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Geronimo's Skull

Why is this a story?

“I believe strongly from my heart that his spirit was never released,” Geronimo’s great-grandson Harlyn Geronimo, 61, told reporters Tuesday at the National Press Club.

The allegation is that the skull in the glass case at the infamous Skull & Bones fraternity at Yale, isn't just called Geronimo, it actually is Geronimo's.

This is "bat-faced boy" stuff, but apparently taken seriously by the National Press Club and the New York Times. What gives?


Geronimo died a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1909. A longstanding tradition among members of Skull and Bones holds that Prescott S. Bush — father of President George Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush — broke into the grave with some classmates during World War I and made off with the skull, two bones, a bridle and some stirrups, all of which were put on display at the group’s clubhouse in New Haven, known as the Tomb.

OK, now I get it. The evil Bushes did the dirty deed.

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