11 Facts About Carl Weiss

Carl Weiss's paternal grandfather was an organist and choirmaster in Bavaria before he emigrated to Louisiana in 1870.

Carl Weiss was educated in local schools and graduated from St Vincent's Academy, a Catholic school.

However, after two years, Carl Weiss switched to studying medicine, obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1925 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Carl Weiss did postgraduate work in Vienna, Austria, and briefly practiced at the American Hospital of Paris.

Carl Weiss thereafter was awarded internships in Vienna and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

Carl Weiss was president of the Louisiana Medical Society in 1933 and a member of the Kiwanis International.

On September 8,1935, Carl Weiss confronted and shot Huey Long in the Capitol building in Baton Rouge.

Indeed, Carl Weiss's parents indicated that he had seemed quite happy earlier on the day that Long was killed.

Carl Weiss was treated at the American Hospital of Paris, and it took nine stitches to suture his head wound.

Carl Weiss was left with a permanent, prominent scar on his forehead.

However, Hemingway was almost certainly mistaken, as Carl Weiss did not start practicing at the hospital until July 1929, sixteen months after Hemingway was treated for his head wound.