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Last week, with dazzling help from Washington's cleverest and busiest criminal lawyer, beaming Jimmy Hoffa wriggled free after all. Grinned his lawyer, rich, boyish (37) Edward Bennett Williams:* "I'm going to send Bobby Kennedy a parachute...
Hello to the Champ. Back in February, before Kennedy had any need for a parachute, Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty, wartime naval intelligence officer, went to him with an astonishing story. Jimmy Hoffa, said Cheasty, had offered him $18,000 to get a job with the Senate labor-rackets committee and serve as Hoffa's spy during the investigation into the gamy dealings of Teamster President Dave Beck. Counsel Kennedy and Arkansas' Committee Chairman John L. McClellan quickly arranged a job for Cheasty, and he agreed to help catch Hoffa in a trap. During the next...
With such evidence stacked against his client, Lawyer Williams took great care in picking jurymen, ended up with a working-class panel of eight Negroes, four whites. Then he proceeded to paint an emotional, vivid-hued contrast between Cheasty and Hoffa. Cheasty, went the Williams defense, was a "liar" and an "informer"; Hoffa was a man who "fought many battles for labor" and "never betrayed a trust." Jimmy himself took the witness stand and, with Williams asking helpful questions, blandly testified that he had hired Cheasty solely as a lawyer to help represent teamsters under investigation. Not until...
...playing up the fact that Cheasty once worked for a Florida legislative commission dealing with a Negro bus boycott, Williams skillfully managed to make him appear anti-Negro. Heightening the picture, ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, a Detroit acquaintance of Fight Fan Hoffa, turned up as a visitor to the courtroom. Every now and then Joe helpfully left his spectator's seat to chat with Hoffa at the defense table. The Justice Department countered by bringing in a Negro attor ney to sit at the prosecution table, but he was no match...
Goodbye to Bets. Beaming Jimmy Hoffa announced right there in the courtroom that he was going to call a teamster meeting in Chicago this week to decide his "future activities in the union." It seemed that, with discredited Dave Beck scheduled to bow out in September, Jimmy Hoffa was about ready to run openly for Beck's $50,000-a-year job as president of the nation's biggest labor union (1,400,000 members...