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 35MM photograph of her that same
day; the one later published in the 1970 book Amelia Earhart
Lives by Joe Klaas.]
