***Date Unknown***1996
Music composed by Sam Broussard;
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Hadacol, Groucho Marx. Dudley LeBlacn was a senator of Louisiana;
1944-selling from his barn. 1951-all-time high of $25 million in sales;
Last of the great American patent medicines;
Selling women's medicines;
Check from the postman;
Sold himself out of a job by telling people to buy 2-3 years of supply. Not as much with tobacco;
Seeing a girl get off the train, meeting Evelyn, his wife;
Growing family of 6;
Searching new products to add to his line;
Bedridden and ready to try a traiteur (prayer and string), doctor gave him a shot. Getting vitamins via shots;
Preparing Hadacol in his barn. Forming the LeBlanc corporation;
Fantastic results from taking Hadacol. Miracle drug. Alcohol and Vitamin A or B;
12% Alcohol in Hadacol. Selling in liquor stores, more of a drink than medicine;
Hadacol Parties among teenagers;
If it doesn't smell good or taste good, it's got to be good for you;
Putting profits back in as advertising;
Barn and barrel to automated bottle factory. A bottle a second;
Hadacol coins. Hadacol Boogie;
100 18-wheeler Hadacol trucks delivering to 11 states in the South;
1950-nation-wide advertising. 1.5 million radio stations. 3-4 ads in the newspaper;
Outsold Bayer aspirin, as popular as Disco. He spent more time than Coca-cola did on promotion;
Radio contests giving away Hadacol;
Hadaol Club, Captain Hadacol for kids;
Taxes;
Traveling medicine shows high-tech and modern. Medieval tradition. Pulling a snake from a bottle. Actors, musicians, anything to draw a crowd;
1950-led caravan of celebrities;
2 Hadacol box tops to see show, counterfeit box tops;
Growing 5 feet after a bottle of Hadacol;
Hadacol jokes;
Plugging Hadacol in National spotlight;
1951-train "Hadacol Special" to middle America;
Playing Sugar Bowl and Cotton Bowl;
Sponsoring Hank Williams Sr., Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys;
Jambalaya from a caravan;
Sex sells. Ms. Hadacol contest;
Lucille Ball, Marx Bros., hired comedians. Elvis Presley, Bob Hope;
Fireworks after every show. Memory that would last a lifetime;
1951-sold Hadacol for $8 million to finance his campaign for Governor of Louisiana. Wanted to be first Cajun governor since Reconstruction;
Hiring big jazz bands and making 112 speeches (only 2 in English);
Northern Protestants controlled the government. French Catholic a liability, demarcation;
Acadians, the Great Deportation;
Born August 16, 1894 in LeBlanc, LA. Poor, pure LeBlanc;
Break out of farming, hunting, and fishing;
A little smarter than the rest of his class. Enroll after 8th grade at university. Graduated college (SLI) at 17 years old;
Oil Broker after break-up of Standard Oil. Average income only a few hundred dollars a year;
Huey Long was selling artificial cooking oil. Dudley selling shoes. Rented a carriage together because they covered rural Louisiana and didn't compete with one another;
WWI-Translating for English-speaking Americans;
Better roads. 1920 race, State Representative from Vermilion Parish. Aid people;
Buggy Tax refund bill. Automobile taxes illegally collected on horse and buggies;
Thibodeaux Benevolent Association (TBA);
Regulation of railraods;
Bitter rivalry between LeBlanc and Long with same goals;
Destroy Dudley LeBlanc's business. Not allowing TBA's insurance in Louisiana, selling it in Texas;
Running for governor in 1932 against O.K. Allen;
Rigging the election, stealing it from Dudley by exchanging ballot boxes. Some boxes found floating in rivers;
Old Age Pension, Unemployment insurance, public education learned from French History;
Traced ancestry to French monarchy;
New Deal was part of his idea that Long took and vibrated all the way to Washington;
Sunday Radio Program in French. Cousin Dud;
Gospel according to Dudley LeBlanc, everyone believed everything he said;
Cousin Dud part of young Cajuns' upbringing;
Like a soap opera, listening to his show continuously;
Father of Old Age Pension during Earl K. Long administration;
Louisiana segregationist, prevented Blacks and Cajuns from voting;
You Are My Sunshine--Jimmie Davis, ran for a second time in 1959;
Paving roads;
Prominent Democrats coming to Louisiana, promoting rice, agriculture, Cajun people;
Campaign of 1963. McKeithen carrying Vermilion parish;
Dudley's last race against James Fontenot. His cars without opponent's bumper sticker;
Take care of the Cajun people, my people;
Acadian Renaissance;
Docile, quiet people. It's ok to take a stand. Assertion into business sector;
Francophones and Anglophones didn't mix;
Not speaking French with a monolingual Anglophone around;
Punished for speaking French in schools, knelt on corn, dunce cap, beat them, write lines, lock them up in a room;
1755-René LeBlanc led the Acadians when they were driven out of Nova Scotia;
The Story of Evangeline and the Deportation of Acadians as criminals by English Crown;
Destroy the ethnic group, separating families, deported in ships designed for cattle;
Genocide of the Acadians;
3 books regarding the history of the Acadians;
Researching Acadian documents in various archives;
Acadian Miracle;
Pride in speaking French;
Represented the Cajun in the early part of the 20th century;
Founding of CODOFIL;
Linking the Acadian provinces in Louisiana and Acadia;
Bringing students to Nova Scotia;
Bicentennial of Acadian Deportation;
Congrès Mondial Acadien of 1994;
Proud to be Cajun. Music, Food, Art;
No other culture like this;
Being Cajun a state of mind;
Cousin Dud put Cajuns on the map, not Justin Wilson;
Acadian activist;
Everyone in Louisiana knows Dudley;