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Article: Walter Sheridan Dies; Helped to Investigate Hoffa
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- The Washington Post
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- January 14, 1995
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Walter Sheridan, 69, a prominent federal investigator for many
years who played a key role in the epic struggle between the
government and Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, died of lung
cancer Jan. 13 at his home in Derwood.
He was a staff member of the Senate rackets subcommittee of which
Robert F. Kennedy was chief counsel and on which John F. Kennedy
served as a senator. He was also an associate of Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy (D-Mass.), who lauded him yesterday as "an extraordinary
investigator and an extraordinary human being."
By 1960, years of contentious investigation and dramatic,
nationally televised hearings had made celebrities of the Senate
subcommittee's lawyer, Robert Kennedy, and ...