events, fired a single shot with a handgun from four feet (1.2 m) away. Long was struck in the torso. Long's bodyguards, nicknamed the "Cossacks" or "skullcrushers", responded by firing at Weiss with their own pistols, killing him; an autopsy found that Weiss had been shot more than 60 times by Long's bodyguards. Alternative theories and denials of the assassination In the years since the event, theories have arisen that Weiss did not actually murder Senator Long; with some speculating that Long was, in fact, killed by a stray bullet fired from the gun of one of his bodyguards. Family denials At the time, Weiss's wife and their families did not accept his guilt. Indeed, Weiss's parents indicated that he had seemed quite happy earlier on the day that Long was killed. Many people close to the family, as well as politicians of the time, doubted the official version of the shooting. Weiss's son, Carl Jr., an infant at the time of his father's death, had since vigorously disputed the assertion. In a 1993 interview on the NBC program Unsolved Mysteries, he asserted that Long was accidentally shot by one of his own bodyguards. Donald Pavy, a medical doctor and first cousin of Weiss's wife Yvonne Pavy, conducted a scientific study of the case and concluded in his book Accident and Deception: The Huey Long Shooting that Weiss did not shoot the governor-turned-senator. However, this view is not accepted by Louisiana State University Professor, T. Harry Williams, who writes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Long: Williams then goes on to say that: Exhumation With the approval of the family, the remains of Weiss were exhumed in 1991 and examined by James Starrs to attempt to determine if Weiss was the actual killer of Long. Starrs was also the publisher of the Scientific Sleuthing Review. Portrayal in literature The character of Adam Stanton in Robert Penn Warren's fictitious All the King's Men is partially based on Weiss. In her 1993 memoir, Marguerite Young mentions the murder of Huey Long and how she used to dance with Weiss as a college girl at Louisiana State University. Connection to Ernest Hemingway Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway suffered a severe gash to his forehead when a skylight fell on him in March 1928 in his Paris apartment. He was treated at the American Hospital of Paris, and it took nine stitches to suture his