Synopsis

A dedicated team—comprising Secret Service agents, historians, and forensic scientists—has pieced together the stories behind some of history’s most dramatic incidents involving the White House: deaths and attempts on lives. The 1881 shooting of James Garfield spurred Alexander Graham Bell to devise a metal detector in an effort to find the bullet lodged within him and potentially save his life. In another instance, Zachary Taylor's remains were disinterred to investigate whether poison had caus