In article 2017071107110577904-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck says...

On 2017-07-11 07:54:06 +0000, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
said:


With what The History Channel has become, I'm surprised they didn't
claim 'proof' that aliens had kidnapped them using the black hole in
the Bermuda Triangle...

Since the Murdoch take over of The History Channel, Discovery Channel,
The Learning Channel, Velocity, and in some way, The NatGeo Channel
they are all emulating his tabloid publications, and Fox News by
presenting us with "alternate facts", or anything else the gullible,
uninformed public might be prepared to believe.

Japanese Blogger Discredits New Amelia Earhart Documentary After 30 Minutes of
Research

http://jezebel.com/japanese-blogger-...ent-1796805871

A new documentary on the History Channel presented the theory that Amelia
Earhart survived her crash landing, was taken prisoner in Japan, and the
American government has worked for years to cover it up. This theory was largely
supported by a single photograph, which a blogger seems to have unearthed in the
Japanese national archives, immediately disproving the whole thing.

The Guardian reports that military history blogger Kota Yamano published the
photo to his blog in the proper context, finding it after about 30 minutes of
looking through Japan’s national library, on a page from a Japanese-language
travel book on the South Seas. The book was published in 1935, two years before
Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated plane took off, and she almost certainly met her
death on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Yamano seems surprised the
documentary-makers didn’t try to corroborate the photo better:

“I have never believed the theory that Earhart was captured by the Japanese
military, so I decided to find out for myself,” Yamano told the Guardian. “I was
sure that the same photo must be on record in Japan.”

Yamano ran an online search using the keyword “Jaluit atoll” and a decade-long
timeframe starting in 1930.

“The photo was the 10th item that came up,” he said. “I was really happy when I
saw it. I find it strange that the documentary makers didn’t confirm the date of
the photograph or the publication in which it originally appeared. That’s the
first thing they should have done.”

The documentary interviews retired US treasury agent Les Kinney, who found a
version of the undated image in the U.S. archives and used it to support the
idea that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan ended up on the Marshall Islands
and were killed by the Japanese, though their journey predates the beginnings of
WWII.

Other Earhart obsessives have long contested this conspiracy theory, which has
been around for decades. Such as Ric Gillespie, executive director of the
International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, who told The Guardian that
even aside from the blurriness of the figures being described as Earhart and
Noonan, the harbor visuals indicate that the photo was likely taken in the early
‘30s or late ‘20s.

“This is just a picture of a wharf at Jaluit [in the Marshall Islands], with a
bunch of people,” Gillespie said. “It’s just silly. And this is coming from a
guy who has spent the last 28 years doing genuine research into the Earhart
disappearance and led 11 expeditions into the South Pacific.”

But who knows what new evidence will still arise! There must be more to this
Earhart thing, right? Unless she’s been dead for 80 years on an island in the
Pacific?





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