50th Anniversary of the Death of the Kingfish, Huey Pierce Long
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09/10/1935
09/10/1985
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Video News Report
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1985
00:01:55
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On the 50th anniversary of his death, NBC's Mike Taibbi profiles Huey P. Long, governor of Louisiana.
They called him the Kingfish.
Keywords
Huey P. Long, Kingfish, Anniversary, Governor, Louisiana, Senator, Congress, Great Depression,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Every Man A King, Populism, Death, Murder, Sayde Haun, Eckh Bozeman
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"50th Anniversary of the Death of the Kingfish, Huey Pierce Long." NBC Nightly News. NBCUniversal
Media. 10 Sep. 1985. NBC Learn. Web. 20 March 2015
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1985, September 10. 50th Anniversary of the Death of the Kingfish, Huey Pierce Long. [Television series
episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from https://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k12/browse/?cuecard=1339
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Transcript
50th Anniversary of the Death of the Kingfish, Huey Pierce Long
MIKE TAIBBI:
Every man a king, it was his anthem, Huey Pierce Long, governor of Louisiana by age 34. Three years
later a U.S. Senator with his eye on the White House, Huey Long and Franklin Roosevelt knew it. Then at
age 42, dead, struck down by a bullet in the hall of the State Capital. Huey left Winfield a traveling
salesman and a populist committed to do more for the common man and to pay for it by soaking the rich.
By 1928 he was governor, the nation was on the brink of depression, but Louisiana was already down
trodden. Eckh Bozeman of Winfield, the brother of Huey’s best friend.
ECKH BOZEMAN: The amazing thing about Huey was this; he did so much in such a short time.
TAIBBI: He replaced mud-roads with highways, built bridges and a brand new state capital. Louisiana’s
children stopped having to pay for their schoolbooks. He expanded charity hospital, higher taxes, higher
debt, and thousands and thousands of new jobs all controlled by Huey Long. The Kingfish used his power
to help his friends and to squeeze his enemies. When he got to the Senate in Washington, Huey called his
program, share our wealth.
HUEY LONG: We propose that none shall be bigger than a 10 millionaire, and none shall own less than a
home and the comforts necessary for a home, and properly to educate their children.
TAIBBI: Huey Long said it was almost certain he would run against Franklin Roosevelt in 1936,
wherever he went, Huey Long made bitter political enemies. Whenever he moved, the Kingfish was
surrounded by bodyguards. In September of 1935 Huey Long was in the Louisiana House trying to ram
more bills through his legislator, where he was shot and mortally wounded. The Kingfish, savior or Satan,
in Louisiana he was both.
LONG: Every man a king, every man cherish in the splendor and abundance of God’s earth.
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