Donor's Family Lays Claim To Museum's Wright Airplane

The family of a notorious early 20th Century bon vivant draft dodger are laying claim to a priceless Wright Model B airplane that has been at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute for most of the last century. According to the New York Times, the descendents of Grover Bergdoll say the museum's account of how it came into the lofty piece of American history doesn't add up and they've concluded, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that their fast-living dear old dad couldn't have actually given the Franklin the plane in 1933. Now they want it back.


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