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    Date: 2/7/01
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Editors: Photo accompanies release
AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST TO LECTURE ON HUEY LONG ASSASSINATION
     HAMMOND -- Journalist David Zinman, author of "The Day Huey Long Was Shot," a
classic book on the controversial slaying of a controversial Louisiana governor, will present a
lecture and slide presentation at Southeastern Louisiana University on February 19.
     The event, sponsored by the Southeastern Graduate School and History and Political 
Science Department, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in D Vickers Hall, Room 128. Zinman's lecture will
be followed by a question and answer session, said Graduate School Dean Michael Kurtz.
     Zinman, a former Associated Press reporter in New Orleans, first wrote about the Long
assassination in 1960, when he did a national story on the 25th anniversary of the slaying. He
then
spent three years researching the assassination before publishing "The Day Huey Long Was
Shot," in 1963. 
     The book has since been updated, expanded and republished by the University of
Mississippi Press in 1993 and the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana-
Lafayette in 1997. It has been praised for being "remarkably objective in approach and
treatment"
(the New Orleans States Item) and "a real whodunit, told in clinical detail" (the El Paso Times).
     Zinman was invited to speak at events recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Long
assassination in 1985 and the centennial year of Long's birth in 1993.
     A graduate of Columbia University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism,
Zinman was a reporter for the Long Island, N.Y., newspaper Newsday for most of his career. He
has received several journalism honors including the New Orleans Press Club's awards for best
news and feature stories.
     Now retired, Zinman writes an award-winning column for the Horry (County)
Independent in Conway, S.C.
     For additional information about his lecture, contact Kurtz at 504-549-2103.
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