The man who made Amelia Earhart famous may also have gotten her killed. But their marriage was completely on her terms.

Starring John C. McGinley as George Palmer Putnam and Christa Miller as Amelia Earhart.

Also featuring Conan O’Brien, Neve O’Brien, Tavis Doucette, Maddie Ogden, and Miles Grose.

 

Source List

Amelia Earhart, A Biography by Doris L. Rich, ©1989, 2010 by the Smithsonian Institution

The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell, St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10010 ©1989 

Letters From Amelia by Jean L. Backus, Beacon Press, ©1982 

Soaring Wings by George Palmer Putnam, Manor Books Inc., ©1939, ©1967 by Margaret H. Lewis, Published by arrangement with Harocourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. 

Wide Margins, a publisher’s autobiography by George Palmer Putnam, ©1942, Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY

EAST TO THE DAWN,The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler, Da Capo Press, ©1997 

Whistled Like A Bird by Sally Putnam Chapman, Warner Books, Inc., Hachette Book Group

Project Muse, “The Earhart Phenomenon and the “Accident of Sex” 

PBS, “American Experience: Amelia Earhart”

“Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight” by Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2009

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New England Historical Society, Amelia Earhart, Reluctant Bride

Purdue University, Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950

CT Insider, Amelia Earhart’s ‘Secret’ Connecticut Wedding: From the Archives

UPI, Husband of Missing Flier Earhart Secluded After Long Vigil

The New York Times, 1932: I’m Not ‘Mrs. Putnam,’ I’m Amelia Earhart

PBS American Experience, Amelia Earhart Program Transcript

Palmer, Amy Phipps Guest Portrait

History.com, Charles Lindbergh Completes the First Solo, Nonstop Transatlantic Flight

Charles Lindbergh House and Museum, New York-to-Paris Flight

Britannica, Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator

NASA.gov, Realizing the Dream of Flight

Medium, Ghostwriters in 2020: The Current Trends and Beyond

The New York Times Archive, Tuesday, June 19th, 1928. Wednesday, June 20th, 1928.

Flight Paths: Purdue University’s Aerospace Pioneers, The Earhart Brand: Amelia Earhart’s Impact on Celebrity Culture

PBS, Navigating the Truth Behind Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan

Ghost Writing and History by Ernest R. May,  ©1953, The American Scholar, Published By: The Phi Beta Kappa Society

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