Authors Admit Doubts Surround DNA Study.(Thomas Jefferson not necessarily father of Sally Hemings' son) From: Insight on the News | Date: February 22, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

'Nature' published a story in Nov, 98, declaring that DNA testing showed that Thomas Jefferson fathered a child of Sally Hemings, then Jefferson's slave. The author of that story now admits that the evidence only shows that Hemings' descendants have Jefferson DNA, but it could be DNA from any of the Jefferson brothers. One historian thinks that the likely father of Hemings' son is Jefferson's younger brother Randolph, who frequently visited Monticello. In any case, scientists concede that the case will never be proved.

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