Labor: Somebody Got Him

"Somewhere," complained Defense Attorney Maurice Walsh, in what was probably the most unsurprising disclosure of the century, "somebody wants to get Hoffa awfully bad." As everybody knows, that somebody is Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and lately Bobby has been doing right well. Last March a federal court in Chattanooga convicted Teamster Boss James R. Hoffa of jury tampering, fined him $10,000 and sentenced him to eight years in prison. Hoffa was freed on appeal, but he had barely enough time to pick up a change of socks before hustling off to Chicago for another trial. When that...

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