Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other questioners dug into Hoffa's strange business deals and his unsavory connections with hoodlums, the tone changed. Wary of the pitfalls of wiretaps whose contents he could not foretell, Hoffa began to get the kind of amnesia that hoods have long resorted to-before the era of the Fifth Amendment. To every implicating question there came an equivocating answer, or a variety of dazzling disclaimers, e.g., "to the best of my recollection," "I just don't remember," "I don't recall." Listening to this performance for hours, even easy-going Irving Ives exploded. Shooting a grumpy...
This was a smashing comedown for James Riddle Hoffa. Only 77 hours earlier he had swaggered into the McClellan hearings like a crowing cock into a coop of capons. At first he had arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There...
...Hoffa continued to crawl. He saw nothing wrong, he said, about the conflicting interests he had been maintaining; he admitted that a dishonest union boss might take advantage of business deals and loans made with employers of truck drivers, but fortunately for the Teamsters, Hoffa protested, he is an honorable man. But he could not recall, for example, where he had borrowed part of $20,000 that he had invested in one company; neither could he remember why he borrowed $5,000 from a businessman who had a Teamster contract...
Courts & Credibility. More astonishing than the committee's blockbuster statement was its closing-hour suggestion that Extortionist Dio provided Hoffa with secret miniature recording devices as well as recording experts. The machines, so ran the implication, may have been worn by witnesses who appeared at a grand-jury session during an investigation of Hoffa in Michigan. Afterwards, had the devices been so used, the witnesses would have carried out complete recordings of the proceedings...
...last week's proceedings were concerned, John McClellan announced that he would ask the Department of Justice to examine Hoffa's testimony for evidence of perjury. Courts have ruled that a sense of credibility must apply to "I do not recall," i.e., a major event in a man's life is not an incident lightly forgotten. Such an event might concern, say, the details of a $20,000 loan or the bugging of a grand jury room. Jimmy Hoffa's forgettery might turn out to be inconvenient after...