In 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 wasn't.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The remains of Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, were delicately removed on Monday from the crypt in which he was buried almost 141 years ago. There w… ...

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 ...

User Clip: Exhumation of Zachary Taylor. ... A short summary was given of President James K. Polk’s accomplishments and life history. User Created Clips from This Video. June 3, 1999 ...

It won't be murder she wrote when Florida author Clara Rising finishes her book about President Zachary Taylor, but she might have to include a chapter based on new discoveries about the 12th ...

President Zachary Taylor had spent most of his career in the military, ... That is where Taylor is buried, and in 1991 his body was exhumed so samples of hair, skin, ...

Zachary Taylor, our 12th president, was in fine health on July 4, 1850. He died five days later. Poison! people -- okay, some conspiracy theorists -- shouted. But an exhumation of Taylor's body ...

Poisoned President A daguerreotype portrait of Zachary Taylor, who died while serving as U.S. president in July 1850. Photograph by Bettmann Archive, Getty Images ...

Finally, in 1991, Taylor’s body was exhumed from his Kentucky tomb and analyzed for signs of arsenic – the poison of choice. Tests showed arsenic levels far below what would have killed him.

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