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Hard-eyed Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa seems to get into and out of hot water almost as regularly as a wash-and-wear shirt. He has been on trial in federal courts four times in the past six years, escaping with two acquittals and two hung juries. Last week fresh difficulties with the Feds descended upon Hoffa: a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., indicted him on charges that he "did unlawfully, willfully and knowingly" conspire with six co-conspirators to influence members of a jury. The alleged jury tampering occurred while Hoffa was on trial in a federal court...
...Howell sees it, his only chance of combating this despondency and supporting a strike is inducing the Teamsters to organize the county. Practically every miner in McDowell watched Dave Brinkley's report on Jimmy Hoffa and his union, and to them Hoffa looks like the messiah. "Jimmy could do it," was the general opinion. "He's tough--if we get him in here that will fix things up in short order." Tough men themselves, these miners are convinced Hoffa will understand them and their problem. But a Teamster representative recently studied the situation and reported that it was almost hopeless...
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Asked about Teamster Union President Jimmy Hoffa, Kennedy stated, "What I think of him and he thinks of me in immaterial." Kennedy denied Hoffa's charges of a "personal vendetta" against the Teamsters and their leader. The Attorney General said that 117 Teamster officials and close Hoffa associates have been indicted and 55 convicted during the last two years...
...Robert F. Kennedy '48, in shirtsleeves after coping with a day of crisis in Green wood, Miss., met the young Dems for an off-the-record discussion in his Justice Department office. Kennedy fired back candid and confident answers to questions on administrative news management, his wiretapping bill, Jimmy Hoffa, and federal judiciary appointments in the South...