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Amelia Earhart’s SOS heard in the Panhandle
In the wee hours of July 3, 1937, a woman in Amarillo listened to missing aviator Amelia Earhart’s desperate radio call for help from halfway around the world.
This would be the last of the many connections of the “Queen of the Air” to the Lone Star State.
At the time of her disappearance, Amelia was one of the best known and most popular members of her gender in the United States second only to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. But fame and fortune did not drop into the risk-taker&r...