How the White House Killed Two Presidents
Working in the White House in the 1840s may have been more hazardous than we thought. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scis...
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[♪♩INTRO] If you know anything about William Henry Harrison, it’s probably that he was the shortest-serving U.S. President of all time. He lasted just 32 days before getting sick and dying in April of 1841. The story goes that Harrison gave an extremely long inaugural address -- something like two hours long -- outside, in the cold and wet, without a coat or gloves. That gave him a nasty bout of pneumonia, which he didn’t survive. But a modern look at the case suggests that Harrison wasn’t killed by a foolish mix of verbosity and a failure to bundle up, but by contaminated water in the White House. And it probably took down a second president, too. This new interpretation of Harrison’s death comes from a paper published in the journal Cl...
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[♪♩INTRO] If you know anything about William Henry Harrison, it’s probably that he was the shortest-serving U.S. President of all time. He lasted just 32 days before getting sick and dying in April of 1841. The story goes that Harrison gave an extremely long inaugural address -- something like two hours long -- outside, in the cold and wet, without a coat or gloves. That gave him a nasty bout of pneumonia, which he didn’t survive. But a modern look at the case suggests that Harrison wasn’t killed by a foolish mix of verbosity and a failure to bundle up, but by contaminated water in the White House. And it probably took down a second president, too. This new interpretation of Harrison’s death comes from a paper published in the journal Cl...
