Transcriber’s Notes
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The Huey Long
Murder Case
by Hermann B. Deutsch
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Garden City, New York, 1963
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 62-15869
Copyright © 1963 by Hermann B. Deutsch
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
In Boundless Affection, This Modest Volume
Is Dedicated to
_THE LYING NEWSPAPERS_
A Generic Term Applied by Huey P. Long to
_The Free Press of a Free Republic_.
Especially is it dedicated to any and all who
during almost half a century have been
My Fellow Workers
As Typified by
John F. Tims and Ralph Nicholson
And Most Specially Is It Dedicated to the Memory of
Richard Finnegan and Marshall Ballard.
CONTENTS
Foreword ix
Chapter 1: Prelude to an Inquest 1