Posted on 07/10/2009 11:08:28 AM PDT by bs9021
American History Exhumed
by: Alana Goodman, July 10, 2009
On October 11, 1809, celebrated explorer Meriwether Lewis—of Lewis and Clarke fame—was found shot to death on the floor of an old tavern at the edge of Indian country in Tennessee. Witnesses and friends traveling with the explorer maintained that Lewis shot himself in the head and chest after a long bought of mental illness and depression. However, some of Lewis’ family members argued that he was murdered in cold blood. Two-hundred years later his descendents are still dead-set on solving the mystery, even if it means digging up and studying the body of the famed explorer.
One hundred and ninety-eight of Lewis’ living relatives have signed a petition asking permission from the federal government to exhume and study the frontiersman’s body. Lewis is buried beneath a public monument honoring him at Meriwether Lewis State Park in Tennessee, and his gravesite is controlled by the National Park Service (NPS).
The Lewis family says that it wants the body exhumed in order to determine whether the gun shot wounds can conclusively prove whether Lewis was killed or committed suicide, but it claims that the NPS has been blocking their investigation at every turn.
“It has been frustrating to me that the National Park Service repeatedly refuse to permit an exhumation of Lewis’ remains, despite the availability of modern, reliable means of determining the cause of death,” wrote William M. Anderson in a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on May 2nd of this year. At 92 years old, Anderson is the oldest and closest known living relative of Lewis.....
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The couple that owned the property where he stayed had a history of theft and I fully believe he was murdered.
I was always skeptical of reports of people committing suicide by shooting themselves multiple times. The Clintons have a trail of bodies who committed suicide by shooting themselves twice in the back of the head. Hmmmmmm
And the Park Police screwed up those cases too!
This has been going on for a long time. Are there really any new developments?
Is it appropriate here to say, “Get a life, Lewis descendants”? If there are reparations, they should go to the slave Lewis refused to free after the guy went all the way to the Pacific and back with him. STILL pisses me off...
Colonel, USAFR
Lewis died back in 1809.
I wonder if there’s even much of his remains left to do a forensic investigation...?
Did Lewis make an agreement with the slave to free him? That would be the question. If so, and if the slave lived up to his part of the bargain, then Lewis deserved a bullet.
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I wonder if there’s even much of his remains left to do a forensic investigation...?
Good question. I doubt it, but I hope I’m wrong.
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