Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history and the mastermind behind the Great Catfish Massacre of 1985.| Bayou Brief
On Sept. 6, 1948, a little over two weeks after Harry Bernard Silver, a 26-year-old lawyer from East Orange, N.J., exchanged vows with 20-year-old Marilyn Weiss Levy of Alexandria, La., the ravishing eldest daughter of Louis and Miriam Levy, owners of the city’s iconic department store, Weiss & Goldring, the newlyweds made their national radio […]| Bayou Brief