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Did you know...
...no matter what anyone
reads in books or in newspaper articles, or sees and hears on television, the claim of the Irene Bolam who in 1970 was described
to have been formerly known as Amelia Earhart has never been disproved.
...there has never been an official investigation into
the 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, nor into the suggestion of their post-loss survival.
...in 2006 based
on the identity placements of the 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile, it was conclusively determined no less than
three different women had been attributed to the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' identity.
...throughout her five year law suit (1970
to 1975) against publisher McGraw-Hill and the authors of Amelia Earhart Lives, (Joe Klaas & Joe Gervais) Irene Bolam
never denied herself to have formerly been known as Amelia Earhart.
...towards the end of her lawsuit the court was set to
rule in Irene Bolam's favor against Gervais and Klaas in 1975 with an estimated award in excess of one million dollars, until
Joe Gervais requested she provide her fingerprints as proof of her identity, a request she refused to comply with, thus causing
her to agree to settle the case with a mere ten dollar consideration paid by both sides to each other.
...McGraw-Hill was ordered
to pay Irene Bolam an 'upper five figures sum' for damage to her reputation by allowing its book to describe her late husband,
Guy as her "alleged husband" implying they were possibly living together out of wedlock; and for listing property
she and Guy owned in New Jersey as actually belonging to Floyd Odlum (Jackie Cochran's husband) without providing legitimate
proof, (something Gervais stressed had previously existed in public record form before not existing anymore.)
...how the suit
Irene Bolam levied never mentioned the name 'Amelia Earhart,' rather, she cited false information reasons found in the 1970
book Amelia Earhart Lives likened to those listed above, and McGraw-Hill for otherwise publishing a book that profiled her
post World War Two era existence without her expressed permission and/or authorization.
...the award McGraw-Hill was ordered to pay
Irene Bolam in 1975 had nothing to do with its book having suggested she was the living, 'former' Amelia Earhart.
...high powered
attorney Benedict Ginsberg, who was part of Robert F. Kennedy's legal team during the Jimmy Hoffa trial was obtained by Irene
Bolam to represent her summary judgment lawsuit against McGraw-Hill and Gervais and Klaas.
...Irene Bolam's attorney, Benedict Ginsberg
entered a motion to the court that was upheld, stipulating no questions pertaining to his client's life prior to the year
of 1938 be asked.
...Irene Bolam's husband, Guy Bolam of England who she married in 1958 was described by his survived brother,
John Bolam to have been MI6.
...although in 1970 Irene Bolam characterized herself to the press as "just a New Jersey housewife,"
(a statement that ended up as a long standing joke about what became of Amelia Earhart) to the Associated Press in 2002 her
survived brother in law, John Bolam stated "she was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew
many well placed people and was well traveled," and how John Bolam also included his support of the ongoing Irene-Amelia
forensic analysis he described as "very convincing" as well.
...together the independently wealthy Irene and Guy Bolam
were always on the go in the 1960s with their world travels, and were described as co-CEOs of Radio Luxembourg in Europe for
which they both served as corporate Presidents.
...Irene and Guy Bolam spent much time in Japan where Irene maintained friendships,
particularly in Kobe where she was a member of a kimono club, and in 1982 after her passing, friends who had visited her home
described it as 'museum like' in the way it was decorated with oriental relics.
...in 1965 Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the Pacific
Fleet during World War Two admitted to CBS radio journalist Fred Goerner that it was quietly "known and documented in
Washington," that although withheld from the American public, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan were "picked
up by Japan" after going down in the Marshall Islands in 1937. Nimitz also mentioned his own and other World War Two
military leaders uncertainty on what became of the flying duo after Japan picked them up.
...Irene Bolam was familiar with the same
social circles and hob-nobbed with the same organizations Amelia used to, and she spoke the same variety of foreign languages
Amelia did.
...nine years
after her passing, in 1991 Irene Bolam's long time "close friend and confessor" Monsignor James Francis Kelley of
Rumson, New Jersey, a former President of Seton Hall University and notable catholic church emissary, admitted in a taped
interview to USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.) how his late good friend, Irene Bolam was formerly known as Amelia Earhart.
...Monsignor
Kelley personally referred to the Irene Bolam he knew among close friends he disclosed his awareness of her past identity
to, as "Amelia."
...the 'original' Irene Craigmile (see photo below) who had known Amelia Earhart, gave birth to a son
in 1934 but was no longer publicly seen after doing so, and there exists no evidential record to account for what became of
her.
...the aunt of
the 'seen no more after the 1930s' original Irene Craigmile was a well known attorney in the northeast United States from
the 1920s to the 1950s by the name of Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, and she was also a good friend, Zonta sister, and even a
contract advisor of Amelia's for the Amelia Earhart Luggage line.
...the original Irene Craigmile's aunt, attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley
placed the corporate headquarters of 'Amelia Earhart Luggage' in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey where it remained as a
functioning business under her guise into the 1960s.
...famous Zonta members in Amelia's luggage and clothing line publicist
Nina Price, attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, and Amelia Earhart were all good friends and Zonta sisters.
...Amelia's sister Muriel
who died in 1998 was also a Zonta member, and acknowledged she knew and occasionally conversed with Irene Bolam.
...in the 1950s
Irene Bolam served as an International Relations Chairman for the Zonta organization, as cited for her ability to speak several
languages fluently, while Amelia Earhart also used to speak the same several languages fluently.
...to date the Zonta organization
has refused to cooperate when asked about the past membership profile of Irene Craigmile Bolam, and there exists no published
Zonta information indicating she was a member prior to the end of World War Two.
...today still, Amelia Earhart is considered
the Zonta organization's most famous past member, and an 'Amelia Earhart Zonta Scholarship' is awarded to young aspiring women
every year.
...the woman
the original Irene Craigmile's 1934 born son, Larry Heller identified as the 'mother figure' he recalled from his early childhood
in the late 1930s and early 1940s, AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene' (see photos below) to this day has not been properly identified
for who she truly was or is, or where she came from or where she ended up.
...in 1982 after Irene Bolam's passing, the wife of the
original Irene's son described to the press how she and her husband were not sure about Irene Bolam's true identity, indicating
their suspicion of how she wasn't her husband's real mother after all, even though according to history Irene Bolam was supposed
to have been.
...the famous
1930s pilot Viola Gentry was a good friend of Amelia's in the 1930s, and later a good friend of the Irene Bolam she introduced
Joe Gervais to in 1965, after Gervais asked her to do so at the 'Early Birds of Aviation' gathering of well known retired
pilots Viola had invited him to attend on Long Island. The Early Birds paid he and his family's way to fly across the country
so Gervais could describe his investigative research findings to the group pertaining to Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance.
...from the moment
he first met Irene Bolam in 1965, Joe Gervais said he "knew" who she used to be right away, and he lived the remainder
of his days until his passing in 2005, always insisting the American public had been 'conditioned' by history's 'official
silence' persuasion over the national news media, to promote the mystery of Amelia Earhart only, and to otherwise not pay
favorable attention to the Irene-Amelia conveyance.
...twenty years after Joe Gervais met and photographed Irene Bolam, in 1985 Clint
Eastwood seriously considered the Irene-Amelia conveyance for a major film project, but was said to have ultimately backed
out due to the described 'politcal historical incorrectness' of it all.
...the veteran distinguished, award winning British film
director Ken Annakin who passed away in 2009, paid for and held an option right on the Irene Bolam story starting in 1997
and continuing on for several years, after studying and coming to believe with certainty how the Gervais-Irene Bolam was formerly
known as Amelia Earhart, about which he also wrote a well covered screenplay but could never get a major studio to back it.
...the same deviated
septum evidential 'bumps' were clearly identifiable on the exterior nasal sides of both the Gervais-Irene Bolam and Amelia
Earhart.
...there was
further noticeable deviated septum rhinoplasty the post 1930s Gervais-Irene Bolam appeared to have endured at some point.
...according
to the recent years forensic analysis, (something that had never been done before) from head to toe physically, with handwriting,
voice, and other character traits compared, the full indication became the Gervais-Irene Bolam and Amelia Earhart exhibited
themselves as veritable 'carbon copies' of each another.
...there exists volumes of controversial information about the post 1930s
life of Irene Craigmile Bolam that entirely contradicts the prior to 1940s life profile of the original Irene Craigmile.
...to the 'topic
educated and discernably objective,' it is obvious the Irene Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 was formerly
known as Amelia Earhart, and to the same 'educated and objective' people it is equally obvious such a thing has been diffused
by official history guiding influences to the public since 1970, and the Earhart mystery was actually an invention by default,
attributed to long term official silence.
...how ever since Irene Bolam passed away in 1982 there has existed a growing faction
of bombastically influential individuals whose names came to include Bill Prymak, Carol Linn Dow, Elgen Long, Richard Gillespie,
Cam Warren, David Horner, Alex Mandel, Pat Gaston, and Ron Bright among others, who have vehemently shouted down the Irene-Amelia
truthful conveyance to the press and to the public. It seems to exist as some kind of primary objective of theirs both individually
and cohesively, and some of them were responsible for the false information supplied in 2007 to Wikipedia about Irene Craigmile
Bolam.
...the survived
families of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and the original Irene Craigmile have historically shied away from cooperating with
helping get to the bottom of the Irene-Amelia conveyance.
...nowhere does the Gervais-Irene Bolam appear identified as Irene prior
to the 1940s.
| 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. |
| 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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| Guy and Irene (Craigmile) Bolam, 1965. |
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| Photo taken by Joe Gervais after he met them. |
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| Irene-Amelia |
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| Irene-1965 / Amelia-1933 |
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| Irene-Amelia |
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| Irene-1963 / Amelia-1928, age thirty-one. |
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| Irene-Amelia |
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| Irene-1976 / Amelia-1932 |
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| Irene-Amelia |
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| Irene-1978 / Amelia-1929 |
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| 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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