Carl Weiss

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Carl Weiss

b. 1887

A Baton Rouge physician remembered today because of the dramatic events surrounding Huey Long’s death, he remains a figure of lasting debate in Louisiana history. His brief life sits at the crossroads of medicine, politics, and one of the South’s most famous unsolved controversies.

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Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Frage »Ist die Furcht vor Krankheitsübertragung durch das Telephon berechtigt«? Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde in der Medizin, Chirurgie und Geburtshülfe der Hohen Medizinischen Fakultät der Königlichen Universität Greifswald

Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Frage »Ist die Furcht vor Krankheitsübertragung durch das Telephon berechtigt«? Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde in der Medizin, Chirurgie und Geburtshülfe der Hohen Medizinischen Fakultät der Königlichen Universität Greifswald

by Carl Weiss

About the author

Born on December 6, 1906, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Carl Austin Weiss Sr. trained as a doctor and specialized in ear, nose, and throat medicine. He studied locally and also did postgraduate work in Europe before returning home to practice medicine.

Weiss is most widely known for the events of September 8, 1935, when Senator Huey Long was shot at the Louisiana State Capitol. Weiss was immediately killed by Long’s bodyguards, and he was long identified as Long’s assassin, though that conclusion has been disputed for decades.

Because of those competing accounts, Weiss remains a complicated historical figure rather than a fully settled one. What is clear is that his death at age 28 tied his name permanently to one of the most dramatic episodes in American political history.