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- <title>
- July 08, 1991: American Notes:Presidents
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 08, 1991 Who Are We?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- PRESIDENTS
- Rest in Peace, Zach
- </hdr><body>
- <p> It turns out that President Zachary Taylor was not poisoned
- by political enemies who laced his iced cherries or milk with
- arsenic after all. He died the old-fashioned way, of natural
- causes, according to the medical examiner who studied Taylor's
- remains last week. Clara Rising, an author researching a book on
- Taylor, had raised the suspicion that "Old Rough and Ready" was
- murdered.
- </p>
- <p> But there are still plenty of graves to plunder and
- conspiracy theories to test. A team of scientists is planning
- to exhume the remains of Carl A. Weiss, the doctor who is
- believed to have assassinated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
- back in 1935. Weiss was gunned down at the scene by Long's
- bodyguards. By analyzing the angles of the bullet holes, the
- scientists may be able to show that the guards shot Long and
- killed Weiss to cover their crime. Whether any new light can be
- shed on that issue by examining a 56-year-old corpse remains
- unclear. Is there no rest for the dead?
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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