"Mobituaries": The final resting place of sports superstar Jim Thorpe
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2023
- Correspondent Mo Rocca investigates how Jim Thorpe, once celebrated as America's greatest athlete, ended up buried in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, a town in which he never set foot. [Don't miss Rocca's podcast "Mobituaries," available wherever you stream or download your podcasts.]
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My parents and I visit Jim Thorpe all the time and it’s such a beautiful place! It always looks beautiful in the winter when snow is on the mountains!
🙂Jim Thorpe may have been the greatest athlete but his personal life was a sad ending.😕
Definitely
RIP legend 🐐 Jim Thorpe 🙏
Your "Mobituary" regarding Jim Thorpe the athlete and the town in PA named after him was touching and important, both for its Native American focus but also, for me personally. I grew up there and have maintained our family homestead on the Northern part of the town. The point of this feedback is to emphasize some important issues regarding "Mauch Chunk", the town's original name.
Geographically it is pivotal. With the Lehigh River flowing through its five mountains, the three boroughs intersect with a lot of history. The native tribe, the Lenape, named the area "Mauch Chunk", or "Bear Mountain" since the main mountain looks like a "sleeping bear"., Across town to the West is Mount Pisgah, cone shaped, where anthracite / hard coal was discovered in North America, leading to a long history of coal mining to the west and a series of canals and train services. Flagstaff Mtn to the South is a high ridge with a pavillion that was the venue for the famous Dorsey Brothers in the big band era. Broad Mtn and the first Pocono mtn round out the Northwest aspects of the town leading to Pocono resorts. Nearby is a large waterfalls, Glen Onoko, with a fascinating history of its own.
The economic history is also important. With the founding of coal and its transportation system, the town housed the important Packer family with their mansions with treasures of the mid-nineteenth century. Their church, St Marks, is also a treasure cove. While it was a rail hub for decades, it is interesting that the return of the steam trains is now a major tourist attraction as is the main street, Broadway, with buildings like the Dimmick Library.
As with many towns in the area, many of us are 2nd/3rd generation immigrants.. hard working and proud to be Americans. I also have been fortunate, having an Air Force career with extensive foreign travel; it's rare to find someone who does not know our town.
Dr. Larry Perin
We are American Indians - I'm not a native
I love every one of these. Remember the Burt Lancaster movie so much as a kid. I’m glad you shined one more light on his wonderful life.
The real greatest of all time ,🇺🇲
I love Mo's hairstyle!
That’s my hometown 😊
I was in Jim Thorpe and Poconos and didn't know they were so near to each other.
Please post the actual podcast link
Fascinating
Jim deserves a biopic (hopefully less dull and reverential than Flowers of Killer Moon).
In high school in Oklahoma thorpe was 2d best athlete in his school.
He had a bigger faster teammate. According to teacher there, Doc Harrington, who later taught me in high school chemistry in Albuquerque in 1969
What happened to that other guy? Also an Indian.
Anita takes after Jim well enough. Thank you for sharing.
This was a great story
First nation beast💯💯💯✌🏽
What This story doesn't tell, is how the family wants him back in Oklahoma and buried on tribal land.
He discusses that in the full podcast.
Mr. Thorpe should be returned to his birthplace. Enough of this sweeping under the rug this despicable treatment of Native Americans. The children of the Carlisle Indian School is another shameful story that should be corrected.
I agree... clearly he was being used for their gain. A bunch of vultures. It's disgusting... this is the 21st century. A lumber company took my grandfather's house during the great depression because they were in debted to them. A lumber company from Pennsylvania for that matter. The depression hit the farmers the hardest. Imagine having your home taken during the great depression. Nice huh.
I felt so sorry (and ashamed as a white man) for the tremendous racial discrimination Thorpe suffered through his entire life. Not to mention the humiliating roles in movies of horribly stereotyped Native Americans. It was "shameful." But, hey, it was no different than how virtually all people "of color" were treated. To rob "the greatest athlete in the world" of medals because of a technicality (which happened just once, for one summer, to feed his family, never warned not to) should be remembered as one of the most reprehensible realities in American history.
I mean that’s cool but he’s buried in a strange land?!?! Such a great video until the end, he should be buried in his homelands
Thorpe was the last of the great athletes who played college football, ran track, play baseball, won gold medals in the olympics. No other has done what Jim did. Bo Jackson did not, there was no other like Thorpe.
See also Glen Campbell, Pennsylvania (not named after the singer)
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For fun in Oklahoma, Thorpe and his good friend, bigger and faster than Thorpe!, wd run around the grounds at school jumping up and off big boulders. An obstacle course dance they did. For recreation and fun
Thorpe was not as good then at this game they played as his bigger faster teammate.
What happened to that other guy?
The goat athlete that is better than Ali and bo and jordan.
Tourism is suffocating this town.
Something seems kind of off and disrespectful about these segments. Using "Mobituaries" to trivialize and take ownership of some person's death for a story.
Did they move his body as planned?
Well… that’s 4:29 of my life shot to hell
Oh come on
Really Mo?! Do you really think folks are gonna listen to a podcast for the story?? HARD NOPE
do better CBS news
Cool, a trailer for a podcast 🫠
Sorry
Big no