Memphis exhumes body of Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from city park
by Associated Press in Memphis from on (#5JH6W)
- Remains of Confederate general and wife will be relocated
- Forrest owned enslaved people and led the Ku Klux Klan
Workers have begun digging up the remains of a Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and moving the former slave trader's body from a park in Memphis, Tennessee, to a museum hundreds of miles away.
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