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HUEY LONG AND HIS ASSOCIATION

WITH UNION PARISHPREPARED BY AND PRESENTED AT THE UNION PARISH MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND

ARTSFARMERVILLE, LOUISIANA

NOV, 2, 2017

HUEY LONG AND HIS ASSOCIATION WITH UNION PARISH

1. HUEY LONG – AN OVERVIEW

2. ASSOCIATION TO UNION PARISH – JAMES A NOE

3. ASSOCIATION TO UNION PARISH – LEON WEISS

4. ASSOCIATION TO UNION PARISH – HARVEY G. FIELDS

THE KING FISH

HUEY LONG - AN OVERVIEW

▪ HUEY LONG – YOU EITHER LOVED HIM OR YOU HATED HIM. THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN.

▪ BORN IN WINNFIELD, LOUISIANA IN 1893, A VERY IMPOVERISHED PARISH IN LA.

RESENTMENT AGAINST ELITE IN BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS PREVAILED.

▪ EXPELLED FROM HIGH SCHOOL FOR CIRCULATING A PETITION PROTESTING THE

ADDITION OF A 12TH GRADE FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.

▪ WON A SCHOLARSHIP TO LSU BUT COULD NOT ATTEND DUE TO TEXT BOOK COSTS.

▪ SPENT FIVE YEARS AS A TRAVELING SALESMAN SELLING BOOKS, CANNED GOODS, BOOKS

AND MEDICINE. HONED HIS PEOPLE SKILLS.

HUEY LONG - AN OVERVIEW▪ MARRIED IN 1913 AND HAD TWO CHILDREN.

▪ SALESMAN JOBS DRIED UP DURING WWI SO LONG ENTERED THE SEMINARY. HE SOON

REALIZED THIS WAS NOT HIS CALLING BUT THE EXPERIENCE ADDED TO HIS DEVELOPMENT.

▪ SHORTLY ATTENDED OKLAHOMA SCHOOL OF LAW THEN 1 YEAR OF LAW AT TULANE.

▪ TALKED HIS WAY INTO TAKING THE LOUISIANA BAR WITHOUT A DEGREE AND PASSED.

▪ SET UP PRACTICE IN WINNFIELD THEN MOVED TO SHREVEPORT.

▪ TOOK UP CASES FOR THE POOR, ESPECIALLY LARGE CORPORATIONS SUCH AS STANDARD OIL.

▪ IN 1918 WON A SEAT ON THE LOUISIANA RAILROAD COMMISSION, NOW THE LOUISIANA

PUBLIC COMMISSION. WON TWO 6-YEAR RE-ELECTIONS.

HUEY LONG - AN OVERVIEW▪ ELECTED GOVERNOR IN 1928. WITH TWO YEARS LEFT ON HIS PSC TERM HE TRANSFERRED

THAT POSITION TO HIS LAW PARTNER AND ALLY.

▪ IN 1928 LONG ALIGNED WITH FDR AND THE NEW YORK DELEGATION AT THE DEMOCRATIC

CONVENTION.

▪ IN 1929 THERE WAS AN UNSUCCESFUL ATTEMPT TO IMPEACH LONG.

▪ PRIOR TO LONG, POLITICAL POWER WAS A MONOLOPY CONTROLLED BY THE OLE REGULARS

IN NEW ORLEANS, LARGE GROWERS AND THE OIL COMPANIES. POWER MOVED TO THE

POPULACE FOLLOWING THE ELECTION.

▪ SOCIAL PROGRAMS WERE IMPLEMENTED; ROADS, EDUCATION AND FREE TEXTBOOKS, ETC.

HUEY LONG - AN OVERVIEW▪ ELECTED U.S. SENATOR IN 1932.

▪ CARRIED HIS LOUISIANA SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL.

▪ LAUNCHED A SHARE THE WEALTH PROGRAM.

▪ FELL OUT WITH FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. LONG FELT ROOSEVELT WAS MOVING TOO SLOW.

▪ ROOSEVELT STATED THAT LONG AND DOUGLAS MCARTHUR WERE THE TWO MOST

DANGEROUS MEN IN AMERICA.

▪ LONG MAINTAINED CONTROL OF LOUISIANA POLITICS AND GARNERED MANY ENEMIES AND

MANY LOYAL FOLLOWERS.

▪ SEPT 8, 1935 HUEY LONG WAS ASSASSINATED. 200,000 MOURNERS PAID RESPECTS.

HUEY LONG - AN OVERVIEW

▪ THE HUEY LONG LEGACY DID NOT END WITH HIS DEATH

▪ LONG’S FAMILY PROVIDED:

▪ TWO GOVERNORS

▪ THREE U.S. SENATORS

▪ FOUR U.S. REPRESENTATIVES

▪ THREE STATE LEGISLATORS

▪ OTHER STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – james a. noe

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – james a. noe• BORN IN EVANS LANDING, INDIANA IN 1890.

• WORLD WAR I VETERAN – INFANTRY LIEUTENANT

• RELOCATED TO NORTH LOUISIANA SOON AFTER THE WAR.

• NOE CARVED OUT A VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS CAREER IN NORTH LOUISIANA:• HE WAS A VISIONARY IN RADIO AND TELEVISION.

• WNOE and WNOE-FM in NEW ORLEANS.• KNOE-AM, KNOE-FM and KNOE –TV in MONROE.

• NOE PARTNERED WITH HUEY LONG TO FORM THE WIN OR LOSE OIL COMPANY.

• THIS PARTNERSHIP MADE NOE A MULTI – MILLIONAIRE.

• IN 1932 NOE WAS ELECTED TO THE LOUISIANA SENATE.• HUEY LONG HAD TRAVELED TO FARMERVILLE TO ASK A LOCAL LAWYER AND

FRIEND FOR HELP FOR NOE’S ELECTION.

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – james a. noe• NOE WAS ELECTED TO THE SENATE.

• AT HUEY LONG’S URGING, NOE WAS SELECTED TO BE PRESIDENT PRO TEMP OF THE SENATE.

• JOHN B. FOURNET HAD BEEN LT. GOVERNOR BUT HAD RESIGNED TO TAKE A POSITION ON THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT. NO REPLACEMENT WAS NAMED.

• GOVERNOR O.K. WAS IN OFFICE AND DIED FROM A STROKE.

• LINE OF SUCCESSION WENT TO THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPE OF THE SENATE. • JAMES A. NOE BECAME THE 43RD GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.

• IN 1939 NOE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE LOUISIANA SCANDALS, THE LOUISIANA HAYRIDE.• NOE FED THE DETAILS OF THE LOUISIANA SCANDALS TO DREW PEARSON, A FAMOUS

WASHINGTON SCANDAL REPORTER. INSURED FDR WOULD NOT SWEEP THE DETAILS UNDER THE RUG TO PRESERVE HIS ALLY, RICHARD LECHE.

• SO HOW IS NOE ASSOCIATED TO UNION PARISH.

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – james a. noe

• JAMES A NOE’S WIFE WAS A TEACHER AT FARMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL (LATIN) WHEN NOE FIRST MOVED TO LOUISIANA AND FARMERVILLE.

• HUEY LONG VISITED FARMERVILLE AND ASKED HIS FORMER LAW PARTNER TO GO TO OUACHITA PARISH TO HELP NOE. THIS HAPPENED, NOE MOVED TO THE TOP OF THE ELECTORATE AND TOOK HIS SEAT IN THE LOUISIANA SENATE.• THIS ULTIMATELY LED TO NOE BECOMING GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA.

• NOE PROBABLY RECEIVED THE INFORMATION THAT HE PROVIDED TO DREW PEARSON FROM A FRIEND FROM FARMERVILLE. THIS LED TO NATIONAL PUBLICATION OF THE LOUISIANA SCANDAL ALLOCATIONS.

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – LEON WEISS


• GRADUATED FROM THE TULANE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING : 1903

• QUICKLY MADE ENROADS IN ARCHITECTURE IN THE DEEP SOUTH.

• 1907 – FOUR YEARS AFTER GRADUATING WEISS DESIGNED THE RENOVATION OF THE NATCHEZ BANK AND TRUST.

• 1908 – FIVE YEARS AFTER GRADUATING HE DESIGNED THE ELKS LODGE IN VICKSBURG.• 1920’s – DESIGNED THE JUNG AND THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTELS IN NEW ORLEANS AND

THE EOLA HOTEL IN NATCHEZ.

• MET WITH HUEY LONG TO SUPPORT HIS RUN FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP OF LOUISIANA -1928

• LONG WAS SUCCESSFUL AND BECAME GOVERNOR IN 1928.

• ATTEMPT TO IMPEACH LONG IN 1929 FAILED. LECHE PROVIDED SUPPORT FOR LONG IN THE FAILED ATTEMPT.

• A BRILLIANT ARCHITECTURAL MIND COUPLED TO A SUCCESSFUL ARCHECTURAL FIRM AND THE MERGER WITH A HIGHLY POWERFUL POLITICAL MACHINE HAD TAKEN PLACE.

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – LEON WEISS• WEISS WAS AWARDED THE CONTRACT TO DESIGN THE NEW CAPITAL BUILDING IN BATON

ROUGE.• TALLEST CAPITAL BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES• RECENTLY IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE 20 MOST SPECTACULAR ART DECO SKYSCRAPERS IN

THE U.S.

• WEISS ALSO WON THE CONTRACT FOR THE NEW GOVERNORS MANSION

• HUEY LONG WANTED TO BUILD LSU FROM A SMALL BACKWOODS COLLEGE THAT WAS RANKED

80TH IN THE NATION TO A TOP ELITE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. WEISS WOULD BE INSTRUMENTAL

IN THIS GOAL.

• LSU LAW SCHOOL – PATERNED AFTER THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT BUILDING IN

WASHINGTON

• LSU MEDICAL CENTER IN NEW ORLEANS – COMPLETED IN 1931.

• HUEY LONG WROTE IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, “There had been completed the

magnificent structure for that school in the midst of the buildings of the Charity

Hospital of New Orleans. That new school, upon examination, was found to have been

supplied with every modern device or contrivance suggested and recommended by

the national medical organizations”

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – LEON WEISS• WEISS’S ARCHITECTURE DOTTED THE UNIVERSITY LANDSCAPE ACROSS LOUISIANA

• IN 1935 HUEY LONG WAS ASSASSINATED. WEISS’S ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY DID NOT STOP.

• GOVERNOR RICHARD LECHE ASSUMED THE HEIRSHIP TO THE LONG POLITICAL MACHINE.

• WEISS REMAINED WITH THE LECHE MACHINE.

• WEISS DESIGNED THE MASCULAN PALACIAL HOME FOR LECHE THAT WAS PURPORTED TO RIVAL RAILROAD TYCOON HOMES OF THE DAY.

• WEISS CONTINUED TO RECEIVE STATE CONTRACTS THAT RIVALED EARLIER PROJECTS WITH LONG.• CHARITY HOSPITAL IN NEW ORLEANS.• ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS ON LSU CAMPUS.• LA TECH UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – LEON WEISSPRE – HUEY LONG DESIGNS

Vicksburg BPOE Elks Building - 1908

Natchez Bank and Trust- 1907 Court House – By St Louis - 1911Valley Dry Goods, Vicksburg - 1910


1937 – Law Building Designed in the

style of the U.S. Supreme Court

1939 – Louisiana Tech

LA State Capital Building LA Governor’s Mansion

1939 – Charity Hospital –

New Orleans St Charles Parish Court House

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – LEON WEISS• WEISS EVENTUALLY WENT TO PRISON BUT NOT BEFORE ESTABLISHING HIS LEGACY AS THE

PREMIER ARCHITECTURAL FIRM IN LOUISIANA.

• AMONG OTHER DESIGNS WEISS COULD INCLUDE IN HIS CREDITS:• LSU BUILDINGS

• a Drama Building• a Field House• Pleasant Hall• O. K. Allen Hall• La Maison Française• Himes Hall• The Geology Building• The Faculty Club• Three Women’s Dormitories

• THREE BUILDINGS AT MCNEESE STATE• SEVEN BUILDINGS AT SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA• TWELVE BUILDINGS AT UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE

• SO WHAT DOES LEON WEISS HAVE TO DO WITH HUEY LONG’S ASSOCIATION WITH FARMERVILLE?

• ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Weiss was born in Farmerville in Union Parish, north of Ruston”

also

The federal prosecutor responsible for Weiss’s imprisonment was from

Farmerville


LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – HARVEY G. FIELDS

• BORN 1883, Marksville, Louisiana• DIED 1961, Farmerville, Louisiana


• 1900: GRADUATED FROM LOUISIANA POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE: JOURNALISM

• 1902: GRADUATED FROM TULANE UNIVERSITY: LAW

• 1903: SET UP LAW PRACTICE IN FARMERVILLE

• 1904: ELECTED ALDERMAN FOR THE TOWN OF FARMERVILLE

• 1916: ELECTED TO THE LOUISIANA SENATE

• 1920: ELECTED DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR UNION PARISH. ACHIEVED A 98% CONVICTION RATE.

• 1924: BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.

• ATTENDED THE FIRST OF FOUR DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AS A DELEGATE.

• ATTENDED THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL IN DAYTON TO WATCH TWO FRIENDS, WILLIAM JENNINGS

• BRYANT AND CLARENCE DARROW BATTLE FOR THE RIGHT TO TEACH EVOLUTION IN SCHOOL.

OVER VIEW


• 1928: FILLED LONG’S UNEXPIRED SEAT ON THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION FOLLOWING

• LONG WINNING THE LOUISIANA ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR.

• 1928: FIELDS TEAMED WITH FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN HOUSTON

TO HAVE THE LONG DELEGATION SEATED OVER THE NEW ORLEANS OLE REGULARS.

• 1928: FIELDS WOULD CORRESPOND WITH NELLIE ROSS OVER PROHIBITION. ROSS WAS THE ASSISTANT

CHAIR OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND THE FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR IN THE UNITED STATES.

• 1930: FIELDS WAS ELECTED TO A SIX YEAR TERM ON THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

• 1932: GOVERNOR O.K. ALLEN AND HUEY LONG THREW OUT THE ENTIRE PSC WITH THE EXCEPTION OF

FIELDS AND HIS ASSISTANT HAZEL ALBRITTON OF FARMERVILLE.

• 1932: FIELDS BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA PSC.

• 1928: BECAME A MEMBER OF THE LAW FIRM LONG, FIELDS AND O’NEAL. O’NEAL WAS LATER JUDGE

ROBERT O’NEAL AND LONG WAS EARL AND HUEY.

• 1936: FIELDS BECAME THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR FOR THE WESTERN REGION OF LOUISIANA

FOLLOWING AN APPOINTMENT BY PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT.


• 1939: FIELDS SUBMITTED INFORMATION TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT HELPED TO LAUNCH

THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF 200 STATE CITIZENS FOR CORRUPTION AND

MISUSE OF FEDERAL FUNDS. THIS WAS LATER REFERRED TO AS THE LOUISIANA SCANDALS.

• 1945: ONE OF THREE SELECTED TO BE ON THE RULES COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC

COMMITTEE.

LONG’S ASSOCIATION TO U.P. – HARVEY G. FIELDS• DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION:

• IN 1928 THE LONG MACHINE PUT TOGETHER ITS’ DELEGATION FOR THE FIRST DEMOCRAT CONVENTION

IN THE SOUTH SINCE THE CIVIL WAR.

• FIELDS MET FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WITH THE NEW YORK DELEGATION ON THE TRAIN TO HOUSTON.

• FDR SEARCHED OUT FIELDS AND TOLD FIELDS HE HAD A DEAL FOR HIM.

• IF THE LONG DELEGATION WOULD SUPPORT NEW YORK’S AL SMITH FOR PRESIDENT, THE NEW

YORK DELEGATION WOULD SUPPORT THE LONG DELEGATION TO BE SEATED AT THE CONVENTION.

• FIELDS PRESENTED LONG’S CREDENTIALS ON THE FLOOR AND HAD TO FIGHT TO BE SEATED IN LIEU

OF THE NEW ORLEANS OLE REGULARS. LONG’S DELEGATION WAS SEATED.

• NEW YORK’S AL SMITH BECAME THE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT AND FDR WAS HIS CAMPAIGN

MANAGER.


.• STERLINGTON BRIDGE:

• 1927: IP PURCHASED THE LOUISIANA MILL IN BASTROP

• 1928: PRELIMINARY PLANS DEVELOPED TO BUILD A BRIDGE ACROSS THE OUACHITA RIVER

• 1932: BRIDGE COMPLETE. UNION PARISH WAS WIDE OPEN TO PROVIDE TIMBER TO A HUNGRY MILL.

• SENATORIAL SUPPORT:

• THE 1932 SENATE ELECTION TO ELECT A STATE SENATOR FOR OUACHITA AND JACKSON PARISHES PITTED LONG’S FRIEND JIMMY NOE AND TWO ANTI-LONG RIVALS. NOE WAS NOT FAIRING WELL.

• LONG DROVE TO FARMERVILLE TO VISIT FIELDS.

• LONG REQUESTED FIELDS TO HELP NOE BY CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM.

• FIELDS “STUMPED” FOR NOE. ESTABLISHED RALLIES, GAVE SPEECHES, SPOKE ON THE RADIO


.• SENATORIAL SUPPORT:

• NOE WON THE ELECTION; DEFEATED BOTH OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES WITH A CLEAR MAJORITY

• REMAINED CLOSE FRIENDS WITH FIELDS AND TOTALLY LOYAL TO LONG AND HIS VISION

• AN ASSASSINS BULLET

• FIELDS VISITED LONG AT THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL IN NEW ORLEANS. NOTED THE ARMED BODY GUARDS AROUND LONG AND ASKED “WHY”. LONG TOLD OF PLOTS AGAINST HIM.

• SEPT 8TH, 1935: LONG WAS CROSSING THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE HOUSE CHAMBERS IN THE LOUISIANA CAPITAL AND WAS SHOT.

• LONG WAS TAKEN TO OUR LADY OF THE LAKE HOSPITAL WHERE JAMES A. NOE GAVE A DIRECT TRANSFUSION INTO LONG.

• THREE DAYS LATER LONG DIED.


.

• AN ASSASSIN’S BULLET:

• FIELDS LAUNCHED HIS OWN INVESTIGATION AND UNCOVERED THREE PLOTS:

a) AN ALLIANCE WAS FORMED OF PROMINENT LEADERS THAT HATED LONG. THEY WORE A PIECE OF RED RIBBON TO SHOW A BROTHERHOOD. NEVER MANIFESTED ITSELF INTO ANY PLANNED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

b) LONG TOLD FIELDS THAT THERE WAS A PLOT FOR A CAB TO RUN INTO LONG BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS. DISCOUNTED BY FIELDS AS BEING A SUICIDE MISSION, FIELDS DISCOVERED AFTER THE ASSASSINATION THAT THIS HAD IN FACT BEEN A LEGITIMATE PLOT. THE CABBY WAS TO RECEIVE A LARGE SUM OF MONEY.

c) THE THIRD WAS A PLAN TO FUND AN ATTEMPT.

a) A WEALTHY BANKER HAD BEEN ASKED TO DROP A LARGE SUM INTO A HAT TO ASSIST WITH DEFENSE OF THE ASSASSIN OR GIVE TO THE WIDOW. HE REFUSED.

b) A NATIONAL RADIO ANNOUNCER HAD OVERHEARD PLANS FOR AN ASSASSINATION PLOT.

c) IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THIS WAS PART OF THE SECOND PLOT OR INDEPENDENT.

d) FIELDS HELD A MEMORIAL FOR LONG IN FARMERVILLE WITH HIS WIFE


.• LONG’S CONNECTION AFTER THERE WAS A LONG

• IN 1936 FIELDS WAS APPOINTED AS THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR FOR THE WESTERN REGION OF LOUISIANA.

• GOVERNOR RICHARD LECHE HAD ASSUMED “OWNERSHIP” OF THE LONG POLITICAL MACHINE.

• LONG HAD ONCE SAID THAT HE HAD TO STAY IN CONTROL OR ALL THESE GUYS WOULD END UP IN PRISON.

• IN 1939 FIELDS TOOK PAPERWORK TO WASHINGTON AND REQUESTED TWO SPECIALISTS BE ASSIGNED TO LOUISIANA.

• ONE THAT IS FAMILIAR WITH WPA CORRUPTION

• ONE THAT IS FAMILIAR WITH THE USE OF THE FEDERAL MAIL FOR FRAUD

• TIME MAGAZINE IDENTIFIED THAT FIELDS CLOSE FRIEND HAD LEAKED THE DETAILS OF THE INVESTIGATION TO DREW PEARSON, AUTHOR OF THE WASHINGTON MERRY GO ROUND.

• IT IS PURPORTED THAT NOE WANTED TO REGAIN THE GOVERNORSHIP AND REINSTATE THE GROWTH OF LONG’S SOCIAL PROGRAMS.


.• LONG’S CONNECTION AFTER THERE WAS A LONG

• THE INVESTIGATION MOVED FORWARD.

• 200 MEN WERE INDICTED

• GOVERNOR RICHARD LECHE WENT TO PRISON

• TWO MEN COMMITTED SUICIDE

• THE PRESIDENT OF LSU WAS EXTRADITED FROM CANADA, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AND EVENTUALLY SENT TO ANGOLA FOR GAMBLING AWAY LSU FUNDS

• SEYMOUR WEISS, CLOSE COMPANION OF LONG, BUSINESS MANAGER OF LECHE AND HIS POLITICAL MACHINE AND MANGER OF THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL IN NEW ORLENS, WENT TO PRISON.

• LEON WEISS, ARCHITECH EXTROIDINAIRE FROM FARMERVILLE, WENT TO PRISON FOR MIS-USE OF FUNDS FOR THE DESIGN OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT LA TECH. FOR ALL PURPOSES HIS CAREER ENDED.


.• A LEGACY TO LONG

• FIELDS TOOK OVER THE LONG MEMORIAL FUND. LECH HAD ORIGINALLY HAD THIS.

• FIELDS WROTE A BOOK THE HISTORY OF HUEY LONG

• EVERY BOOK SOLD ENTITLED A PERSON TO ONE SHARE OF THE HUEY LONG MEMORIAL.

• ALL PROCEEDS WENT TO THE MEMORIAL FUND.

• FIELDS KICKED THE FUND RAISER OFF WITH A SPEECH IN HIS HOMETOWN,MARKSVILLE

• JIMMY NOE ARRANGED TO HAVE THE SPEECH DELIVERED OVER WNOE AND KNOERADIO.


• A FITTING EPITAPH• THE TRUE MEASURE OF FIELDS FOLLOWED FIELDS’ DEATH

• ONE WAS THE DAY BEFORE HIS FUNERAL SERVICE• THE OTHER WAS THE DAY OF HIS FUNERAL


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