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...extended tours. Ball focused on cutting costs. The paper turned pale and comatose. The Tennessean's pub lisher was probably more embarrassed than pleased when Assistant City Editor John Seigenthaler published a 1956 series on teamster corruption in Tennessee that helped impeach Chattanooga Criminal Court Judge Ralston Schoolfield. As the school segregation issue shook the South, the Tennessean's editorials were models of cautious vapidity. Dispirited staffers drifted away. Seigenthaler quit to work for Bobby Kennedy in Washington...
...week into the auditorium of Nashville's massive War Memorial Building, where the state house of representatives was meeting while the capitol underwent repairs. The show: Tennessee's first impeachment proceeding in 42 years. The accused: Hamilton County's rowdy, Negro-baiting Judge Raulston ("Turkey Neck") Schoolfield...
...With Schoolfield himself looking on unblinkingly from a balcony seat, the legislators listened to 25 separate counts of improper judicial conduct during the judge's ten years on the bench. Samples: taking bribes; quashing indictments against 13 Teamster goons accused of dynamiting and arson (TIME, Dec. 30); illegally "retiring" hundreds of felony cases, putting the defendants in his power by letting them out of jail but keeping them subject to prosecution. By overwhelming votes, the house adopted 24 of the 25 counts, concluded that "no Tennessean should be forced to [stand trial] before such a judge." Next step...
...passed to quash the indictments, and there was not to be a trial." Hixon remembered that at the time "there was quite a bit of talk around that money had been passed to quash the indictment."( Asked Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy: "Passed to whom?" Testified Hixon: "To Judge Schoolfield...
...indictment was quashed, the 13 freed. Later, on an appeal by the prosecution, the state supreme court reversed Judge Schoolfield, ordered that the Teamsters be tried. Later also, according to Senate investigators, Local 515 chalked off another $1,500 to legal expenses. The 13 defendants were brought to new trial. This time they were freed for keeps. The legal mechanics: Judge Schoolfield ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty because the prosecution had failed to prove that the 13 Teamsters committed the violent acts involved...