Article: The mystery of Marshall Mathers ; Eminem's connections to St. Joe may need refreshing

St. Joseph is a city that takes pride in its famous and historic figures. It's a city that boasts the birth of the Pony Express and the death of Jesse James. It's a place Walter Cronkite and Jane Wyman once called home. Coleman Hawkins has been immortalized with a bronze statue on Felix Street. Heck, some football fans would even argue that Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder is the most notable person from our fair town.

Um, what about Eminem?

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in St. Joseph in 1972, yet there's no Slim Shady Museum downtown. He lived in public housing and attended middle school in Savannah, Mo., as a child, but there are no records of it. The time Mathers spent in the ...

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