After [George] Huddleston and [Luther] Patrick had debated on radio one evening, they accidentally met in a restaurant, and Patrick, a gregarious young man who fancied himself something of a comedian, attempted to engage the older, more sedate Huddleston in light banter. The congressman, no doubt anxious about the serious threat to his incumbency, became angry and hit Patrick on the head with a catsup bottle.
From "Labor at the Ballot Box: Alabama Politics from the New Deal to the Dixiecrat Movement" by Robert J. Norrell, The Journal of Southern History, 1991, pg 213. Referencing the Birmingham News for May 27, 1936.
I so want a copy of that newspaper article... so much that I just requested Interlibrary Loan to fetch it for me.
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