Hiding the Elephant: Fort Knox’s Vanishing Act

Hiding the Elephant: Fort Knox’s Vanishing Act

In one of Harry Houdini’s finest moments as a magician, he made a 6,000-pound, Asian elephant disappear – into thin air. Billed as the “world’s most incredible conjuring illusion”, Houdini swept onto the stage at the New York Hippodrome in 1918 and proclaimed “allow...