Death at the National Hotel! (Conspiracy? Assassination? Serial Killer? Disease?)

MYS124: In 1857, President-elect James Buchanan became violently ill during a stay at Washington DC’s National Hotel, as did hundreds of others, many of whom died. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine whether it was a serial killer, a mysterious disease, or perhaps a presidential assassination plot.
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Links for this episode:

* Kerry Walters’s book Outbreak in Washington
* The Book of Poisons
* Burke McCarty’s book The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
* James Buchanan
* National Hotel Disease
* Manifest Destiny
* Know-Nothings
* Bloody Monday
* Germ Theory
* 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
* Humoral Medicine
* Heroic Medicine
* Miasma Theory
* Cholera
* Ingo Swann Archive at University of West Georgia
* Ingo Swann Website

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