What evidence exists that US president Harding was killed by his own wife?

leith90

None really. Gaston B. Means who wrote about th presidents death speculated that the president was poisoned by his wife, but this was later discredited. The president had been showing signs of Congestive Cardiac Failure in the weeks prior to his death, and cardiac arrest or arrhythmia was the likely cause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding#Trip_to_Alaska_and_death Sep 17 10, 5:40 PM

star_gazer

To say that there is no evidence would not be accurate. President Warren G. HardingWithin minutes of Warren G. Hardings death at either 7:10, 7:20, or 7:30 p.m. on August 2, 1923, rumors began to circulate. No one present at his demise could give the correct time of death. No one seemed to be sure who was on hand in the San Francisco hotel room when he breathed his last. Most of all, the four physicians who had been caring for Harding for the previous week could not agree on the cause of death. It had something to do with his heart. On the other hand, perhaps it was a stroke. Alternatively, it could have been both, exacerbated by the ptomaine poisoning that he may or may not have experienced a few days earlier in Vancouver. Despite the confusion over the time of death, surely an autopsy would resolve the uncertainty about what killed Warren G. Harding. Portrait of Florence HardingExcept --- there was no autopsy. Mrs. Harding --- the Duchess, as her husband called her --- would not permit it. Within an hour of his death, he was embalmed, rouged, powdered, dressed, and in his casket. By morning, he was on a train, headed back to Washington, D.C. It is little wonder that newspaper reporters, servants, and minor attending officials speculated about the circumstances of the death of the 29th President of the United States. How could an event so important to the life of the nation be so shoddily handled? Or was there some secret, something about this death that needed covering up? http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/warren_harding/index.html Sep 17 10, 11:31 PM