Mysterious Journey Inside the Earth

Honestly, ladies and gentlemen, he flew 1,200 miles with the wind in his back

into the inside of this planet.

Not a molten core. Far from it.

Continental shells bigger than on the surface.

Seas that were equal to ours.

And he took 300 photographs and brought them back, and I tried to see them,

and Franklin Birch, who was at the National Archives, would not let me in.

Oh, I got in the cage, but I couldn't look at anything.

Caldwell found those records and read them in 1940,

and he took his round-wing plane in and went right through the Earth

and came out at the South Pole in a 125-mile opening there.

That's one thing he did.

I told you that was 1940.

That was a great accomplishment of the round-wing plane at that point.

We hadn't had to fight a war. We hadn't had to do anything.

1952, I hesitate to tell you.

I've had three attempts on my life,

and I don't know if I'll walk away from this meeting if I say any more.

I've had the needle, I've been poisoned, and I've had people sent to kill me.