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.
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The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell, St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10010 ©1989
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Wide Margins, a publisher’s autobiography by George Palmer Putnam, ©1942, Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY
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Project Muse, “The Earhart Phenomenon and the “Accident of Sex”
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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
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PBS American Experience, Amelia Earhart Program Transcript
Palmer, Amy Phipps Guest Portrait
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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