everyone knew the name amelia earhart. she did not feel she deserved all those accolades because she was a passenger on the plane. she did not feel like her skills were needed. a few years later, she decided she wanted to make a solo atlantic flight completely on her own. she would be the only person on the plane. what is interesting about that is there are actual documents in the collection where it talks about how it would be smarter to fly with a mechanic or a navigator. but she knew if she did that the , media would say that she did not fly the plane. she decided to take that risk and be the only person in the plane. and in 1932, she did fly her plane solo across the atlantic ocean. i said earlier amelia was not the worlds's best women's pilot and she certainly was not as skilled technically as aviation as many other pilots at the time. but she was very driven, cool under pressure, courageous, and she loved to fly. those things worked in her favor because on this flight in 1932, because a lot of things went wrong on th

i'm going to show you a little bit about amelia earhart next. amelia earhart was a stamp collector. and she carried mail on all her flights. and stamp collectors bought this mail and helped pay for her flights. so she went to stamp shows, collected and was very involved about with the stamp collector communities. one of many famous stamp collectors. on this wall we tell the story of amelia earhart. we have an interactive -- this is something that when you come to the museum, allow time to go into here and open up some of our stories where you can watch actual historic footage, hear interviews and learn more about the items in her personal album of mail she carried. and we also have her actual leather flight suit on display. we're very lucky to get this. she was a style icon and actually designed clothes. and in many cases, of course as a woman pilot, she had to wear what they had for men in the design of clothing but in some cases she was able to redesign and taylorilor something like a flight suit so it would fit a woman's body. >> any final instructions? >> i guess there isn't any

on the small, we tell the story of amelia earhart. this is something that when you come to the museum, allow time go into here and open up some of our stories we can actual historic footage, here interviews, and learn more about items in her personal album of mail. have her outfit. she designed clothes. in many cases she was forced to clothes for men, but often able to redesign to fit her body. amelia is only one of the aviation stories that we tell. aviation is one of the greatest stories of the 20th century. a couple favorites -- one is a piece of mail that or not survived the hindenburg disaster. >> you've all seen the humanity of the footage. 34 seconds from start to finish. there were 17,000 pieces of mail on board. couple hundred survived. -- led out of the wreckage who knows what all was lost on that ship. is the first cancel that held missile mail. have the pilots aviation goggles. he died because of these glasses. they went all right, he tried to fix them, he lost control the plane and went down. you look at the conditions of

if you're talking about an aircraft that's been under water for many decades such as the amelia earhart aircraft yeah, that's a huge concern. this aircraft if it can be found in the next few days, not a huge issue. >> all right. rick gillespie, thanks so much for your expertise in explaining that to us. >>> just ahead, they were supposed to be on the air asia flight that crashed, but a big family missed it. you'll hear their story and new information about the passengers who were onboard. >>> plus developing right now, a cyber security firm says the sony hack was not north korea, instead, it was an inside job and that a former employee could be to blame. the brand new reporting from cnn says not so fast. we'll have details next. you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a second time. they won't give you enough mone

it was 1937 when amelia earhart varnished during her attempt to fly around the world. >> she's an examplesomething is that lives on and on. why are people so fascinated by that. >> partly because she was a larger than life figure. she was known throughout the world. 77 years later, nothing's been found of the wreckage. there are hints of what might have happened but no definitive answer. >> reporter: unsolved mysteries of all sorts captivate us. in 2013, the country watched live as fbi agents dug up a field in the detroit area an looking for the remains of jimmy hoffa. the teamsters boss who went missing in 1975. nothing was found. >> no matter how owed a story is, whether it's earhart or jimmy hoffa, they want to know what really happened. >> of all the unknowns those that happen in our lifetime stay with us. >> people who remember this malaysian airplane disappearing will remember this the rest of their life. if a new clue comes up in 15, 20 years they'll be interested in it. >> psychologist wendy walsh says our fascination all comes down to something more primitive. >> there's only one

you know, it's stock figures, florence nighting gail, let's katie stanton, amelia earhart, i think, gets in there. but this is a really new thing and a new thing as a form of popular culture. >> i want to fast forward a bit. you mentioned william marston eventually contracts polio, he passes away. wonder woman lives on, but she's not quite the same. talk a little bit about that chapter of her existence. >> yeah. so marston dies in 1947, and the same year he dies, the publisher dies, killed in a boating accident at lake placid. a student of marston's who had wrote a lot of scripts between '44 and '47 -- she's still alive, i interviewed her -- she gets married, and her husband has a child, he's a widower from another marriage, and she decides to stay home with this little girl, so she quits. sheldon mayer, who'd been the editor also quits, he's just really sick of being an editor, so wonder woman is an orphan. and marston's widow writes this incredibly powerful letter to d.c. comics in which she says i have known bill marston since i was 12, i've been a part of all of his work, i helped wi

elliot was really an advocate for women and that is when he hired a full-time data women and amelia earhartadviser in the 1930s here at purdue university. and then helen, who would later become the dean of women, the three women became very close friends when she came to teach a purdue and she was very influential with regard to the beliefs that women could do anything. and they said women could be doctors and not nurses, they could do anything they wanted to do. and dorothy and helen carey the conviction that women could do anything. into the 20th century and they advocated a set of rethinking what they have said. and they took it through until his very interesting. and then a few of them are active in world war ii and then she hired helen who is the second dean of women who is the executive officer. so they really learned what women can do and they saw women the same age as college women doing all sorts of things and all sorts of jobs. so when helen became the next dean in 1947, it was like a cultural shock, women being able to do wonderful things. when she came here there were things lik