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PICTURE SITUATIONS FOR LOOK MAGAZINE

PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER THE NAME [[strikethrough]]JMI,[[/strikethrough]]JIM THORPE
Show little Indian kid looking up at portrait [[strikethrough]] Governor Dewy Bartlett Grace Thorpe with Charles[[on?]]k Wolson, artist looking up at [[his 9?]][[/strikethrough]]
Dad's 9 foot portrait in the Capital Rotunda, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Portrait was unveiled June 68- all Thorpe children attended

Gail Thorpe showing some of Dad's Olympic medals, Chicago, Illinois
(To be donated to a suitable museum) eldest daughter- first marriage

Jim Thorpe Day, "May 10, 1969, Carlisle Pennsylvania
The first, if successful to be an annual event, sponsored by the Carlisle Junior Chamber Of Commerce. Gus Welch, teammate of Dad is due to attend. Mr. Wardecker, Blumenthals Mens Store has a large collection of old pictures. Large, concrete marker in Village Square reads: In recognition of the athletic achievements of JIM Thorpe Student of the Carlisle Indian School, Olympic Champion at Stockholm in 1912 and in 1950 voted the greatest athlete and football player of the first half of the 20th century.

Grace Thorpe talking with Mother, taking notes for forthcoming book on the personal life of Jim Thorpe. Hawthorne, California. Second wife: Freeda
Iva Margaret Miller, first wife- Grade Thorpe, daughter FIRST MARRIAGE

Town of Yale, Oklahoma recently purchased Old homestead, where Jim Thorpe lived with his first wife, Gail and Grace were born there. State of Oklahoma has agreed to furnish and supply a curator for a JIM THORPE museum there.

Dick Thorpe shown collecting memorabilia for the Jim Thorpe Memorial museum to open summer 1969, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Near Sac and Fox Indian
DICK IS A SON OF JIM THORPE- SECOND MARRIAGE

Show pictures of town sign....Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.... 
Dad is buried in a crypt there. Townspeople changed name of town from Mauch Chunk to Jim Thorpe, in order for him to be buried there. They had hoped his burial there would prove to be a tourist attraction.