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...mass movement to learn the truth about the assassination of the 60s will emerge, in part because it may well be too late to arouse sufficient interest. The mysteries are already beginning to take on the same character for many people as questions like "What ever happened to Amelia Earhart?". In addition, the integration of serious research and solid evidence with pure fantasy has weakened the appeal of many legitimate investigators. But it may be possible to compel Congress to reopen the cases, just by the weight of evidence already uncovered. One Congressman, Texas Democrat Henry Gonzales, has already called...
Died. Harry Manning, 77, retired Vice Admiral of the U.S. Maritime Service, a crackerjack seaman who executed the bone-chilling lifeboat rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Florida in 1929, accompanied Amelia Earhart as navigator on her first attempt to fly around the globe, and skippered the passenger liner United States on her 1952 maiden voyage across the Atlantic and back in record time (6 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes); after a long illness; in Saddle River...
Similar misconceptions distorted the images of my other childhood heroines. I once envisioned the daring aviator, Amelia Earhart, in helmet and goggles to be at least as regal as Joan of Arc. Now I read how she crashed to an ambiguous death in the Pacific, amid rumors that she was on a secret espionage mission against Japan. And I read that Pocahontas, after heroically saving John Smith, eventually married a settler she may not even have loved, only to die in England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress...
That omission was rectified last week with the publication of Amelia Earhart Lives (McGraw-Hill; $7.95). In the book, Novelist Joe Klaas traces the ten-year pursuit of an idée fixe by Joseph Gervais, a former Air Force major. Amelia, they say, was really on a spy mission for President Roosevelt, was interned in Japan during the war and traded back to the U.S. in 1945, where she has lived under an alias ever since. Their argument rests on a slithering foundation of fanciful codes, anagrams, leading but unanswered questions, and hints at deals among the Japanese, Roosevelt...
...Township, N.J. She emerged long enough last week to ridicule the book as a "poorly documented hoax." Hoax or not, the people's appetite for myth and mystery seems insatiable. Before her press conference was over, the woman from New Jersey had convinced many she was not Amelia Earhart. But some wondered whether she was really Mrs. Guy Bolam, either...