Henry Ford's right hand man had uneven steps in his home as a defense mechanism. he fell down them and died while drunk (apparently this is urban legend)

[–] wischi@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like an urban legend. Who do you mean anyway? James Couzens? Harry Bennett? Charles Sorensen? His son Edsel? They all died of natural causes.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

every time the story comes back up it takes me ages to figure out who I was talking about again. I can never remember the name, but he was featured in an episode of last podcast on the left

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

You are talking about Henry Bennett. This is a myth though. While he did have stairs like that, he died in a care home after years of declining health. His actual cause of death wasn't announced, but it was likely because he had been in rapid decline for years and just before going into the care home, had a stroke.

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