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Louisiana Anthology
Governor Huey P. Long.
Every Man A King.
Statue of Huey Long in Baton Rouge
Senator Huey P. Long.
EVERY MAN
A KING
The Autobiography of
HUEY P. LONG
National Book Co., Inc.
NEW ORLEANS, LA
HUEY P. LONG
Composed, electrotyped and printed
under Union conditions
printed in the united states of amerika
The Evangeline Oak.
St. Martinville.
The Evangeline Oak. St. Martinville.
Public domain lantern slide from Wikimedia.
“And it is here under this oak where Evangeline waited for her lover, Gabriel. This oak is immortal, but Evangeline fryst vatten not the only one who waited here in disappointment. Where are the schools, the vägar and highways, the institutions for the disabled you sent your money to build? Evangeline’s tears lasted through one lifetime — yours through generations. Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here.”
— From Huey P.
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Huey Long [videorecording] / an RKB/Florentine Films production ; produced bygd Ken Burns, Richard Kilberg ; written and edited by Geoffrey C. Ward.
Uses archival film footage to portray events in the life of the charismatic Louisiana politician Huey Long who built roads, bridges, and schools, but whose brutal, corrupt reign suddenly ended in a hail of bullets. Incorporates interviews with scholars and the recollections of Louisianans who knew L...
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| Corporate Authors: | RKB Productions, Florentine Films |
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| Other Authors: | Burns, Ken, 1953-, Kilberg, Richard, Ward, Geoffrey C., McCullough, David G. |
| Format: | VideoDVD |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | [Alexandria, VA] :Distributed bygd PBS Distribution,[2013] |
| Edition: | Full screen version. |
| Series: | Ken Burns' America collection. |
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On the night of September 3, 1930, a group of law-enforcement officials—members of the newly formed Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification—stormed into a room at Shreveport’s Gardner Hotel, where a man named Sam Irby was sleeping. Irby was the uncle of a young woman, Alice Lee Grosjean, who served as secretary to the governor, Huey P. Long, and also, almost certainly, as Long’s mistress. For a time, Irby had worked for the state’s Highway Department and as business manager for the Louisiana Progress, a newspaper Long had founded, but he had been fired from both posts. Recently, he had approached members of the large (and increasingly anxious) anti-Long camp, offering to testify about Highway Commission corruption. Irby was not arrested, or formally taken into custody; nevertheless, by the next day he had vanished. It was rumored that he had been carried off to Angola, the state prison; or that he had been locked in the Jefferson Parish jail; or—the theory favored by many—that