In the winter of 1964, the federal courtroom in Chattanooga, Tennessee, exploded into an uproar.
Jimmy Hoffa's gang of defense lawyers leaped to their feet crying, "Mistrial, mistrial."
The bailiff hustled the jurors into a back room.
Why?
A Teamster named Edward Grady Partin had slipped out of the mountain cabin where he'd been hidden for days. With the help of the FBI, he sneaked into the court's witness room.
When Partin heard the call, "Next witness," he stepped through the courtroom door and into the witness box.
Hoffa looked up, stunned. "My God, it's Partin!"
from:
THAT PUNK JIMMY HOFFA!
I Watched My Dad Beat the Teamsters
A Daughter's Memoir
by Marilyn June Coffey
Publication Date: July 30
the date Hoffa "disappeared"
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