You right Mac, it was nothing to do with Jim Thorpe (Bright Path). Except for the legal battle for his remains to be returned to his home with the Sac and Fox in Oklahoma.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about this, but why did it take a legal battle for him to get buried back on his tribal land? Who else had a claim and wanted to keep his remains?
Great colours, and I sure miss the trains like that. My grandmother's summer cottage was not far from a track and I loved hearing the lonely call of the whistle late at night.
Randy his body is still in the town. It was taken my sheriffs during his funeral in 1953 that was being held in his home of Oklahoma. It would take a very long article to explain this tragedy. I'll put something together and post it about what is going on today.
The idea that, in this day and age, a town would fight to keep Jim Thorpe's body from being reburied where he belongs and that they are doing it just to try to make money off from having his body, is sick and disgusting. I thought we were past the days of the old West when many morticians would display a famous outlaw or lawman's body for a few nickles a visit. That was disgusting enough, but this is one of the greatest athletes America ever produced. He doesn't belong in a place that is just using him as a freak show attraction.
Following the 1953 death of renowned athlete and Olympic medal winner Jim Thorpe , Thorpe's widow and third wife, Patricia, was angry when the government of Oklahoma would not erect a memorial to honor him. [8] When she heard that the boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were desperately seeking to attract business, she made a deal with civic officials. According to Jim Thorpe's son, Jack, Patricia was motivated by money in seeking the deal. [9]
The boroughs merged, renamed the new municipality in Jim Thorpe's honor, obtained the athlete's remains from his wife and erected a monument to the Oklahoma native, who began his sports career 100 miles (161 kilometres) southwest, as a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania . The monument site contains his tomb, two statues of him in athletic poses, and historical markers describing his life story. The grave rests on mounds of soil from Thorpe's native Oklahoma and from the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in which he won his Olympic medals. [10]
On June 24, 2010, one of Jim Thorpe's sons, Jack Thorpe, sued the town for his father's remains, citing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , which is designed to return Native American artifacts to their tribal homelands . [11]
On February 11, 2011, Judge Richard Caputo ruled that Jack Thorpe could not gain any monetary award, nor any amount for attorney's fees in the lawsuit and that for the lawsuit to continue other members of the Thorpe family and the Sac and Fox Nation would have to join him as plaintiffs.
Before Jack Thorpe could respond to the ruling he died at the age of 73 on February 22, 2011. Because of his death his representatives were given more time to respond to the ruling. On May 2, 2011, William and Richard Thorpe, Jim Thorpe's remaining sons and the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma joined the lawsuit, allowing it to continue. [12]
On April 19, 2013, Federal Judge Richard Caputo ruled in favor of William and Richard Thorpe, ruling that the borough amounts to a museum under the law. [13] This ruling was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on October 23, 2014. [14]
Great idea! We could put his bones (or whatever is left of his body) in a completely glass casket, sell it to some to some town near Cooperstown and they could charge people twenty bucks to see what's left of the Great Bambino! I'll bet we'd make a fortune if we could throw in Joe DiMaggio too!
An interesting little town with an interesting history which mostly has nothing to do with Jim Thorpe!
You right Mac, it was nothing to do with Jim Thorpe (Bright Path). Except for the legal battle for his remains to be returned to his home with the Sac and Fox in Oklahoma.
Beautifulposter.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about this, but why did it take a legal battle for him to get buried back on his tribal land? Who else had a claim and wanted to keep his remains?
Great colours, and I sure miss the trains like that. My grandmother's summer cottage was not far from a track and I loved hearing the lonely call of the whistle late at night.
A Mac
Beautiful
Vibrant colors that grab your attention and I love trains.
Thanks for sharing
Randy his body is still in the town. It was taken my sheriffs during his funeral in 1953 that was being held in his home of Oklahoma. It would take a very long article to explain this tragedy. I'll put something together and post it about what is going on today.
Beautiful picture! I love trains!
I will post a photo of the Monument to Jim Thorpe (in Jim Thorpe, PA) I think I may have one in my data base.
The idea that, in this day and age, a town would fight to keep Jim Thorpe's body from being reburied where he belongs and that they are doing it just to try to make money off from having his body, is sick and disgusting. I thought we were past the days of the old West when many morticians would display a famous outlaw or lawman's body for a few nickles a visit. That was disgusting enough, but this is one of the greatest athletes America ever produced. He doesn't belong in a place that is just using him as a freak show attraction.
Let's dig up Babe Ruth and sell his body to the highest bidder. See how that works out. He'd make a great tourist attraction in some rust belt city.
Great idea! We could put his bones (or whatever is left of his body) in a completely glass casket, sell it to some to some town near Cooperstown and they could charge people twenty bucks to see what's left of the Great Bambino! I'll bet we'd make a fortune if we could throw in Joe DiMaggio too!