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Becky Sprecher

Becky Sprecher

Pan Am flight attendant and author; co-wrote "Flying: A Novel" about Pan Am in the 1970s; frequent guest on The Pan Am Podcast.

May 31, 2026

11:10
Um, but you know, give us your insight.
11:13
Well, the first thing that...
11:14
There are two points I'm gonna make.
11:15
Uh, the first is that the scholars and the historians of the future need multiple sources when they write things.
11:24
They may read an account in s- of, of something, let's say something in World War II in somebody's book, but they need, they need second and third sources to back things up.
11:36
And that's where I think the archives in Ma- in, uh, Miami come into play, the San Francisco Museum, and, you know, everything that, that, uh, Wendy's, you know, the Pan Am Museum is doing now, plus your podcast.
11:51
It adds to that tremendous body of knowledge and gives us a bridge from the, uh, past to the future.

14 MINS LATER

26:12
So I was always taught, a good friend of mine, Ann Fisher, she was, uh, the NPR host for many years here in Columbus, and she had her own interview program, and she taught me, you know, you always read your guests' books before the interview because they will know if you didn't read it.

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