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by Douglas Brinkley


  Fox News; Gretna Bridge Incident and

  Fraiser, Jim

  France

  Frank, Judy

  Freedom Movement

  Freeport-McMoran

  French Acadians, see Cajuns, Cajun area

  French Quarter (Vieux Carré); bars in; Bourbon Street in; electricity in; lack of flooding in; literature and; looting in; media coverage of; non-evacuees in; restaurants in; tourists in; upper class in

  Fricke, David

  “From tha 13th to tha 17th” (B.G.)

  Froomkin, Dan

  Galatoire’s

  Galveston, Tex., hurricane in (1900)

  Gambino, Angie

  Gambit Weekly

  gambling; floating casinos; in Mississippi; in New Orleans

  gangs; in hotels; at Morial Center

  GAO, see Government Accountability Office, U.S.

  Garcia, Jo Ann

  Garden District; evacuation of; mansions of; photographs of; tourists in; upper class in

  Garden District Bookshop

  Gary, Elton

  gas, natural

  gasoline; fires from; pollution from; of Times reporters

  Gates, Bill

  Gemini Records

  General Electric

  generators

  Gentilly

  Georgia, deaths in

  Georgia National Guard

  Georgie, Marko

  Giants Stadium, Compass’s trip to

  Gibson, Jabar

  Giddens, Jeff

  Giuliani, Rudolph

  global warming

  Goff, Libby

  Goldblatt, Jeff

  “golden hour, the”

  “Gone with the Water” (Bourne)

  Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)

  Gonzales, La.; Tanger Outlet Center in

  González, Elián

  Goodman, Julie

  Good Morning America (TV show)

  “Good Roads” movement

  Gorman, R. C.

  Goux, Rene

  Government Accountability Office, U.S. (GAO)

  Goyeneche, Rafael C., III

  Graham, Sean

  Grand Gosier Island

  Grand Palace Hotel

  Grand Isle, La.

  Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)

  Grapple, USS

  Gray, Terius (Juvenile)

  Gray, William

  Great Britain

  Great Depression

  Great Galveston Hurricane (1900)

  Great Hurricane (1722)

  Great Mississippi Flood (1927)

  Great Storm (1909)

  Green, Robert

  Green, Sedona

  Green, Tommy

  Green, Yvonne

  Greenpeace

  Gretna, La.

  Gretna Bridge Incident

  Greyhound

  Greyhound Bus Terminal

  Griffith, Frank

  Griffiths, Richard

  Grinds, Kache

  Grizzly Bear (punker)

  Guam, typhoon Omar in

  Guardian

  Gulf Coast region: Bush’s tour of; as federal disaster area; mental crumbling of; see also specific places

  Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, see Intracoastal Waterway

  Gulfport, Miss.

  Gulfport Bay

  Gulfport-Boloxi Airport

  Gulf Shores, Ala.

  gun violence; at Charity Hospital; rescue missions impeded by

  Gupta, Sanjay

  Gusman, Marlon

  Hagin, Joe

  Haiti

  Hall, Anne

  Halsey, William “Bull”

  Hamilton, Jack

  Hammond, La.

  Hancock County, Miss.; EOC of; see also Bay St. Louis; Waveland

  Hancock Medical Center

  Haralson, Jasmine

  Harbin, Ronald

  Harbor Police, New Orleans

  Hardball (TV show)

  Hargrove, Gary

  Harper, Jean

  Harper’s

  Harrah’s Casino; NOPD at

  Harrah’s Entertainment

  Harrington, Michael

  Harris, Allie

  Harris, Booker

  Harris, Frank

  Harris, Mike

  Harris, Ronnie

  Harris County, Tex.

  Harrison County, Miss.; deaths in; see also Biloxi; Gulfport

  Harrison County Emergency Management Agency

  Hatfield, Brenda

  Hattiesburg, Miss.

  Haydel, Wendy

  Hayes, Brian

  Hazmat (hazardous materials)

  Health and Human Services Department, U.S. (HHS)

  Hearn, Philip D.

  Heinz, Harry

  helicopters accidents from; Bahamonde’s tour by; Blanco’s surveys by; Coast Guard, see Coast Guard, helicopters of; FEMA’s use of; in hospital evacuations; levee breaches viewed from; in Morial Center evacuation; news; shooting at; for Superdome evacuation

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henderson, Greg

  Henderson Point, Miss.

  Herbert, Troy

  heroin

  Hess, Stephen

  Hicks, Tyler

  Higgens, Todd

  “High Water Everywhere” (Patton)

  Highway; destruction of; Waveland police on

  Hill, Fitzgerald

  Hill, Lance

  Hilton

  Hingle, Dorothy

  Hingle, Jeff

  hiphop

  Hirst, Larry

  Hispanics

  Holditch, Ken

  Hollings, Fritz

  Holloway, A. J.

  Hollygrove

  Hollywood, Calif.

  Holm, Josh; Morial Center and

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holocaust

  Home Depot

  Homeland Security and Public Affairs Office, New Orleans

  Homeland Security Department, U.S. (DHS); Brown’s memo to; Coast Guard and; criticism of; “fast analysis report” of; FEMA absorbed into; international embarrassment and; oil and; terrorism orientation of; see also Chertoff, Michael

  homeless people; in Mississippi; in New Orleans; NOPD as

  Honore, Charles

  Honore, Russel

  Hospital Corporation of America

  hospitals; in Baton Rouge; in Mississippi

  hospitals, New Orleans; evacuation of; flooding of; see also specific hospitals

  hospital ships

  hotels

  hotels, New Orleans; closing of; gangs in; media in; Nagin’s fear of lawsuit by; non-evacuees in; tourists in; see also specific hotels

  Houck, Oliver

  Houma, La.

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  housing: affordable; destruction of; looting of; post-Katrina

  Housing Act (1937)

  housing developments: in New Orleans; in suburbs

  Houston, Tex.; evacuations to; New Orleans compared with; NOPD in; Red Cross in; Reliant Park in; Times bureau in

  Houston Chronicle

  Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

  “How Bush Blew It” (Thomas)

  Huberty, Chris

  Huckabee, Mike

  Hudson, Audrey

  Hughes, Alfred

  Hughes, Langston

  humor

  Huntsman, Jon, Jr.

  Hurricane Andrew (1992)

  Hurricane Betsy (1965)

  Hurricane Camille (1969); deaths in; Katrina compared with; in Mississippi

  Hurricane Camille (Hearn)

  Hurricane Carla (1961)

  Hurricane Charley (2004)

  Hurricane Dennis

  Hurricane Donna (1960)

  Hurricane Frances (2004)

  Hurricane Georges (1998)

  Hurricane Hunters, see Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

  Hurricane Isabel (2003)

  Hurricane Ivan (2004)

  Hurricane Jeanne (2004)

  Hurric
ane Katrina (2005): barometric pressure reading of; as business opportunity; in Category 1; in Category 3; in Category 4; in Category 5; chain of failures in; deaths attributed to; direction of; as divine retribution; environmental damage from; evacuations and, see evacuations; eye of; eyewall of; first landfall of; in Florida; housing destroyed by; as “incident of national significance”; media coverage of; missing persons after; in Mississippi; NHC advisories and reports on; non-evacuees in, see non-evacuees; psychological damage from; size of; statistics after; storm surge and

  Hurricane Pam exercise (2004)

  Hurricane Rita

  hurricanes: disappearance of wetlands and; as doomsday threat to New Orleans; economic benefits of; Saffir-Simpson Scale for; tracking of; see also National Hurricane Center; National Weather Service; U.S. defanging attempts with

  Hurston, Nora Zeale

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hutter, Nita

  Hyatt Regency; Clarkson at; Nagin’s refuge in

  I-10; in Alabama; bus operations on; evacuation of; in Florida; in Louisiana; in Mississippi; in Texas

  I-55

  I-610

  Idris, Brandy

  Idris, Savannah

  Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

  Imus, Don

  “incident of national significance”

  Inc. Magazine

  income

  Indian Ocean tsunami, see Asia, tsunami in

  Industrial Canal; bridge over, see St. Claude Avenue Bridge

  Industrial Canal levee breach; Jackson Barracks and; Ninth Ward and; St. Bernard Parish and

  influenza

  ING 4727 barge

  Ingalls Shipbuilding

  Ingram Barge Company

  Inside the Creole Mafia (play)

  insurance, insurance companies; home

  Insurrection Act (1807)

  Interior Department, U.S.

  Intracoastal Waterway

  Iraq; antiwar movement and; criminal court system in; McLaughlin in; National Guard in

  Iraqi National Museum

  Irony of a Negro Policeman (Basquiat)

  Isaac’s Storm (Larson)

  Iverson, Greg

  Iwo Jima, USS

  Jackson, Alcede

  Jackson, Alphonso

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jackson, Hardy

  Jackson, Jesse

  Jackson, Michael

  Jackson, Miss.

  Jackson, Ted

  Jackson, Tonette

  Jackson, Tony

  Jackson, Violet

  Jackson Barracks

  Jackson County, Miss.; see also Pascagoula, Miss.

  Jacksonville, Fla.

  Jaffe, Ben

  Jaffe, Sarah

  James, Tillie

  Japan

  jazz, jazz musicians

  Jeffers, Robinson

  Jefferson, Brandy

  Jefferson, William

  Jefferson Parish; aid obstructed in; evacuations from; firefighters in; flooding in; looting in; pumping stations in; rescue efforts in

  Jefferson Parish Response and Rescue Team

  Jenson, Terry

  Jeter, Mark

  Jindal, Piyush “Bobby”

  Jo Ellen Smith Hospital

  Johnny White’s Sports Bar

  Johnson, Al

  Johnson, Benjamin

  Johnson, Diane

  Johnson, Fred, Jr.

  Johnson, Harold

  Johnson, Jonell

  Johnson, Josephine

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson, Pearl

  Johnston, Jill

  Johnstown Flood, The (McCullough)

  Joint Task Force Katrina

  Jones, Art

  Jones, Benny

  Jones, Corey

  Jones, Doris M.

  Jones, Sam

  Jones, Stephen

  Jones, Tim

  Jones, Dwayne

  Jones, Wilma

  Jordan, Eddie

  journalists: as emergency relief workers; NOPD’s roughing up of; see also specific people

  “Joy” (Williams)

  Junger, Sebastian

  Junior’s Bar

  J.W. Marriott Hotel

  Kaiser Engineering

  Kaiser-Hill

  Kane, Harnett T.

  Katrina Daily News

  Keesler Air Force Base

  Kelly, Michael

  Kelly, Nicole

  Kelly U.S.A. Shelter

  Kelt, Annie

  Kelt, John

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.

  Kennedy, Ted

  Kenner, La.

  Kenyon International Services Inc.

  Kern, Barry

  Kern, Blaine

  Kerry, John

  Key West, Fla.

  Kimbel, Lillian

  Kimbel, Marvin

  Kimmel, Jimmy

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King, Rodney

  Kinney, Dan

  Kleinpeter, Leonard

  Klotzbach, Phillip

  Knight, Deonne

  Knight, Fredro C., Sr.

  Knight, Fredro

  Knight, Michael

  Knight, Theresa

  Knocke, Russ

  Kolbert, Elizabeth

  KTRK-TV

  Kucharek, Michael

  Kursk, sinking of

  Kuwait

  Labor Day Hurricane (1935)

  Labou (film)

  LaCaze, Keith

  Lachin, Laura, see Stepro, Laura Lachin

  Lafayette, La.

  Lafitte Housing Projects

  Lafon Nursing Home of the Holy Family

  Laforet, Vince

  Lagasse, Emeril

  Lake Arthur, La.

  Lake Athanasio

  Lake Borgne

  Lake Charles, La.

  Lakely, James G.

  Lake Pontchartrain; Coast Guard survey of; floating casino in; flooding from; levee breaches of; see also specific levees; levees of; Mississippi River connection to, see Industrial Canal; pumping stations and; storm surge and

  Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project

  Lake Pontchartrain Causeway; boat rescue at; evacuees at

  Lakeview; Bellaire Drive complaints and; Byrne’s house in; flooding in; Foret’s house in; Katrina victims in; looting in

  Landreneau, Bennett C.

  Landreneau, Dwight

  Landrieu, Cheryl

  Landrieu, Frank

  Landrieu, Mary; in helicopter survey; in news conference; Slidell bungalow of

  Landrieu, Mitch; as Homeboy; park fees waived by; in St. Bernard Parish

  Landrieu, Moon

  Landrum, J. D.

  Landstar

  Laos, Troilin

  Lapham, Lewis

  Laque, Albert

  Larson, Erik

  Las Vegas, Nev.

  Latham, Robert

  Lawes-Reed, Kathy A.

  Lawless, Danny

  Lawson, Arthur, Jr.

  LCACs

  LDWF, see Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

  LeBlanc, Beth

  Lee, Harry

  Lee, Jim

  Lee, Joey

  Lee, Robert

  Lee, Spike

  Lee, Trymaine D.

  Lee, Circle

  Leftwich, Hal

  Lehrer, Jim

  Leibovich, Mark

  Lemann, Nicholas

  Le Moyne, Pierre

  Leno, Jay

  Leslie, Austin

  Letterman, David

  Levassier, Michael

  levee breaches; Army Corps of Engineers and; Bush and; causes of; dynamiting and; Nagin and; in Plaquemines Parish; prediction of; Robinette’s views on; rumors about; sandbags for; Times reporters and; see also specific breaches

  levees; building of; in California; Category-3 proof; community confusion about; diversion of funds from; faith in; improvement of; Mayfield’s warning about
; problems with; see also specific levees

  Lewis, Michael

  Lieberman, Joe

  life preservers

  Lil’ Wayne (Dwayne Carter)

  Lindy Boggs Medical Center

  Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base

  Little Rock, Ark.

  Loews Hotel

  Loewy, Amy

  Lokey, Bill

  London Avenue Canal; levee breach in

  Long, Huey P.

  Long, Jerry

  Long Beach, Miss.

  Longshoremen’s Union

  looting; by African Americans; definition of; in Jefferson Parish; in Mississippi; in Oakwood Center Mall

  looting, New Orleans; arrests for; “big dump” and; Byrne-MacCash on; commandeering vs.; FEMA fear of; hiphop music and; in hotels; NBC News and; NOPD and; by NOPD; restoration of electricity hampered by; in Riverbend; Roberts’s views on; and shootings; at Superdome; Uptowners fear of

  Los Angeles, Calif.

  Lott, Trent

  Louis Armstrong International Airport; children at; flooding caused by; hospital patients at; as staging area for evacuees

  Louisiana; Air Force One flight over; blackouts in, see blackouts; Bush’s visit to; Camille in; corruption in; day of prayer in; deaths in; disappearance of wetlands in; electricity restored in; family networks in; first responders in, see first responders, Louisiana; political contributions in; post-Katrina federal aid for; rescue crews turned away in; state of emergency declared in; as Third World; see also specific places

  “Louisiana 1927” (Newman)

  Louisiana Conservationist

  Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

  Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF; W&F); Cajun Navy with; as first responders

  Louisiana National Guard; as bus drivers; clash with Army of; Coast Guard compared with; emergency responders stopped by; fire trucks of; in Iraq; in Jackson Barracks, see Jackson Barracks; looting and; at Morial Center; non-evacuees’ fear of; NOPD and; as pilots; sandbags dropped by; at Superdome; Superdome and

  Louisiana Nursing Home Association

  Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

  Louisiana Offshore Oil Port

  Louisiana Purchase

  Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LSPCA)

  Louisiana State Police

  Louisiana State University (LSU); Coastal Studies Institute of; Dental School of; Manship School of Mass Communications at; Pete Maravich Assembly Center in

  Louisiana State University Hurricane Center

  Love, De’Mont-e

  Love Canal disaster

  Lovett, Ronny

  Lovett, Ruth

  Lower Ninth Ward; description of; Domino in; evacuations in; flooding in; “high ground” homes in; Jackson Barracks in, see Jackson Barracks; media coverage of; poor people in; rescues in; special-needs people in

  Loyola University

  Lucas, Terry

  Lukas, Brian G.

  Luling, La.

  Lupin, Ralph

  MacArthur, Douglas

  McBride, LeaAnne

  McCarthy, Cormac

  MacCash, Doug

 

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