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Union Threats Before Blast Told In Probe
Senate Rackets Committee heard that a Teamsters official threatened Knoxville grocer B. B. Powers before his store was dynamited on September 5, 1956. Witnesses linked William J. Reynolds and W A Smith to the case, while police laxity and calls for felonious assault indictments were raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VCTIM
B. B. Powers
Knoxville, Tenn
Teamster
Senate Labor Rackets Committee
McClellan
Tennessee
Teamsters
United Press Telephoto
Washington
Senate Rackets Committee
Teamsters Union
William J. Reynolds
Knoxville Temsters
Reynolds
W. A
Smitty) Smith
Nashville, Tenn
Powers
John C. Chapman
Baltimore
Luther C. Hargis
Knoxville
Smith
Committee
John L. ‘McClellan
D-Ark
Chapman
Hargis
Lola Freels
Sne
Robert Belcher
Ber
Nashville Teamsters
Robert F. Kennedy
Belcher
Hal Clements Jr
Knox County