Amelia Earhart
When Gore Met Amelia
If you’re planning to see‘Amelia,’the new Amelia Earhart biopic now in theaters, keep an eye out for recent ‘Studio 360’ guest Gore Vidal — or at least the actor playing him. The film takes place long before he became notorious for his envelope-pushing novels and on-air political smackdowns with William F. Buckley. At the time […]
Gore Vidal
If anyone’s life is worth recounting, it’s Gore Vidal’s. The celebrated writer not only made his mark on literature over the past six decades, he also had a front row seat to history. His father romanced Amelia Earhart; he feuded with Eleanor Roosevelt and William F. Buckley among many others; and he went shooting with […]
Women in aviation: 75 years after Amelia Earhart’s Pacific flight
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s successful flight from Honolulu to Oakland, California. To help update the history of women in aviation we talk to the first woman to join part of the elite Thunderbird squad of the Air Force.