been stored at the school of mines. my first contact with mr. maurice williams was when he came to aberdeen for a series of meetings to discuss what he should do with this fossil. the idea that i had was to convene like a panel of paleontologists to do an in-depth study of this fossil with the hopes that it would end up in a museum somewhere. but in the meantime, while this is being discussed, mr. williams decided that he would rather sell the fossil. morris williams had a stack of proposals from all sorts of people, all over the place. i mean, everybody wanted it. i called up morris and i said, i m going to come out to south dakota if you want and i ll visit with you. and he said great. and i actually visited the boxes in which sue was located in the south dakota school of mines.
since sue was seized by federal agents in 1992, the fossil has been stored at the school of mines. my first contact with mr. morris williams is when he came to aberdeen for a series of meetings to discuss what he should do with this fossil. the idea that i had was to convene like a panel of paleontologists to do an in-depth study of this fossil with the hopes that it would end up in a museum somewhere. but in the meantime, while this is being discussed, mr. williams decided that he would rather sell the fossil. morris williams had a stack of proposals from all sorts of people, all over the place. everybody wanted it. i called up morris and i said, i can come out to south dakota if you want and i ll visit with you. and he said, great, and actually visited the boxes in which sue
visited the boxes in which sue was located in the south dakota school of mines. with morris s family, who had never actually been there, this is the first time they d actually seen sue. what one really saw inside that sort of garage area was extraordinary, almost citizen kaine vision of boxes and boxes and boxes. we talked about the responsibility involved in doling with this extraordinary fossil. nothing quite like it had ever been sold before. it had to go to the right place. but adjudicating which place was the right place was complicated. and the auction process could help resolve that. we re going into court. we d already had an indication
several papers. since sue was seized in 1992, the fossil has been stored at the school of mines. he came to aberdeen for a series of meetings to discuss what he should do with this fossil. the idea that i had was to convene, like, a panel of paleontologists to do an in depth study of this fossil with the hope it would end up in a museum somewhere. but in the meantime, while this is being discussed, mr. williams decided that he would rather sell the fossil. morris williams had a stack of proposals from all sorts of people all over the place. everybody wanted it. i called up morris and said i m going to come out to south dakota if you want, and i ll visit with you. and he said great, and actually
of proposals from all sorts of people, all over the place. everybody wanted it. i called up morris and i said, i can come out to south dakota if you want and i ll visit with you. and he said, great, and actually visited the boxes in which sue was located in the south dakota school of mines. with morris family, who had never actually been there, this is the first time they d actually seen sue. what one really saw inside that sort of garage area was extraordinary, almost citizen cane vigil of boxes and boxes and boxes. morris and i had numerous conversations. we talked about the responsibility involved in dealing with this extraordinary fossil. nothing quite like it had ever been sold before. it had to go to the right place, but adjudicating which place was the right place was complicated and the auction process, in fact, could help resolve that. we re going into court. we d already had an indication that the judge wasn t too pleased with us, because we d asked him to recuse himself.