[Illustration: 2 Official transcript (not the original) of customs
declaration filed by Dr. Weiss on returning to this country from medical
studies abroad. The seventh item on it is the Belgian automatic found
beside his lifeless hand after Huey Long was shot.]
[Illustration: 3 Dr. Weiss’s pistol, which normally holds seven
cartridges, contained only five unfired ones (and an empty, jammed in
the ejector) when it was picked up after the shooting.]
[Illustration: 4 & 5 The watch which was shot from Murphy Roden’s wrist
while he was grappling with Dr. Weiss. The dial shows the time of the
struggle, the dent in the back was obviously made by a small bullet.]
[Illustration: 6 No “small blue punctures” were left by the bullets of
bodyguards who mowed down Dr. Weiss in the niche where he had waited for
Senator Long. The photograph was made after authorities, seeking to
establish his identity, had turned over the body which fell face down.]
[Illustration: 7 The funeral cortege, moving from the capitol to a newly
prepared crypt which is now the site of a monument. Right foreground,
the L.S.U. student band playing “Every Man a King” in a minor key as the
Kingfish’s dirge.]
[Illustration: 8 Huey Long’s casket, as it was borne down the capitol’s
48 granite steps followed by members of his family. The two leading
pallbearers are (left) Seymour Weiss and Governor Oscar Allen.]
[Illustration: 9 Laborers work around the clock to prepare a vault in
time for Huey Long’s funeral, as crowds wait on the capitol steps to
file past the bier where his body lies in state.]
[Illustration: 10 & 11 Huey Long was enshrined as a saint by some of his
followers as shown by these personals from want-ad pages of the
_Times-Picayune_. The one at left appeared on March 26, 1936, the other
on January 11, 1937.
Left hand advertisement:
THANKS to the late Senator Huey P. Long for favor granted. Mrs. H.
Gomme.
Right hand advertisement:
THANKS S^t. Raymond, S^t. Anthony, Sen. Huey P. Long favor granted.
ROSE ANDERTON.
“There was not a soul in that corridor when we got there except Louis
LeSage and Roy Heidelberg, who were seated on the ledge of the window at
the east end of the corridor. I asked them where Huey had gone and they
said he was in the governor’s office, so Joe and I walked to the door of
that office at a leisurely pace, and as we approached the door I could
hear a voice which I recognized as that of Senator Long ask:
“‘Has everybody been notified about the meeting tomorrow morning?’ and a
voice which I identified as that of Joe Bates of the Police Bureau of
Identification answered: ‘Yes, Senator.’
“At this point I noticed three or four people lined up against the
marble recess in the corridor wall opposite the door to the governor’s
anteroom. I don’t remember the exact number but I definitely recall
there were more than one. Just then Huey walked out of the office door
of the governor’s secretary and....”
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