Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa has been on trial in federal court four times in the past five years. The first three trials concluded with two acquittals, one hung jury. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., the defense began presenting its case in No. 4—and the proceedings were enlivened by a bit of gunplay.
The present charge against Hoffa is that he and another Teamster official accepted more than $1,000,000 in illegal payments from a Detroit trucking concern. According to the indictment, Detroit's Commercial Carriers, Inc. in 1949 set up a Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers....
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