Crews exhume 3 burials in latest search for Tulsa Race Massacre victims

Field experts searching Oaklawn Cemetery for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre exhumed three new burials, as the sixth season of excavation continues.

“Total so far this season, we have documented 32 new grave shafts from undocumented graves that were previously not known or previously not in any of the records that we have from the city,” said State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.

Three of those burials were exhumed on Oct. 13 for further examination…

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