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Article: The mystery of Marshall Mathers ; Eminem's connections to St. Joe may need refreshing
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- St. Joseph News-Press
- Article date:
- August 14, 2009
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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 ...