State Capitol tour guides shepherd visitors through the corridor where Louisiana Sen. Huey Long was fatally shot, pausing to point out a bullet hole in the cold marble column to mark the spot where the Kingfish met his end 75 years ago Wednesday.
But like much that once was etched in stone about Long's death, the indentation is less than it appears. State Police investigators say it is a mundane imperfection in the marble, not a relic of the infamous shooting on Sept. 8,
Other flaws in the story have emerged through the years, raising questions that challenge -- but do not refute -- the official version of the shooting: that a young doctor named Carl Weiss, possibly angered by Long's political and personal attacks on his in-laws, put a bullet through Long, who died 31 hours later. Weiss was killed immediately by Long's bodyguards.
"I don't believe that he fired a fatal shot or indeed that he carried a gun into the state Capitol that night," Carl Weiss Jr. said of his father during a Baton Rouge symposium recently. "I don't think my father was a bad apple."
After the shooting, the biggest public controversy was whether Weiss was part of an assassination plot with Long'
Who killed Huey Long? Was it an assassination? A fisticuffs turned fatal? A police cover-up?
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the shooting and death of the former Louisiana governor and
U.S.
senator, whose homicide is still debated by historians and sleuths weighing confusing and sometimes contradictory evidence in the case.
The school history books say he was shot by Carl Weiss, a young Baton Rouge doctor who was killed immediately by Long's bodyguards. To this day, members of the Long family defend that explanation while relatives of Weiss believe he was framed.
The official metal plaque marking the fateful spot in the state Capitol is careful not to take sides. It says only that Long "died September 10, , from a bullet wound inflicted here on September 8, He was 42 years old."
On that, everyone agrees. The rest of the story has accumulated clouds of doubt for three quarters of a century and seems destined to remain without clear resolution.
"The only premise that I personally believe in, is that no matter what theory that you believe in personally, there exists serious and believable evidence that disputes your theory, as well as all the other theories," sai
The Huey Long
Murder Case
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Contents
| Foreword | ix | |
| Chapter &#;1: | Prelude to an Inquest | 1 |
| Chapter &#;2: | Profile of a Kingfish | 13 |
| Chapter &#;3: | August 8, Washington | 29 |
| Chapter &#;4: | August 30 to September 2 | 39 |
| Chapter &#;5: | September 3 to September 7 | 53 |
| Chapter &#;6: | September 8: Morning | 69 |
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