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Thorpe's Family Vows Suit over Body Buried in Pa.
posted 11/08/09
9:31 pm
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Jim Thorpe attended school in Carlisle, Pa. and later won gold medals in the 1912 Olympics and played pro baseball and football.
His widow buried him in the eastern Pennsylvania borough after leaders vowed to change the town's name and build him a monument, which they did.
But family members want Thorpe reburied in Oklahoma. Their Missouri attorney says the suit to be filed this month in Philadelphia will cite a 1990 federal law requiring the return of American Indian cultural items and remains to their peoples.
But Jim Thorpe Mayor Ronald Confer calls the idea "incredible" after a half-century that and predicts no on in the town will support it.
Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer, http://www.philly.com
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Latest Comments on "Thorpe's Family Vows Suit over Body Buried in Pa."
posted by: rye township lady on 9:48 pm on 11/08/09
let the man rest in peace
he got one of the best burials anyone can ask for- town's name and build him a monument
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