26, 1986, Jonathan Bush and Davison attempted to hand over a skull.
SKULL AND BONES GERONIMO SERIES
Relating the story of how the vice president's father engaged in a "mad expedition" at Fort Sill, a 1933 Skull and Bones History of Our Order says, "An axe pried open the iron door of the its most spectacular 'crook,' the skull of Geronimo the terrible, the Indian chief who had taken 49 white scalps."Īnderson said that after obtaining the account and a photo of the skull as it is displayed at society headquarters from a Skull and Bones member he would not identify, he went to New York City to meet with Jonathan Bush and Davison, in an attempt to retrieve the remains.Īfter a series of meetings, Anderson said, on Sept. Its members include a long list of prominent government and business leaders, and the club steadfastly refuses to discuss its rituals or to make membership lists public. Skull and Bones is one of several elite secret societies at Yale dating from the 19th century. "The whole thing is ridiculous," he said. Jonathan Bush told the Associated Press this week the whole story "is so preposterous" that he would not comment. A spokesman for Bush said the vice president's office had not replied. The El Paso group nevertheless wrote to George Bush asking the vice president to help return the skull to Mexico. Davison, a lawyer for the society, denied that allegation in an interview with The Arizona Republic. Last month a group of history buffs in El Paso, Tex., insisted that Skull and Bones members paid an American adventurer $25,000 to steal the skull of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa from his grave in Chihuahua.Įndicott P. "I concluded at the time that he, Bush, probably did not want to meet with me because he knew I was going to raise the Geronimo issue," Anderson told Udall in a February letter requesting a congressional probe into "this bizarre, atrocious desecration." John McCain (R-Ariz.) tried to help by attempting to set up a meeting with the vice president two years ago when Bush was in Phoenix, but a meeting failed to come off. He showed documents from Skull and Bones, into which all three Bushes were initiated, that spell out in detail what Prescott Bush and his friends did that night 70 years ago.Īnderson said Sen. In September 1986, Anderson said, Jonathan Bush, the vice president's brother, tried to return the skull and other relics to Anderson in New York City after the Apache leader pointed out that tribal members regard the remains as sacred. Bush led the grave robbers and took Geronimo's skull to hang on the clubhouse wall. Anderson says documents from Skull and Bones, a student and alumni club, show that George Bush's father Prescott S. Morris Udall (D-Ariz.) to open a congressional investigation into the matter.
Ned Anderson, who led the tribe from 1978 to 1986, wants Rep. Army in 1909, Vice President Bush's father and other young officers broke into his tomb at Fort Sill, Okla., and made off with his skull as a trophy for Yale's secretive Skull and Bones Society. A San Carlos Apache leader has charged that a few years after the Indian chief Geronimo was buried by the U.S.
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