Carl Austin Weiss (December 6, 1906 – September 8, 1935) was a gifted young Baton Rouge, Louisiana, physician who was the apparent assassin of U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., though his family has vigorously disputed the assertion. December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... The Doctor by Luke Fildes This article is about the term physician, one type of doctor; for other uses of the word doctor see Doctor. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... Huey Pierce Long, Jr. ...

Baton Rouge doctor

Weiss was born in Baton Rouge to Dr. Carl Adam Weiss and the former Viola Maine. He was educated in local schools and graduated as the valedictorian of Catholic High School. He then obtained his bachelor's degree in 1925 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He received his medical degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1927. He did postgraduate work in Vienna, Austria, and was thereafter awarded internships in Vienna and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. In 1932, he returned to Baton Rouge to enter private practice with his father. He was president of the Louisiana Medical Society in 1933. He was of Jewish heritage and a Catholic by faith. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club (Conrad 1988, 2:831). In the United States and Canada, the title of valedictorian (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere, to say farewell) is given to the top graduate of the graduating class (the Australia/New Zealand equivalent being dux, although some Australian universities use the American term) of an educational institution. ... Catholic High School is an all-male Catholic college-preparatory school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart. ... A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... Tulane University is a highly selective, private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... For information about internships in medicine, see medical intern and residency (medicine). ... Bellevue Hospital is a famous hospital located in New York City, New York, United States. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Kiwanis International is a service organization whose mission is Serving the Children of the World. The organization was founded on January 21, 1915 in Detroit, Michigan and is now based in Indianapolis, Indiana. ...

The Pavy-Opelousas connection

In 1933, Dr. Weiss married the former Yvonne Louise Pavy of Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish. The couple had one son, Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. (born 1934). She was the daughter of Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy (1874–1943) and the former Ida Veazie (died 1941). Judge Pavy was part of the anti-Long political faction. Pavy's brother Felix Octave Pavy, Sr. (died 1962), an Opelousas physician, had run for lieutenant governor in 1928 on an intraparty ticket opposite the Long slate. Pavy was the Sixteenth Judicial District state judge from St. Landry and Evangeline parishes, whom Long had gerrymandered out of office (Conrad 1988, 2:635). Weiss's father was a prominent eye specialist who had once treated Senator Long.^{[citation needed]} The city of Opelousas is the parish seat of St. ... St. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Benjamin Henry Pavy (October 16, 1874 -- April 1943) was a district judge in St. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... A faction is a special interest group. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Evangeline Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Redrawing electoral districts in this example creates a guaranteed 3-to-1 advantage for Party 1. ...

The shooting

On September 8, 1935, Weiss allegedly shot Huey Long in the Capitol building in Baton Rouge. Long's bodyguards then opened fire and riddled Weiss's body with as many as thirty, perhaps fifty, bullets. Weiss died at the scene. Dr. Weiss's sister-in-law, Ida Catherine Pavy Boudreaux (born 1922) of Opelousas recalls that his body was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for a study of bullets entering and exiting the body. Dr. Weiss was interred in Roselawn Cemetery in Baton Rouge. His body was exhumed on October 29, 1991 for forensic evaluation, 56 years after the event, and never returned to Roselawn Cemetery. Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack...

Doubts persist

Persistent claims allege that Weiss actually was unarmed and struck Long with his hand. The scenario then contends that Long was accidentally shot by his own guards when they opened fire on Weiss [1]. These rumors are supported by several witnesses and the fact that Long had a bruised lip at the time of his emergency surgery. This is a view voiced by Francis C. Grevemberg (born 1914), the former head of the Louisiana state police and twice a candidate for governor. Colonel Francis Carroll Grevemberg (born 1914) was the superintendent of the Louisiana state police from 1952-1955, who is best remembered for his fight against organized crime. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ...

Long backers contend that the senator slipped and hit the marble wall at the scene of the gunfire. Other theories hold that Long's assassination was arranged to prevent him from winning the presidency in 1936, either from within the Democratic Party or as a third party candidate backed by the Share Our Wealth organization. It was widely understood that Long's populist, progressive policies had earned him many powerful enemies who would not have wanted him to become president [2]. In July 1935, two months prior to his death, Long claimed that he had uncovered an assassination plot against himself [3]. Venus de Milo, front. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In a two-party system a third party is a party other than the two dominant ones. ... Share Our Wealth was a movement begun during the Great Depression by Huey Long, governor and later senator from Louisiana. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Long had positioned himself to run against Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 elections. He even announced his bid in August 1935. A month later, he was dead. Presidential electoral votes by state. ...

Historian and Long biographer T. Harry Williams of LSU later claimed that the senator had never intended to run for the presidency in 1936. Instead, he had been plotting with Father Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest and populist radio personality, to run someone else on the soon-to-be-formed Share Our Wealth Party ticket. According to Williams, the idea was that this candidate would split the leftist vote with President Roosevelt and thereby elect a Republican president and demonstrate the electoral appeal of "Share Our Wealth". Long would then wait four years and run for president in 1940 as a Democrat against a sitting Republican incumbent. Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 -- July 6, 1979) was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death. ... Charles Coughlin Father Charles Edward Coughlin (October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979) was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest from Royal Oak, Michigans Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church, and one of the first evangelists to preach to a widespread listening audience over the medium of radio during... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The incumbent, in politics, is the current holder of a political office. ...

During the 1990s the NBC television series Unsolved Mysteries raised the possibility that Weiss did not kill Long, but that the powerful senator was accidentally shot to death by his own bodyguards who failed to protect him from danger. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... This article contains a trivia section. ...

Another doubt rests on the contention that Dr. Weiss was a man of goodwill and kind disposition who loved his family, had a zest for living, looked forward to a long life, and would never have taken foolish chances with his own safety in a moment of rage or foolhardiness.

The Weiss family thereafter

Yvonne Weiss (born 1908) and her son Carl moved to New York City, where she was a member of the faculty of Columbia University. Ida Boudreaux, Yvonne's youngest sister and the maternal aunt of Carl Weiss, Jr., recalled that the move was necessary to avoid the hostile political climate against the Weiss family in Louisiana in the late 1930s. Yvonne Weiss subsequently married Henri Samuel Bourgeois, a Canadian. She died on December 22, 1963, exactly one month after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Carl Weiss, Jr., who resides on Long Island in New York, has been trying for years to clear his father's name. Weiss, Jr., met with U.S. Senator Russell B. Long (1918–2003), Long's son and successor in the Senate, and the two agreed to put aside past differences and reach a reconciliation. 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... NY redirects here. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... Russell Billiu Long Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Notes

• The character of Adam Stanton in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men is partially based on Weiss.
• Carl A. Weiss, III, graduated from the Tulane University Medical School in 1993.

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References

• Conrad, Glenn R. 1988. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography. Lafayette: Louisiana Historical Association.
• Ida Catherine Pavy Boudreaux to Billy Hathorn, November 3, 2006; February 7, 2007.

Links

• LOUISiana Digital Library Collections Online
• Who Killed the Kingfish?