Did America Use Germ Warfare?
“Did America’s founders commit biological warfare against the Native Americans? I went looking for the truth behind the famous story and found something stranger.”
In this report, Ken LaCorte explores whether germ warfare involving smallpox was used in a deliberate fashion against native tribes in the United States.
LaCorte finds one substantiated case, involving British troops at Fort Pitt — present-day Pittsburgh. But he also uncovers a web of malarkey spread by the late Ward Churchill, a former professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Here’s more on Elephants In Rooms.
