Posted by Terry Love on November 15, 1998 at 13:59:26:
Prologue. The story of a White House Scandal from the year 1881. President James Garfield lay dying of a gunshot wound during the summer of 1881. But because our nation is crazy when it comes to the President, and because the White House is a national movie screen onto which we project a whole array of fears and misplaced idealism, Americans projected one of the big fears of the day onto Garfield. Namely, the fear of sewer gas.
This has a nice "Real Audio" story on this