The Killing of Huey Long

Louisiana, 1935. An influential US senator is assassinated in the hallways of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

On September 8, 1935, Senator Huey Long, known by his nickname “The Kingfish,” was at the Louisiana State Capitol to pass a redistricting bill that would oust district judge Benjamin Henry Pavy. Shortly after the vote, Long was shot in the capitol building’s corridors and later died of his wounds. The prime suspect was a man named Carl Weiss, a physician and the son-in-law of Judge...