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Criminal

The Kingfish

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘em like a deck of cards.” By the time he was 39 years old, he’d made his way to the U.S. Senate. And just a couple of weeks after his 42nd birthday, he was assassinated in the Capitol Building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Allegedly, a doctor named Carl Weiss shot him. Almost immediately, Carl Weiss was shot by Huey P. Long’s bodyguards. Soon after, Huey P. Long was buried 16 feet deep on the front lawn of the state Capitol, with no autopsy. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclay's here for the land of football.

1:00.0

I was elected railroad to Mr. Louisiana, 1918, and they tried to impeach me in 1920.

1:09.0

When they failed to impe-1920, they died in mid-1921.

1:17.0

And when I wiggle through that, I managed to become governor in 1928.

1:27.0

And they impeached me in 1929.

1:30.0

He was famous for white linen suits, cigars, and being a charming and brilliant speaker,

1:39.0

a master at reinventing himself and telling people exactly what they wanted to hear, whether it was true or not.

1:46.4

During his run for governor, the then New Orleans Picayune wrote that there had never been a candidate

1:52.4

whose statements were so quote,

1:54.7

shot through with gross error and careless of truth generally.

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