Wikipedia: The Irene Craigmile Bolam Manipulated "Public Info Provided" On-Line Encyclopedia

The Gervais-Irene & Amelia

Two photos in an equal blend.

Irene-Amelia

Irene-1963 / Amelia-1928, age thirty-one.

Irene-Amelia

Irene-1965 / Amelia-1933

Irene-Amelia

Irene-1976 / Amelia-1932

Irene-Amelia

Irene-1978 / Amelia-1929

[BEYOND 37's NOTE: The above is not accurate. For one thing no birth certificate for the original Irene was found and the true year of her birth remains disputed. (For example, the 1920 census listed her as "age 14.") For another thing, the Gervais-Irene never denied herself to have formerly been known as Amelia Earhart. There is no mention of the recent learned truth either; how there were three different human beings who were identified as one in the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' The one who appears in the photo above was the 1945-1982 publicly identified Irene Craigmile (Bolam), AKA the Gervais-Irene, AKA the former AE. She became 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' after she married Englishman Guy Bolam in 1958, who was described by his own Brother to have been 'MI6.' The book referred to Guy Bolam as "her alleged husband" thus damaging her reputation, and it was among the two main reasons cited by her attorney to have it withdrawn. (The other was her home ownership in New Jersey, where the book conveyed it to have belonged to Floyd Odlum, the husband of famous pilot Jackie Cochran.) The 'Irene' shown above in the color photo appears nowhere in photographs identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. Two other women interchangeably do though; the 'original' Irene Craigmile, and the '1940s family identified' Irene Craigmile (the Non Gervais-Irene.) Also, the lawsuit between the Gervais-Irene and Gervais & Klaas was settled with a ten-dollar consideration paid by both sides after the Gervais-Irene refused to submit her fingerprints as proof-positive of her identity.]

CONTENTS:

*Amelia Earhart Lives

*References

*Notes

*Bibliography

*External links
"Amelia Earhart Lives"

Mandel/Wikipedia: "In 1965, Major Joseph Gervais had a chance encounter with Bolam, believing she was Earhart. Using Gervais' research, author Joe Klaas documented this assertion in his book Amelia Earhart Lives (1970). Bolam denied being Earhart, filed a $1.5 million lawsuit and submitted a lengthy affidavit refuting the claim. The book's publisher McGraw-Hill pulled Klaas' book from the market shortly after it was released and court records indicate they made an out of court settlement with her."

[BEYOND 37's NOTE: There is no mention of how the 'lawsuit' (actually a summary judgment hearing that reached the New York State Supreme Court) dragged on for five years, and it was finally settled with a ten dollar consideration paid by Gervais and Klaas to Irene, and by Irene to Gervais and Klaas... again, after she refused Joe Gervais' request to submit her fingerprints. By turning down his request for her fingerprints, she forfeited her right to what 'potentially' could have been a final settlement awarded her to be paid by Gervais and Klaas over time in excess of $1,000,000. Again as well, nowhere in the 'affidavit' does Irene actually deny herself to have been the former Amelia Earhart. It is true however, for publishing the book without enlisting her cooperation and for libelous remarks that were damaging to her reputation, McGraw-Hill was ordered to pay her a $60,000 settlement.]

Mandel/Wikipedia: "Bolam's personal life history has since been thoroughly documented, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart."

[BEYOND 37's NOTES: This is not true. To the extent Irene's life could be documented, no less than three different human beings appeared as one in the same 'Irene' in the photographic history of her life from the early 1900s to 1982. So much is clearly ascertainable, especially in the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune series. Not to mention, in no way has anyone ever "eliminated the possibility" of the woman shown above to have been the former Amelia Earhart.]

Mandel/Wikipedia: "Evidence presented in the affidavit included her 1937 private pilot's licence [sic] and marriage certificate. Her personal life was also a matter of public record. Born Irene Madalaine O'Crowley, she married Charles Craigmile and on his death, married Alvin Heller but was subsequently divorced from Heller c. 1939. She remarried to Guy Bolam in 1959. Although Irene Craigmile Bolam was a pilot, her main career revolved around banking and finance in New York. Brother-in-law John Bolam said, ""She was influential, knew many well-placed people and was well-traveled."" Many mutual friends such as racer Elinor Smith also knew both Earhart and Bolam."

[BEYOND 37's NOTES:

1.) The Gervais-Irene (the former AE) did keep some of her old friends. Except the public had never heard the name 'Irene Bolam' before she was implicated as the former Amelia Earhart in 1970. For she was not meant to be a publicly known person anymore. She never volunteered or expected herself to be recognized for who she used to be, except, quite simply, she was recognized by retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais in 1965. And "many mutual friends" indeed. Famous pilots Viola Gentry and Fay Gillis Wells knew both Amelia and her later-life Gervais-Irene self, as did Amelia's Sister Muriel know her in later life, and so did Attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, etc. These individuals and select others were no doubt in league with maintaining the non-public quota of such a non-realized truth.

2.) The 'original' Irene's 1937 pilot's license was dated May 31, 1937 (the day before Amelia left from Miami on her epic world flight.) Beyond 37' previously obtained a copy of it from Joe Gervais. It was never signed by anyone, let alone the original Irene Craigmile, as she had only flown as a licensed pilot for a very brief time in mid-1933. (The original Irene had a child in early 1934 and never flew again. According to Rollin Reineck who researched the flying history of the original Irene Craigmile, as a licensed pilot she had a total of only 'twenty-six' solo flight hours documented in mid-1933. 1937's was the last pilot's license issued to her.)

3.) Aspects of everyone's personal life end up as "a matter of public record." Since the original Irene was a 'real' person, of course there is exists proof of it, to most specifically include her 1934 born son, Larry Heller.

4.) The 'original' Irene's middle name of "Madaline" was found on record in three different ways; as Madeline, Madalaine, and Madaline. Yet "Madaline" is the O'Crowley family history spelling. (Note 'Edna Madaline O'Crowley,' the original Irene's Aunt.) Notice the above clumsy language as well: "she married Charles Craigmile and on his death, married Alvin Heller but was subsequently divorced from Heller c. 1939." Here's what actually happened: Charles Craigmile, the 'original' Irene's first husband since 1927 who was fifteen years her senior, died suddenly of an appendicitis attack in 1931. A year later in 1932, the 'original' Irene's friends, famous pilots Viola Gentry and Amelia Earhart introduced her to flying airplanes by arranging lessons for her on Long Island, NY. In mid-1933, just after she received her pilot's license the 'original' Irene became pregnant out of wedlock via her flight instructor Al Heller, and the two eloped and were married in August of 1933. In early March of 1934 their son, Clarence 'Larry' Heller was born in Newark, NJ. The trail of the 'original' Irene grows cold after that. A medical expert interested in the case offered how she was possibly rendered an invalid due to a lack of oxygen caused by her strenuous childbirth ordeal, and likely, she eventually expired. (True, in 1994 a friend of the Gervais-Irene, Diana Dawes mentioned in a taped statement how she "understood someone had died and that's how she was able to get her new name.") In 1940 a legal 'annulment' (as opposed to a divorce) was filed to declare the original Irene's marriage to Al Heller 'null and void,' citing Mr. Heller had already been married before and had never obtained a legal divorce from his previous wife, thus returning the name of "Irene Craigmile" to be legally available for the former Amelia Earhart's use; Amelia..., who was described to have "disappeared without a trace" three years earlier in 1937. After her return to the U. S. the (new) Gervais-Irene trained to become a Bank Vice President in Great Neck on Long Island, NY beginning in the mid-1940s. As Amelia she had loved Great Neck, having lived there with her friend Marion Stabler in late 1924 to early 1925. Amelia and her sister Muriel called it 'their favorite Long Island beach haunt.' The Great Neck National Bank allegedly 'provisioned the Gervais-Irene a new career.' She left the banking trade after she married Englishman Guy Bolam on July 25, 1958 (as opposed to "in 1959.") She had again become an active and recognized Zonta member, hob-nobbed with her Sister Muriel and other past flying friends at Zonta and Wings Club Functions, and in the 1960s and 1970s she became a strong corporate influence for Radio Luxembourg, even serving as its President after Guy died in 1970. In the 1960s she and Guy often traveled internationally together, and they owned a cabin cruiser boat called 'The Harpoon III' she used to race up and down the Long Island Sound, herself most always at the helm. When she married Guy on July 25, 1958 (some referred to it as a marriage of convenience for both, although they did appear as endeared to each other) the date marked one day after what would have been her 61st birthday as AE.

5.) The Gervais-Irene's survived brother-in-law, John Bolam's 2002 Associated Press quote is completely transcibed this way: "We were inclined to think Irene probably was not Amelia. However, the forensic studies are very convincing. She was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people, and was well traveled."

Mandel/Wikipedia: "In 2006, Criminal forensic expert Kevin Richlin was hired byNational Geographic to study photographs of Earhart and Bolam and cited many measurable facial differences between them, concluding that the two people were not the same."

[Beyond 37': This is not true. Forensic detective Kevin Richlin never forensically "concluded" the two were not one in the same, and he openly admits that. (Thus marks the end of the brief and misleading Wikipedia biography page of Irene Craigmile Bolam.)]

(Notes and A Bibliography appear on the page. Although articles and books are cited, they are also shaped and/or discredited to favor Alex Mandel's anti Irene-Amelia campaign.)
External links

*Earhart comparison to Bolam (TIGHAR's 2004 unsuccessful debunk attempt)

*Bolam as Earhart theory (Mandel rejection essay no longer linked)

*Bolam Theory with Lawsuit Details (Associated Press, 2002)

*Where is Amelia Earhart? Three Theories (National Geographic, 2003)

     personal data
     NAME     Bolam, Irene Craigmile
     ALTERNATIVE NAMES
     SHORT DESCRIPTION     Banker, homemaker
     DATE OF BIRTH     October 1 1904
     PLACE OF BIRTH     Newark, New Jersey
     DATE OF DEATH     7 July 1982
     PLACE OF DEATH     Bedford, New Jersey

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Note: The "external link" listed above labeled "Earhart Comparison to Bolam" is that of TIGHAR, (Richard Gillespie) whose theory offered Earhart and Noonan to have perished on the desert Island of Nikumororo hundreds of miles south of their destination of Howland Island. TIGHAR sports a flashy website and has received well over a million dollars of private contributions since the 1980s, based on Ric Gillespie's assurance that he expected to find Amelia Earhart's plane there. He's continued to try and draw public interest and to raise more money, though by now the most ardent researchers have chalked his ideas up to little more than a 'Gilligans Island' type of castaways story. (Mr. Gillespie never found anything on the island described as 'credible' by anybody but himself and some of his devoted TIGHAR members.) Soon after the Associated Press began to re-examine the new credibility added to the long held Joe Gervais claim about Irene-Amelia in 2002, to be followed by Colonel Rollin Reineck's Amelia Earhart Survived book publication in 2003, Mr. Gillespie built the page shown on the above link to also campaign against the newly resurfaced Gervais-Earhart paradigm. It is one sided, of course. Any favoritism shown by the public to any other theory than TIGHAR's has always been met by Mr. Gillespie head on. See further down, how after Dr. Walter Birkby's 2003 comments expressed favoritism towards the work of Beyond 37', Mr. Gillespie flew himself to Dallas, Texas to confront Dr. Birkby one on one, putting him on the spot before he had a chance to conduct his promised analysis. Dr. Birkby initially stated how based on his preliminary review of Beyond 37's information, he found it "hard to disagree" with the claim of there having been more than one Irene Craigmile Bolam who shared the same identity, and in the possibility of one of them having been the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Ric Gillespie read this of course, confronted Dr. Birkby, and twisted the good Dr.'s words to serve his own platitudes.

Notice too, how Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine, among the most ardent of the anti Irene-Amelia campaigners, dominates the contributor notes pages for Wikipedia. Across the top of the Wikipedia page one will notice the tabs "Article," "Discussion," "Edit This Page," and "History." Especially in the "Discussion" and "History" links, both Mandel and Gwen Gale obsessively dominate the input, with Mandel going to extreme measures to try and plead his case of there having been nothing controversial about the past lives of Irene Craigmile Bolam and/or Amelia Earhart. Take a look at his following misinformation comments regarding Beyond 37's own Tod Swindell's research contributions to the Irene-Amelia topic:

Posted by Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine:
"After reading the AP article (from "Atchison Globe online"), i found that it includes some factually incorrect statements, that provides potential misinforming effects - "crediting" the fantastic anti-factual theory with undue weight. The statement about Mr. Tod Swindell's photographic overlays with "pilot’s face and hands, matching perfectly with those of Bolam" is of unclear origin."

[BEYOND 37'S NOTE: This is untrue. Both portions 'hands & face,' plus full heights, arm lengths, foot size, etc. all appeared in the book and video that were premiered and placed on display at the 2002 Oakland Aerospace Amelia Earhart Research Symposium attended by three hundred people. (See journalist Rosalea Barker's report in the 'Press Notices' link.)]

Mandel continues: "In a very best case it quotes and represents the personal opinion of Mr. Swindell himself and a few overenthusiastic believers in his theory."

[Notice the words "few" and "overenthusiastic" as opposed to "numerous" and "serious." As well, it was never Tod Swindell's "theory." It was a 'claim' Joe Gervais asserted that evolved into his own original theory, after he met and photographed Irene Craigmile Bolam (Irene-Amelia) in 1965 at a gathering of famous retired pilots. Joe Gervais stated with 'certainty' he recognized her for who she used to be, and after diligently researching her background for five years, he determined the Irene Craigmile Bolam he met in 1965 had to have been no other person than the living former Amelia Earhart. Nobody was ever able to prove him incorrect, and he died in 2005 still believing it. And as it turned out, he was correct.]

Mandel: "The differences between Earhart and Bolam - both in bodial and facial aspects - are numerous and quite obvious, some of them striking; and it was always noted by numerous observers and researchers, both during the presentations of the theory and in all other cases when and where some discussion about this topic ever happened."

[This is plain and simple BS, profligately issued by a person wielding a false-truth campaign. (Is 'bodial' a word?)]

Mandel: "The important and principal fact is that there was no [sic] any positive forensic confirmation for the theory ever provided to the public and scientific community for any professional check and proper verification."

[Forensic Anthropologists Dr. Birkby and Dr. Fenton initially agreed to separate the two different Irenes and to throughly conduct a full body analysis of Irene-Amelia as compared to Amelia, but after Dr. Birkby was confronted by Rich Gillespie of the Tighar organization and phoned by Bill Prymak of the AES, he became discouraged commenting "I don't go for this kind of thing," causing both he and his partner to do a limited null hypothesis of the post war augmented 'Irene-Amelia's' face (similar to Richlins) as compared to Amelia's from the 1930s, where said 'non-medically accounted for' augmentations were pointed out.]

Mandel: "Moreover, two 'forensic pathologists' mentioned in the article - Dr. Walter Birkby (Arizona) and Dr. Todd Fenton (Michigan) - actually issued a negative verdict about the credibility of the theory, refusing to support it;"

[This is not true. (And again they were 'Anthropologists' as opposed to "Pathologists," two very different fields.) Any so called 'negation' of theirs was based on the lack of Irene's past medical records being made available to research investigators, that would account for the noticed facial augmentations deemed 'medically possible' via rhinoplasty and cosmetic surgery. Not to mention the cosmetic dentistry that reduced the gap between the former Amelia's two front teeth.]

Mandel: "...and in May 2005 Mr. Swindell's collaborator Colonel Rollin Reineck - the author of the book supporting this theory published in 2002..."

[Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived was published in December 2003 and was not in stores until 2004.]

Mandel: "...informed about this the "community" of Earhart researchers (although not without understandable regrets)."

[Again, this is plain and simple BS. Solid proof exists where Rollin Reineck can be seen with Tod Swindell in National Geographic's 2006 filmed and still currently airing,'Unsolved History' Amelia Earhart TV special, where Reineck states "Earhart survived, there's no doubt about it." Colonel Reineck and Tod Swindell continued to collaborate and share their knowledge of the forensic truth about the Irene-Amelia conveyance and the accuracy of the forensic study, until Reineck passed away in September of 2007.]

Mandel: "Then, as the article mentions, in 2006 Criminal forensic expert Kevin Richland was hired by National Geographic to study photographs of Earhart and Bolam and cited many measurable facial differences between them."

[It's spelled "Richlin." And there weren't "many" differences he pointed out, there were only a few, and they were the same 'medically explainable' ones Dr.'s Birkby and Fenton alluded to upon observation. (Not to leave out how the effects of aging itself vary in all individuals; noses and ears will continue to grow, noses sag, facial fat from the upper nose bridge will move southward, as generally does all facial fat causing facial 'sagging.' Mr. Richlin, not a medical expert, never touched on these things, nor on any cosmetic surgery or any kind of rhinoplasty possibilities.) No doubt National Geographic engaged Kevin Richlin, (surely with encouragement from the Amelia Earhart Society's long time founding President, Bill Prymak who worked with National Geographic on the special Mr. Richlin appeared in) to serve as a back pocket, non-historically informed 'ringer.' Dr. Birkby on the other hand, cited what he called 'a possible non-accounted for past trauma' that could have occurred at some point to cause the nose difference he observed, to include the probability of a past deviated septum rhinoplasty procedure having been performed, at least, to help explain it.]

Mandel: "It seems for me that all the above mentioned leaves the referred article without the degree of seriousness, factual accuracy and credibility required for the "source" referred in encyclopedic article. Not intended to insist on anything.. but, because of presented reasons, for me it would seem more reasonable to remove this link... Kind Regards - Alex Mandel 13:48, 2 July 2007."

[Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine, again, feverishly trying to control a situation through his own distribution of misinformation. This is an above sample among many of Alex Mandel's overt campaign to not only influence Wikipedia controllers, but the entire internet world as well.]

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