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Killing the Kingfish

Autor Jack B. McGuire
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781496861351
ISBN-10: 1496861353
Pagini: 728
Dimensiuni: 192 x 261 x 56 mm
Greutate: 1.43 kg
Editura: University Press of Mississippi

Notă biografică

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 coauthor (with Walter Greaves Cowan) of Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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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
8. The Pavy-Long Battle in St. Landry Parish
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) 251
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 Affidavit
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 Dictatorship
Weiss’s Motives
Final Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index