Read more“Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.”
— Dan Gable, legendary 1972 olympic gold medalist, coach of three U.S. olympic wrestling teams and six U.S. world teams, head coach of The University of Iowa Hawkeye wrestling team from 1976-1997, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020, and peer of Coach Dale Ketelsen
Read moreChildren, 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
Read more“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, 23 June1964
“As noted in the account of Ruby’s telephone records, the committee confirmed the existence of several contacts between Ruby and associates of Hoffa during the period of October and November 1963, including one Hoffa aide whom Robert Kennedy had once described as one of Hoffa’s most violent lieutenants.”
– The 1976 Congressional Committee on Assassinations John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Report
Read moreJimmy Hoffa: “Would you like to be a part of this, Frank? Would you like to be a part of this history?”
Frank Sheeran: “Yes, I would. Whatever you need me to do, I’m available.”
– Frank Sheeran in “I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa,” 2004
Read more“I cannot agree that what happened in this case is in keeping with the standards of justice in our federal system and I must, therefore, dissent.“
– Chief Justice Earl Warren in Hoffa vs The United States
Read more“Finally, a note on Hoffa’s character. He was a man of strong emotions who hated the President and his brother, the Attorney General. He did not regret the President’s death, and he said so publicly.”
– The John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior Assassination Report.
“You either loved Ed Partin or you hated him. There was no in between.“
– Douglas Westley Partin in his 2017 self-published autobiography, “From my Brother’s Shadow: Teamster Douglas Westley Partin Tells His Side of the Story.”
Read more“Fucking Partin; I should have killed him when I had the chance.”
– Chuckie O’Brien in Jack Goldsmith’s 2019 memoir, “From Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth”
Read more“[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 and I should come to New Orleans. As [my wife] watched me pack in the bedroom of our Coral Gables home, she began crying, imploring me not to see Partin. She feared that it was a trap and that I would be murdered or arrested.”
– Frank Ragano, J.D., attorney for Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello, and Santos Trafacante Jr., in “Lawyer for the Mob,” 1994
Read more“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, 23 June1964
“As noted in the account of Ruby’s telephone records, the committee confirmed the existence of several contacts between Ruby and associates of Hoffa during the period of October and November 1963, including one Hoffa aide whom Robert Kennedy had once described as one of Hoffa’s most violent lieutenants.”
– The Congressional Committee on Assassinations John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Report
Read moreHell, Jason. I don’t know what Big Daddy did. I don’t think it matters any more, anyway.
– Keith Partin, circa 1990
