The Real-Life Indiana Jones?

I had never heard this! I’m doing a quick troll of Wikipedia to see if I can find anything — HOWEVER reading a quick blurb about a new series in production for the Smithsonian Channel entitiled True Story suggests the character is based on a real person.

The new series will explore the real-life history of Indiana Jones (The
fourth movie in the series opens in May)

Wikipedia suggests a few possible sources… such as Roy Chapman Andrews, an Adventurer/Naturalist and Hiram Bingham III who discovered the lost city of Macchu Picchu and then went on to serve as Govenor of Connecticut and serve in the US Senate.

I could swear, but I don’t know where I heard it, that Indy was based on Allan Quartermain.

Regardless, it sounds fun to me! Other episodes will focus on Eliot Ness and the Untouchables, and the famous 3 man escape from Alcatraz Island.

Smithsonian Channel tells “True Story”[Reuters]