After the passing of 100-year-old former President Jimmy Carter, many are recalling the “killer rabbit" incident in which Carter had to fight off a berserk swamp creature while fishing in his ...

Jimmy Carter’s run-in with a swamp rabbit on a Georgia pond became a metaphor for a sinking White House term. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Jimmy Carter Library. By Michael Levenson. Dec. 29, 2024. In August 1979, Brooks Jackson, a reporter for The Associated Press, broke the news that a “killer rabbit” had attacked President ...

In 1979, a wild rabbit swam aggressively toward President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat in 1979. It quickly became known as the "killer rabbit attack," and was used against him by Ronald Reagan's ...

In his extremely critical book The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry, even conservative ...

In a 2014 piece looking back on the incident, WNYC’s Jim O’Grady said that the rabbit flap was as personally damaging as any of the other crises Carter faced in 1979, crystallizing the ...

In April 1979 the Bee Gees are playing on the radio, Deer Hunter has just swept the Oscars — and for one afternoon in Georgia, the biggest threat to US president Jimmy Carter is a "killer rabbit".

Jimmy Carter was chased by a rabbit. Before running for (and losing) re-election in 1980, Carter decided to take a little ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away on December 29, 2024 at the age of 100. ... Carter was chased by a rabbit. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.