3 Dr. Weiss’s pistol, which normally holds seven cartridges, contained only five unfired ones (and an empty, jammed in the ejector) when it was picked up after the shooting.
4 & 5 The watch which was shot from Murphy Roden’s wrist while he was grappling with Dr. Weiss. The dial shows the time of the struggle, the dent in the back was obviously made by a small bullet.
6 No “small blue punctures” were left by the bullets of bodyguards who mowed down Dr. Weiss in the niche where he had waited for Senator Long. The photograph was made after authorities, seeking to establish his identity, had turned over the body which fell face down.
7 The funeral cortege, moving from the capitol to a newly prepared crypt which is now the site of a monument. Right foreground, the L.S.U. student band playing “Every Man a King” in a minor key as the Kingfish’s dirge.
8 Huey Long’s casket, as it was borne down the capitol’s 48 granite steps followed by members of his family. The two leading pallbearers are (left) Seymour Weiss and Governor Oscar Allen.