TIGHAR Speakers

Historian, pilot, research director, expedition leader, author: TIGHAR Executive Director Ric Gillespie is also an accomplished public speaker. Ric is widely regarded as the world’s leading authority on the Amelia Earhart mystery and his Powerpoint presentations have entertained and informed dozens of audiences large and small. Q&A sessions following his talks are always lively, after which he typically signs copies of his book Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance. Published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press, Finding Amelia has been hailed by Stanford University Pacific scholar Professor Mark Peattie as “the most detailed and factual account of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance and the massive and failed attempt to find her that we shall ever have.”

Finding Amelia As the leader of over three dozen aviation archaeological expeditions in North America, Europe and the Pacific rim, including eight voyages to Nikumaroro, the uninhabited Pacific atoll where mounting evidence suggests Earhart died as a castaway, Ric is a rare combination of adventurer/scholar and master story-teller.

To book Ric Gillespie as a speaker please email Ric or call 302.994.4410 during normal business hours. Ric accepts no personal fee for speaking engagements but asks that his transportation and accommodation expenses be covered and a $1,000 tax-deductible contribution be made toward TIGHAR’s ongoing historical and educational work.

Tom King

The Search for Amelia Earhart

An illustrated lecture by Thomas F. King, Ph.D.
Author of Thirteen Bones and Amelia Earhart’s Shoes

13 Bones Author Thomas F. King is the senior archaeologist for TIGHAR. King’s talk reviews the fascinating history of the concerted effort to find out what happened to Earhart. He highlights the latest findings since the updated 2004 edition of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, the book he co-authored on the search. He also discusses his treatment of the evidence in his new novel, Thirteen Bones, and TIGHAR's plans for another expedition in 2010 to ─ perhaps ─ finally solve the mystery.

Tom incorporates his presentation availability into his professional travel schedule. Email Tom for more information.

Dates currently available:

April 22-23, 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 26-27, 2010, Austin, Texas
September 15-16, 2010, Portland, Oregon

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