Search finds 3 more Tulsa Race Massacre victims with gun wounds

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https://www.voanews.com/a/search-finds-3-more-tulsa-race-massacre-victims-with-gun-wounds/7746519.html

Search finds 3 more Tulsa Race Massacre victims with gun wounds

August 17, 2024 11:04 AM
By Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA —
The latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has ended with three more sets containing gunshot wounds, investigators said Friday.

The three are among 11 sets of remains exhumed during the latest excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery, state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said.

“Two of those gunshot victims display evidence of munitions from two different weapons,” Stackelbeck said. “The third individual who is a gunshot victim also displays evidence of burning.”

Forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield, who will remain on site to examine the remains, said one victim suffered bullet and shotgun wounds while the second was shot with two different caliber bullets.

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[70sEraVet]

1. But.......

Won't digging up all of that horrible past make some white people feel ashamed?

Horrible. Our very own 'Kristallnacht', and we'd best remember it, lest we sink to that depth again.

[3auld6phart]

2. Yes

A distinct possibility. It seems to me the way the maggots are making threats if the orange slug loses the upcoming election.

[willamette]

3. It turns out that there were a lot

of these USAmerican pogroms. I just read (listened, actually) to a series by Dr. Annette Laing on Substack about one in Decatur Georgia, and at the end of the second part, there is a list of several others that I'd never heard about. It seems to have been a favorite pastime, perhaps whilst singing "How Dare They" at the top of their lungs while beating, shooting, lynching, and setting afire.