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As a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], Grevemberg was among ten delegates who still cast their votes for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], after Goldwater had lectured conservatives "to grow up" and support [[Richard M. Nixon]] for the party's nomination against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]].​

As a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], Grevemberg was among ten delegates who still cast their votes for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], after Goldwater had lectured conservatives "to grow up" and support [[Richard M. Nixon]] for the party's nomination against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]].​

 

==Grevemberg a phony, according to Dodd==​

==Dodd calls Grevember a "phony"==

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Bill  Dodd, a veteran Louisiana officeholder and an observer of the state political scene, had no use for Grevemberg. In his ''Peapatch Politics'',<ref>(Baton Rouge: Claitors, 1991), ISBN 0-87511-932-8, ISBN 978-0-87511-932-8. The subtitle is ''The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics''.</ref> Dodd, without using Grevemberg's name, charged that the former state police superintendent undertook his crusade against gambling to secure maximum political exposure as a reformer running for governor.​

Bill  Dodd, a veteran Louisiana officeholder and an observer of the state political scene, had no use for Grevemberg. In his ''Peapatch Politics'',<ref>(Baton Rouge: Claitors, 1991), ISBN 0-87511-932-8, ISBN 978-0-87511-932-8. The subtitle is ''The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics''.</ref> Dodd, without using Grevemberg's name, charged that the former state police superintendent undertook his crusade against gambling to secure maximum political exposure as a reformer running for governor.​

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... Do-gooders, crime commission buffs, and many [[Protestant]] preachers joined up with and supported this faker who was acting as a reformer. The biggest drunkard, whoremonger, gambler, and wife-beater can put on a uniform and begin cussing crime by day, while he slips around and commits it by night, and many gullible church people will carry his banner. So it was with that policeman-turned-politician. My own Protestant [ [[Baptist]] ] minister preached sermons bragging on him. He told me that he couldn't vote for several of my favorite candidates because they were [[Roman Catholics]], but he was 100 percent for the policeman [Grevemberg], who was a Catholic. He was for him, he said, because he was against crime.​</blockquote>

... Do-gooders, crime commission buffs, and many [[Protestant]] preachers joined up with and supported this faker who was acting as a reformer. The biggest drunkard, whoremonger, gambler, and wife-beater can put on a uniform and begin cussing crime by day, while he slips around and commits it by night, and many gullible church people will carry his banner. So it was with that policeman-turned-politician. My own Protestant [ [[Baptist]] ] minister preached sermons bragging on him. He told me that he couldn't vote for several of my favorite candidates because they were [[Roman Catholics]], but he was 100 percent for the policeman [Grevemberg], who was a Catholic. He was for him, he said, because he was against crime.​</blockquote>

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Grevemberg's memoirs, ''My Wars: Nazis, Mobsters, Gambling & Corruption - Col. Francis C. Grevemberg Remembers'' describes a ride into north Louisiana, in which state troopers told of the shooting of Huey Long in 1935. They said that Dr. Carl Weiss (1906–1935) was not armed and that Long was in fact shot to death by his own bodyguards. Grevemberg related how the shooting of Long came up during a conversation among four troopers accompanying Grevemberg on a casino raid. Grevemberg said that the troopers told how Weiss' gun had been taken from his car ''after'' the shooting. "It appears... that all of the actions following the shooting were a conspiracy to cover up the accidental death of Senator Long and the killing of Dr. Weiss," said Grevemberg. The troopers told Grevemberg that what started out as a fist to Long's lip by Dr. Weiss triggered an accidental shooting that ended in a hail of gunfire.<ref>Louisiana 101, Huey Long assassination: http://www.louisiana101.com/ideashuey_story1.html</ref> This claim was also repeated in a 1990s segment of the [[NBC]] series ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]].'' The claim has been rejected by scholars; the troopers were repeating a story that was invented after the fact by anti-Long politicians and spread widely.<ref>[. Harry Williams, ''Huey Long'' (1969) pp. 870-71.</ref>​

Grevemberg's memoirs, ''My Wars: Nazis, Mobsters, Gambling & Corruption - Col. Francis C. Grevemberg Remembers'' describes a ride into north Louisiana, in which state troopers told of the shooting of Huey Long in 1935. They said that Dr. Carl Weiss (1906–1935) was not armed and that Long was in fact shot to death by his own bodyguards. Grevemberg related how the shooting of Long came up during a conversation among four troopers accompanying Grevemberg on a casino raid. Grevemberg said that the troopers told how Weiss' gun had been taken from his car ''after'' the shooting. "It appears... that all of the actions following the shooting were a conspiracy to cover up the accidental death of Senator Long and the killing of Dr. Weiss," said Grevemberg. The troopers told Grevemberg that what started out as a fist to Long's lip by Dr. Weiss triggered an accidental shooting that ended in a hail of gunfire.<ref>Louisiana 101, Huey Long assassination: http://www.louisiana101.com/ideashuey_story1.html</ref> This claim was also repeated in a 1990s segment of the [[NBC]] series ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]].'' The claim has been rejected by scholars; the troopers were repeating a story that was invented after the fact by anti-Long politicians and spread widely.<ref>[. Harry Williams, ''Huey Long'' (1969) pp. 870-71.</ref>​

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Until [[Hurricane Katrina]], the Grevembergs had resided in New Orleans. Francis Grevemberg died at the age of ninety-four of acute respiratory problems stemming from surgery for a broken hip. After her husband's death, Dorothy Grevemberg entered the Morningside Assisted Care facility in Conyers,  Georgia, at which she died in 2010 at the age of ninety-three. Their funeral services were private. The remains of both Grevembergs were placed in an urn in the family tomb in St. Martinville in St. Martin Parish near [[Lafayette]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=dmg/>​

Until [[Hurricane Katrina]], the Grevembergs had resided in New Orleans. Francis Grevemberg died at the age of ninety-four of acute respiratory problems stemming from surgery for a broken hip. After her husband's death, Dorothy Grevemberg entered the Morningside Assisted Care facility in Conyers,  Georgia, at which she died in 2010 at the age of ninety-three. Their funeral services were private. The remains of both Grevembergs were placed in an urn in the family tomb in St. Martinville in St. Martin Parish near [[Lafayette]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=dmg/>​

 

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