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Just how Hoffa got hold of the transcript was not revealed. But the transcript did exist, and next day Stahlman printed it. The conversation came in the first days of the trial-after someone purporting to be a Banner reporter had called prospective jurors to find out how they felt. When Stahlman, a crusty 64-year-old, heard of the jury tampering, he offered a $5,000 reward for arrest of the impostor. Bobby tried to dissuade him-on grounds that detailed publication of the incident might cause a mistrial. Excerpts of the conversation...
...Stahlman: I have called you on my office phone with the squawk box on, so that my administrative assistant, my editor and my legal counsel can hear what transpires between...
...Stahlman: We are just as anxious to see a successful case against this fellow as you are. We are going to be the last people on the face of the earth to jeopardize that, if it be within our power ... A gross injustice has been done to me, my newspaper and my associates on this newspaper, and I feel that it is necessary to put our position in the clear...
...Stahlman: I cannot leave my newspaper in the position of having a false statement made about it or members of its staff...
...Stahlman: General Kennedy, I have made as many sacrifices for the Department of Justice as any man in middle Tennessee. I have made sacrifices for my country and will continue to do so. I am suggesting to you that what has happened has made it necessary for me to defend the reputation of my newspaper, which has existed for 86 years, and I don't intend to have it sacrificed for Jimmy Hoffa, the Federal Government or anybody else...