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Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart
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Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart
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by T. C. Buddy Brennan
Sales Rank : 1194498
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Paperback: 214 pages
Publisher: Renaissance House Pub August 1988
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558381082
ISBN-13: 978-1558381087
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Product Review
"EARHART TO ITASCA" is the beginning of the last haunting message broadcast by America's lost aviation heroine on July 2, 1937. No conclusive evidence regarding the fate of Amelia Earhart or her navigator Fred Noonan was immediately discovered. More than 50 years later, the search continues, as investigators draw nearer to a conclusion to one of the 20th century's greatest enigmas. What began as Houston businessman T.C. Buddy Brennan's avocation of recovering Japanese war planes from the Pacific has evolved into one of the most plausible and convincing cases regarding Earhart's fate. Brennan's key witness, Mrs. Nieves Cabrera Blas, a native of Saipan whose family's farm adjoined Japanese headquarters on the island during World II recalls: ".One day I am working on the farm and I see three Japanese motorcycles. Amelia Earhart is in a little seat on the side of one motorcycle. She is wearing handcuffs and she is blindfolded. I watch and they take her to this place where there is a hole been dug. They make her kneel in front then they tear the blindfold from her face and throw it into the hole. The soldiers shoot her in the chest and she falls backwards into the grave"Video tape of actual interviews is available.
From Publishers Weekly
Mystery still surrounds the fate of Amelia Earhart, the aviator who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting a flight around the world. Did she simply run out of fuel and crash into the Pacific as the official version has it? Or was she captured by the Japanese and returned to the U.S. in a secret agreement? This book postulates that she was taken captive after crashing off the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan in Micronesia, held prisoner for six years, then executed as a spy. The author, a Houston real-estate executive, bases this idea on interviews conducted with islanders who maintain that it is common knowledge on Saipan that "a lady pilot" was imprisoned there by the Japanese some 50 years ago. He also interviewed islanders who claim to have seen Earhartmost notably a woman who convinced the author that she witnessed Earhart's execution and burial. On their one brief dig at the site indicated by the woman as Earhart's grave (permission for an extended excavation could not be obtained), the author and his team unearthed what they believe to be the blindfold worn by Earhart when she was shot. Although the theory is intriguing and the evidence plausible if sparse, a good deal more research must be done before these findings can be termed anything like conclusive. Included are appendixes of official documents related to the case. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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