
The Pan Am Podcast
Experience the legacy of the world’s most iconic airline, Pan American World Airways! This award-winning history and humanities program brings Pan Am’s 64-year history to life through engaging storytelling and insightful interviews from Pan Am employees, passengers, pilots, journalists, historians, authors, fashionistas, and aviation enthusiasts! Hosted by historian Tom Betti, the program has won the following awards: Gold 2024 & 2023 Muse Creative Awards; Gold 2024 Vega Digital Award; Silver 2023 Vega Digital Award; Gold Award from the 2023 Hear Now Palooza of the National Audio Theater Festivals; Silver 2022 Muse Creative Award; Arcturus 2022 Vega Digital Award (Podcast); and Arcturus 2022 Vega Digital Award (Best Host). 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.
Episodes
Episode 52: George Takei Remembers Gene Roddenberry (Pan Am Pilot, 1945-1948)

Episode 51: Crossing the Atlantic in 1939 and Making History Once More

Episode 50: Kathleen Clair, Juan T. Trippe's Executive Assistant for 32 Years (1948-1980)

Episode 49: Edith Head, A Hollywood Legend

Episode 48: The Archer's...A Family of Aviators

Episode 47: The "Nisei" Stewardesses of Pan Am

Episode 46: Capt. Mike Bannister, Chief Pilot of British Airways Concorde

Episode 45: National Airlines

Episode 44: Capt. Robert Ford and the Long Way Home

Episode 43: Terror at the Rome Airport, December 1973 Attack

Episode 42: Operation Babylift: The 1975 Saigon Evacuation

Episode 41: The Stewardess Labor Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Episode 40: Tom Betti and a Rock Song About History

Episode 39: Madeline Smith and a Romance in the Sky

Episode 38: Dan Colussy, Pan Am's President and Chief Operating Officer in the 1970s

Episode 37: Lester Kappel, World War II Aircraft Mechanic with Pan Am

Episode 36: Sam Donaldson, Legendary Newsman

Episode 35: Pan Am's Diversity in the Cockpit

Episode 34: Junius Kellogg and the Pan Am Jets Wheelchair Basketball Team

Episode 33: Dr. Johanna O’Flaherty, Helping Others With Weighted Wings

Episode 32: Terror on the Airline, New Lockerbie Arrest, and the Quest for Justice

Episode 31: The Last CEO and the Last Clipper

Episode 30: The Art of Travel Posters

Episode 29: AIDS Epidemic of the 1980s, Remembering Those We Lost

Episode 28: The Flying Piano Player
