Comments on: Napoleon's Missing Bonaparte

Napoleon's Missing Bonaparte

scblackman — Sat, 19 May 2007 11:41:56 -0800

Dr. John K. Lattimer died earlier this week. &nCThe fact that he was the former chairman of the urology department at Columbia University is the least interesting fact about him. He was an expert in ballstics and became the first private citizen granted access to Kennedy's autopsy photos (he made this drawing to explain the path of the bullet). He treated survivors of the Hindenburg explosion and Nazi defendants at Nuremberg. He was also a collector of some very odd items: a pair of Eva Braun's earrings, the cyanide ampule that Hermann Goring used to commit suicide [.pdf], the key to Lincoln's presidental box at Ford's Theater. Oh, and he bought Napoleon's penis in 1977 for $3000. Some think it should finally be allowed to rest in peace.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:09:41 -0800

Some say that penis explains the real source of the Napoleonic complex...

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:53:00 -0800

One little-known fact is that Napoleon's Penis, while small even for a man of his stature, did have one huge (and unique) advantage: due to a rare birth defect, Napoleon's Penis actually grew where his left nipple should have been.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:39:48 -0800

Some think it should finally be allowed to rest in peace. What the hell has it been doing?

By: rotifer

rotifer — Sat, 19 May 2007 14:11:42 -0800

At the 1983 festival, clad in armor and bearing a shield, he told a reporter about his fascination with medieval armaments. "In my front hall, I have a suit of armor from a Knight of Malta, with the Maltese Cross," he said. "I also have a beheading ax." Dr. Lattimer would have made a great dinner guest.

By: kyrademon

kyrademon — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:50:33 -0800

So that's what happened to Napolean's penis ... anyone know where Dillinger's is now?

By: bruce

bruce — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:31:22 -0800

"he was an expert in ballstics..." yow!

By: mds35

mds35 — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:58:18 -0800

That was one curious cat. Do they make'em like him anymore? Also, this is obit-filter done very very right! I should buy you a cup of Red Barn Coffee, dude.

By: retronic

retronic — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:08:23 -0800

What I want to know: Is the "MudGirl" who posted the question about Napoleon's penis to The Straight Dope any relation to muddgirl?

By: delfuego

delfuego — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:37:30 -0800

FYI, when I was a med student at Columbia, Lattimer came to speak to my group of students rotating through urology -- and brought the penis to show us all. It was, to say the least, creepy.