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Dec. 26th, 2004 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krazykitkatJust finished this:
No Bone Unturned by Jeff Benedict
The description from Amazon does a better job than I could.
A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. But the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington's Columbia River, was a find that would turn Owsley's life upside down.
Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton, the government seized it to bury Kennewick Man's bones on the land of the Native American tribes who claimed him. Along with other leading scientists, Owsley sued the U.S. government over custody. Concerned that knowledge about our past and our history would be lost forever if the bones were reburied, Owsley fought a legal and political battle for six years, putting everything at risk, jeopardizing his career and his reputation.
Highly highly recommended.
Intriguing read. Over half of the book deals with the legal battle against the US government (absolutely unbelievable actions by the Army Corps, Justice and Interior Departments).
A strong stomach is needed, his work on the victims of the Waco fire was particularly difficult to read. I know the government came in for a lot of flack, but I have no doubt after reading this that Koresh was the only one to blame. The children could've been put in a safe place (there was plenty of underground tunnel areas where they would've survived), but he deliberately put them in the munitions bunker where he knew they'd die horribly. Then the coward went to another area and had one of his people shoot him in the head. Made me so angry.
No Bone Unturned by Jeff Benedict
The description from Amazon does a better job than I could.
A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. But the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington's Columbia River, was a find that would turn Owsley's life upside down.
Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton, the government seized it to bury Kennewick Man's bones on the land of the Native American tribes who claimed him. Along with other leading scientists, Owsley sued the U.S. government over custody. Concerned that knowledge about our past and our history would be lost forever if the bones were reburied, Owsley fought a legal and political battle for six years, putting everything at risk, jeopardizing his career and his reputation.
Highly highly recommended.
Intriguing read. Over half of the book deals with the legal battle against the US government (absolutely unbelievable actions by the Army Corps, Justice and Interior Departments).
A strong stomach is needed, his work on the victims of the Waco fire was particularly difficult to read. I know the government came in for a lot of flack, but I have no doubt after reading this that Koresh was the only one to blame. The children could've been put in a safe place (there was plenty of underground tunnel areas where they would've survived), but he deliberately put them in the munitions bunker where he knew they'd die horribly. Then the coward went to another area and had one of his people shoot him in the head. Made me so angry.
