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Article: You can take Jim Thorpe out of Jim Thorpe but you...
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- The News Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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What do Tammy Stand By Your Man Wynette and Johann Wolfgang Faust von Goethe have in common? Much, much more than we might have been led to believe.
Tammy and the Wolf are on the roster of famous people who have been ceremoniously exhumed from their supposed final resting place for one reason or another.
Joining them in a rather mismatched gallery of stars are such luminaries as slain Russian czar Nicholas II (and his family), Dr. Sam Sheppard, supposedly murdered U.S. President Zachary Taylor and supposed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
Will Jim Thorpe join the club? The question was posed this week when an Associated Press story reported that three of the legendary athlete's ...