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A priceless theft at the Alamo?
Mystery swirls around Texas
Declaration of Independence
CultureMap [Houston, TX], by Tyler Rudick
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Posted By:Four_Leaf Resident, 11/19/2012 12:48:32 PM
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| Not since Pee-wee Herman asked to see the basement at the Alamo have workers at the Texas landmark witnessed this much confusion. The San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) is investigating a possible theft from an Alamo office, where some believe an original copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence was swapped with a fake. Here´s the catch — leaders at the historic site never knew this original copy of the document ever existed. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) — which currently runs daily operations at the Alamo complex —
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Comments:
Wow.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 11/19/2012 12:54:00 PM (No. 9023803)
Not a problem. See the White House office of fake documentation. I think there may even be a Czar for that. Their talented staff can whip you out a replacement that will look good enough to fool millions of people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
texaspast, 11/19/2012 1:05:58 PM (No. 9023822)
There was a book titled ´Texfake´about how some well-known Texas book and document dealers were engaged in the faking and/or stealing of high-priced Texas books and documents. It is a big-money market - lots of well-heeled collectors chasing a limited supply of items.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ribicon, 11/19/2012 1:15:37 PM (No. 9023846)
Was Wonderful Sandy Berger in town? He´s one of the privileged few who are allowed to get away with such things.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 11/19/2012 1:43:35 PM (No. 9023895)
Does this mean that someone messed with Texas?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
offrope, 11/19/2012 2:00:20 PM (No. 9023927)
Check the basement. Other stolen items, notably old fashioned bicycles, are reputed to be in the basement of the Alamo.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dadofboys, 11/19/2012 2:25:46 PM (No. 9023977)
Its probably near other stolen treasures, like American Freedom and Pride and the Rule of Law as embodied in the Constitution.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kurto, 11/19/2012 3:39:25 PM (No. 9024094)
What´s missing is likely a thirty year old photocopy...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
greg1a, 11/19/2012 4:13:37 PM (No. 9024153)
#5-That was good. But according to my daughter, when she was little, said "Daddy, the Alamo doesn´t have a basement.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ChazzPalm, 11/19/2012 4:19:01 PM (No. 9024158)
A DRT in 1969 who heard me speaking with another ´Yankee´ PhD historian as we walked around the Alamo, in our USAF officer´s uniforms, decided our Yankee accent was ´offensive´ and had a Texas Ranger escort us out of the Alamo....They were a lovely bunch---would that they paid more attention to artifacts rather than accents!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
get er done, 11/19/2012 5:05:26 PM (No. 9024219)
Was this theft "revenge" or retaliation for Texan´s petition to secede?
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