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“Crowding His Luck” (December 15, 1962) by Vaughn Shoemaker

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Title:	“Crowding His Luck” (December 15, 1962) by Vaughn Shoemaker
Artist:	Vaughn Shoemaker (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	716
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Comments:	1
Added to Site:	10/24/2019
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“Crowding His Luck” (December 15, 1962)
by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (1902-1991)
14 x 16, ink and wash on board

Shoemaker was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public. He spent 22 years at the Chicago Daily, and subsequently worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American, and Chicago Today. He retired in 1972.

James Hoffa was president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1957, televised hearings on possible criminal activity in the unions were held in Washington, famously featuring interrogations of Hoffa by Robert Kennedy of Hoffa. Video clips are easy to find.

The 1960 election of JFK as president placed the younger Kennedy as attorney general, causing Hoffa to joke that he would “have to hire two hundred more lawyers to keep out of jail.” The Test Fleet trial, in which Hoffa was the sole individual defendant, was in progress between October 22 and December 23, 1962, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Hoffa was indicted for violating the Taft-Hartley Act when after he took money from a Detroit transportation in return for settling a labor dispute. Before this case, the Teamsters boss had beaten federal government raps on three successive occasions. On December 5th a man interrupted the judicial proceedings, rushing through a gate and into the court, shooting Hoffa with an air pistol.

Hoffa vanished from a Michigan restaurant in 1975.

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George Hagenauer
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/12/2024

Neat Jimmy Hoffa - if yo uever want t otrade let me know

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