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Poor Ellen Smith. Poor Ellen Smith is a late 19th-century murder ballad recounting the shooting death of one Ellen Smith, [1] and the trial and execution of her murderer, Peter de Graff. He apparently wrote the lyrics while awaiting execution by hanging in 1893 using a melody he purloined from the hymn "How Firm a Foundation".
The William J. Fischer Housing Development, better known as the Fischer Projects, was a housing project in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It was known notoriously for a series of high-profile murders in the 1970s and 1980s. [ 1] It was the last conventional public housing development constructed in New Orleans, and one of the ...
The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified American serial killer who was active in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, between May 1918 and October 1919. Press reports during the height of public panic over the killings mentioned similar crimes as early as 1911, but recent researchers have called these reports into question. [ 1]
Assassination of Huey Long. / 30.4571°N 91.1874°W / 30.4571; -91.1874. On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Long was an extremely popular and influential politician at the time, and his death eliminated a ...
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The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading to a full-scale massacre. [ 4] The violence erupted outside the Mechanics Institute, site of a ...
Scott Peterson Breaks His Silence: ‘I Was an A-Hole’ to Laci—But 'I Didn’t Kill My Wife’ (Exclusive) Johnny Dodd. August 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM. For the first time in more than 20 years ...
Desire Projects was a housing project located in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. These projects were the largest in the nation and consisted of about 262 two-story brick buildings, containing about 1,860 units across 98.5 acres of land. [1] The overall conditions of the projects were deplorable from the moment they were put into place ...