University of Idaho doesn't want courthouse murals displayed

The University of Idaho will keep two murals inside the old Ada County Courthouse covered for the grand opening of its new campus in July.

KIVI-TV reports the murals depicting white settlers lynching a Native American is part of a large painting spread throughout the old courthouse. The University of Idaho, which is leasing out the building as a satellite campus for its law school, has no interest in keeping the mural on display.

"They're the fevered imagination of a Southern California artist and have no connection to the history of Idaho, and at all levels they're inappropriate," said Lee Dillion, associate dean of the college. "People that are interested in seeing (the murals), we'll make sure they're displayed under controlled circumstances. But otherwise those two murals will be covered."