Posted on 05/09/2006 10:16:27 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo.
The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters.
According to Skull and Bones legend, members — including President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush — dug up Geronimo's grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I. Geronimo died in 1909.
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oh oh.. eeevil Bush strikes again! [end sarc]
Little know fact. On the way to bringing the skull back to Yale, the plane caught fire and they had to bail out and thus originated the practice of yelling "Geronimo" when exiting an airplane via hitting the silk.
The whole evil Bush family is behind this crime against humanity!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629221/posts
I believe this is the same article. The previous thread was via Breitbart and had a slightly different title, Yale Historian finds Geronimo Clue.
I know what my reaction would be if some idiotic college "secret society" desecrated the grave of one of my relatives. Whether they raided Geronimo's grave or that of some other hapless Apache, Skull & Bones committed a crime - hopefully the modern day version is a little more mature.
Hey, I thought Kerry was in Skull and Bones too and that guy blabs about anything but mostly nothing.
Knowing of the Cheney connections to Enron and by extention, Arthur Anderson, don't you find it interesting that the Arthur Anderson was following the Edmund Fitzgerald the night it "mysteriously" sank? ;~)
Kerry is S&B alumnus..........don't see his name gratuitously mentioned......
Rove's time machine at work again...
I have it on good authority that the researcher who was looking into this "very strange coincidence" had his notes mysteriously disappear during a flight over the Bermuda Triangle. His name; Lemony Snicket.
"Mature" means "emasculated" by many standards.... though I believe today's Ivy Leaguers are both less mature and more vile than ever.
I share your revulsion in any case. True or not, they revel in their own despicable myths.
Natalee Holloway.
Kerry is probably the leaker.
The Wall Street journal had an article about this yesterday. The weight of the evidence is against any theft of Geronimo's bones. Among other reasons, at the time President Bush's grandfather was stationed at Fort Sill it would have been extremely difficult to find the grave, since it was unmarked and heavily overgrown. There is also no comtemporaneous evidence of the grave having been disturbed. The Director of the Fort Sill museum has researched this incident for 20 years and is convinced it is a hoax.
sweet.....
It was a reference to Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush, who is alleged to have been one of the grave-robbers in the article.
Im more disturbed that they run around naked and then grow up hating America.
which is why George H.W. Bush jumped out of the plane after being shot down by the japanese. He wanted to yell outh the family/Skull and Bones Oath....
GERONIMO!!!! (or not?)
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