Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in italics has been transcribed _between underscores_. Small capitals have been changed to ALL CAPITALS. Superscript-t has been transcribed as ^t. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. The Huey Long Murder Case by Hermann B. Deutsch Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York, 1963 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 62-15869 Copyright © 1963 by Hermann B. Deutsch All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition In Boundless Affection, This Modest Volume Is Dedicated to _THE LYING NEWSPAPERS_ A Generic Term Applied by Huey P. Long to _The Free Press of a Free Republic_. Especially is it dedicated to any and all who during almost half a century have been My Fellow Workers As Typified by John F. Tims and Ralph Nicholson And Most Specially Is It Dedicated to the Memory of Richard Finnegan and Marshall Ballard. CONTENTS Foreword ix Chapter 1: Prelude to an Inquest 1 Chapter 2: Profile of a Kingfish 13 Chapter 3: August 8, 1935: Washington 29 Chapter 4: August 30 to September 2 39 Chapter 5: September 3 to September 7 53 Chapter 6: September 8: Morning 69 Chapter 7: September 8: Afternoon 75 Chapter 8: September 8: Nightfall 81 Chapter 9: September 8: 9:30 P.M. 91 Chapter 10: September 8-9: Midnight 103 Chapter 11: The Aftermath 127 Chapter 12: Summation 145 Chapter 13: The Motive 157 Epilogue 171 FOREWORD Until I undertook to gather all available evidence for what I hoped to make a definitive inquiry into the circumstances of Huey Long’s assassination, I had no idea of how many gaps there were in my knowledge of what took place. Yet except for the actual shooting, which fewer than a dozen persons were present to see, and for what then took place in the operating room of Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium, most of what had any bearing on the circumstances took place before my eyes.