TR'S GRANDSON KERMIT FINDS AFRICA CHANGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400260024-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: August 3, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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TR's, Grandson Kermit
Finds Africa Changed
Another Roosevelt has just
returned from Africa.
This one is Kermit RQdje-
velt, 44, of 6940 Fordham { ,tj',m
N.W., grandson of Theodore
Roosevelt and a vice president
of the Gulf Oil Corp.
Like his grandfather, Mr.
Roosevelt will write a book on
his travels into the bush and
accent the need for conserva-
tion. He traveled over portions
of the route'taken by his an-
; cestor, who included in his sa,
fart 500 porters, each of whom
carried 60 pounds. Theodore's
112-month trip was made in
1910 and was followed by the
book, 11ffrican Game Trails."
Eliye Bongo Hunted
Kermit, however, . m i x i n g
stayed
business with hunting,
ths using, , using'
two moi-r
~o only about
Engisverson "t of the
i"
lh
:jeep and a safari of about 25
persons, including his two sons,
Kermit, jr., 22, and Jonathan,
20.
Jonathan, Mr. Roosevelt said
yesterday, stayed on, hopeful
of having a go at the Bongo,
t
t
KERMIT'ROOSEVELT
-Star Staff Photo
scarce, according to Mr.
Roosevelt, are lions and rhinos.
The lirrsent-day explorer, an
extremely mild man, who is
able to drarv,l in a npltured
accent, bears no resemblance
to Teddy and apparently looks
at things differently.
e-
an
an elusive, large fores
wired his Mr. Roosevelt, in his office at
lope. He recently
father: "No Bongo." 11120 Connecticut avenue N.W.,
But several trophies were showed little of the excitement
taken, including a leopard. his. grandfatho.'r 'was famous
for even as he described the
Mild of Manner, II, charge of a rhino.
Mr. Roose ;elt, whose trip "While fairly vigorous and
was confined to East AAfrica. , aggressive " >M1r. Roosevelt said
I said his grandfather's bops )vas slowly, "his charge. I feel, was
accurate. He was impressed largely an exploratory venture.
at him and
with his grandfather's gift for i Someoneds away"
description, although he said,
the land has changed i:reatly. Mr. Roosevelt Hopes to write
The forests are disappearing., an article on the trip for a
ie of the game described by magazine, then try a book.
sai*
TR is now "largely extinct," "Perhaps," he says, "something
including both the Larger and' like 'African Game Trails
Lesser Kudu. -articularly Revisited'."
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