America contains an abundance of inexplicable and moot mysteries. Mysteries associating murder and drugs along with other menacing matters. Some mysteries have been unsolved for many years. One of those mysteries being the mystery of who killed Jimmy Hoffa and where his body is. Ever since James Riddle Hoffa disappeared, the mystery of where his body is and who killed him has rattled America. Jimmy Hoffa was born in 1913 in Brazil. He was one of the four children in his family and he faced a few hardships in his life, such as the death of his own father when he was just seven years of age. Jimmy Hoffa eventually became a seventh grade dropout and soon after getting a job stocking at Frank & Cedar’s, a small grocery store nearby his home. …show more content…
He even organized a strike that resulted in himself and his workers a higher pay. After a year he became the organizers for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters are an immense union of more than 1.7 million drivers, store clerks, and department store workers. From the insignificant place he stood in the Teamsters, he put a lot of hard work and effort into his positions in the Teamsters and soon became president of Local 299. Hoffa didn’t stop there; from president of Local 299 he soon became the Teamsters international vice president in 1952. Continuously rising in power he was elected president in 1957. He was president from 1957 till 1971 and in those fourteen years he transformed the entire trade union into the largest and richest. However it was additionally transformed into possibly one of the most corrupt. In the year 1976 Jimmy Hoffa was sent to prison for jury tampering and misusing union pension funds. From his prison cell he continued to run the union up until 1971 when he resigned his Teamster’s presidency. In 1971 the union’s vice president convinced President Richard Nixon to give him a conditional release with parole under the condition that Hoffa stays out of union work and activities until …show more content…
He is now in movies, tv shows, magazines, and even video games. The mystery of who killed Jimmy Hoffa and where his body is may forever be a mystery, but it is doubtful that people will ever stop trying to figure it out. It is doubtful people will ever want to stop reading about it, or stop playing the video games, or watching the movies based on it. Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance may forever be unsolved, but it has left an impact on America. Bibliography "Jimmy Hoffa." Biography of Jimmy Hoffa -- Former President of the Teamsters. Accessed April 02, 2017. https://agilewriter.com/Biography/JimmyHoffa.htm. Press, John Wisely Detroit Free. "40 years later, Jimmy Hoffa mystery endures." USA Today. July 30, 2015. Accessed April 02, 2017. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/30/40-years-later-jimmy-hoffa-mystery-endures/30868857/. Moldea, Dan E. The Hoffa wars: the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1993. "Hoffa Is Reported Missing." New York Times, August 1, 1975. How did it really happen? London: Reader's Digest, 2001. Today, Usa. "Who was Jimmy Hoffa?" USA Today. June 19, 2013. Accessed April 02, 2017. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/who-was-jimmy-hoffa/2434633/. Vanishings. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books,
On 1975, Jimmy Hoffa was vanished after he went to Machus Red Fox, for an important meeting with Frank Sheeran, Anthony Provenzano, and Tony Giacalone. He was never seen by anyone after that day. His last phone call was with his wife saying nobody was there to do a meeting. Later, Sheeran and others came and told the place of meeting was changed. Hoffa immediately got in the car and he was taken to a house in north west detroit.
He expanded the Unions membership and negotiated a better contract for his electors. In 1952, his hard work paid off and became the vice president. Five years later he won the presidency of the Teamsters (A & E 3). Hoffa was the topic of many investigations for defrauding with the union´s pension funds; he managed to avoid persecutions for many years (Taylor 1). General Robert F. Kennedy kept a tab on Hoffa believing that he did.
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He almost completed the biggest deal in the unification of all trucking businesses in the United States of America. The disappearance behind Jimmy Hoffa can be summed up in two theories Tony pro and many other people. James R. Hoffa, the most influential leader of American labor. Hoffa was born in 1913 to a poor miner in Brazil, Indiana. At a young age, he was a natural leader, his first labor-related work was at the age of 20 when he helped organize a labor strike in Detroit.
‘Hoffa was then nabbed for attempting to bribe one of the jurors.’ Jimmy was then sentenced to prison for eight years. Jimmy then was convicted for taking $1.7 million in union funds.” He fought off entering prison until 1967 and ended up doing 58 months” (Mafia History pg.222) , then had his term commuted in 1971 by president Richard Nixon with provision that he would have to stay out of politics for ten years. Hoffa refused and took legal action against the stipulation .
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