- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Coroner James C. Metts with the skeletal remains thought to be Casimir Pulaski, 1998
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1998-09-14
- Subject:
- Forensic sciences
Cemeteries
War casualties
Skeleton - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, 31.97402, -81.09243
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983 - Medium:
- color negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Printed on negative envelope: "Dr. James C. Metts Jr. Chatham County Coroner. 1998-09-14. Staff Photo by Bill Hendrick." Printed on assignment sheet: "Sleuth 1: Savannah, Ga. Dr. James C. Metts Jr., Chatham County coroner, is called almost daily when murders or other mysterious deaths occurs. He is the person who orders autopsies, and he's attending one here for a 23 year old man who had been shot to death the night before. He is watching and giving directions to Dr. Michael Ladwig, the pathologist (right), and Michael Gregory, the morgue attendant at St. Josephs/Candler Health Systems, a Savannah Hospital. Sleuth 2: Savannah, Ga. The bones of Count Pulaski? Dr. James Metts Jr. carefully handles bones thought to be those of Revolutionary War hero Gen. Casimir Pulaski at GBI Crime Lab in Savannah. Metts is the county coroner. Sleuth 3: Savannah, Ga. Dr. James C. Metts Jr., Chatham County coroner, holds the skull believed to be that of County Casimir Pulaski, a Revolutionary War hero killed in the Battle of Savannah in 1779 whose remains were found in a crumbling monument. Metts is leading a delegation to Poland on September 19 to collect DNA from a descendant of Pulaski to make a positive identification. The bones are stored at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in Savannah. Sleuth 4: Savannah, Ga. Dr. James C. Metts Jr., Chatham County coroner, works 12 hour days and donates much of his earnings to charities. Here he signs forms after making rounds seeing many elderly patients at a local nursing home. At left is nurse Patty Thompson, who made rounds with him."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/13759
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:13759/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Items may be used for scholarship, educational, and personal use. Additional uses will require permission of the rights holder.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCNS1998-09-14-01b, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive;
Photographic Collections; - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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