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In a DNA breakthrough after 200 years, Thomas Jefferson's hair links him to Sally Hemings' children

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Thomas Jefferson in an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart

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  1. New York Post

    DNA test on Thomas Jefferson’s hair provides ‘extraordinary proof’ he fathered kids with slave Sally Hemings — other chilling other breakthroughs (opens New York Post)

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    Speculation that Jefferson had children with his slave has swirled since the early 19th century, but now, after 15 years of work, the team of archaeologists, genealogists, molecular geneticists and historians say they have proven the link.

  2. KBRW

    New DNA analysis adds evidence Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings (opens KBRW)

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    A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.

  3. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    In a DNA breakthrough after 200 years, Thomas Jefferson's hair links him to Sally Hemings' children (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    Thomas Jefferson in an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart

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