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THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY

In the wee hours of Jul. 3, 1937, a woman in Amarillo listened to missing aviator Amelia Earhart’s desperate radio call for help from halfway around the world.

This would be the last of the many connections of the “Queen of the Air” to the Lone Star State.

At the time of her disappearance, Amelia was one of the best known and most popular members of her gender in the United States second only to Fir…

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