Maggie's Farm

Isn't it fairly common knowledge that it was Ted Kennedy's War on Joan that drove his wife to drink?

Re: Elizabeth Warren, from the linked article

“While you cling to a family story and the inaccurate report that ONE document was found that supports your claim, we real Cherokees understand that those things mean nothing,” Barnes writes in the letter. “You see, for us Cherokees, this is not political. This is about the truth.”

Actually, NO document has been found to support Warren's claim of Indian ancestry. The document in question, which ASSERTS but in no way validates such a claim, is a private genealogy newsletter of a family in Britain, in which a single sentence alludes to the possibility that O.C. Smith, Warren's great-great-great-grandmother may have been a full-blooded Cherokee. This conjecture appears in a single sentence of the newsletter without any formal substantiation. And of course there is other historical evidence that's been unearthed, including official records, which makes such a claim highly implausible, not the least of which is the fact that O. C. Smith's husband was a member of the Tennessee militia that helped to round up the Cherokees so they could be permanently exiled to Oklahoma. If O. C. Smith had been a full-blooded Cherokee, she would have been expelled along with fellow tribe members, forced to join the infamous march Westward, and not allowed to remain in Tennessee.