Monthly Archives: July 2011

Hoax Anthrax Letters

Man Pleads Guilty to Mailing Series of Hoax Anthrax Letters Clifton Lamar Dodd pled guilty to 23 counts of mailing letters that contained a threat in the form of white powder that could reasonably have been perceived as the biological … Continue reading

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How not to find a bullet

1881, July 1st – President James Garfield is shot by a mentally ill attorney. Doctors were unable to find the bullet with a metal detector invented by Alexander Graham Bell. The device failed because Garfield was placed on a bed … Continue reading

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