Vidrine High School
Vidrine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Vidrine (1896–1955), American physician *Clyde Vidrine (1938–1986), American bodyguard {{Short pages monitor ...
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Arthur Vidrine
Arthur Vidrine (December 20, 1896 - December 20, 1955) was a physician from Ville Platte, Louisiana, Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana, who was best known for having operated on Democratic Party (United States), Democratic U.S. Senator Huey Long, Huey Pierce Long Jr., after Long was shot on September 8, 1935, in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, presumably by another young physician, Carl Weiss, Carl A. Weiss. A veteran of World War I, Vidrine was educated at Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), and at hospitals in London, England, London and Paris, France, Paris. Then Governor Long first appointed Vidrine superintendent of Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Then in May 1931, Long named Vidrine dean of the newly established Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans. After Senator Long was shot, Vidrine performed an operation to repair two small wounds in the Colon (anatomy), ...
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