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Controversy, mystery still surround the death of Huey P. Long
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Sep 08, 2010 09:36am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Robert Travis Scott, The Times-Picayune |
| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 8, 2010 03:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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, 1935.
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." |
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