Ever since
August 8, 1965 the basic truth about what became of Amelia Earhart has been recognizable. No matter; status quo historical
dictum has held it down since 1970, the year it was first made public through the national news media. Today however, people
do not seem to realize how back then (in 1970) United States historical dictum merely transferred the Irene-Amelia truth into
a state of limbo by not offering an opinion about it. There it still remains, consistently badgered and denounced by private
citizens and private organizations, never to be authoritatively verified as a truth or non-truth by those harnessing the ability
to do so.
Understand the
Irene-Amelia equation is a truth, and it signifies the only real truth about
what became of Amelia Earhart after July 2, 1937; how she actually did survive on her way to changing her name to one of three
individuals who historically employed the same identity of "Irene Craigmile Bolam." Evidently she did such a thing
by choice in order to live out the rest of her very large life in a non-limelight way. It is also true, how the former Amelia
Earhart eventually passed away in Edison, New Jersey in 1982 while she was still known as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'
Historically of course, reputable
institutions such as the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian Institute have always resorted to a 'biased' viewpoint
on this matter, thus diminishing the true historical value of the Irene-Amelia conveyance. Realize though, both the National
Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institute have never conducted an investigation into the 1937 disappearance of Amelia
Earhart. The reason? They've never been 'permitted' to according to officials at both places. Indeed to this day they have
only passed on what others have said about Earhart's over-storied loss.
The fact is; there has never been an 'official investigation' into Earhart's
1937 disappearance, or into what potentially became of her after she disappeared. Especially the Smithsonian Institute, a
'ward' of the U. S. Government has always managed to avoid doing such a thing. In the meantime the truth about Amelia Earhart's
fate has stared back at the American public for almost a half century now... except the American public has remained unable
to embrace such a reality due to 'official United States historical dictum'
never endorsing it. (Let alone commenting at all about it.) The end result of such obvious official
silence(?): Perpetual open-season not only for private citizens, but for private cottage industry organizations as
well, on the so-called but non-extant really, 'Mystery of Amelia Earhart's Disappearance.'
Not to mention, Wikipedia's 2007 'Irene Craigmile
Bolam' page is dead wrong. The people (private citizen 'status quo' mystery
protectors, Alex Mandel of the Ukraine and Bill Prymak chiefs among them) who created it and supplied the information it displays
are aware of the blatant inaccuracies in contains. There is even a wildly false description of how a forensic detective decided
the Irene-Amelia conveyance was incorrect, something simply untrue. In the meantime however, the world public reads the page,
sheepishly accepts it as gospel, and doesn't even realize it's staring at a nice clear photograph of the former Amelia Earhart
as she looked in 1976 featured there. This is how pied-piper led dumb we've collectively grown to be, about Amelia Earhart.
As well, college history professors
steer clear of discussing Amelia Earhart for lack of a definitive 'final reality' to offer their students. True, the wide
variety of responses college history professors give when pressed about what happend to Amelia Earhart in 1937 is astounding
to say the least.
Unfortunately people
have been falling into the same trap of denial about this, ever since retired U. S. Air Force Major Joe Gervais revealed what
he learned about Amelia Earhart. He did so within the contents of the 1970 McGraw-Hill book, Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas. In such a book, a clear photograph Gervais took of the 'Irene Craigmile
Bolam' he met in person in 1965 appears. (The 'Gervais photo' is also reprinted in Irene-Amelia.com) Joe Gervais had acquainted
her at a gathering of well known retired pilots in the Long Island, New York Hamptons. She definitely was the former Amelia
Earhart, and said photograph can still be viewed in as many as thirty thousand copies of the book that made it into circulation
before it was challenged by the former Amelia Earhart (AKA 'Irene Craigmile Bolam') herself. It should be noted here how she
did not participate with the writing of the book, thus enabling her to somewhat justifiably decry it as 'inaccurate history'
from her own perspective. This led to its removal from stores, though not before making the New York Times best seller list
and causing a national news sensation.
For years prior to the book's publication, Gervais and Klaas had tried to get the former Amelia to participate so
she could tell her side of the story. She proved herself allusive and evasive, ultimately declining to help them in their
quest for truth, (leaving Joe Klaas to basically write a book of suppositions.) After the book was published however, she
held a press conference at the Time-Life building in New York. There she appeared alone to denounce Amelia Earhart Lives as "a fantastic story" and "utter nonsense," before offering her
present tense denial of "I am not a mystery woman and I am not Amelia Earhart." The point she knew and trusted in;
to herself anymore she no longer was Amelia Earhart. For ever since the 1940s she had been known as Irene Craigmile..., before
she became 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' after her 1958 marriage to the distinguished British gentleman named Guy Bolam. True, one
of her closest friends, Monsignor James Francis Kelley described how by the 1970s she "barely recognized herself for
who she used to be." No doubt as well, where only she could have realized it beyond anyone else, it would have been all-but
impossible for her to be Amelia Earhart again in the 1970s. Think about it: It was the least of her desires, or of U. S. historical
dictum's desires anymore for that matter. For even where she did survive and change her name, by 1970 the person of Amelia
Earhart needed to stay gone just as she had been since 1937. All around it was much simpler for everybody that way.
Today (as the Irene-Amelia conveyance remains in quasi-limbo still) politicians, United States national installations
and institutions, national news figureheads, even celebrities fear sticking their necks out in support of what Joe Gervais
came to realize all those years ago, about Amelia Earhart. They simply chose or still choose to ignore it, to outright not
believe it, or to view it as an ambiguous undercurrent suggestion similar to an alien abduction story. Yet, if anyone takes
the time needed to diligently address the Irene-Amelia case, he or she soon realizes it is absolutely true... how with a little
help from rhinoplasty and dental work... then some willing cooperation from the Catholic Church, a few trusted friends of
Amelia's (to include her Sister Muriel,) the family of the original Irene Craigmile--who
was a past friend of Amelia Earhart's and the actual person to have somehow turned up missing adjacent to the World War Two
era--yes, through all of this the person formerly known as Amelia Earhart continued to survive until she passed away
in July of 1982, just two weeks shy of what would have been her eighty-fifth birthday. A lavish memorial dinner was subsequently
held for her in Princeton, New Jersey on October 29 that year, a date marking the twentieth anniversary of the passing of
Amelia's Mother, Amy Otis Earhart.
The referred to "trap" people have perpetually fallen into regarding the overall resolve and final public
acceptance of the Irene-Amelia conveyance, has to do with those who became, or are still becoming interested in it, some on
intense levels, trying to PROVE IT RIGHT by way of forensic science. THIS however, IS and ALWAYS HAS BEEN a MISTAKE. The word
"forensic" is loosely defined as "that suitable for argumentation in a court of law." With Irene-Amelia,
no such law case has ever existed or has ever come close to existing, with a final end goal in mind to accurately determine
if the person who was known as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 was or wasn't the former
Amelia Earhart. Thus, as long as people are arguing 'forensics,' so much is the preference of U. S. historical dictum guiding
influences to be able to remark, "people are still arguing about it." Not to mention, further inhibiting any true
forensic finality, according to the Rutgers Medical College where she had donated her remains she was "cremated and buried
in a common, unmarked grave." In the meantime Joe Gervais lived the remainder of his days until his passing in 2005,
professing how such a person he met and photographed in 1965, then heavily researched the background of for many years, could
have been no other person than the non-recognized 'former' Amelia Earhart.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM?
The Irene-Amelia.com website
just tells the story like it is and as it was, as much as has ever been done. As well, in the past five years alone huge strides
were made in the Irene-Amelia conveyance, any further moving it into the realm of 'indisputable.' In other words, it is absolutely
certain anymore; there were three different individual human beings who, historically, had the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam'
identity attributed to them, and one of them, who employed said identity from 1945 to 1982 no doubt was the survived 'former' Amelia Earhart.
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN, WRITE THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WRITE THE ZONTA
ORGANIZATION AND THE NINETY-NINES. URGE THE SURVIVED FAMILIES OF AMELIA EARHART AND THE ORIGINAL IRENE CRAIGMILE, AND URGE
THE U. S. EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO EMBRACE THE NECESSARY MEASURES REQUIRED TO ALLOW ITS OWN CITIZENRY THE FULL VALUE OF ITS HISTORY,
PERTAINING TO THE HIGHLY OBVIOUS AND ALL BUT PUBLICLY ACCEPTED TRUTH ABOUT AMELIA EARHART. THAT IS, HER SURE SURVIVAL IN THE
U. S. AND ABROAD AS A RE-IDENTIFIED PERSON AFTER SHE WAS SAID TO HAVE "VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE" ON JULY 2, 1937.
Thank You,
Tod Swindell & Beyond 37'
[Note:
August 8, 1965 refers to the day Joe Gervais first met the former Amelia Earhart and recognized her for who she used to be.
He also took the above 35MM photograph of her that same day; the one later published in the 1970 book Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas.]
