Editing Carl Weiss (section)

==Career==
Weiss was born in [[Baton Rouge]] to physician Carl Adam Weiss and the former Viola Maine. Weiss's father was a prominent [[ophthalmologist]] who had once treated Senator Long.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ajlambert.com/history/hst_hc30.pdf |access-date=29 February 2024 |title=WAY BACK WHEN: LOOKING BACK IN HISTORY: Happenings in the Cookeville area as recorded in the pages of the Herald Citizen Newspaper, Cookeville, TN |first=Bob |last=McMillian}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was an [[organist]] and [[choirmaster]] in [[Bavaria]] before he emigrated to [[Louisiana]] in 1870.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93F3AAAAMAAJ&q=%22married+Viola+Maine+,+a+quiet+-+spoken+,+conservative+,+Baton+Rouge%22|title = The Day Huey Long was Shot, September 8, 1935|isbn = 978-0-87805-628-6|last1 = Zinman|first1 = David H.|year = 1993| publisher=University Press of Mississippi }}</ref> His mother had French and Irish ancestry.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQkWBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22ASSASSIN+The+man+who+shot+Governor+Long,+Carl+Weiss+Jr.,+was+a+member%22&pg=PA49|title = Killing Congress: Assassinations, Attempted Assassinations and Other Violence against Members of Congress|isbn = 978-0-7391-8360-1|last1 = Marion|first1 = Nancy E.|last2 = Oliver|first2 = Willard|date = 22 July 2014| publisher=Lexington Books }}</ref> Both of Weiss' parents were Roman Catholic, although he may have had some [[Jewish]] ancestry through his paternal grandfather. However, despite the [[conspiracy theories]] promoted by the [[antisemitic]] [[preacher]] and [[Huey Long]] ally, [[Gerald L. K. Smith]], after Long's death, there is no evidence that his family remained religiously Jewish.<ref>{{cite book|first= William Ivy|last= Hair|date=1991|title=The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long|publisher= Louisiana State University Press|page=274|isbn=0-8071-1700-5}}</ref> Weiss was educated in local schools and graduated from [[Catholic High School (Baton Rouge)|St. Vincent's Academy]], a Catholic school.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQkWBAAAQBAJ&q=catholic+high+school&pg=PA50|title = Killing Congress: Assassinations, Attempted Assassinations and Other Violence against Members of Congress|isbn = 978-0-7391-8360-1|last1 = Marion|first1 = Nancy E.|last2 = Oliver|first2 = Willard|date = 22 July 2014| publisher=Lexington Books}}</ref> 

Growing up, Weiss had an interest in electricity and mechanics. He once tampered with the lock at the pew of his downtown church, locking his mother and two aunts inside.<ref>{{cite book |last=Zinman |first=David |date=1963 |title=The Day Huey Long was Shot, September 8 1935 |publisher=Ivan Obelenshy|page=55}}</ref> Initially, he studied engineering at University, his father having discouraged a career as a doctor due to its time commitments; he often went to the early 5:15&nbsp;a.m. mass in case of a later medical emergency.<ref>{{cite book |last=Zinman |first=David |date=1963 |title=The Day Huey Long was Shot, September 8 1935 |publisher=Ivan Obelenshy|page=59}}</ref> However, after two years, Weiss switched to studying medicine, obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1925 from [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. He did postgraduate work in [[Vienna, Austria|Vienna]], [[Austria]], and briefly practiced at the [[American Hospital of Paris]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Carl Weiss Jr., 84, Dies; His Father, He Said, Didn't Kill Huey Long |work=The New York Times |date=13 August 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/obituaries/dr-carl-weiss-jr-dead.html |access-date=25 February 2023 |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam }}</ref>

Weiss thereafter was awarded internships in Vienna and at [[Bellevue Hospital Center|Bellevue Hospital]] in [[New York City]]. It was while in Europe that Weiss bought a [[FN Model 1910]] pistol for $25 (equivalent to approximately ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|8|1930|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}{{inflation-fn|US}}) that he allegedly used in the Long assassination.<ref>{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Lamar Jr. |title=Holes in the Story: Huey P. Long, Carl Weiss, and the American Spectacle of Conspiracy |url=https://www.bayoubrief.com/2021/09/26/holes-in-the-story-huey-p-long-carl-weiss-and-the-american-spectacle-of-conspiracy/4/ |website=BayouBrief |date=27 September 2021 |access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>

In 1932, he returned to Baton Rouge to enter private practice with his father. He was president of the Louisiana Medical Society in 1933 and a member of the [[Kiwanis International]].<ref>{{harvnb|Conrad|1988|p=2:831}}</ref>{{clarify|date=March 2023}}