'It's a woman. It's not Pulaski.': New documentary argues Revolutionary War hero was intersex
When the skeleton believed to belong to the Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was first examined by modern scientists in the late 1990s, the results were disappointing.
"You'll just have to shoot me," a forensic anthropologist told the head of the scientific team, according to a new Smithsonian Channel documentary.
"It's a woman. It's not Pulaski."
The team soon realized there were at least three possible explanations for the unusual finding: The bones they'd extracted from a well-known monument in Savannah, Ga., may have belonged to someone other than Pulaski. But it was also possible that Pulaski was a biological woman who lived as a man. And it was possible that
