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Women's History Month 2025
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator known for her flying record and the advancements she made for women in aviation. She was a woman who was beloved and celebrated in life but is largely more famous for her death.
In July 1937, during Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's 1937 flight around the world, radio communications were lost, and neither of them was ever heard from again. The unresolved nature of their fate in 1937 has fascinated people ever since and will continue to do so.
There are a range of theories about Amelia Earhart's disappearance, one of the most long-running theories being "The Japanese Capture Theory" which will be the topic of this program. Join us for this fascinating talk on this theory as we reconnect with Amelia Earhart's historical memory.
About the presenter:
Amy Lutz is the Directory of Marketing & Communications for the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum.
She holds a master's degree in history from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and a bachelor's degree in history from Saint Louis University.
Amy's expertise is in media literacy, online misinformation and conspiracy theories, Amelia Earhart, and the Holocaust rescuer, Carl Lutz. Her graduate thesis, Amelia Earhart: Myth and Memory, was published in 2020.
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