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Sep 30, 2023 · Updated 7:59 AM PDT, September 30, 2023. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 59 graves found and seven sets of remains exhumed, according to Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.
Sep 16, 2023 · CNN — The remains of two adults have been found in an archaeological dig at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, amid efforts to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre....
Sep 30, 2023 · The seven exhumed remains will be reburied in their original grave sites after the forensic analysis is complete and any DNA is collected, according to a news release from the city of Tulsa.
Sep 15, 2023 · Researchers and burial oversight committee member Brenda Alford, third from left, carry the first set of remains exhumed from the latest dig site in Oaklawn Cemetery to an onsite lab for further examination Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 in Tulsa, Okla. They are searching for vicims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Aug 16, 2024 · tulsa, okla. (KTUL) — The City of Tulsa held an update on the fourth excavation in the 1921 graves investigation at Oaklawn Cemetery. The update comes after four weeks of fieldwork.
Sep 29, 2023 · State archeologist Dr. Kary Stackelbeck and forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield updated the media on Friday detailing what their teams have found. “We have uncovered and delineated and mapped in 59 additional graves, all but two of which were previously unmarked,” Stackelbeck said.
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Aug 3, 2024 · A third set of remains with a gunshot wound has been found at Tulsa cemetery in the search for graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, according to a state official.
