On October 22, 1926, Montreal student J. Gordon Whitehead stepped into Harry Houdini's dressing room and sucker-punched the legendary magician and illusionist. Nine days later, Houdini was dead, victim of a ruptured appendix; meanwhile, J.

What was Harry Houdini last trick?

At New York's Shelton Hotel on August 5th, 1926, in plain view of invited journalists and using no breathing apparatus, Harry Houdini lay in a sealed casket at the bottom of a swimming pool for an hour and a half.

Was Houdini Murdered?

Houdini died of a ruptured appendix later that night: he had undetected signs of appendicitis when he took the blow. It was tragic, but according to a new book by William Kalush and Larry Sloman, Houdini wasn't just killed by accident: it was a plot by the very spiritualists he'd debunked.