Havana 4ish
Read more“These [Baton Rouge Teamster] hoodlums make Marcello and the Mafia look pretty good.”
“I won’t let Edward Partin and his gangster Teamsters run this state!”
“[We’re going to arrest Partin] as soon as we get the evidence against him.”
“Walter, get him out of my state. Now listen to what I am saying to you. Just get him out of my state. I’ll help you do it and I’ll give him immunity. You write it up and I’ll sign it. Just please get him across that state line.”
Louisiana governor John McKeithen in a series of 1968 news statements, quoted from Walter Sheridan’s “The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa,” 1972, including personal correspondence with Walter; for decades, he was the FBI’s director of the Get Hoffa Task Force, and he had taken sabbaticals to work for President Kennedy’s successful campaign and Bobby Kennedy’s campaign that that abruptly ended when Bobby was shot and killed in 1968.