John Paul Jones Case Study

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The picture to the right is a photograph of John Paul Jones, created in the 1930s by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Jones died alone on July 18, 1792. Jones was then buried in St. Louis Cemetery, which was sold four years later. A century passed before there was a search party looking for the Jones’ remains. Once the autopsy report confirmed that they had found Jones, President Theodore Roosevelt found it suitable that Jones returned to his home country. The body of John Paul Jones, reached its final resting place in an ornate crypt below the Naval Academy's Chapel on the campus of the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD in 1913.