Killing the Kingfish : the Huey Long assassination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McGuire, Jack B. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2026]
Subjects:	Long, Huey Pierce, > 1893-1935 > Assassination. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
1. The Kingfish
2. Hatred of Huey and his regime
3. The bodyguards
4. Confrontations and altercations
5. The Square Deal revolt
6. Dictator laws
7. The Desoto Hotel conference
9. The gerrymander
10. Carl's hatred of Huey
11. The racial slur
12. The shooting
13. The inquest
14. The bodyguards defend themselves
15. Justice Fournet's stories about the shooting
16. The Death of the Kingfish, by Richard Briley (1960)
17. The Huey Long Murder Case, by Herman Deutsch (1963)
18. The Day Huey Long Was Shot, by David Zinman (1963)
19. Dr. T. Harry Williams reviews Deutsch and Zinman (1963)
20. Requiem for a Kingfish: The Strange and Unexplained Death of Huey Long, by Ed Reed (1986)
21. The mortician's tale
22. Ed Reed's conclusions
23. The FBI and the shooting
24. Russell Long meets with the Doctors Weiss
25. The exhumation, gun, and Guerre papers
26. The Louisiana State Police Final Investigative Report (1992)
27. The Huey P. Long Assassination Collection at the State Archives
28. The Guerre Papers and murder plots
29. Guerre's investigative files from the McGuire Collection
30. Huey at 100: Centennial essays on Huey Long (1993)
31. The Grevemberg Affidavit (1993)
32. Accident and Deception: The Huey Long Shooting, by Dr. Donald A. Pavy (1999)
33. A Voice for the Dead, by Dr. James Starrs (2005)
34. The Huey Long Symposium (2010)
35. The debate over what happened has continued
36. The author's conclusions
The Guerre papers and the gun
The Grevemberg Affadavit
Huey's cut lip
One shot
Huey could not have been shot by a bodyguard
Weiss's gun was not "planted" at the scene
The inquest
Weiss's normal day Sunday
The racial slur
Weiss distressed by Long dicatatorship
Weiss's motives
Final conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.