Gettysburg superintendent demoted

John Latschar, the controversial superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park, was removed from that position, effective Monday, by National Park Service officials, according to an article by Erin James in the York, Pa. Daily Record/Sunday News. She interviewed him today.

Latschar, who held the job for 15 years, was investigated by the Department of Interior, whose agents seized the hard drive from his office computer that was found to contain explicit sexual material. Washington Post reporter Kimberly Kindy broke the story of the investigation on Monday.

According to the Post story: "An internal Aug. 7 memo from an investigator to Daniel N. Wenk, the acting director of the National Park Service, details the discovery of the images on the computer hard drive that was seized by investigators. But the office of Mary L. Kendall, acting inspector general for the Department of the Interior, omitted details of the computer probe or any mention of the violation from a 24-page report that was released Sept. 17."

Latschar was cleared of criminal wrongdoing and was assigned to a lesser, staff position.

By Linda Wheeler  |  October 22, 2009; 9:30 PM ET
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