Walter Sheridan

Walter James Sheridan (20 November 1925 His father ran the Montclair, a small hotel, and a restaurant called Sheridan's. He attended the Utica Free Academy, becoming the senior class president and a quarterback on the football team. During World War II, he served in the US Navy's Submarine Service, After the war he benefited from the G.I. Bill, graduating from Fordham University in 1950.

Career Sheridan joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, resigning after four years over J. Edgar Hoover's focus on anti-Communism. He was a regional coordinator for John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, and a coordinator for the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign, 1968. From 1965 to 1970, he was an NBC News special correspondent, producing documentaries on crime and gun control among other issues;

In the 1970s and 80s, he was a principal aide to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Budd Schulberg produced the introduction. The Industrial and Labor Relations Review described the book as a "necessary and welcome antidote" to the more flattering portrayals of other Hoffa biographers.

He died of lung cancer on 13 January 1995 at his home in Derwood, Maryland. He was survived by his wife Nancy and five children. Senator Ted Kennedy paid tribute to Sheridan as "an extraordinary investigator and an extraordinary human being". He was portrayed by Dennis Redfield in the 1985 miniseries Robert Kennedy and His Times, and later by Tom Everett in the 2000 film Thirteen Days, about the 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.

Books The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa, Saturday Review Press, 1972.