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Experience the legacy of the world’s most iconic airline, Pan American World Airways! This program brings Pan Am’s 64-year history to life through engaging storytelling and insightful interviews with a wide range of voices connected to Pan Am’s story. Historian Tom Betti created and hosted Seasons 1 through 5, a celebrated run of history and humanities storytelling that earned numerous Muse Creative and Vega Digital awards, and the podcast continues in Season 6 with new hosts and a new creative team. The Pan Am Podcast is brought to you by the Pan Am Museum in Garden City, New York and is sponsored by the generous personal support of Mr. Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Theatres and President of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. The Pan Am Museum Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and would appreciate your consideration of tax-deductible donations to support our work.
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- 2 weeks ago32 min
Episode 69: 90 Miles and Minutes to Spare
Send us Fan Mail Pan Am Podcast – Episode 6990 Miles and Minutes to Spare The dramatic story of Pan Am's first flight and the race against time that launched an aviation legend. On October 19, 1927, the future of Pan American Airways hung in the balance. With a U.S. Post Office deadline looming, a rain-soaked airfield, and no suitable runway for its new aircraft, the fledgling airline faced a crisis that threatened to end its ambitious plans before they could take flight. In this captivating ...
- Sep 5, 202650 min
Episode 68: Pan Am Flight 73: 40 Years Later — Courage in the Face of Terror
Send us Fan Mail A Special 40th Anniversary Commemorative Episode of the Pan Am Podcast On September 5, 1986, Pan Am Flight 73 was preparing to depart Karachi, Pakistan, when four armed terrorists stormed the aircraft, beginning a harrowing 16-hour siege that would forever change the lives of the passengers and crew aboard. Forty years later, the Pan Am Museum Foundation remembers the 20 people who lost their lives and honors the extraordinary courage of the young, India-based Pan Am flight a...
- Jul 11, 202624 min
Episode 67: A New Chapter Begins: Welcome Ken Andersen, Host of the Pan Am Podcast
Send us Fan Mail The Pan Am Podcast enters an exciting new chapter as we welcome Ken Andersen as the new host of the program. Since its launch, the Pan Am Podcast has become one of the Pan Am Museum Foundation's most successful educational initiatives, sharing the remarkable stories of the people, aircraft, destinations, and historic events that made Pan American World Airways one of the most influential companies of the twentieth century. With listeners in more than 170 countries, the podcas...
- May 31, 20261h 39m
Episode 66: A Farewell to Tom Betti
Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of Season Five, host and producer Tom Betti reflects on five years of preserving the stories of Pan Am, answers the question he has asked guests since the very first episode, and says farewell to the listeners who made this program what it became. After five years, 66 episodes, more than 95 hours of history and humanities content, and over 200,000 downloads in more than 180 countries, this is Tom's final episode. This special retrospective features six g...
- May 28, 20261h 33m
Episode 65: A Ticket Counter in London with Bill and Diane Studeman
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by Admiral William O. Studeman, United States Navy, retired, and his wife Diane, former Pan Am stewardess and one of the most gracious ambassadors the airline ever had. Their connection to Pan Am runs deeper than most. Diane grew up in Milford-on-Sea in Hampshire, England. The navy and aviation were not just a backdrop to her childhood but its very fabric. She joined Pan Am as a stewardess in the early 1960s, at what many would argue was the cul...
- May 21, 20261h 11m
Episode 64: The Best Job We Ever Had with Florette Vassall and Diane Krumholtz Lyras
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by two women who gave the best years of their careers to Pan American World Airways, and who have remained close friends for more than four decades since the airline closed its doors. Florette H. Vassall was born in New York City, the daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Panama. Aviation was a constant in her life from the very beginning. Her father was passionate about flight, and as a young girl, Florette watched Pan Am's famous flying boats c...
- Apr 19, 20261h 39m
Episode 63: Operation Babylift: Carried Home and the Bonds That Endure
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Tom Betti is joined by three special guests - Pan Am flight attendant Karen Walker Ryan and adoptees Carol Mason and Dr. Matt Steiner - to mark the 51st anniversary of Operation Babylift, the frantic evacuation ordered by U.S. President Gerald R. Ford of Vietnamese war orphans in the final days of Saigon in 1975. But this episode is about more than history. It is about what happens to people after history moves through them. It is about memory, identity,...
- Apr 9, 20261h 4m
Episode 62: Pan Am and the Art of Storytelling with Al Gilbert
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by Al Gilbert, known by his friends and family as Ace, a former Pan Am reservations employee and the author of Pan Am Stories: You Can't Make This Up. Al's career at Pan Am gave him a front-row seat to one of the most remarkable chapters in aviation history, and the stories he collected along the way are as funny, surprising, and human as the airline itself. After leaving Pan Am, Al channeled decades of memories and experiences into his book, a ...
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About The Pan Am Podcast
Experience the legacy of the world’s most iconic airline, Pan American World Airways! This program brings Pan Am’s 64-year history to life through engaging storytelling and insightful interviews with a wide range of voices connected to Pan Am’s story. Historian Tom Betti created and hosted Seasons 1 through 5, a celebrated run of history and humanities storytelling that earned numerous Muse Creative and Vega Digital awards, and the podcast continues in Season 6 with new hosts and a new creative team. The Pan Am Podcast is brought to you by the Pan Am Museum in Garden City, New York and is sponsored by the generous personal support of Mr. Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Theatres and President of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. The Pan Am Museum Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and would appreciate your consideration of tax-deductible donations to support our work.
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