Walter Sheridan
Walter James Sheridan (20 November 1925[1] - 13 January 1995)[2][3] was an investigator for various agencies of the US government. He is best known for his role in the prosecution of Jimmy Hoffa, on which subject he published a book in 1972.
Background
Sheridan was born in 1925 in Utica, New York.[3][4] During World War II, he served in the US Navy's Submarine Service,[3] and according to some sources worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence.[5] After the war he benefited from the G.I. Bill, graduating from Fordham University in 1950.[1]
Career
Sheridan joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, resigning after four years over J. Edgar Hoover's focus on anti-Communism.[4] As Sheridan later put it, "Hoover was more interested in guys who were Communists for 15 minutes in 1931 than he was in guys who were stealing New Jersey."[1] He was then a National Security Agency investigator for three years.[1][4]
Sheridan was an investigator for the
In the 1970s and 80s, he was a principal aide to the
In fiction
Sheridan is among those portrayed in the film Thirteen Days, which is about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
In Movies
Sheridan is mentioned in the documentary The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes (1992) pertaining to his work on the 1967 NBC hour-long special about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[7]
Books
- The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa, Saturday Review Press, 1972. ISBN 978-0841502024
References
- ^ New York Times, 31 December 1995, The Lives They Lived: Victor Riesel and Walter Sheridan;In Defense of Honest Labor
- ^ a b JFK Library, Walter Sheridan Personal Papers
- ^ Washington Post, 14 January 1995, Walter Sheridan Dies; Helped to Investigate Hoffa, [1]
- ^ New York Times, 15 January 1995, Walter J. Sheridan Is Dead at 69; Helped Build Case Against Hoffa
- ^ Joan Mellen (2005), A Farewell to Justice, Potomac Books, p282
- Assassination Records Review Board (1998), Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, Chapter 7
- Assassination Records Review Board (1998), Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, Chapter 7
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