*Amelia Earhart: Finding the Lost Evidence

[elleng]

1:03 AM on HIST 51, 2 hr 1 min 2017 TV-PG
A study of new clues to the disappearance of famed 1930s aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who went missing during a 1937 flight over the Pacific.

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[Rhiannon12866]

1. I watched it at 9, found it very compelling!

[jberryhill]

4. It took 30 minutes to debunk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan

The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935.

The caption beneath the image makes no mention of the identities of the people in the photograph. It describes maritime activity at the harbour on Jabor in the Jaluit atoll – the headquarters for Japan’s administration of the Marshall Islands between the first world war and its defeat in the second world war.

The caption notes that monthly races between schooners belonging to local tribal leaders and other vessels turned the port into a “bustling spectacle”.

Kota Yamano, a military history blogger who unearthed the Japanese photograph, said it took him just 30 minutes to effectively debunk the documentary’s central claim.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Damn, missed all but last 20 min. Will they re-run it?

[Hieronymus]

3. Very convincing