European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine fabled Louisiana Kingfish who shot Huey Long m by Bill Crider associated press Ore than people take the guided tour of Louisiana skyscraper Ca Pitol each and what most of them ask where was it they shot Huey Long but 50 years after it the question Thomas Weiss of new Orleans still asks who shot Huey Long he cannot believe it was his Cari who included a state supreme court jus said Carl Weiss encountered Long in a shot him once with his pistol and then was killed by Longs Thomas at the admired his older brother and contends he was too Fine a too Sensi caring and Good to have done such a yet there it embedded in this is the 50th anniversary and it seems to be Able to draw attention like an old fish draws and it is going to be repeated Over and Over and it hurts and it is not Weiss said in an interview in Baton Huey the fabled Kingfish of this states turbulent politics and a probable candidate for president in the 1936 was gunned Down at age 42 on in a Pink Marble first floor despite the half Century that has the Back Woods Caesar remains fresh in memory for for Huey Long As he immodesty described Sui generis in As in he stirred wild re mors sprang up after his and a few still crop up on some of the older people still bring them said Pat a Capitol tour one that seems to have Hung on through the believe it or is that Roosevelt had him Long would probably have been president Franklin Roosevelt primary opponent in a depression year in which the charismatic senators share the wealth Battle cry had a lot of few historians think for would have lost such an epic was Sui the impassioned politics of the Day dominated such investigation As took place after the District attorney John a Long did most of the questioning at the coroners Odom refused to believe witnesses who said a 29year old nose and Throat had shot Long and then been riddled by at least 30 bullets fired by the although no evidence to the contrary was Ever the Long family refused to authorize an and the family reportedly we must not violate his sacred the coroners official ruling was a Bland conclusion that both men had died of gunshot nothing was said about who shot shot died two Days Weiss had 30 Bullet holes in 29 in and two in the head nearly All inflicted As he Lay sprawled on the Marble already witnesses at the inquest included John the late state supreme court he said he saw Weiss pull out a pistol and and tried to Knock Weiss gun hand Down by swatting at it with his tensions ran High after the Thomas Weiss recalls that for two weeks he and his father feared for their at one Point they left Baton Rouge for four in his copyright version of the a speech Given at a Tulane University forum last Thomas Weiss argues that while unexplained conflicts exist in the accounts of How it reporters keep repeat ing an erroneous Weiss prefers one of the rumours of that Day that the senators bodyguards accidentally shot their Boss while emptying their pistols into Carl Weiss when he attacked the theory is that they then conspired among themselves and with other witnesses to hide their poor marksmanship and kept the secret to the with All the firing that went on in that Small space i think it was 10 feet by 20 i think people were hit that were not supposed to be Weiss his Brothers Browning which had been was found beside his Weiss contends it must have been put there the Bullet that was found in Huey Long was never he yet they very blatantly repeat that Carl walked up to Long and put a gun at his and it was supposedly knocked Down by and it ended up being fired into the Vicinity of the right upper Quarter and went through his Abdo men and exited from the Carl Weiss did have an apparent on the Day Long was the legislature was considering a Bill designed to unseat Weiss judge Benja min who was fiercely but with no autopsy or official other than the inept the matter was the late Edward then a new Orleans newspaper recalled that when contradictions arose a few weeks after the so Little official evidence was on file that he Felt any Case against Carl had he would have been Harry who wrote a pulitzer winning biography of brushed off Thomas Weiss version As one of the Carl Weiss was a sincere and idealistic Young Man who agonized Over the evils that he believed Huey Long was inflicting on his class and Williams he wept openly when he heard other people describe these and he said to at least one person in going to kill Huey he was the kind of Man who could spend a Happy Day with his family and then commit an Abnor Mal Williams he went into the Capitol that night to remove a tyrant and he went knowing that he himself would undoubtedly be he did not he was willing to be a Thomas Weiss says he knows the Odds against Chang ing it is like trying to pick up All the feathers from a Pillow that has been shaken out of a 10story he you cant retrieve them but i would feel very guilty if i didst make the Huey Long in 1932 surrounded by july 1985 the stars and stripes new York times photo Page 13