Monday, May 08, 2006

Did Skull and Bones Steal Geronimo's Skull?

The Wall Street Journal reports:
Historians agree that Geronimo died of pneumonia in 1909 and was buried in a prisoner-of-war cemetery at Fort Sill, Okla. But whether the Apache warrior's remains still rest there is a matter of growing dispute.

The grave of the famed warrior has long been rumored to have been robbed during World War I by a small group of young military officers that included Prescott Bush, the president's late grandfather, and other members of Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones society.

Now a 1918 letter, newly unearthed from Yale archives, offers some intriguing new clues. In it, one Skull and Bones member reports that Geronimo's skull and other remains had been exhumed and taken to the society's headquarters, known as The Tomb, in New Haven, Conn. The letter is made public for the first time in the new issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine.
What would the country do without Yale graduates?