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" I hope I've just got to never make it public." 1938 White House quote from FDR Cabinet member, Henry Morgenthau Jr. on
the known yet withheld circumstances of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance.
Part of a controversial official transcript, the White House never did allow for what it knew about Earhart's disappearance
to become public information. Add to this the 1962 and 1965 U. S. Navy Commander Pillsbury (Ret.) and Admiral
Nimitz' statements made to CBS radio journalist-author Fred Goerner; how the real Earhart post-loss story would "stagger
the imagination" (Pillsbury, 62') and how it was long ago quietly known and documented in Washignton (Nimitz, 65') how
Earhart and Noonan made it to the "Marshall Islands" and were "picked up" there under the auspice of Japan,
with their individual dispositions becoming unclear from that point on. The White House remained silent about Earhart ever
since.
"Foudray also thinks Gervais' and Swindell's research [on Amelia Earhart's disappearance] is 'just the tip
of the iceberg.'" Excerpt from an interview with Lou Foudray
of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, on the investigative research of Joe Gervais and Tod Swindell. From a Topeka Capital-Journal article by Jan Biles "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." Irene's
brother-in-law John Bolam refers to the seven year Swindell / Beyond 37' forensic analysis. From an Associated Press
article by Ron Staton. [Note: See various forensic comparison samples below. For more comparisons navigate the page links
on the left.] "National
Geographic is well aware of Mr. Swindell's recent forensic discovery of more than one person having used the same Irene Craigmile
Bolam identity. They were to display it in their new TV special about Amelia Earhart. I believe they decided against it to
avoid the controversy it would have caused. Earhart survived, there's no doubt about this anymore." National Geographic
on-camera Earhart disappearance expert, Colonel Rollin C. Reineck, USAF (Ret.), 2007. [See different Irenes farther down.] [2009: Check Out The Page Links On The Left, To Include Information About The
Upcoming Hilary Swank, Fox-Searchlight 'Amelia Earhart' Feature Film. Also; new video on YouTube: Type Search it on YouTube
at "KMBC's Earhart Birthplace." Be careful about Richard Gillespie's and Alex Mandel's false accounts of the Irene-Amelia
(Irene Craigmile Bolam) story, as seen in Amelia's and Irene's Wikipedia pages. The two men are 'cottage industry' individuals,
who falsely claim the Irene-Amelia truth was disproved in 2006. Just know, it wasn't. See the Wikipedia link here for more
info.]
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"She
certainly knew flying. She knew everything there was to know about Japan." 1982 New Jersey News Tribune quote
from Irene's friend, John Malloy of Rumson, New Jersey. Mr. Malloy expressed his opinion three months after Irene's passing.
He and other survived friends of the 1945-1982 identiied Irene Craigmile Bolam viewed the issue of her
true past identity as suspect. [Note: The images above mark one comparison among others displayed
in Irene-Amelia.com The samples first appeared in the Swindell / Beyond 37' comprehensive forensic analysis. People are just
now learning how the study discovered and revealed the new realized controversy of more than one person having shared the
same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' identity. Before the 1940s, the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile Bolam appears nowhere in photographs
identified as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' Ultimately, it is now recognizable
how three different human beings were attributed to the same 'Irene' identity. Only one of course, who Amelia had known in
the 1930s was the 'original' Irene.] In recent years due to Beyond 37's 'Irene Craigmile shared identity discovery' and its 'head to toe
congruence realization of the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile compared to Amelia Earhart', it has become easier for the public
to recognize the truth. Indeed, it is now certain Amelia Earhart for her own good
reasons, optioned out of continuing her life as a world famous person some time after she was declared 'missing' in 1937. Until recent years the public had been led by media-dominating 'theorists' over the cliff
of non-belief about it. The now easy-to-recognize forensic reality is destined
to prevail of course, amid historical dictum hand-washing. Ultimately by 2006, Beyond 37' had obliged financial consideration
to the 1934 born Son of the original Irene Craigmile, Mr. Larry Heller of
New York (and his New York legal firm of Cowan, Liebowitz, and Latman) for the right to option Mr. Heller's version of his
Mother's life story. Beyond 37's Tod Swindell had been in touch with Mr. Heller during the previous years, and was surprised
to learn some of the circumstances of his upbringing, to include Mr. Heller having grown up as a young child not realizing
how different women had served as his singular 'Mother' figure. (See the images below and in the Comparison page links to the left.) Mr. Heller also acknowledged how he held no photos of his Mother pre-dating
the year of 1947. * * *
"I find it curious how the national media circuit is still encouraged to stay neutral on the Earhart controversy,
and how both the Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society admit they have never been permitted to launch
their own investigations, or support any conclusions. In fact, to this day there has never been an official investigation.
Instead, in recent decades all were conditioned to consider innocent castaway stories, obscure jungle ditchings, or the simple
crashed and sank version of Earhart's loss. The truth is obviously quite different. People
forget, in 1965 Admiral Chester Nimitz admitted Japan's non-publicized rescue of Amelia Earhart in the Marshall Islands was
quietly documented in Washington." Tod Swindell, 2009
TRY NOT TO FEAR THE IRENE-AMELIA TRUTH, OR TO READILY
ACCEPT THE FULMINATIONS OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WHO LOUDLY DECRY IT, AS THEY DIVERT PUBLIC OPINION OF AMELIA EARHART IN OTHER
DIRECTIONS THROUGH NATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS. INSTEAD, RECOGNIZE THE SILENT REGARD TOWARDS AMELIA EARHART THAT HAS LONG BEEN
EXHIBITED BY THE FAMILIES OF AMELIA AND IRENE, AND OF COURSE BY JAPAN, ENGLAND,
AND THE UNITED STATES. FOR SO MUCH IS AKIN TO 'OFFICIAL SILENCE,' WHERE TRUTH ALONE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS. THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
Directly below in the top row, see the younger
(1940s) and older (1982) photo images of the other Irene Craigmile (Bolam)
identified by her Son. This 'Irene' is different than the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile (Bolam) displayed in the bottom row. In
2004 it was indicated how the 'Irene' shown in the top row was still living. As it appears certain only the 1945-1982 Irene
died in July of 1982, and where the Irene shown in the top row's estimated birth year was 1924, so much was possible where
she would have turned eighty years old in 2004. However, neither this woman nor the 1945-1982 identified Irene was the original
Irene Craigmile (Bolam.) The original Irene, who Amelia had known in the 1930s, appears nowhere in photographs after the 1930s.
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Is the 'other' Irene shown in the top row still
living today? If so what is/was her true identity(?) and where is she? It appears by 1945 she was no longer living with the
original Irene Craigmile's family in New Jersey. It is considered how she relocated overseas to Scotland during that time. Since 2002 it has become recognized information how from
the mid-1940s until her death in 1982, only the 1945-1982 Irene who displayed a haunting
congruence to Amelia Earhart was publicly identified as Irene Craigmile Bolam. [Her last name became 'Bolam' in 1958
after her marriage to the British (MI6 operative) Guy Bolam.] The photo image of the 'Irene' displayed in the top row appears
nowhere in the photo history of Irene Craigmile Bolam's person from the mid-1940s until 1982. Finally in 1982, courtesy of
her own Son, her older image shown top-right, re-appeared in Irene Bolam's newspaper obituary. See farther down and the comparison
page links for more comparison samples. In the complete forensic analysis, the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam
is shown matching Earhart's height, arm lengths, hands, eyes, neck, shoulders, feet, ankles, cranium, hairline, etc., ...basically
everything, to even further include handwriting characteristics and voice trait patterns. Even though 'official history' and
the families of both Amelia and Irene have long tried to steer people away from accepting such a realistic equation, there
is virtually no doubt anymore..., the woman who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965, then spent years investigating the
background of, truly was the person formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.' It is now clear how such a contrived dupe was purposefully
accomplished, and it was protected by both 'official' and family silence, and obfuscation.
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Rollin Reineck: We believe Jackie Cochran was sent to Japan to help bring
Amelia home. Are you aware of that?
Monsignor Kelley: Yes, I was involved with that.
[The above exchange is excerpted from a 1991 recorded conversation between former Seton Hall University President,
Monsignor James Francis Kelley and retired USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck. After Irene-Amelia died in 1982, Monsignor Kelley
was quoted by the press after being asked about the possibility of his friend, Irene's past dual identity. Kelley replied,
"I could not state my feelings. Doing so would violate everything I learned in the confessional." See more info
in the page links.]
On the powerless media: "Numerous investigations [into Earhart's disappearance] foundered on official silence in Tokyo and Washington." Bender & Altschull's The Chosen Instrument,
Simon & Schuster *See the Home Page under the following text*
This Website focuses on the most controversial yet, 'less recalled' history of Amelia Earhart. It deals with a recently completed long term academic study of Amelia's 1937 disappearance. Here and in the various links to the left, viewers can see and read for the first time the most
up to date 'forensic argument analysis' of the strange circumstances
surrounding Amelia's loss. As for the above quotes and how they relate to Amelia
Earhart's disappearance, the official 1938 White House transcript featuring
comments made by FDR Presidential Cabinet member, Henry Morgenthau Jr. not only shows him saying "I hope I've just
got to never make it public," but he also mentioned "I know how Amelia Earhart absolutely disregarded all orders,"
and how if even just one person from the public realm was made privy to the
withheld information about Amelia Earhart's loss, the White House would have no choice but to make it public for all,
(something it never did do) so he refused to disclose what the White House knew. At the time Morgenthau, a long time FDR right
hand man who oversaw his Secret Service division, was trying hard not to elaborate on the true circumstances of Earhart's
disappearance while in the presence of others, as he responded to an unexpected request for information about it from First
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The 'Morgenthau transcript' was not discovered until decades after it was generated. When it was though,
after U. S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz' 1965 admission to CBS Radio Journalist, Fred Goerner how it was "known and documented in Washington" that "Earhart and
her navigator did go down in the Marshall Islands and were picked up by the Japanese" in 1937, it refueled the
contested issue over what really became of Amelia Earhart. Not to mention, it confirmed how the White House had all along
known certain information about the famous pilot's so-called 'disappearance' the American public did not know,
to include the hidden reality of her survival. Since 1970 the person of Irene Craigmile Bolam has remained a less reported on yet, 'heated'
subject of debate among Earhart research scholars. Most ended up trying to dismiss it out of hand, but it still refused to
go away. See and learn here, how in recent years and regardless of the way official U. S. historical dictum record keepers
try to avoid dealing with the topic, it is plain as day anymore how Amelia Earhart, at some point during the World War Two
era, surely did become one of three individuals who employed the same identity of 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'
Welcome
to Irene-Amelia.Com, The
Website of Beyond 37'
Foreword: As official silence remained
in effect, in 1987 few Americans took notice of the five-part Republic of the Marshall Islands 50th anniversary postal stamp
series, (1937-1987) commemorating the Japanese Naval Authority's rescue of Earhart and Noonan at Mili Atoll of the southern
Marshalls. Nor did they later notice, the 2002 Associated Press article featuring the Marshall Islands U. N.
Ambassador, Alfred Cappelle's statements about Amelia; how she "definitely" ended up in the Marshalls and so
much had always been viewed as "common knowledge" in his own country. Famous Amelia Earhart researcher, Joe Gervais
would later pontificate on how the inability of the American public to accept such a truth, was due not only to 'official
silence' and 'misinformation' on the matter; but also to American pride and prejudice, or, the reluctance of United
States citzens to accept being enlightened about their own history by people from a foreign land.
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Home Page Introduction:
Beyond 37', AKA 'The
World War Two Veterans Coalition of Researchers; The Earhart-Craigmile Chapter' was formed in 2001. The goal of
Beyond 37' has always been to enlighten the Amelia Earhart curious. Within the context of this site, Amelia's
past less-recalled involvement with Irene Craigmile's prominent O'Crowley
family of New Jersey is thoroughly examined. Who was Irene Craigmile? She
was once a fledgling pilot and friend of Amelia Earhart's in the 1930s, although somehow by the 1940s, Irene had as well
become a missing person. This website sheds new light on the controversial subject matter of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance,
and how in 1970 a different woman known as "Irene Craigmile Bolam" made national news headlines when McGraw-Hill
published the book, Amelia Earhart Lives. The new
Irene's denial and impressive support afforded her by important individuals, led news editors to determine the book was
likely a hoax-inspired account, so their news reporters never seriously investigated it. Was there a real controversy? Of
course there was. McGraw-Hill never would have wasted its time publishing the book had there not been. True, the implicated
Irene called the book "a fantastic story" and "utter nonsense," and to her enough of it seemed to be.
No matter, the chapter about how Joe Gervais came to meet her in 1965, and its inclusion of the photograph he took of her
the day he did marked an important (hidden) part of American history. Journey into what you never knew about this incredible
story. There's a lot to consider here so take your time. Beyond the Forensic
Comparison Samples and other links, be sure to see the Amelia at the microphone
photo link on the right. Plus recall how Amelia was a pacifist, and even though as Irene she tried to downplay herself as
a mere "New Jersey housewife" in 1970 after she was found out, she was actually the farthest thing from that. In
the 1960s and 70s she constantly traveled the world and had many friends in high places. She was also the corporation President
of Radio Luxembourg in Europe in the 1970s. Legally, as Irene Craigmile Bolam, the former Amelia Earhart died in 1982.
From Websters:
forensic 1. of, characteristics
of, or suitable for a law court, public debate, or formal argumentation. science 1. the state or fact of knowing; knowledge.
2. systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on to determine the nature or principles
of what is being studied.
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Indifference was the displayed regard towards various World War Two veterans who researched the Earhart story. Some had
investigated Earhart's disappearance since the early 1960s. Such a regard was especially doled out to a few
regaled war heroes, after they tried to reveal a learned incontrovertible truth about the Amelia Earhart controversy, and
how Amelia's past acquaintance, 'Irene Craigmile' and her extended family fit into it. The vets basically figured it out,
yet they remained all but 'officially' ignored when they raised their voices, and they were summarily dismissed history-wise
by protective, and even at times somewhat divisive individuals. The opposition culminated, where the so called 'mystery' came
to exist the way it was designed to.
The Amelia Earhart Mystery Exists Because It's Supposed To Exist,
Not Because It Really Does Exist. The Amelia Earhart Society's Bill Prymak, The TIGHAR Organization's Richard Gillespie,
And Nauticos' Elgen Long Are The Three 'Media-Touted' Guiding Influences Who Keep The American Public Dumbed Down
On The Matter, Instead Of Steering It Towards Amelia's Available True-Story Facts. This Website Is Just The Start Of The
Forensic Truth Reveal Pertaining To The Last Years Of Amelia's Life As Amelia Earhart. It Also Examines The Hidden Support
Mechanism That Remained Legion With Amelia After She Became Someone Else. Said Mechanism Is Why The Historical Dictum Influences
Of Three Countries And The Catholic Church, Dating Back To The World War Two Era, Came To Agree How The Name "Amelia
Earhart " Would Only Be Associated With A Years Ago World-Famous Person Who Tragically Died In 1937, According To Their
Evermore Commonly Expressed Viewpoints.
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To
know the the full story of Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam, is to realize a truth from American history
that remains untold. Some have long been aware of it ...while below is a morph of two photos taken over four decades
apart from each other. To look beyond the Irene Craigmile Bolam seen here, check out opposite page 119 in Amelia's
1932 published book, The Fun Of It.
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Below Are A Few October of 1982 Sample Newspaper Quotes About Irene Craigmile Bolam, Who
Had Passed Away Just A Few Months Earlier:
"Some of Irene Bolam's closest friends equivocate
to this day about the possibility that she may have been Amelia Earhart."
"Peter Busatti, a sports promoter
who had known Mrs. Bolam for many years, said he often teased her about the persistent rumor that she was Miss Earhart."
"At a Wings Club event in Washington, Busatti mentioned how Admirals and Generals seemed to know her." "Once when Busatti asked Mrs. Bolam directly, [if she was the former Amelia Earhart] she replied ""When
I die, you'll find out."" He also mentioned, ""She had a lot of Japanese artifacts in her home. I'd
kid her about that.""
"John Malloy of Rumson said he met Mrs. Bolam at a golf tournament.
""I've been back and forth,"" he admits in discussing conjecture that she was really Amelia Earhart,
""One minute I think yes, and the next no. She certainly knew flying. She knew everything there was to know about
Japan,"" he said."
NOTE: The above quotes were excerpted from the 1982 Woodbridge New
Jersey News Tribune 'investigative series.' The series
addressed the question of Irene's real identity three months after her passing. Her true past had remained a highly debated
subject matter since 1970, even after she offered her present tense denial of "I am not Amelia Earhart." Yet, she
stopped being her former self after she changed her name to 'Irene' during the WWII era. Therefore, technically she
did not lie to the public. (See the Miscellaneous link for more quotes pulled from the
series.) After two weeks of teasing its readers with said 'identity' question, the 82' series employed forgeries
to steer the public into falsely concluding only one Irene Craigmile Bolam ever existed... when in fact there had been three...
with one of them ascertainable as the former Amelia Earhart. Here, recall the character of 'Winston' from George Orwell's
1984 who worked for his government's Ministry of Truth. His job was to
adjust past newspaper stories to make them align with 'Big Brother's' preferred viewpoint. George Orwell proved
himself prophetic. For in 1982 a U. S. newspaper was engaged to alter facts
to adjust public thinking, into accepting the preferred U. S. history viewpoint of the Irene-Amelia topic. But the Irene-Amelia
truth refused to go away. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 2000's the subject of Irene's true past identity
continued to be debated by Earhart investigators and scholars. As mentioned the most recent attempt to put it to rest came
via the recently airing National Geographic Amelia Earhart special. Although it was aware of such controversial story advances,
the National Geographic Channel chose not to address both the discovery of the 1982 fraud-lined Tribune series,
and the 2002 forensic realization of more than one Irene Craigmile having shared the same identity. Instead, it engaged the
case-uninformed opinion of a police forensic detective, who shied away from favoring
the haunting similarity displayed by the 1945-1982 identified Irene when compared to Amelia. This is a good example of the
way national media outlets are sometimes made to serve a favored U. S. historical viewpoint, even if it isn't the truth.
Notice too, how no national news outlet has ever seriously addressed the Irene-Amelia
controversy. They occasionally mention it off-hand, but that's about it.
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Of the two different younger and older looking Irene Craigmiles shown above, neither
one was the original. The original Irene's maiden name was Irene O'Crowley. Her first husband, Charles Craigmile
died tragically in 1931. In October of 1932 her 'pals,' the two well known pilots Viola Gentry and Amelia Earhart...
helped introduce their recently widowed friend, Irene to flying planes on Long Island. In mid-1933 Irene fell for one of her
pilot instructors, Alvin Heller and by early 1934 they were married with a child. But the trail of the original Irene Craigmile
(Heller, later annulled) grows cold after that point. There is no doubt it was the original Irene Craigmile who somehow vanished
forever long ago, and the former Amelia Earhart went on to later use her identity, and also serve as a Mother figure to the
original Irene's survived Son. In 2006 when he was shown the 1945 Zonta photo of Irene Craigmile, her Son said he'd
never seen it before. He also could offer no photos showing his Mother pre-dating 1945, although he guesstimated the younger
version of the 'family identified' Irene Craigmile shown him to be from the early 1940s, when he was a young boy of
six to eight years old. He surely knew her as he appeared to have been left in her charge a lot as he grew up. Yet neither
Irene shown here was his true birth Mother, and by the mid-1940s he'd been sent to a boarding school. The earliest photo
he holds of his 'mother' from his junior high graduation in the late 1940s shows him standing between Irene-Amelia
and his Father, Al Heller who he'd spent very little time with as a young boy. Be it known, between the 'family identified'
Irene photo, and the appearance of the older photo version of her in the 1982 Tribune, no other photos of that specific Irene
appear. Rather, from 1945 to 1982 only photos of Irene-Amelia appear in the photo history of Irene's person during said
time frame. Her Son (a very private man, and a former Pan Am Pilot) was debriefed on the newly learned information in 2006,
and he appeared reticent after siding with the history of his Mother as one person. Historically until 2006, apparently he
never felt so compelled to deal with the controversial issue of his 'Mother's' life story in public, maybe with
one exception; he and his wife's participation in the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune
investigative series, that once again 'reviewed' the Irene-Amelia controversy. Consider the following 1982 news article
excerpt about Irene's Son's viewpoint: "Mrs. Bolam's only child, Clarence 'Larry' Heller of
Huntington Bay, L.I., has said he doesn't want to pursue the fingerprints or identity question any further." "Heller
wrote to the Rutgers Medical School [where Irene had donated her body] shortly after Mrs. Bolam's death requesting her
fingerprints. The school turned him down. Mr. Heller told the News Tribune that he has decided to let the matter rest. "I'm
not interested in digging around," he said. "I would just as soon let it hang as a mystery ...let it remain an unsolved
mystery," he said."' A bit curious here, how through such words Irene's Son seemed to prefer leaving the
issue of his Mother's true identity, 'a mystery.'
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New Jersey Tribune link. The plural Irenes 'forensic discovery'
was initialized on 11/12/02. The physical congruence realization of the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam when
compared to Amelia Earhart, actually commenced back in 1997. |
After calling it 'solid science' and initially agreeing to, the National Geographic Channel
refused to display or address the plural Irenes discovery in the 2006 Earhart special it still airs now and then. |
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The 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune 'investigative news article series' that
examined the question of Amelia Earhart's survival as Irene Craigmile Bolam, (three months after Irene died) featured
photo forgeries used to meld plural individuals into one. The series is now regarded as a past yellow-journalism
attempt, meant to steer people away from the truth of AE's post-1930s existence as another person.
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The families of past friends Amelia and Irene, would not openly endorse nor positively address the Irene-Amelia
conveyance after it was first learned of in 1965. Still, the controversy proved itself worthy of serious consideration then,
and in recent years it has even more-so. Not to mention from the 1950s on Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Irene-Amelia were Zonta
Sister friends.
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began in 1965. The forensic argument still supporting it today stems from forty years of in depth research and a long
term forensic analysis.
- Where the 1945 to 1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam (again,
more than one used that same identity) displayed such a haunting head to toe physical congruence to Amelia Earhart, she
is hence referred to as 'Irene-Amelia.'
- The controversy still exists today
because it has never been authoritatively disproved. People have (sometimes strongly) claimed it isn't true, but outright
disproving it has never been done. This is why it has remained a controversy for over forty years.
- John Burk, former Publisher of the now defunct Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune was a good
friend of Irene-Amelia's. Burk is considered to have been instrumental in the contrivance of the October of 1982
"Was She or Wasn't She Amelia Earhart(?)" investigative newspaper series that followed Irene-Amelia's Summer
of 1982 passing.
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| Her son's estimated date: 'Early 1940s' |
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It's true, since 2003 those who influence national news outlets on all Earhart mystery updates, have closed a
blind eye to the forensic analysis that recognized both the 1945-1982 ID'd Irene
Craigmile and the 'family ID'd' Irene Craigmile as two
different individuals. As well, the
tear ducts and eye-rims, the face print, and the head to toe body of the 1945-1982 ID'd 'Irene Craigmile' match
Amelia's, and the 'family identified' Irene Craigmile's do
not. Not to mention handwriting and voice comparisons aligned as well. It was also easy to determine how the Family Identified Irene and the '1945-1982'
Irene shown here were not the same person. Their brow ridges, noses, face dimples, hair lines, and especially their tear duct
and eye-rim comparisons did prove impossible to align. And the 'Family Identified' Irene also looked noticeably younger
than the '1945- 1982' Irene. [Again, observe in the Forensic Comparison
links how the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile's features align with congruence to Amelia's.] Close examination also reveals
the engagement of certain augmentations to help obscure her recognizable visage of the 1930s. (These changes were researched
and are addressed further in the site.) National Geographic did film the 'Family Identified' Irene... and called the
science 'solid' that had separated the two. Yet to avoid controversy, they ultimately chose not to address or display
images of the 'Family Identified Irene' in its recent TV special. One might also notice what appears to be a slight
familial looking similarity found in the two 'age generation separated' Irenes. Read on to learn why.
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Please See The Forensic Comparison Samples Link, And The Wikipedia Explanatory Link.
In Washington DC at the Smithsonian Institute, there's a large elephant by the name of "Irene" squatting
in the middle of the Amelia Earhart controversy. The Smithsonian Institute placed a lampshade on its head and tells the curious,
'It's nothing... It's just an old lamp.... Don't pay any attention
to it.' * * * On truth distortion and alternative truths, where only one truth exists yet so
many possibilities are offered: "The entertainment of the alternative in its
highest development, becomes the entertainment of the ideal." A. N. Whitehead, 1937 In a way, over
time Amelia Earhart's truth was bowled over by quite a variety of shined and polished theories. None of them ever came close
to resembling the real truth though, and so much left the public to accept the 'ideal' of Amelia Earhart's fate existing as
'an everlasting mystery.' One of Whitehead's 1937 concepts of 'History' reads: "History is the record of the expression of feelings peculiar to humanity." Considering
how famous fliers Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry were once good friends, in 1965 Joe Gervais found it peculiar if not a bit
odd, how Viola Gentry had another good friend who looked like a carbon copy of an 'older' Amelia Earhart. It would not be
until the 'multiple Irenes discovery' was made decades later, World War Two hero Joe Gervais would finally be vindicated for
what he previously recognized.
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The Hypothetical 1937 Amelia Earhart Flight-End 'Quiz-Challenge': Where
was Amelia Earhart the last time she laid eyes on her Lockheed Electra airplane?
A. On or near to land… (an island or atoll, etc.)
B. Still airborne…
C. Sinking beneath the ocean surface
with it after ditching on the water… D. Adrift
in a raft watching it sink...
E.
Watching it ablaze after a fiery wreck…
F. Watching it
get hoisted onto a Japanese hauling ship... G. Watching it fade away from aboard a Japanese fishing
boat... H. Looking back at it while hiking down from a mountain jungle...
I.
At a Japanese Naval Authority base in the pacific…
J.
On a Japanese Imperial Mandate Island, or in Japan…
K.
In the United States…
L. Somewhere else…
All of these theorized 'Earhart flight endings' have been seriosuly
discussed and/or existed in the realm of possibilities over time. Of course, unless one automatically accepts “C”
as the answer (the crashed and sank theory) it's noticeable how Amelia’s final disposition would otherwise remain 'unknown.'
The rogue idea introduced by Joe Gervais in the 1960s basically went like this: ‘Joe Gervais did
not know how it got there, all he knew was with certainty he believed he recognized the survived body of Amelia Earhart in
1965, in the name-changed form of the Irene Craigmile Bolam he met at a gathering of well known ‘senior citizen’
retired pilots. Viola Gentry, one of Amelia’s past New York pilot-friends was also good friends with the same Irene
Bolam and her British husband, Guy Bolam. When Joe Gervais met Irene and Guy, indeed it was Viola Gentry who introduced them
to each other.
On the surface, after the modern forensic analysis began in 1997 it finally did begin to
appear odd how Viola Gentry, a charter Ninety-Nines’s women’s flying club member with Amelia Earhart, (Amelia
served as the Ninety-Nine’s first president starting in 1929) yes it seemed odd how Viola had two friends who matched
so well in different eras of photographs. It was a fine coincidence how Viola’s 1960s friend, Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam
aligned so well head to toe in photographs with Viola‘s long gone friend, Amelia Earhart. At least, until 2002 anyway,
when it was discovered and revealed to the public, how more than one person had been identifiied as the same Irene Craigmile
Bolam. By 2006 it was also certain, how no photos displaying the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais encountered in 1965
showed the same 'Irene identified' physical human being prior to the mid-1940s. In other words, the person named ’Irene
Craigmile Bolam’ who Joe Gervais met in 1965, seemed to have emerged from nowhere into existence sometime in the 1940s,
according to the photographic record of Irene Craigmile Bolam's person. In the meantime two other women, the original Irene
Craigmile and a woman who still remains forensically non-identified to this day, appear in the pre-1940s photo history record
of Irene Craigmile (Bolam.) This later realization signaled a remarkable discovery made in the long held Gervais claim-dispute.
Plus, it finally backed former Seton Hall University President, Monsignor James Francis Kelley’s 1991 admission...,
of his good friend ‘Irene’ having formerly been known as Amelia Earhart. Otherwise on paper, if one ignores the
multiple Irenes discovery, everything else appears fairly linear as far as Irene's life story goes. Such had been the arrangement,
evidently.
Of course there existed a list of individuals who for a long time, wished not to clue the the
public in on such a forensic truth about Earhart's personal history. History declared Amelia 'dead' two years after she turned
up missing, and apparently she was always to remain that way. So naturally Earhart’s family existed foremost on such
a list, the original Irene’s still living Son was against exploiting the truth as well, and apparently the Smithsonian,
the National Geographic Society, the Amelia Earhart Society, TIGHAR, Nauticos, and ostensibly the forever silent about it
U. S. government all but bullied the media circuit over time, to pay attention to other ideas about Amelia Earhart’s
ending. Thus, for years they all collectively steered the public away from what has
now grown to become a rather obvious forensic truth to behold.
It is also a shame how media stories focused
on the negatives of Earhart’s survival only; per the 'Earhart may have survived awhile but she sure must have died somehow’
routine. It was hardly ever asked: What if she survived and
didn’t die? It’s true, Amelia Earhart and/or Fred Noonan survival stories all sell their
final demises (or 'deaths') in some sure way. The Nikumororo story offered by TIGHAR ends with Earhart and Noonan’s
death by starvation and/or dehydration. The Amelia Earhart Society as well might imply how Amelia Earhart’s death took
place in the Marshall Islands or on Saipan, although philosophically it rejects all theories at the same time, as confusing
as that sounds. Four decades ago, in 1966 the media first exploited the negative offerings of CBS radio journalist, Fred Goerner
and continued to do so through Buddy Brennan‘s offering from the late 1980s. They both described Amelia Earhart having
been on some kind of spy mission before being caught and either executed by Japanese soldiers, or dying of some kind of sickness
while in Japan’s custody. The idea of Amelia Earhart remaining basically ‘ok’ the entire time after she
turned up missing, to eventually change her name and return to the U. S. was never seriously welcomed into the realm of possibilities.
Earhart Family friend, Elgen Long’s Nauticos group always insisted Earhart, Noonan, and their plane made it to the deep
bottom of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere northwest of Howland Island. And in most people's steered perception of the matter,
that’s where Amelia Earhart ended up. * * *
It is evident how official U.
S. historians were conditioned over time to steer both the media and the public away from seriously investigating the Irene-Amelia
story. Until the late 1990s they most often succeeded in doing just that, and they still would be succeeding had it not been
realized by a select few scholars, how Earhart's 'survival' was at
long last a recognizable forensic true-hood. So many letters had repeatedly been written to the White House, to the Smithsonian
Institute, and even to the National Geographic Society about the Earhart case over the years, yet they were all systematically
answered with polite and non-informative 'sorry, can't help you there' replies.
Once again, as Bender and Altschull wrote in their 1982 Pan Am Airways history book, The Chosen Instrument; "Numerous investigations foundered on official
silence in Tokyo and Washington, leaving the fate of Amelia Earhart an everlasting mystery." Of course,
one could always turn to the 1965 words of Admiral Chester Nimitz, who stated it was long "known and documented in Washington"
as non-public information, how Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were actually picked up by Japan after they were said to have
'vanished' in 1937, and they had continued to exist henceforth under Japan's auspice.
No matter. In the Conclusion
link the reader will perhaps realize, how upper-crust Freemason Society members have so strongly influenced the public's perception
of U. S. history over the years, even through such notable organizations as the Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic
Society. So where even the History Channel conveys how nine past United States Presidents were Freemasons, the
following list of WWII era Freemason members is also very impressive when one ponders the true Amelia Earhart saga, and is
justifiably deemed worthy of serious consideration. Such a WWII era list of Freemason members (often referred to as 'a secret society
of upper echelon, highly intelligent, and highly influential
individuals') included General Douglas MacArthur, President Harry Truman, General
Jimmy Doolittle, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, WWII national
radio reporter Lowell Thomas, WWII Philippines imprisoned General Jonathan Wainwright, cowboy entertainer Will Rogers (a friend
of Amelia's who died in a 1935 plane crash,) and even a post-WWII friend of Irene-Amelia's, Senator Barry Goldwater... yes,
all were past Freemason Society members. Once strongly challenged
by the Papacy (Catholicism) dating back hundreds of years ago,
Freemasonry still exists today. Masonic societies are always applauded for their benevolent doings, and they are still quietly
influential towards the way history should go down
and be recorded. Interestingly enough, when
the late 1990s to early 2000s forensic and investigative research advancements in the Irene-Amelia case became known, a 'back
away and observe' attitude was identifiable. But the (Masonic) control factor still seemed to ominously dominate from within.
The various 'private citizens' who have long steered the United States national media sway over the Amelia Earhart controversy,
if not Masonic themselves have no doubt been subjugated by such an influence. For instance, four years after the 2002 'shared
identity discovery' was made, right after it was affirmed by the Son of the original Irene Craigmile in April of 2006, within
a few months of it becoming known information the National Geographic Society set out to take command of such a revelation
in the eyes of the public. As mentioned, the original Irene's
Son, Mr. Larry Heller identified the two entirely different 'Irene Craigmile' individuals prevalently shown in this website
to have been his one in the same Mother figure, with the 1945-1982 identified one
[Irene-Amelia] matching the profile of Amelia Earhart in a haunting congruence. National Geographic assumed control of the situation by molding an entire 'Unsolved History' TV episode around
the Irene-Amelia topic. With equal measure, it then carefully took the Irene-Amelia controversy and mixed it in with the outdated,
yet more traditionally publicized Amelia Earhart disappearance theories, avoiding the new dilemma caused by the original Irene's
Son by not even bringing it up. Basically, it revisited the old 'Irene Bolam' story without truly updating it. Not to forget, the National Geographic Channel's show title, 'Unsolved History' is the truest indicator of its locked-in approach to the topic. They are not about to
enlighten a national TV audience in any truth-conversion way. No doubt the long debated Earhart disappearance subject matter
is too controversial of a historical topic, and too concretely set in the American public mindset as 'a mystery' for National Geographic and/or the Smithsonian Institute, to suddenly start admitting how a different
Amelia Earhart disappearance story version, was known all along by some of its key benefactors. Yet there is always hope. Perhaps President Barack Obama with his 'new winds
for change' and 'truthful to the people' updates, will instigate a permissive outcropping that allows for some responsible
clueing-in of American citizens, as pertains to some of its own true history value. Amelia Earhart was always a wonderful
person, even after she changed her name to Irene during the World War Two era. No one knows why she did such a thing, but
her reasons must have been good ones. The hidden historical fact remains, she did to it, and so much is all that is wholesomely
known thus far in a true forensic sense. Of course the Smithsonian Institute and National Geographic Society are still trying
to get people to avoid seriously considering such a truth, and no doubt they always will, until the United States Executive
Branch orders them not to, anymore.
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Productions e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com. The Beyond 37' film projects,
book, and website 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 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 realities learned by Beyond 37's modern Forensic Analysis. Although
a few uncredited portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, more samples are better displayed in this website.
[Beyond 37' is part of the Tod Evan Company in L. A., Tod Swindell-Owner] Irene-Amelia.com totals
to date since being posted last year: 162,421 world-wide hits; 56,874 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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