Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
Who put up the hospital and built you schools?
Who looks after shit-kickers like you?
The Kingfish do.
--Randy Newman, "Kingfish" Let's pull down these huge piles of gold until there shall be a real job, not a little old sow-belly, black-eyed pea job but a real spending money, beefsteak and gravy, Chevrolet, Ford in the garage, new suit, Thomas Jefferson, Jesus Christ, red, white and blue job for every man! ... Lift us out of this wretchedness, O Lord, out of this poverty, lift us who stand in slavery tonight. Rally us under this young man who came out of the woods of north Louisiana, who leads us like a Moses out of the land of bondage into the land of milk and honey where every man is a king but no man wears a crown. Amen.
--Rev. GeraldSmith, introducing Huey Long at a Louisiana political rally.
"...check his second autobiography if you don't believe me - it's written as if he was already President, describes his inauguration & cabinet & everything!!"
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Who put up the hospital and built you schools?
Who looks after shit-kickers like you?
The Kingfish do.
--Randy Newman, "Kingfish" Let's pull down these huge piles of gold until there shall be a real job, not a little old sow-belly, black-eyed pea job but a real spending money, beefsteak and gravy, Chevrolet, Ford in the garage, new suit, Thomas Jefferson, Jesus Christ, red, white and blue job for every man! ... Lift us out of this wretchedness, O Lord, out of this poverty, lift us who stand in slavery tonight. Rally us under this young man who came out of the woods of north Louisiana, who leads us like a Moses out of the land of bondage into the land of milk and honey where every man is a king but no man wears a crown. Amen.
--Rev. GeraldSmith, introducing Huey Long at a Louisiana political rally.
Ben browses the Unknown USA web site:
Some background information on Huey Long plus a resource that Ben can use in future: Ben is sitting on one of the beds in Room 7 of the Fontainebleau Motel, just north of NewOrleans. The group probably could've found a nicer place in the city proper, but Reese thought there was something fishy about the causeway across Lake Pontchartrain, so the Fontainebleau it is. Cinderblock walls, cigarette burns on the table. A real class joint. Ben plugs his laptop into the phone jack and logs on. A couple of clicks and keystrokes take him to his destination: "UnknownUSAList." A few days ago, right after Memphis, Reese was wild eyed, gung ho about "talking" to Huey Long. He demanded Ben tell him everything the Internet had to say about the Kingfish. So Ben posted a query here. There's a long string of responses. Lots of links: http://www.ssa.gov/history/hlong1.html (bio of Long) http://louisianahistory.ourfamily.com/kingfish.html (another bio, with more on assassination) http://foia.fbi.gov/hueylong.htm (the extensive FBI files against Long) Yeah, Ben thinks, I know how to use Google too. Still, a few things interesting things jump out.- Long's nickname, "Kingfish." (He took it from the radio show Amos & Andy.)
- Long's slogan, "Every man a king." (He took it from WilliamJenningsBryan)
- His election platform, Good Roads. (During his term as Governor, Louisiana built 111 new bridges and 2300 miles of paved roads.)
- Long built a new state house in Baton Rouge, a modern skyscraper, to replace the old state house, which was known as the WhiteCastle.
- Long was assassinated in September 1935, one month after announcing his candidacy for President.
>From mothman1969:BB King ;) : Be sure to look into Longs early days as a patent medicien snake oil salesman. He had close ties to some pretty wacky preachers snake dancers faith healers etc. that he intended to take with him all the way to the White House - check his second autobiography if you don't believe me - it's written as if he was already President, describes his inauguration & cabinet & everything!! but anyway Long's most loyal lieutenant was a radical miniser name Gerald L. K. Smith [GeraldSmith], who started Disciples for Christ. After Long's death Smith tried to keep up the fight but he became more and more anti-semitic, eventualy ended up with WilliamDudleyPelley, yeah the same fucking nazi who founded the SilverShirts and eventually hooked up with GuyBallard (see IAm) and went cuckoo for coaco puffs on MountShasta. Smith ended up in the Ozarks I think, built a replica of the Holy Land and the second largest statue of Christ in the western hemisphere. Crazy crazy world, my friend. Somebody oughta sell tickets!>From jersey_devil:Hey bat boy!! how's the South treating you? didja say howdy to Walt in the tunnels under Disney World? ya, look out for them swamp apes! so now I hear your interested in the Kingfish? Well, most of the surface data has been covered by the plebes but what you might not have heard is how Huey's widow Rose finished out his term as Governor. Legend has it she consulted mediums and voodoo women in New Orleans regularly to do seance with Huey and do his bidding. Which is kind of ironical since Huey hated New Orleans and never set foot there if he could help it. (No lie) Anyway, if you want the real dope on Huey or Louisiana's secret past while your there, you should really look for a place in New Orleans called the "Selene Gallery". It's off of St. Jacques Street, or it was last I heard. The woman that runs that place is plugged in, if you KNOW what i MEAN.
"...check his second autobiography if you don't believe me - it's written as if he was already President, describes his inauguration & cabinet & everything!!"
- Hmm. Possible HistoricalShift? [Mike]
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