Vintage View: Photo offers new evidence in the Amelia Earhart story

Kya deLongchamps explores new evidence that may solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries.

THE uncovering of a grainy photograph from a trusted archive; a haunting mystery; a beautiful celebrity pilot — the finding of new evidence in the Amelia Earhart story has the world spellbound.

However, the word “proves” has been thrown around by newspapers in Europe and the US with little more to go on that a soft, degraded black and white photograph, with the principal subjects at a considerable distance from the taker.