Ric Gillespie, a recognized authority on the Earhart disappearance, has led twelve expeditions to the South Pacific featured in several television documentaries. A resident of Oxford, PA, his writings on the Earhart disappearance have appeared in the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings and Naval History. His book Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance was published by the Naval Institute Press in 2006.

Articles by Richard Gillespie

Where Is Amelia?

By Richard E. Gillespie & Tom D. Crouch
June 1993
Finding Her & Noonan By Richard E. Gillespie The disappearance of Amelia Earhart, like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has become something of a national obsession—and for many of ...
Amelia Earhart dismounting her Lockheed Electra on Lea

Why the Navy Didn't Find Amelia

By Richard E. Gillespie
February 1993
She died on Saipan in 1944. She died in New Jersey in 1983. She died at sea in 1937. She’s on a Pacific island, alive and well today. . ...

Books by Richard Gillespie