Geronimo's Skull

A court case filed last week, which includes Obama as the defendant accuses the Yale's secret society the Skull and Bones of grave robbing and possessing the skull of Geronimo. The Apache tribe decided to file the suit for the 100th anniversary of the death of Geronimo. CNN has investigated the mystery and uncovered a 1918 letter from a member, a bonesman, citing the skull was placed in 'the tomb.' CNN has repeated that Senator Prescott Bush, father of President Bush, was one of the grave robbers. “It’s been 100 years since the death of my great-grandfather in 1909. It’s been 100 years of ... Read Full Story

A group of descendants of the Apache leader Geronimo is suing to stop another descendant from moving the American Indian icon's bones from Oklahoma to New Mexico. Philip Thompson, an attorney for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, says his group and 18 members of a man claiming to be a great-grandson of Geronimo filed motions Tuesday to request that the remains be undisturbed. The move comes in response to a lawsuit filed in February by Harlyn Geronimo, who also claims to be a great-grandson of Geronimo. He wants to ship the remains from Fort Sill — where Geronimo died in 1909 — ... Read Full Story

(Photo by Getty Images/Skull added via Photoshop skillz by JJ) Did George W. Bush 's grandfather steal Geronimo's skull from his casket? The Apache warrior's descendants think so. Prescott S. Bush is rumored to have stolen Geronimo's skull. (From NYTimes.com) Geronimo's heirs are suing Skull and Bones, the secret society at Yale University that could possibly be in possession of his skull. They believe Bush's grandfather, Prescott S. Bush, broke into and desecrated Geronimo's final resting place at Fort Sill, OK, in 1918. Geronimo died of pneumonia and was buried on the army base in 1908 after being captured in 1886. Legend has it ... Read Full Story

This video is from CNN's American Morning , broadcast Feb. 24, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com RAW STORY - David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster While it has long been rumored that Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society which counts several scions of the Bush family as members, holds the skull of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, his descendants have taken action to uncover the truth. Last week, on the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death, 20 members of his family filed a suit in a US federal court, asking that his spirit and physical remains, including his skull, be freed. Tuesday morning, CNN's Debra ... Read Full Story

The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen by members of a secret society at Yale University. The government filed the motion June 10 to oppose a lawsuit filed in February by 20 of Geronimo's descendants, who want to rebury the warrior near his birthplace in southern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. Geronimo died in 1909. The lawsuit alleges that Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep in its New Haven, Conn., ... Read Full Story