Let’s take a look at this “all-American boy” and his record, which was carefully kept from the jury by Judge Wilson and the government. In December, 1943, he was arrested in the state of Washington for breaking and entering. Pleading guildy, he was senteneded to fifteen years in the state penitentiary, from which he escaped […]
“Partin was a big tough-looking man with an extensive criminal record as a youth. Hoffa misjudged the man and thought that because he was big and tough and had a criminal record and was out on bail and was from Louisiana, the home states of Carlos Marcello, the man must have been a guy who […]
“Partin was a big tough-looking man with an extensive criminal record as a youth. Hoffa misjudged the man and thought that because he was big and tough and had a criminal record and was out on bail and was from Louisiana, the home states of Carlos Marcello, the man must have been a guy who […]
But then came the killing shot that was to nail me to the cross. Edward Grady Partin. And Life magazine once again was Robert Kenedy’s tool. He figured that, at long last, he was going to dust my ass and he wanted to set the public up to see what a great man he was […]
We’re not going to let Paritn and his gangster, hodlum Teamsters run this state! Governor McKeithen, shortly before not receiving the Louisiana Teamster endorsement and loosing his reelection.
“Edward Grady Patin was a big, rugged guy who could charm a snake off a rock.” Jimmy Hoffa in “Hoffa on Hoffa,” 1975
“Fuckin’ Partin, I should have killed him that night when I had the chance.” Chucky O’Brien, Hoffa’s adopted son, told to Chucky’s adopted son, Harvard law professor Jack Goldflake, in “In Hoffa’s Shadow.”
“We can report that Edward G. Partin has been under investigation by the New Orleans District Attorney’s Office in connection with the Kennedy Assassination investigation… based on an exclusive interview with an Assistant District Attorney in Jim Garrison’s office. We can report that Partin’s activities have been under scrutiny. In his words: “We know that […]
“[Jimmy Hoffa’s] mention of legal problems in New Orleans translated into his insistence that Carlos Marcello arrange another meeting with Partin, despite my warning that dealing with Partin was fruitless and dangerous.” Frank Ragano, attorney for Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello, and Carlos Traficante Junior, in “Mob Lawyer.”
Partin, like Hoffa, had come up the hard way. While Hoffa was building his power base in Detroit during the early forties, Partin was drifting around the country getting in and out of trouble with the law. When he was seventeen he received a bad conduct discharge from the Marine Corps in the state of […]