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Joseph Melan 1899 - 1972

Joseph Melan of New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana was born on March 24, 1899, and died at age 73 years old in November 1972.

Joseph Melan

New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana 70117

March 24, 1899

November 1972

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In 1899, in the year that Joseph Melan was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

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In 1935, Joseph was 36 years old when on September 8th, Louisiana Senator Huey Long was shot by Dr. Carl Weiss. Weiss was shot and killed immediately by Long's bodyguards - Long died two days later from his injuries. Long had received many death threats previously, as well as threats against his family. He was a powerful and controversial figure in Louisiana politics (and probably gained power through multiple criminal acts). His opponents became frustrated with their attempts to oust him and Dr. Weiss was the son-in-law of one of those opponents. His funeral was attended by 200,000 mourners.

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