MyTwist: Married to the Media: Amelia Earhart

Filmmaker Eve Morris takes us on the remarkable journey of Amelia Erhart.

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[elvisfan22]

Your response is the excuse of every major dictator and mass killer who ever lived! "did what they had to do to pave the way" "it was a tough time" "makes them more accomplished" "did it for the common whole" "who else could pull it off?" The exact same phrases for Nero, Hitler, Khan, Stalin etc.. I wonder if a man could get away with saying the same BS that you just said against a woman?? Funny how people can do the same evil they march against with such ease.

[Danue333]

Something went wrong, that is for sure. I don't think those men would have threatened their reputations for the heck of it. These are very grounded men - whats the point of fabrications?

[Danue333]

I also must add that the movie released about her, only favoured what society wanted to hear. I believe it was a FAR cry from truth, especially regarding her death.

[Danue333]

Well, politics always seem to reign - no matter what decade we live in. Must have been frustrating to be in her position - but as a woman, she did what she had to do to pave the way for future possibilites. That was a tough time. I actually think this makes her more accomplished. What she did, she did for herself and the common whole. Who else could pull that off in her generation?

[spitfireJEJ]

She would willingly have partnered Gore Vidal's father Gene. Sadly however he did not reciprocate her feelings for him. According to Gore, she grew to dislike Putnam intensely and certainly he worked her extremely hard and probabaly saw her as a PR machine first and a wife second. Re the conspiracies, Eleanor Roosevelt enquired after the war whether there was anything to them and was assured there was not. Of course she may have been misinformed. Still no hard evidence to support them.

[neilnils]

Agreed. No hard evidence ever surfaced to substantiate Earhart's, Noonan's, or AE's Electra's continued existence beyond the date of July 2, 1937. However it does look to be the case Earhart somehow survived anyway, conveying the likelihood of information being withheld from the public, if only based on the overwhelming preponderance of physical and circumstantial evidence realized by the public. As well, in Washington DC certain "unavailable to the public" documentation no doubt exists.

[StoryboardKing]

The idea of Japanese capturing Amelia has been circulating for years but all governments keep records, especially of the capture of another country's citizens. And there is no documentary evidence that Japan ever held her, Fred Noonan or the Lockheed. Only hearesay.

[StoryboardKing]

I'm curious how closely Swank & Gere play these two. SInce their relationship is so well documented and there is so much video of the pair, it will be challenge to keep the story accurate and not seem biased in favor of one over the other. Viewer comments posted already show there is a polarizing factor in their story.

[MrDroberts24]

she was mean to her husband.

[elvisfan22]

Amelia was a feminist and a bitch of a wife. Puts a damper on her accomplishments.