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History Detectives: Cemetery Alarm
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Wes Cowan, star of PBS'
History Detectives
, and Scott Gampfer, Director of History Collections & Preservation Coordinator for the Cincinnati Museum Center, discuss a recent episode featuring a cemetery alarm with 91.7WVXU News Director Maryanne Zeleznick. Cincinnati was a hotbed of illegal exhumation in the late 19th century and the John Scott Harrison case which brought about legislation ending grave robbing originated here. Photographs provided courtesy of Cincinnati Museum Center.
Recorded 6/10/2009 at CET
Length: 11 minutes