On July 2 1960, KCBS Radio broadcast a special report on the mysterious disappearance of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart. She and navigator Fred Noonan had disappeared over the South Pacific in July 1937 in one of the 20th Century's enduring mysteries. This special report, sponsored by Shell Oil, was introduced by KCBS Radio news director Don Mozley and featured the work of reporter Fred Goerner.

Goerner was convinced Earhart and Noonan had survived the crash of their plane but then died in Japanese custody.  On that day in 1960, he showed off some airplane parts he'd brought up from the harbor on Saipan. A year later, he made another trip and brought back human remains he believed might have been those of Earhart and Noonan (later analysis by a University of California anthropologist dashed cold water on that belief). 

Goerner made a third trip to Saipan on his own time and money, published a lengthy account in Argosy  magazine in 1964, and then a best-selling book in 1966 (The Search for Amelia Earhart).

The photo accompanying this episode was taken the day before this broadcast, on July 1 1960, in KCBS Radio's Studio B at the Palace Hotel. Goerner (R)  sat next to  Don Mozley and told San Francisco reporters who'd been called to the studio of his findings.