Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What burned Bobby was a charge that as Attorney General he had tried to plant in LIFE magazine a derogatory story about Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa at a time when Hoffa was under federal indictment for mail fraud...
...that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received a call from Attorney General Kennedy, who offered to put him in touch with one Sam Baron, a disgruntled Teamster official who wanted to write an exposé about Hoffa...
...make sure his story was told. He asked me to put him in touch with somebody who would relate what he had undergone as a Teamster official. I made that arrangement. I did nothing else. Nothing, in fact, was ever published until Mr. Baron was physically beaten by Mr. Hoffa." LIFE Editor Edward...
...TEAMSTERS: Jimmy Hoffa, 52, is relatively young but much indicted, and if all his appeals fail, he may have to step aside for Einar Mohn, 59, the union's West Coast vice president...
...litigation will move apace, though Katzenbach thinks that the days of violent confrontations-and the use of federal troops to enforce the law-are over. Similarly, labor racketeering, a prime Kennedy target, will continue to get Katzenbach's attention; the new Attorney General will retain the so-called "Hoffa Unit," the anti-labor-racketeering section that was set up in the department under Bobby. Katzenbach feels that antitrust work has been too scattershot in the past, hopes to sharpen the focus of trustbusting onto areas that have "the most important impact on the economy." And one of Katzenbach...