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Article: Town and family feuding over Olympian Jim Thorpe's body.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- March 13, 2001
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OKLAHOMA CITY Jim Thorpe's family battled for about 70 years before reclaiming his 1912 Olympic gold medals, stripped in a dispute over his amateur status.
Now, four of his surviving children are poised for what may be an even tougher fight: They want their father's remains returned to Oklahoma for a proper American Indian burial in a cemetery near his hometown of Prague. Officials of Jim Thorpe, Pa., the small town that adopted the Olympic champion's name, erected a memorial in his honor and built a tourism industry around it, are promising a battle.
"We want dad buried where he wanted to be buried," said his youngest son, Jack Thorpe, 63, a former Sac ...
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