have dominated public perception of Amelia Earhart's 'mystery' through the news media for
the past three decades. Recently their influence guided the National Geographic Channel's latest profile of Earhart's 1937
'disappearance.' Mr. Long, a past good friend of Amelia's late Sister Muriel has always touted the 'crashed and sank' version
of Earhart's fate. (After the 1960s Muriel and United States history quietly seemed to favor this ending as well.) Bill Prymak
suggested Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan were possibly spies who ended up in the Japanese mandates and somehow perished
there. And Richard Gillespie offered how the duo ended up at Nikumororo of the Phoenix Islands where they radioed for help
for three days before the tide pulled their plane out to sea to sink, leaving them to die of hunger and dehydration. Curious,
no authenticated evidence ever substantiated any of their claims, and few academic historians have ever taken any Earhart
theory seriously. Elgen Long used to lecture to audiences with Muriel sitting beside him, and more recently he was engaged
as an advisor for the Hilary Swank/Fox-Searchlight movie, 'Amelia.' Contrary to Elgen Long's opinion, over time Bill Prymak
became to main media go-to person regarding the age old 'spy' theory; and since 1990 Richard Gillespie has held many TIGHAR
press conferences about his Nikumororo claim. [Recently Mr. Gillespie held one announcing how Earhart's DNA evidence was possibly
retrieved from Nikumororo, mentionioning it will take "a year" for a Canadian lab to test some items he found there.
Experts regard it as a sensational suggestion lacking true merit and creating false hopes. For one thing, the items he referred
to were attributed to previous ships known to have moored there or run aground, and at least one brief attempt made at habitation.
For another, the last 'official' radio message from Earhart was received while she was still safely airborne. True, after
she stated one final line of position her radio fell silent while her plane was estimated by experts to still have 'four or
five hours of fuel left.' No "we're in trouble" nor were any SOS signals ever authentically accounted for, and thus
bore the basic mystery of Amelia Earhart.] The 'Earhart spy theory' was introduced in the 1960s although to date it too has
never been authenticated or ever accepted. Meanwhile, as if time washed them away, there were many conveyed reports of Amelia
Earhart's continued existence under the auspice of Japan among its Imperial Islands after she turned up missing in 1937. As
mentioned in the Joe Gervais paragraph shown above, the first collection numbering greater than seventy in individual affidavits,*
was confiscated by top U. S. military officials in Japan in 1960 at the Fuchu U. S. Air base. [*From The Search For Amelia Earhart by Fred Goerner, Doubleday, 1966.] Many more surfaced since then as "official
silence in Tokyo and Washington" always prevailed. * * *
THE TRUTH WILL
SET YOU FREE
TRY NOT TO FEAR THE IRENE-AMELIA TRUTH, OR TO READILY ACCEPT THE FULMINATIONS
OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WHO LOUDLY DECRY IT, AS THEY DIVERT PUBLIC OPINION OF AMELIA EARHART IN OTHER DIRECTIONS THROUGH NATIONAL
MEDIA OUTLETS. INSTEAD, RECOGNIZE THE SILENT REGARD TOWARDS AMELIA EARHART THAT HAS LONG BEEN EXHIBITED BY
THE FAMILIES OF AMELIA AND IRENE, AND OF COURSE BY JAPAN, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES. FOR SO MUCH
IS AKIN TO OFFICIAL SILENCE,' WHERE TRUTH ALONE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS.
Since 1970 the person of Irene Craigmile Bolam has remained a less reported
on yet, 'heated' subject of debate among Earhart research scholars. Most ended up trying to dismiss her importance out of
hand, but it was as if she refused to go away. See and learn here, how in recent years and regardless of the way official
U. S. historical dictum record keepers try to avoid dealing with the topic, it is plain as day anymore how Amelia Earhart,
at some point during the World War Two era, surely did become one of three individuals who employed the same identity of 'Irene
Craigmile Bolam.'
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