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Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack B. McGuirePublish date:3/16/2026Pages:824
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496861351ISBN-10:1496861353UPC:9781496861351Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, Historical, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalProduct ID:SC9EV7XS0G

Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination

On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot in a back corridor of the Louisiana state capitol. Although the most widely accepted theory holds that Dr. Carl Weiss, son-in-law of Long's political opponent Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, was responsible, the assassination remains one of the most debated events in American political history. In...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496861351ISBN-10:1496861353UPC:9781496861351Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, Historical, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalProduct ID:SC9EV7XS0G
Jack B. McGuire served as special assistant to the mayor of New Orleans, press secretary to the mayor, and director of public relations from 1964 to 1970 as well as a councilman-at-large for the city of Mandeville from 1984 to 2000. For over forty years he was an officer of Union Savings and Loan Association in New Orleans. He is author of Win the Race or Die Trying: Uncle Earl's Last Hurrah and...
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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