Then Came The Dawn

The Search for Amelia Earhart— Then and Now

By: Gian J. Quasar

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

On July 2, 1937, the world was stunned to hear that Amelia Earhart had vanished over the Pacific Ocean. She had almost succeeded in her bold quest to circumnavigate the earth. An enormous search uncovered no trace. If only there had been a single piece of wreckage— a floating cup, a tattered life raft, waterlogged clothes. But there was nothing, nothing to dispel the mystery of what would become one of the most famous missing person cases in history.

In staccato bursts a woman’s voice had blurted over the US airwaves. She claimed to be the nation’s beloved Amelia. She was marooned on a reef near a desert isle. The nation was told it was a hoax.

Silence ensued for over 20 years, a silence that reassured the public Amelia Earhart had merely run out of gas and plunged into the vast ocean leaving no trace.

From 1960 until today, a massive cult of belief has thrived certain in its assertion that Amelia Earhart had been rescued by the Japanese and taken to Saipan. Either she was unceremoniously executed there or thence taken to Japan, only then to transpose into an unexplained fate. We have only been shown this veil of mystery, but no author has been able to look behind it. Few have even questioned the journey to what has been promoted as the greatest political coverup in modern times.

It is finally time to do so. Then Came the Dawn is not a biography of the life of the mega-famous aviatrix. It is a biography of the search for Amelia Earhart. It is finally time to put the actual facts in place and to see if any of the theories for her fate have merit.

For 30 years Gian J. Quasar has doggedly pursued, documented, and unraveled the great mysteries that have dominated 20th century consciousness. Over this period of time he has earned much praise for his diligent approach. New York Times bestseller Randy Wayne White has declared: “Through Quasar the genre is elevated (finally!) to equal, even exceeds, the highest standards of investigative journalism.” In 2005, his book on the disappearance of Flight 19, They Flew into Oblivion, inspired a Resolution in Congress. He and his work have been the subject of numerous documentaries, and he has been a frequent guest on radio.