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New York • The retired federal agent who discovered what he believes is the first photographic evidence of Amelia Earhart alive after crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her attempted round-the-world flight didn't capture the significance of the image until years later.
The black-and-white photo is of a group of people standing on a dock on an atoll in the Marshall Islands, including one of which who seems to be a slim woman with her back to the camera.
A documentary airing this weekend on the History channel claims the figure is Earhart.
Retired U.S. Treasury Agent Les Kinney says he found it in 2012 in a box but "didn't really look at it carefully." In 2015, he took another pass. "I looked at it and I went, 'I can't believe this!'"