00:00American Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas.
00:12Amelia was a rambunctious child, though her mother wanted her to be a proper lady instead of a tomboy.
00:18I can see Amelia growing up and seeing her mother juggling an alcoholic husband, not very much money.
00:25And I think throughout her life, Amelia tried to avoid any kind of conventional female life.
00:32After a plane ride at an air show, she decided she would learn to fly.
00:37In 1928, she was invited to be the first female to fly across the Atlantic, but only as a passenger.
00:44With pilot Bill Stultz and mechanic Louis E. Gordon, Earhart landed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 1928.
00:52Amelia was an instant sensation.
00:56I think she was somewhat embarrassed by the attention she got, because as she knew, she had done nothing on this flight.
01:03She was just a passenger. She kept the log, but she really referred to herself as a sack of potatoes.
01:09After the flight, promoter George P. Putnam began managing Amelia's career.
01:14It's very difficult to describe G.P. Putnam. He was flamboyant. He was handsome. He could be charming.
01:23When he lost his temper, his language was incredibly evil.
01:28Putnam began heavily promoting Earhart's career with lecture tours and product endorsements.
01:33People criticized G.P. for pushing Amelia too hard.
01:39Number one, I think she was a willing participant in this.
01:42And number two, she really had to do it.
01:44That was the way that you would raise the money for these flights.
01:48Though their relationship started out strictly professional, they would eventually marry in 1931.
01:53After several more successful flights, including a solo trip across the Atlantic, Earhart decided to fly around the world.
02:01Amelia and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Oakland, California on June 1st, 1937 and made it 22,000 miles to Ley, New Guinea.
02:11On Earhart's last flight, having started out with ill health fatigue, on the way along the flight, she would fly an average very often of 10 to 12 hours a day.
02:26So by the time she got to Ley, she was a wreck.
02:31The next leg to Howland Island was problematic.
02:34Overcast skies hindered celestial navigation, and it was discovered later they were using inaccurate maps.
02:40At 8.43 a.m. on July 3rd, U.S. Coast Guard vessel Itzaka received the last communication from Earhart and launched an immediate search.
02:51However, the plane was never found.
02:53It's not the mystery of her disappearance that we want to stress.
03:03To her, flying was such a wonderful experience, and she wanted it to be safe.
03:12She wanted people to enjoy it as she did.
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