First off - I am not anti-military. I'm not even going to play off the obvious angle to this question since it happened half a century ago and hopefully not after that. In the 1950s the army was dropping low or diluted levels of ???? over American cities. It was exposed at the time and resurfaced briefly about 10-12 years ago. What I'm asking is, does anyone know if they used hospital records to track the effects and even more important, any idea of what they were using? I assume germs or chemicals, but don't recall the stories specifying any.
The army and navy dispersed biological agents such as Serratia marcescens, Bacillus globigii, and Bacillus subtilis variant Niger bacteria on American cities (San Francisco, Panama City and Key West, FL, New York, and others) from the 1940s through the 1960s.
I believe he was out fishing somewhere, but in any event he was in a boat. A rabbit came across the water and apparently became very aggressive about trying to get to and into the boat, but I believe it was beaten back with oars ( by the SS I assume, though Carter may have wielded the weapon himself.) I assume the rabbit ended up in the water against its will and was desperate enough to try and enter a boat with people aboard. At the time it was called the Killer Rabbit.
quote:Originally posted by Prothero: ( by the SS I assume, though Carter may have wielded the weapon himself.) I assume the rabbit ended up in the water against its will and was desperate enough to try and enter a boat with people aboard. At the time it was called the Killer Rabbit.
The rabbit incident happened on April 20, 1979 while Carter was taking a few days off in Plains, Georgia. He was fishing from a canoe in a pond when he spotted the fateful rabbit swimming toward him. It was never precisely determined what the rabbit's problem was. Carter, always trying to look at things from the other guy's point of view, later speculated that it was fleeing a predator. Whatever the case, it was definitely a troubled rabbit. "It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president," a press account said.
The Secret Service having been caught flatfooted--I'll grant you an amphibious rabbit assault is a tough thing to defend against--the president did what he could to protect himself. Initially it was reported that he had hit the rabbit with his paddle. Realizing this would not play well with the Rabbit Lovers Guild, Carter later clarified that he had merely splashed water at the rabbit, which then swam off toward shore. A White House photographer, there to take some public relations photos of the president relaxing, ever alert to history's pivotal moments, snapped a picture of the encounter for posterity. WHY did the White House ever allow this photo to be published? There were reports that Jimmy hit the rabbit in the head, and there was controversy over WHY a rabbit was swimming in the water anyways. To prove he did not hit it in the head, and that there was a rabbit actually in the water, he allowed the photo to be published. Poor Jimmy suffered from poor public relations throughout his presidency.
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In addition to the biological agents released, there was also the case of 12 human guinea pigs who were secretly injected with radioactive Plutonium 239 and uranium in government experiments in the 1940's.
