The most interesting thing about this controversy is the degree of heat it still generates. Now, as an outsider, I wonder why. Is it a belief that so pure a soul as Jefferson would have remained entirely chaste in the forty-odd years of life left to him after the death of his wife? Is it a denial of the possibility that Jefferson failed to acknowledge biological children? Or is this simply the old Southern attitude, that so high a character would not have contaminated himself by having sexual inter- course with a woman who was in part African? > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:01:13 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: 11/15: LVA Book Talk - Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla> To: [log in to unmask]> > I sure am glad I don't live close enough to Richmond and the speech and the > author would hear some words from me. It has been proven to me and most around > Monticello who go there often as we used to do when living in Va. that DNA > proved Sally Hemings was not a descendant of one of our best and most > brilliant Presidents is being besmerched by a person who is not worth the paper his > writing are written on. > > We had very lengthy disgussions on this subject quite a number of years ago > and its time to stop this. The author and some of other so called investagators > of history have done great damage to a fine and brilliant President. I resent > this so called author's reporting after all the investigative reporting more > than 10 years ago. What an ego to think he knows more than all those people. > > Sarah Browder in Texas, a former Virginia resident. > > > > **************************************> See what's new at http://www.aol.com _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033