L’histoire de la politique aux Ètats Unis - le gouverneur qui porte des chaussures en peau d’homme à sa cérémonie d’investiture
John Eugene Osborne
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John Eugene Osborne (June 19, 1858 – April 24, 1943) was an American physician, farmer, banker and Democratic politician. He was the third Governor of Wyoming after the Wyoming Territory attained statehood in 1890.
Après le lynchage du bandit George Parrott le docteur Osborne et sa collègue Lillian Nelson se partagent ce qui reste de la victime après son autopsie. Osborne fait tanner la peau du défunt pour en faire faire des chaussures, elle garde son crâne quelle expose comme cendrier sur son bureau.
L’autopsie se fait après un lynchage d’une brutalité extraordinaire qui fait perdre les oreilles à la victime pendant sa lutte contre la pendaison. Elle a pour but de déterminer si le cerveau du malfaiteur montre des particularités propres aux criminels. Cette perspective situe les docteurs américains dans une droite lignée avec les docteurs Mengele et Wirths qui font des expériences sur des détenus dans les camps nazis.
Big Nose George
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Bill Nye, editor of the Laramie Boomerang, reported the hanging of Big Nose:
A letter written from the east and addressed to this office asks if we can give any information as to the whereabouts of Big Nose George. We cannot give any definite information, but the last seen of him he was standing on a flour barrel near a telegraph pole, and a man with a stopwatch was standing near him and preparing to kick the flour barrel from under him. It is thought that the man with abnormal nasal protuberance has gone somewhere by telegraph.
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Following the execution, local physicians, John E. Osborne, Thomas Maghee, and Lillian Nelson, the first woman physician in Wyoming, conducted an autopsy for the purpose of determining whether there were any visible criminal abnormalities in Big Nose’s brain. In examining the brain it was necessary to cut off the skull cap which Dr. Nelson later used as an ashtray and doorstop before it found repose in the Union Pacific Museum in Omaha. Dr. Osborne had Big Nose’s hide tanned and made into a medical bag and a pair of shoes now in the Carbon County Museum, photo below right. The rest of Big Nose’s remains were kept in a whiskey barrel which after several years was buried near Dr. Osborne’s medical office.
Big Nose George Parrott
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His skin was made into a pair of shoes after his execution and part of his skull was used as an ashtray.
De nos jours on exploite toujours ce qui reste de Big Nose George.
The mortal remains of Big Nose George Parrott, Carbon County Museum
Rediscovery
The death of Big Nose George faded into history over the years until May 11, 1950, when construction workers unearthed a whiskey barrel filled with bones while working on the Rawlins National Bank on Cedar Street in Rawlins. Inside the barrel was a skull with the top sawed off, a bottle of vegetable compound, and the shoes said to have been made from Parrott’s thigh flesh.[18] Dr. Lillian Heath, then in her eighties, was contacted and her skull cap was sent to the scene. It was found to fit the skull in the barrel perfectly, and DNA testing later confirmed the remains were those of Big Nose George. Today the shoes made from the skin of Big Nose George are on permanent display at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins, together with the bottom part of the outlaw’s skull and Big Nose George’s earless death mask.[9] The shackles used during the hanging of the outlaw, as well as the skull cap, are on show at the Union Pacific Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The medicine bag made from his skin has never been found.
D’après Eugen Kogon l’exploitation des victimes de la SS était totale, et s’étendait alors au delà de leur mort. On se souvient des cheveux coupés des prisonniers mis en vente par la SS et de l’abat-jour en peau d’homme du commandant de camp. L’exemple étatsunien ne concerne qu’une seule personne, mais la question éthique à poser est la même : Est-ce acceptable d’exploiter le corps d’un homme mise à mort cruellement, surtout si ses restes font preuve d’un mépris extrème à son égard ?
Eugen Kogon
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Kogon
Eduard Wirths
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Wirths
Josef Mengele
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
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