Huey Long built the tallest state capitol in America in 14 months during the Great Depression, then had a White House replica constructed down the road with a Lincoln Bedroom where he reportedly rehearsed being president. He gerrymandered a judge out of office, and the judge's son-in-law, Dr. Carl Weiss, shot him in a first-floor corridor of that capitol on September 8, 1935. The bullet scar is still in the marble. Long died two days later; 100,000 people came to view his body. He is buried in the sunken garden in front of the building, a twelve-foot bronze statue facing the place where he was killed. Beneath a nearby hotel, the brick tunnel his political machine used to move unseen between the statehouse and the bar is now a speakeasy. Long arranged most of this himself. The rest completed the arrangement for him.
