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Strange saga of stolen $500,000 Confederate chair baffles Selma
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest.
How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds? Who was the group “White Lies Matter” that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn’t ask for money, but included threats of a scatological nature? And how did the chair end up 300 miles (480 kilometers) away in New Orleans?
Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town
by Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 28, 2021 12:56 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 12:58 pm EDT
SELMA, Ala. It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest.
How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group “White Lies Matter” that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn’t ask for money, but included threats of a scatological nature? And how did the chair end up 300 miles (480 kilometres) away in New Orleans?
Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana April 28, 2021 - 9:56 AM
SELMA, Ala. - Itâs not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest.
How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group âWhite Lies Matter that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn t ask for money, but included threats of a scatological nature? And how did the chair end up 300 miles (480 kilometres) away in New Orleans?
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