Death of the Kingfish - The Assassination of Huey P. Long

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Huey P. Long was a controversial Louisiana governor and senator in the 1920s and 30s. In August 1935, Long announced that he intended to run for President the following year. One month later he was killed by an assassin in the Louisiana state house. Questions still remain about his death.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Dweeps. I am Tim and the topic of our podcast today is the assassination of Huey P. Long.
0:14.0	For those of you who are not familiar with the story was governor of Louisiana for a long time. He was also a U.S. senator.
0:22.5	And he was assassinated. And we're going to talk about his life and the events leading up to his
0:32.1	assassination, some of which are still kind of in dispute today. But before we do, I'd like to introduce my co-host.
0:42.7	I should start off by saying Brandy is not with us today.
0:46.8	She has some family issues going on,
0:51.5	so she won't be here for this podcast,
0:53.3	but we hope that she'll be back with us soon
0:56.0	but in the meantime let me introduce my co-host the very honorable um the moral compass of our
1:04.2	podcast um and uh really uh a leader of munming meant the very honorable Reverend Colonel Charles Beauregard, Hawke Waters, the third, affectionately known as a southern gentleman.
1:19.4	How are you today, Colonel?
1:21.0	Couldn't be better today, Timmy.
1:22.5	I got to go up to Chicago, spend some time with the boys.
1:26.8	It's over Thanksgiving.
1:28.0	Over Thanksgiving.
1:29.3	And so did you have a good time?
1:31.5	We had a really good time.
1:32.9	The boys didn't, the boys didn't torment me.
1:35.8	Well, I mean, they tormented me to the point where, you know.
1:39.5	Yeah, but just limited, limited torment.
1:41.9	Yeah, they kept it down.
1:43.2	They kept it down to.
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