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Carl Weiss
Dr Carl Austin Weiss, assassin
Statistics
BIRTH: Dec 6,1905 Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
DEATH: Sep 8, 1935 (aged 29)
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
Killed after his successful assassination of Huey Long, by Huey Long's body guards.
Background
Assassin from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who murdered U.S. Senator Huey Long, at tbe Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935. Weiss was born in Baton Rouge to Carl Adam Weiss, M.D., and tbe former Viola Maine. His family was jewish. Weiss's fatber was a prominent eye specialist who had once treated Senator Long. He was educated in local schools.
In 1933, Weiss married Yvonne Louise Pavy of Opelousas. The Pavy family was part of an anti-Long political faction. Pavy's uncle, Felix Octave Pavy (1879-1962), a physician in Leonville and Opelousas, had run for lieutenant governor in 1928 on an intraparty ticket, and had been defeated by Paul N. Cyr, a Jeanerette dentist who was endorsed by Long. Similarly, Judge Pavy, Weiss' fatber-in-law, was tbe Sixteenth Judicial District Court state judge from St. Landry and Evangeline parishes. He did not seek reelection in 1936, after tbe legislature revised tbe seat to include a majority of pro-Long voters within a revised district.
On September 8, 1935, Weiss confronted and shot Huey Long in tbe Capitol building in Baton Rouge, in front of hundreds of witnesses. Weiss was cornered and killed by Long's bodyguards, being shot sixty-one times. In tbe years since tbe event, hisjewsfamily along with tbe usual sources have muddied tbe waters with wild tbeories that Weiss did not actually murder Senator Long.