And We have commanded people to ˹honour˺ their parents. Their mothers bore them through hardship upon hardship, and their weaning takes two years. So be grateful to Me and your parents. To Me is the final return. – Surah Luqman 31:14
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” – Ephesians 6:1-3 NIV
This is a narrative memoir centered around my mother’s 2019 death from liver failure; and it’s also a true crime centered around my grandfather’s role in killing President Kennedy and how that led to my mothering marrying his son and getting pregnant with me at 16 years old. A working title has been Why I […]
“You either loved or hated Ed Partin. There was no in between.” – My great-uncle Doug in “From my Brother’s Shadow: Teamster Douglas Westley Partin Finally Tells His Side of The Story,” self published in 2017.
“These [Baton Rouge Teamster] hoodlums make Marcello and the Mafia look pretty good.” – Louisiana governor John J. McKeithen, 1968
“[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.” “He wanted me to get cracking on the interview with Partin. In June, Carlos sent word that a meeting with Partin was imminent […]
“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 […]
“The committee found that Hoffa and at least one of his Teamster lieutenants, Edward Partin, apparently did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against President Kennedy’s brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in July or August of 1962. Hoffa’s discussion about such an assassination plan first became known to the Federal Government […]
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 […]
Thou shall not bear false witness. – The Old Testament of Moses