[ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby in tucson, arizona. Wagon trains used to pass right through here on their way to california during the gold rush, and one of the roughandready pioneers who helped settle this area left behind a very strange inheritance. Im here to get the skinny on it. My names jock taylor. In 2009, i inherited a wooden trunk full of family heirlooms going back more than a century. Now im told i could pocket a small fortune. I meet jock, a 60yearold electrical engineer, at his home here in tucson. Hi, im jamie. Im jock. I heard you have something very unusual from your greatgreat grandfather. I certainly do. Come on in. Jock shows me that inheritance an old trunk thats been passed down through the family for more than a century. The trunk contained the family bible, a very ornate saddle blanket, a pair of old jeans jeans . Who keeps jeans . Theyve been in the trunk for so long, i dont think that my mother really knew what else to do with them. According
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L’ouverture d’un testament et la lecture des dernières volontés cachent parfois des surprises au-delà de l’entendement.
Mêmes décédées, certaines personnes peuvent encore faire preuve de tendresse, d’humour, d’excentricité ou de folie. Dans la lignée du documentaire de TF1 «Cadeaux empoisonnés : héritages et galères ?» (diffusé ce dimanche à 14h50 dans «Reportages découverte»), focus sur des dernières volontés qui ont fait frissonner leurs bénéficiaires.
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Certains héritages véhiculent poésie et doux parfum de reconnaissance. Ce fut le cas pour Mary Livingtson, veuve de l’humoriste et acteur américain Jack Benny («Un monde fou, fou, fou»). Il choisit de lui laisser un souvenir tendre en incluant une instruction fleurie à son testament : qu’une rose rouge lui soit livrée chaque jour. La promesse fut tenue en 1974, à la mort de Benny. Le fleuriste passa chez Mary jusqu’à son décès en 1983.