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Additional notes, more non-recognized
pertinent research, testimonials, and forensic argument information. [NOTE: Be sure to check out the highlighted text portions,
& further down see excerpts from 1991 taped conversations between Monsignor Kelley and Amelia Earhart researcher, Rollin
Reineck; and between Monsignor Kelley's Sister, Gertrude Kelley Hession and Rollin Reineck.]
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"Monsignor James Francis Kelley of Rumson, a retired priest and close friend of Mrs. Bolam's,
didn't want to comment on her possible dual identity. "I could not state my feelings," said Mrs. Bolam's confessor. "If
I were to answer that I would violate everything I learned in the confessional." 1982
Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune.
Monsignor James Francis Kelley (1902-1996) was
President of Seton Hall University in New Jersey from 1936 to 1949. In life Monsignor Kelley served as a highly distinguished
emissary of the Catholic Church in the northeastern United States. He had been a friend to Cardinal Francis Spellman
who once owned a home on Kelley's Rumson, New Jersey estate, and he knew Pope Pius XII, and Pope Paul VI who he spent
considerable time with during the 1965 Papal visit to the United States. Monsignor Kelley's family was traceable to British nobility. They'd long held vast property wealth in the Caribbean,
and Monsignor Kelley not only had a beautiful mansion home on the Island of St. Croix there, but his family had also deeded
him land in Jamaica. In life Kelley knew many famous celebrities and politicians dating back to the 1930s. His autobiography
features him in photographs with many such individuals taken over the years. Based on their correspondence and information he eventually did convey, there is no doubt Monsignor Kelley and Irene-Amelia
developed a deep mutual respect for each other over the course of their long friendship. For not only was he her confessor,
but he described how he also served as her post U. S. return therapist. (Monsignor Kelley held Doctorates in Psychology and
Philosophy.) Beyond his legendary Seton Hall accomplishments and the 1946
bust statue of his likeness sculpted and gifted to him by the Smithsonian Institute's own artisan, Monsignor Kelley had received other
awards and citations noting his religious, medical, and public service achievements. One
such 'citation and medal' he received on July 11, 1941
from none other than U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr. As previously mentioned, in 1938 Morgenthau, who oversaw FDR's Secret Service divisions, had refused to make
public certain information he was aware of that pertained to Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance. So it may be no coincidence
how the 1941 Morgenthau award he received was described by Monsignor Kelley in his autobiography in said manner: "For
three years of Patriotic Service with integrity and diligence for the Treasury Department of the United States of America."
Simple math shows three years prior to 1941 being 1938. Also consider these two other awards the Monsignor received: "June 18, 1946 - received
citation from the War Department through Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Force, Carl Spatz [who Jackie Cochran spent
time with on Guam just prior to her entering Japan after VJ Day] and Secretary of the War, Robert P. Patterson." And:
"November 20, 1946 citation from J. Edgar Hoover for assistance rendered during the war years to the Internal Security
of the Nation through the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice." It's interesting
to note how the Arthur Gibson State Department located file labeled, "Earhart, Amelia Special War Problems" bore
the date Sept. 7, 1946.... a date that fell between the two just listed.
Five years after
'not stating his feelings' about it, in July of 1987 upon the completion of his autobiography in which he
claimed to have included a chapter about his friend, Amelia in it... Monsignor Kelley finally decided to disclose to
news reporter, Dean Magley who he had previously acquainted, the basic framework of the true Irene-Amelia story. Magley,
with his Wife Carol accompanying him traveled to New Jersey from Michigan to conduct an in-person interview with the
Monsignor at his Rumson, New Jersey mansion home. The retired Monsignor disclosed many things to Magley about
his long friendship with Amelia (Irene-Amelia) following World War Two. Soon
Magley started writing a book about it. [Note: Magley would also follow up on a conversation he had with the now late Astronaut,
Wally Schirra in the 1970s. Schirra had intimated to Magley, that not only was Amelia still living in the United States
in the 1970s, but he had even recently 'seen' her. A few years after Irene-Amelia died, Magley managed to interview
the famous Astronaut on film. During said interview he further queried Schirra on the matter. Magley asked Schirra how
he came to know what he did, and on camera Schirra replied how "reliable people" had conveyed
to him the true identity of the woman he had previously referenced to Magley.]
Sadly, Dean Magley died of cancer within a short time after his final 1989 correspondences with Monsignor
Kelley, never completing his ms. Yet Magley's writings about Kelley's words to him and his Schirra filmed interview
still remain, and are highly worth noting. (*See further NASA mention below.) Add to this as well, the following end
to a conversation excerpted from a remarkable 1991 taped interview with none other than Monsignor James Francis
Kelley, conducted by the now late USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck, (Ret.) (Also note the complete 1991 follow-up
tape recorded conversation at the bottom of this page that took place between Col. Reineck and Monsignor Kelley's Sister,
Gertrude Kelley Hession who was a past good friend and traveling companion of Irene-Amelia's.) EXCERPT FROM TAPE
RECORDED CONVERSATION #1: MONSIGNOR JAMES FRANCIS KELLEY WITH ROLLIN REINECK, SEPTEMBER 1991
Rollin Reineck: Specifically, I want to know about Amelia Earhart. Did you bring her home from Japan?
Monsignor Kelley: Yes, I was instrumental
in getting her freed and she stayed here. I have some of her things here. I'm certain it's in my book. I did write a
book, and I'm positive I did put in a chapter about her.
RR: I understand you were President of Seton Hall (University.)
Kelley: Yes, I was President of Seton Hall for many years.
RR: If I were to come back
and talk to you would I be able to see some of the things you have of Amelia Earhart's?
Kelley: Absolutely. Surely.
RR: We believe Jackie Cochran was sent to Japan to help bring
Amelia home. Are you aware of that?
Kelley: Yes, I was involved with that.
RR: Could you give me your address?
Kelley: (Provides his Rumson, New Jersey address.)
RR: I'm going to try to come back to talk to you.
Kelley: All Right.
RR: Thank you for your help.
Kelley: What city are you in?
RR: Honolulu, Hawaii
Kelley: Oh my gosh, and you're going to come over here?
RR: Yes sir. If you Have things
of hers I would like to see them. Are you aware that she was Irene Bolam?
Kelley: What?
RR: Amelia Earhart was Irene Bolam?
Kelley: That's right, yes.
(*)Note from the paragraphs preceding the Kelley-Reineck
conversation: The following excerpts come from a 1993 story written about Irene-Amelia (AKA Irene Craigmile
Bolam) by Mrs. John Bolam, her survived sister in-law: "She
was intelligent, articulate, and had a commanding presence. She knew a lot of important people including many high-ranking
military officers, astronauts and flyers."
[Colonel Reineck's book as well, references Irene Bolam being awarded a medal of appreciation by
NASA in the early 1960s.][The late Arizona Senator, Barry Goldwater was also a past friend
of Irene-Amelia's.] "Guy and Irene knew people all around
the world, some of which were well known figures in high places." "She appeared to be completely familiar with any
subject we might bring up about flying in the old days, such as types of planes, instruments, early airports, etcetera."
"After Guy died, she still continued to manage Radio Luxembourg accounts while trekking
around the world." [Irene-Amelia actually took over as corporate President of Radio Luxembourg following Guy's
1970 passing.] "She thoroughly enjoyed life, people, events, theater, travel, new heights. She was the epitome of a "'Classy
Lady.'" "Irene told us she was a member of the 99s and the Zonta's, but others say her name does not appear
in the records of either organization. Why then would they ask her to speak at their national and international meetings?"
(Note: It was later learned how from the mid-late 1940s on as 'Irene Craigmile,' Irene-Amelia was listed in the Long
Island chapter of Zonta records, and at times she appeared in Zonta published photographs.)
It
was also described in this same article, how according to what his own brother, John somehow came to either know or believe,
Guy Bolam had been "a member of British MI6." Note: Amelia Earhart co-founded the 99s Women's Flying Organization in 1929 and was its first
President. Amelia had also joined the Boston chapter of the Zonta's in 1928, but after moving to New York in 1931 she
mostly participated, when she could, in Zonta functions held there. Today, Zonta still annually presents its prestigeous Amelia
Earhart Scholarship award to aspiring female college students. The 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune series also described Irene Craigmile (Irene-Amelia) as a Long Island
Chapter Zonta member, although not prior to 1945. It also inferred her mulit-lingual
ability to have enabled her position for Zonta as an International Relations
Chair Person. (Recall as Amelia she already spoke several languages.) Regardless of this, and though they were asked
the Zonta organization itself would not volunteer any records about Irene Craigmile's past membership. There does exist however,
numerous Zonta pamphlets still in public circulation with her photo and name appearing from the late 1940s on. On the
other hand, there does not appear to be any record of an Irene Craigmile, Heller, or Bolam ever having been a member
of the 99s. Such would make sense, where within a month of the original Irene Craigmile having earned her pilot's license
in late May of 1933, she realized herself to be pregnant out-of-wedlock with her last flight instructor, Al Heller's
child. There exists no record of her ever piloting a plane after that. Indeed, the original
Irene Craigmile appeared to have no more than twenty-odd hours of solo flying time in 1933, and that's all she ever
had according to record, before she eloped to marry Al Heller that same August.
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"(Peter) Busatti (who had known Mrs. Bolam for many years) said he accompanied
Mrs. Bolam to the Wings Club in New York City on one occasion. He said a full length portrait of Amelia Earhart hangs
in the room dedicated in her honor. "'It was a dead ringer for Irene,'" he said. "'Sometimes I thought
she was, sometimes I thought she wasn't.'" "'I told her she looked like Amelia Earhart and she said, 'No, I
don't look like her.'" Busatti said. At a Wings Club event in Washington, Busatti mentioned all the admirals and generals
seemed to know her." 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey, News Tribune.
"After her death, [Irene-Amelia's] rumors resurfaced that
she was in fact Amelia Earhart, the famous aviatrix who disappeared on a flight between Lae New Guinea and Howland Island
in the south Pacific on July 2, 1937. Mrs. Bolam's son, Clarence Heller then requested Mrs. Bolam's fingerprints from the
medical school [Rutgers University, College of Medicine and Dentistry] to settle the Amelia Earhart question. The request
was deinied. Heller's wife, Joan, said her husband, Mrs. Bolam's only child, sent a registered letter to the medical school
requesting the fingerprints, but the request was denied. She said medical school officials told her that Mrs. Bolam's
body had been disguised in some manner so that only one or two people in the school knew which was her body. She said she
spoke to Norma Davenport, attorney for the school, and was told that an agreement that Mrs. Bolam signed with the school precluded
the release of her fingerprints. "'We're not entitled to them,'" Mrs. Heller said she was told. "'They won't
tell me anything except that her identity has been switched." She further said Mrs. Davenport refused to give her a copy
of the agreement between the school and Mrs. Bolam or to tell her what the agreement specified." 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune.
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"Dr. Man Wah Cheung of Roosevelt Hospital, who treated Mrs. Bolam for two years, said he
remained "'puzzled,'" even after her death, about whether she might have been the missing aviatrix." Dr. Cheung's
puzzlement is shared by his assistant, Rose Mulligan. "'Who knows,'" she asked, adding "'I never met anyone
like her.'" 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune.
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It became obvious how the 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune 'investigative news article series' that
profiled the lives of Irene Bolam and Amelia Earhart, was a concocted device employed with an end objective
in mind. Apparently, said objective was illicitly sought and achieved by a non-recognized divisive entity.
(If not by the paper's own publisher.) No doubt, such an objective was to place a spin on, or obfuscate genuine information
(some samples seen above) into consternation causing offers. For two weeks such a thing was being done, prior to
the series drawing its solid conclusion about the life of the recently deceased, Irene Craigmile Bolam..., and the
by then twelve year old Irene-Amelia controversy. Nothing evidenced this fact more than the later
2002 discovery of photo forgeries used within the series, that combined the images of more than one woman to represent a single identified
human being. The forged photos were used in a series ending display, and were meant to depict the life long
birth to death images of the person known as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' Indeed, they were engaged as the
chief instrument used to try and finally convince the public, how Irene-Amelia could not have ever been the former Amelia
Earhart. For twenty years said forgeries went undetected. This might also remind one of the old addage: 'Sometimes
the best way to hide something valuable, is to place it in full view as if it isn't really that valuable.' Think about
it: For two weeks in October of 1982, great lengths were gone to by the Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune,
in order to outright lure its readers into considering the notion of the woman whose true identity had been the
subject of high scrutiny over the course of the previous twelve years, and who had just died a few months earlier, how
she possibly had been the survived, former Amelia Earhart. Then on the last day of the series, the paper suddenly
demonstrated its own almost magic capability, to soundly conclude how the woman in question could not have been the
former Amelia Earhart after all, by deferring to photographs that at times sloppily combined plural human being images in
order to forge one human being's image. So much was done in order to persuade its readers into believing a false
truth, that there was never a mystery at all pertaining to the woman in question. Now it can be said with certainty, the series
was nothing more than an outright scam, or a lie, that had been highly conceived and orchestrated with a sole end goal
in mind. And such a goal was: To outright trick its readers into accepting a false truth. Or, to accept a historical truth
that was not a real historical truth... at all. As mentioned above, on
11/2/91 the now late Colonel Rollin C. Reineck, USAF (retired) recorded his 'Monsignor Kelley' follow-up conversation with
the Monsignor's Sister, Gertrude Kelley Hession. The following is the complete transcription of said conversation, with Col.
Reineck's own introduction and a few 'explanatory notes' added by Beyond 37': "The following
is a transcript of a taped telephone conversation I (Reineck) had with Gertrude Hession on 2 November 1991. Gertrude
was the younger Sister of Monsignor James Francis Kelley. This event took place after I had met with the Monsignor in
1991. A few of the words spoken by Gertrude were hard to understand, otherwise I believe I have interpreted all words
correctly:" EXCERPT FROM TAPE RECORDED CONVERSATION #2: GERTRUDE KELLEY HESSION WITH ROLLIN REINECK, NOVEMBER
2, 1991 ROLLIN
C. REINECK: We had it on good authority from other people that the Monsignor did
take care of Amelia Earhart when she came back to the U. S. and I wanted to confirm that with you.
GERTRUDE KELLEY HESSION:
Now that I couldn't confirm. Why I say that is that I was not in the area at that time. My husband had been transferred
with the parent company. I wasn't living in the area so I don't know what really happened. I can say -- he may
have. He does many things that we don't know of. As far as that is concerned I couldn't say yes.
ROLLIN:
I see. You don't know whether he did or not. Is that what you're telling me?
GERTRUDE: I don't know.
ROLLIN:
I talked to someone in St. Croix who knew Mnsgr Kelley. His name is DeKoster. Do you know him?
GERTRUDE:
Are they from New Jersey?
ROLLIN: No, they have a home in St Croix. (U.S. Virgin Islands)
GERTRUDE: No. I don't know them.
I know the De Kosters from New Jersey.
ROLLIN: They may have a home there too. [Note: The DeKosters were quite
wealthy, Donald DeKoster, a long time good friend of Monsignor Kelley’s was a prosperous Detroit auto industry executive.]
Anyway they have a house right near the Monsignor’s house in St. Croix.
GERTRUDE: I don't think I've met them.
ROLLIN:
They told me that at one time you and Amelia Earhart were to come to visit, but that one of you got sick and couldn't make
it.
GERTRUDE: Well now, I'll tell you. I have visited there with Irene Bolam. And, you know who Irene Bolam is?
ROLLIN:
Right, yes.
GERTRUDE: Yes, are you acquainted with the name?
ROLLIN: Yes of course.
GERTRUDE:
Now, Irene and I had visited out at St. Croix. Irene Bolam and I took several trips together. But actually, I
did not know Irene as a child - as a young person - to be able to give you a good background. I know of her family, The doctor
O'Crowley and her aunt, but actually, I didn't know too much about her. I met her when her husband died, Bolam was ill
with appendicitis. That was when I really knew her intimately. She never discussed much about Amelia Earhart. I don't
know if..., that she ever denied it out-rightly to me – you know – that she had no real connection there. But,
oh, I had my doubts many times. She had a yacht in Red Bank. As did the Erwins. I don't know if you know them.
They had a yacht up there in Red Bank. Irene had her boat there and we used to go out on it. She would always
discuss planes coming over. Pulling down maps, pinpointing all these different areas. It made you wonder you know.
But I don't know how helpful I can be to you. I wish I could be more.
ROLLIN: You said something a
second ago. You said she never denied being Amelia Earhart.
GERTRUDE: Oh, not in my company.
ROLLIN: Did she ever affirm it at
all.
GERTRUDE: She. Oh, the only time I recall her making a denial was at the time of her death. There was a memorial
service. There was a memorial service for her down where she lived you know. She had a party for all of her friends.
She had pre-arranged this affair. And, it was a memorial party. And, some of those people down around Rossmoor could give
you a much better explanation about her. She did have a folder made up, pre-advance.
ROLLIN: I have a copy.
GERTRUDE:
Oh, then you know where she says "If you believe this."
ROLLIN: Do you know Diana Dawes?
GERTRUDE:
Oh yes, she was one of her closest friends I would say.
ROLLIN: When we were back visiting the Monsignor, (Gertrude’s
Brother) we visited Diana the next day.
GERTRUDE: Oh Yes, She [Diana Dawes] was about one of her closest friends
I would say. More intimate than I. Although, we took all those wonderful trips together. She used to get
very upset with people coming up and wanting her to admit – you know – that she was Amelia Earhart.
[Note: Ms. Dawes was left many of Irene’s personal belongings after Irene died
in 1982, to include the photographs used in the study and reprinted in this website. (Before she passed away Ms. Dawes further
entrusted Irene's photos to pilot-author, Ann Holtgren Pellegreno who provided the ones used in the study.) Note as well,
the 'pre-advance' folder Irene made for her 1982 Memorial Dinner featured the ‘other’ Irene Bolam on its cover,
a person Joe Gervais never met before. Diana Dawes, a former New Jersey radio show host believed the Irene Craigmile Bolam
(the Gervais-Irene) she became 'good friends' with had formerly
been known as Amelia Earhart.]
ROLLIN: What was your personal opinion.
GERTRUDE:
Right.
ROLLIN: Your personal opinion was that she was or was not?
GERTRUDE: You know when they were writing the
book, Amelia Earhart Lives. That was a very trying time for her. I can recall people coming up. There was
a judge. I can't remember his name. [Judge Edward Kennedy.] Anyway he was helping her control those people. I
think one was Gervais and the other one.
ROLLIN: Klaas, Joe Gervais and Joe Klaas.
GERTRUDE:
Right. Oh you know, that was very disturbing and the judge was handling it. She sued. I sat in on some of the depositions
with her. I think she --- didn't she win that suit?
ROLLIN: No. She sued Mc Graw Hill, Joe Klaas and Joe
Gervais for two million dollars. She kept asking for a postponement. Finally, [Gervais] agreed to pay her the
two million dollars if she would come to court and give her fingerprints in front of the judge.
GERTRUDE: Oh no, that's something
she would never do.
ROLLIN: No. She wouldn't do that, so she dropped the suit [against Gervais and Klaas] after that.
GERTRUDE:
I think we lost touch about then, but I know that things were very trying for her. (NOTE: This is a contradicting statement
made by Gertrude. The lawsuit ended in early 1976, and it was known how at least until 1979 Gertrude continued to occasionally
see and even travel at times with Irene.)
ROLLIN: Why wouldn't she give her fingerprints?
GERTRUDE:
Why? She didn't want people to prove she was or wasn't - apparently. And even her own son does not have her fingerprints.
ROLLIN:
I'm not sure that is her son.
GERTRUDE: Irene was married three times.
ROLLIN: I have her marriage certificate and it says that when
she married Bolam, it was her second marriage.
GERTRUDE: Oh really.
ROLLIN: I asked you a minute
ago, do you think she was or was not Amelia Earhart.
GERTRUDE: I was very dubious, because there were so many times
she would slip, you know with comments and make you feel, you know, and yet, I never really wanted to probe. I felt she could
tell me if she wanted to tell me. It was that type of friendship. But there were many times when it was difficult not to go
after her and say come on, sit down and tell me. But, we just never quite did. She had a friend by the name of Mary
(Eubank) who would have known her as a class mate at the academy of the Boswell Sisters and St. Dominic's academy. She was
sent there by her grand parents. She would have known her as a high school person. To me she was the closest one. Then she
had two aunts who lived up around the shore line. [The O’Crowley Sisters Edna Madaline O’Crowley Horsford and
Attorney Irene Mary Rutherford O’Crowley.] (Attorney Irene) O'Crowley was one. They were two sisters. It was always
a very sensitive thing with Irene (Craigmile Bolam.) She would get very disturbed about it when people would come up to her
in front of her son you know, at the Flyers Group, Wings Club, or something like that, she would get very upset.
ROLLIN:
When I was talking to another lady, her name was Helen Barber, who also knew the Monsignor in St. Croix. She told me
that when Amelia Earhart came back and the Monsignor was giving her spiritual and psychological care as well, he tried to
get her to keep her name, but she didn't want to – according to the story – because she said she was embarrassed
for what she had done.
[Note: Such a statement is questionable. Col. Reineck
appeared to be reading something into the story that wasn’t necessarily there. According to Donald DeKoster, in 1979
Monsignor Kelley mentioned to him how Irene decided she “didn’t want to be the famous Amelia Earhart any more,”
alluding to her strong desire to continue living her life after the WWII years as a private person in the U. S., as opposed
to a highly famous ‘public’ person. Her post-war confidence, the respect she commanded from others, her continued
love for Japan, the orient, and the United States…, as well as her overall positive attitude measure never suggested
she was embarrassed about anything from her past. Rather, she may have found it to hard to explain what she had somewhat inadvertently
become involved with during the war years, after realizing herself to be a somewhat subjugated victim of inordinate circumstances.]
GERTRUDE:
Oh really, I don't know, I've never heard that. But my brother got to know her quite well. After all, she would
have confessed to him, ah, especially when she was ill at the hospital. We went to visit her on numerous occasions,
and that was a very secret deal too. When she was in the hospital, she had this oriental doctor and his name was kept
quiet always as to her relationship with people and what not. And that's when she died at that hospital. I do
know my brother visited her because I took him there several times as he was her confessor. What she told him, I don't know.
I don't know how you could get it from him. I wish you well with this.
ROLLIN: Let me give you my name and address;
etc.
GERTRUDE: I gather from what you said that you thought she may have been Amelia Earhart.
ROLLIN: Yes
GERTRUDE:
Yes, there were times, yes, I must admit that. If I had been really curious. But, I think I valued our friendship more.
ROLLIN:
That's what Diana Dawes said. She said that although she was almost positive, she never asked because it would have
upset her and she would lose her friendship. ….I won't take up any more of your time. Thank you very much. You've been
a real help. Thank you Gertrude.
(They sign off.)
Note: It is fairly certain Mary Eubank and
the original Irene Craigmile were past good friends, and Mary Eubank was likely introduced to the original Irene’s famous
family friend, Amelia Earhart at some point either in the late 1920s or early to mid 1930s. Accordingly, in 1949, the same
year records show Viola Gentry and Jackie Cochran corresponding with each other, Jackie Cochran’s own stowed records
index indicates at least one letter exchange between Jackie and one 'Mary Eubank.' When Tod Swindell discussed Mary Eubank
with the original Irene’s Son, Larry Heller in person in 2006, Mr. Heller appeared reluctant to discuss the subject
of Mary Eubank, the woman who was known to at times have cared for him as he grew up. He also refused to verify the spelling
of her last name. When asked if it was spelled ‘Eubank’ or ‘Eubanks’ he replied he “couldn’t
remember.” Yet it would seem he had to have been aware it was ‘Eubank.’ Beyond
37' holds copies of all audio tape recordings of conversations that took place between Colonel Reineck and Monsignor Kelley,
Reineck and DeKoster, Reineck and Mrs. Helen Barber of Wayne, Pennsylvania (who as mentioned also knew Monsignor Kelley well
and was told many things by Kelley about his past relationship with Irene Craigmle Bolam,) and between Colonel Reineck and
Gertrude Kelley Hession. Beyond 37' also holds a copy of Dean Magley's 1985 filmed interview with now late NASA Astronaut,
Wally Schirra.
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"The TIGHAR group intially based its claim on those
old radio reports from Hawaii's Pan Am station, that were described to have come from the Phoenix Islands group.
(Charles) Hill debunked those old signals long ago with his degree of error report discovery. The Itasca had ordered
it during the search to confirm where the signals came from. I personally never believed in them (the radio signals) anyway.
But Hill's discovery (at least) showed the bearing read thirty-five degrees off to the northwest, which would have pointed
to the lower Marshalls. Besides, Gardner Island (now Nikumororo) had previous attempts of habitation before
the Earhart incident, and U.S. Navy planes did include Gardner during its two week search effort. TIGHAR still tries
to claim otherwise, but it has never produced one shred of authentic evidence to back its claim of how Earhart
ended up five hundred miles south of Howland Island on Nikumororo. But the media likes him (Tighar head, R. Gillespie) because
he offers something flashy and different, while non-controversial at the same time. Notice how nobody ever heard
of him until after she (Irene-Amelia) died in 1982. He came out of nowhere and threw nearly all of the pre-existing
controversial Earhart research into the trash." USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.) from an interview, 12/5/01
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NOTE: To contact Beyond 37'
e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com. The Beyond 37' film, book, and website
projects are dedicated to the late USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais (1924-2005) and the late USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (1920-2007).
Both were World War Two heroes who learned the basic Irene-Amelia truth decades ago. Major Gervais, who was considered by
many to have been the most devoted Amelia Earhart researcher ever having pursued the mystery since 1960, discovered the
Irene-Amelia reality in 1965. The controversial 1970 McGraw-Hill book by Joe Klaas, Amelia Earhart Lives expounded
on the enormous amount of Joe Gervais' investigative research, and displayed the first nationally published photo of
Irene-Amelia. Myriad fallout the Amelia Earhart Lives book caused notwithstanding,
and still lacking official authoritative guidance, Colonel Reineck spent the last several years of his life trying to
advance the Gervais claim of Earhart's name-changed survival to authenticity. Colonel Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived,
published in late 2003, was largely inspired by the Irene-Amelia forensic studies of Beyond 37's Tod Swindell. Several
portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, and more samples are better displayed in this website. [Beyond 37'
was formed in 2001 by the Tod Evan Company in Los Angeles. It is run by Investigative Researcher/Filmmaker Tod
Swindell, who also serves as Chief Editor of Irene-Amelia.Com] Irene-Amelia.com
totals to date since being posted last year: 512,217 world-wide hits; 171,405 downloads. Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and
Japan lead for most foreign country views. The most viewed pages and/or links are: 'The History of Amelia Earhart Mystery
Research' page, the 'Odd Rumors' page, the 'Hilary Swank Amelia movie' page, the 'Amelia at the Microphone' photo link shown
on the home page, the 'Why The Fear' page, the various 'Physical Comparison' pages, and the 'Forensic Conclusion' page.
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