Magazine story on the controversy of Jim Thorpe's burial site

SHADY SHORES, TX - FEBRUARY 23, 2012: Bill Thorpe, a resident of Arlington, TX, is the oldest living son of famed football player Jim Thorpe. During this visit to the home of Bill's best friend, Robert Wheeler, Bill brought over some artwork and pictures of his father. Robert Wheeler, a resident of Shady Shores, a town in Denton County, TX, wrote a biography of Jim Thorpe. Robert Wheeler and his wife Florence were almost entirely responsible back in the late 1970s for getting Thorpe's Olympic medals restored. Jim Thorpe, an American athlete of mixed ancestry (Caucasian and Native American), was considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports. Jim Thorpe, Penn. has Jim Thorpe's burial site and a statue erected to him. In 2010, Bill's brother, John "Jack" Thorpe (who passed away on Feb. 22, 2011), filed a lawsuit against Jim Thorpe, Pa., in hopes to get his father's remains back to Oklahoma on an Indian reservation. (Photo by Mei-Chun Jau for The Washington Post via Getty Images)