Noted Forensic Expert to Speak at College of Law

NOTED FORENSIC EXPERT TO SPEAK AT COLLEGE OF LAW

COLUMBUS -- Who killed Huey P. Long?  James E. Starrs, 
forensic scientist and law professor, will discuss the 1935 
assassination of the U.S. senator during a lecture and slide 
presentation Feb. 24 in the auditorium of John Deaver Drinko Hall 
(College of Law), 55 W. 12th Ave., on The Ohio State University 
campus.  The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. and is free and open to 
the public.

Starrs, a professor of law and forensic sciences at George 
Washington University, is appearing at the invitation of College 
of Law Dean Gregory H. Williams, a former student of Starrs'.

History holds that Long, a flamboyant Depression-era 
politician, was shot by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss as he strolled down 
the Louisiana State Capitol corridor.  Weiss was then killed by 
Long's bodyguards.  But questions have arisen about whether Long 
was fatally wounded by overeager guards, who pumped dozens of 
bullets into Weiss outside the Senate chamber.  In 1991, Starrs 
exhumed Weiss' body in a search for clues.

A distinguished fellow of the Academy of Forensic Sciences, 
Starrs often is invited into the toughest cases nationwide.  He 
established the authenticity of Jesse James' remains and hopes to 
solve the mystery surrounding the death of noted explorer 
Meriwether Lewis.  He will be in central Ohio to examine the 
exhumed body of a Jackson County woman alleged to have committed 
suicide by shooting herself in the chest with a shotgun while 
hunting with her boyfriend, who had a history of violence.
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Contact: Liz Cutler Gates, College of Law, 292-2937.