The President Died Suddenly. His Wife Refused an Autopsy. Why?

August 2, 1923. President Warren G. Harding dies suddenly in a San Francisco hotel suite while his wife reads to him. Florence refuses an autopsy. Within weeks she is burning his papers, and a con man will later claim she poisoned him. But one box of his letters never reaches her fire, and it holds the secret she could not burn. Our host Margaret Hale is an AI presenter. The letters, newsreels and photographs are real. Would you have burned them too? Tell us below. Chapters 0:00 The Palace Hotel, August 1923 3:50 The banker's daughter 9:03 The other woman 15:18 The smoke-filled room 21:31 The Ohio Gang 27:49 The last journey 32:28 What really killed him 33:44 The letters that survived Image credits (Wikimedia Commons, used under their licenses): Palace Hotel Lobby — Centpacrr at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0; 29. W.G. Harding (1921 - 1923) — Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0; 1920RepublicanPresidentialNomination1stBallot — Tilden76, CC BY-SA 4.0; 1920RepublicanPresidentialNomination6thBallot — Tilden76, CC BY-SA 4.0; Palace Hotel SF Market & New Montgomery corner — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0; 2008-0602-SF-PalaceHotel — Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0; Palace Hotel, San Francisco04 — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0; Palace Dining Room — Marlith, CC BY-SA 4.0; Evalyn Walsh McLean House — dbking, CC BY 2.0; Palace Hotel SF & McKesson Plaza — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0. #FlorenceHarding #WarrenHarding #FirstLady