Eugene Foster, 81; found genetic link between Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings

Friday, July 25, 2008 - 02:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Eugene Foster, the retired pathologist who orchestrated the DNA testing that showed Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of the children of slave Sally Hemings, died Monday at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, according to his son-in-law Brian Pusser. He was 81.

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