| | [[Aubrey W. Young]], a former aide to [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], arranged a meeting at which Partin was offered first, $25,000 a year for ten years, then $1 million from Marcello to work out a plan to overturn the Hoffa conviction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Aubrey+Young+of+Baton+Rouge&source=bl&ots=M3VV7SdM8x&sig=_6UOXTK72JWaItw3mNAaKnwA0JQ&hl=en&ei=q_PYS5-hA4LK8wThxtiaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBDgK#|author=Sandy Smith|title=The Fix|work=''[[Life Magazine|Life]]'']]|publisher=[[Google Books]]|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfk-online.com/hayride.html|author=Walter Sheridan|title=Louisiana Hayride|publisher=jfk-online.com|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref> Hoffa's allies, among them [[film]] [[actor]] and decorated [[World War II]] veteran Audie Murphy (1925-1971), sought to obtain an [[affidavit]] from Partin recanting the testimony against Hoffa. Such a confession could have reopened the case.<ref>{{cite web|url==https://web.archive.org/web/20081114081609/http://www.audiemurphy.com/newsclip/dmn_01-25-74.pdf|author=Earl Golz|title="Audie Murphy struggled to free Hoffa"|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=January 25, 1974|accessdate=May 7, 2010=November 14, 2008}}</ref> | | [[Aubrey W. Young]], a former aide to [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], arranged a meeting at which Partin was offered first, $25,000 a year for ten years, then $1 million from Marcello to work out a plan to overturn the Hoffa conviction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Aubrey+Young+of+Baton+Rouge&source=bl&ots=M3VV7SdM8x&sig=_6UOXTK72JWaItw3mNAaKnwA0JQ&hl=en&ei=q_PYS5-hA4LK8wThxtiaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBDgK#|author=Sandy Smith|title=The Fix|work=''[[Life Magazine|Life]]'']]|publisher=[[Google Books]]|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfk-online.com/hayride.html|author=Walter Sheridan|title=Louisiana Hayride|publisher=jfk-online.com|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref> Hoffa's allies, among them [[film]] [[actor]] and decorated [[World War II]] veteran Audie Murphy (1925-1971), sought to obtain an [[affidavit]] from Partin recanting the testimony against Hoffa. Such a confession could have reopened the case.<ref>{{cite web|url==https://web.archive.org/web/20081114081609/http://www.audiemurphy.com/newsclip/dmn_01-25-74.pdf|author=Earl Golz|title="Audie Murphy struggled to free Hoffa"|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=January 25, 1974|accessdate=May 7, 2010=November 14, 2008}}</ref> |
| − | [[Edwin Edwards]], who was elected governor of Louisiana in 1972 to the first of four nonconsecutive terms, had expressed concern that the controversial Partin might endorse his candidacy, a development that Edwards, then a [[U.S. Representative]] from Louisiana's since disbanded 7th congressional district, feared could hurt the gubernatorial campaign.<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana'' (Lisburn Press, 2009), p. 104.</ref> | + | [[Edwin Edwards]], who was elected governor of Louisiana in 1972 to the first of four nonconsecutive terms, had expressed concern that the controversial Partin might endorse his candidacy, a development that Edwards, then a [[U.S. Representative]] from Louisiana's since disbanded 7th congressional district,feared could hurt the gubernatorial campaign.<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana'' (Lisburn Press, 2009), p. 104.</ref> |