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Long traveled with a contingent of bodyguards, but they were unable to protect him on 8 September 1935, when Dr. Carl Weiss assassinated the forty-two-year-old demagogue in the Louisiana State Capitol building. In response Long's bodyguards riddled Weiss's body with sixty-one bullets. The story of Long's rise and fall is the basis for Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men (1946).
Sources:
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (New York: Knopf, 1982);
T. Harry Williams, Huey Long (New York: Knopf, 1969).
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