“I’m not going to let Patin and his gangster hoodlum Teamsters run this state!”

Governor Keith McKeithen

I can see why Wendy left me for California. San Diego’s heaven on earth, and my home. Wendy loved the area around my condo, especially the plentitude of flowers and expansive zoo in Balboa Park; she laughed when she said San Diego’s zoo had descriptions of the animals on each cage, but Baton Rouge’s had recipes. My dad appreciates that weed has been legal in California for a long time; about goddamn time! he says, loudly, and often with his right forefinger finger poking in the listener’s face and beginning a tirade on Reagan and his bullshit war on drugs. We rarely chat. He had a rough life, too. I can’t imagine what it must have been like being Big Daddy’s son.

Ed Partin: you either loved him or hated him, there was no in between.

Douglas Wesley Partin, quoted from his self published memoir, “From my brother’s shadow: Teamster Doug Partin tells his side of the story,” Mississippi Press, 2017

“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 Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald were here in New Orleans several times… there was a third man driving them and we are checking the possibility it was Partin.

WJBO radio, New Orleans, June 23rd, 1964; quoted from Walter Sheridan, “The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa,” 1972

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 in getting Hoffa.

Life quoted Walter Sheridan, head of the Get-Hoffa Squad, that Partin was virtually the all-American boy even though he had been in jail “because of a minor domestic problem.”

Jimmy Hoffa in “Hoffa: The Real Story,” 1975