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On this day in 1991, researchers exhumed the body of Zachary Taylor to deal with persistent speculation that Southern politicians had arranged to have the nation’s 12th president poisoned because he opposed extending slavery to the Western territories.
On this day in 1991, researchers exhumed the body of the nation’s 12th president to deal with persistent speculation that Southern politicians had arranged to have him poisoned because he opposed...
Dr. Greathouse talked about the exhumation of President Zachary Taylor’s body to determine whether his death was caused by arsenic poisoning. Television footage of the 1991 exhumation was...
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850.
Medical examiners found no organs or skin on Taylor. They did find bone; some eyebrow, scalp and pubic hair; and small amounts of soft tissue on each thigh and where his right kidney was located...
On June 17, 1991, a coroner in Kentucky exhumed the remains of the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor, to prove or disprove rumors he was killed by arsenic poisoning. The testing proved he...
The remains of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States, were delicately removed from the crypt in which he was entombed here almost 141 years ago. There were no bugles blown or...
