Description: News conference will focus on Meriwether Lewis exhumation effortTwo collateral descendants of famed explorer Meriwether Lewis (co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) will join a member of the Meriwether Lewis legal team and a member of the Meriwether Lewis scientific team to discuss the latest developments in the "Solve the Mystery" exhumation campaign.
Since 1996, dozens of collateral descendants of Meriwether Lewis have been seeking federal permission for his remains to be exhumed from a grave in Tennessee and scientifically studied. The goal: Determine, once and for all, whether Meriwether Lewis committed suicide or was murdered. The 200th anniversary of Meriwether Lewis' death is Oct. 11, 2009.
Participants:
Kirsten Nathanson, partner at Washington, D.C., law firm Crowell & Moring LLP.
Thomas C. McSwain Jr. of Shepherdstown, W.Va., collateral descendant of Meriwether Lewis.
Howell Lewis Bowen of Charlottesville, Va., collateral descendant of Meriwether Lewis.
Dr. Hugh Berryman, principal investigator for the Meriwether Lewis scientific team. He is director of the Forensic Institute for Research and Education and a research professor at Middle Tennessee State University.
Additional details are available at: www.solvethemystery.org
Sponsored by:Elizabeth Christian & Associates Public Relations
Location: Murrow Room
This event is not affiliated with the National Press Club or the Eric Friedheim Library.
