3 posts tagged assassination

What happened to Congressman Boggs?

The disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs remains, to this day, an unresolved chapter in American history, a story without an ending.

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Senator’s assassination still a mystery

After Huey Long died in a Baton Rouge hospital, the Times-Picayune reported that all of Frank Costello's slot machines had returned to Baton Rouge and New Orleans as mysteriously as they had vanished two weeks earlier. Decades later, before a government committee, Costello claimed Huey Long invited him to ship his slot machines to Louisiana from New York, an offer he could not refuse.

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Accused JFK assassin’s pilot hid from police at SLU

This week marks the 59th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. Whether a lone nut, innocent patsy, or co-conspirator, Lee Harvey Oswald and his connections to southeast Louisiana in the summer of 1963 are fascinating.

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