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 hometown of Plains,

The “tip of the iceberg” for this string of disasters, Zelizer writes, was what came to be known as “ the killer rabbit ” incident, in which a “banzai bunny” (as the Associated Press described it) attacked the president in a fishing pond at Carter’s Plains,