Earhart

The previous year the publishing exec had rushed out Charles Lindbergh’s bestselling “We,” which detailed Lindy’s solo flight across the Atlantic; he was hoping to achieve a similar success for Earhart.

Visiting schoolchildren can be heard laughing during a presentation in a nearby auditorium where Amelia Earhart gave her last public appearance before disappearing over the Pacific Ocean.

Surely, the grainy image had to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane, 16,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Amelia Earhart bought her first plane with money she pooled with her beloved sister, Muriel, and their mother.

The airport in Oakland, which opened in September 1927, is famously known as the place where Amelia Earhart took off on her ill-fated attempt to fly around the world.