Who was Amelia Earhart?
Born in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia Mary Earhart worked as a nurses aide in a military hospital in Canada during World War I. Her career began in Los Angeles in 1921 when, at age 24, she took flying lessons from Neta Snook and bought her first airplane, a Kinner Airstar. Due to family problems, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker. One afternoon in April 1928, she got a phone call while at work. The man at the other end asked her “Would you like to fly the Atlantic?” She interviewed with the project coordinators, including book publisher and publicist George Putnam, and was asked to join pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon. The team left Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 on June 17, 1928, and arrived at Burry Port, Wales approximately 21 hours later. When the crew returned to the States, they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White
