In 1836, President Andrew Jackson received a surprising gift in the form of an enormous wheel of cheese. Of course a huge presidential cheese might occasion comment in and of itself, but perhaps even more surprisingly, it wasn’t even the first ridiculously large wheel of cheese delivered to an American president.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.