The Assassination of Huey Long

In July 1935, two months prior to his death, Long claimed that he had uncovered a plot to assassinate him, which had been discussed in a meeting at New Orleanss DeSoto Hotel. According to Long, four U.S. representatives, Mayor Walmsley, and former governors Parker and Sanders had been present. Long read what he claimed was a transcript of a recording of this meeting on the floor of the Senate.

Long called for a third special session of the Louisiana State Legislature to begin in September 1935, and he traveled from Washington to Baton Rouge to oversee its progress. Although accounts of the September 8, 1935 murder differ, most believe that Long was shot once or twice by medical doctor Carl Austin Weiss in the Capitol building at Baton Rouge. Weiss was immediately shot sixty-one times by Long's bodyguards and police on the scene. The 28-year-old Dr. Weiss was the son-in-law of Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy. According to Mrs. Ida Catherine Pavy Boudreaux of Opelousas, Pavy's only surviving child, her father had been gerrymandered out of his Sixteenth Judicial District because of his opposition to Long.

Shortly after being shot, the expiring Long reportedly said, "I wonder why he shot me." Long died two days later of internal bleeding, following Dr. Arthur Vidrine's attempt to close the wounds.

An alternative theory suggests that Weiss was unarmed and had punched Long, not shot him. Instead, Senator Long was struck by a stray bullet from his bodyguards, who shot Weiss because they mistakenly believed that Weiss was going to shoot Long. Former Louisiana state police superintendent Francis Grevemberg supports this view of the shooting.

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[1916jutland]

This assassination is viewed as our first 20th Century cover up. Senator Long was killed in September 1935, yet the Louisiana State Police have never to my knowledge released their investigation of his murder. Sound familiar? Remember the Kennedys (bogus lies), Dr. King (bogus lies) , Gov. Wallace (had Secret Service protection like JFK), Malcolm X plus others. The rich pricks of this nation are behind every political assassination. The ones who are killed or wounded tried to help the poor.

[FreiKonigsberg]

WOW! Another jewish assassin....

[RoyalDaftPunk]

Huey Long was described as a socialist,communist,dictator? all he wanted to do is take away money from the rich and give it to the poor to make it as equal and yet these Jewish wealthy political people say he's a communist and dictator!?(rhetorical question) and assassinate him,then goes JFK and now whats next Ron Paul?

[FoxKnightJ07]

Oh and judging by the speed of human progress and the amount of information there is in the world is doubling and the negative effects the elite are having on this progress and the biosphere I'd say the time of their removal is near at hand.

[FoxKnightJ07]

Why is it that so many men that could have changed the world had they not been killed, got killed?

Earth's entropy sticks to a certain pace and has done so for almost 4billion years. Anything that exceeds this pace is cancelled out by historic, often random events. Its not destiny, god or any magic.

The elite represent primitive, regressive forces and one day the time will come when they are a force that forces entropy below its set pace, when that happens, something will occur to remove them.

[1polonium210]

@AbsurdityExistential Moron, Carl Weiss was Catholic.

[NewVinland]

Weiss is indeed a Jewish name.

[gsoliver2549]

Most of you are wrong. My Mother had an appointment to see Dr. Weiss on the following Tuedsay after the shooting. Long did do away with Judge Pavy's position but Long was also spreading rumors that Judge Pavy's wife had black blood in her heritage.In 1935 you did not say things like that. My Grandfather called my Grandmother and told her not to bring my Mother to BR for appointment because "They have murdered Dr. Weiss".Long did good things for himself not the people of LA.

[arthurik11]

i wonder who killed him

[kfsryakunt09]

NOOO they just updates youtube again!

[1polonium210]

@AbsurdityExistential The Weiss family was Catholic, not Jewish.

[heartfire451]

The bottom line is that Huey Long tried to make life better for regular people and by doing so he became a threat to the far right bankers and warmongers and other sub-human trash, so they killed him.