National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives released a second batch of Amelia Earhart records on Nov. 25, publishing over 3,700 pages (56 PDFs) that include a 1937 memo of Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s conversation with Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito detailing Japan’s search role, a July 20, 1937 FDR press exchange justifying search costs, and a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt securing Itasca radio logs. The documents provide new primary-source detail on U.S.–Japan cooperation, federal cost rationale, and contemporaneous communications tied to the 1937 search.