Article: 'History Detectives' track flag in Canton: No proof flag draped over McKinley's coffin.

Byline: R.D. Heldenfels

Jun. 19--If you can settle for "almost certainly," the season premiere of History Detectives has a pretty good ending to a Canton story.

Airing tonight at 9 on PBS, the fourth-season premiere includes a segment shot in Canton about Shawn Kennedy, a man from Battle Ground, Wash., who has an old flag. His family believes the flag draped the coffin of President William McKinley. Kennedy lore also holds that

Shawn's great-grandfather, Charles, was a personal bodyguard to McKinley.

Kennedy -- interviewed in Cincinnati for the show -- doesn't have much to go on, other than the flag, the family story, his ...

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