Do you know about the Kentucky giant?

What about the day scandal rocked the world of rat racing?

Our Toby Gibbs has those stories and more in tonight's Look.

Back at this week in Kentucky history.

Happy birthday to celebrated painter Matthew Harris Jewett.

Born in Mercer County on April 22nd, 1788.

Many called him Kentucky's greatest portrait painter, known for paintings of Henry Clay and the Marquis de Lafayette.

The Kentucky giant James de Porter died of a heart attack in Louisville on April 24th, 1859.

Porter was a tavern keeper and coach driver, who stood seven foot eight.

He was considered the tallest man in America at the time.

He was buried in a special coffin, measuring nine feet long.

On April 22nd, 1863, two years into the Civil War, Confederate forces burned the courthouse in Monroe County, destroying all records.

The Confederate move was in retaliation after union forces burned a courthouse in Celina, Tennessee.

Legendary sportscaster Caywood Ledford was born April 24th, 1926, in Harlan.

He would call UK basketball games for 39 years from 1953 to 1992.

President Lyndon Johnson visited the family of Tommie Fletcher in Inez in Martin County on April 24th, 1964, as part of LBJ's War on Poverty.

Scandal rocked the world of rat racing.

On April 24th, 1991, when trainers for General Patton were accused of giving the generals steroids.

Before the 19th annual Rat Derby at Spalding University.

And that's a look back at This Week in Kentucky History.

I'm Toby Gibbs.