Video: 'The Assassination of Huey Long'

(Sunday, September 8, 1935, 9:20 p.m. local time/11:20 p.m. EDT) — U.S. Senator Huey Long, the “Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, was shot through the stomach and mortally wounded tonight inside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge (he would die two days later on Sept. 10, 1935).

The assailant, identified as Dr. Carl Weiss, whose father-in-law Huey had just gerrymandered out of a judgeship, was gunned down by Long’s bodyguards.