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Crime & Trafficking · Disappearances & unsolved cases
James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa was a prominent American labor leader and union organizer associated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Competing books and later investigations continue to advance differing accounts of who was responsible for Hoffa's disappearance and what happened to his body.
Open the caseInternational Brotherhood of Teamsters2
- Documented · Hoffa rose through the ranks of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and became its president.
- Documented · James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa was a prominent American labor leader and union organizer associated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Jimmy Hoffa2
- Documented · Archival institutions hold photographs described as among the last pictures of Jimmy Hoffa.
- Official · Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after going to a meeting and was never found.
Federal Bureau of Investigation1
- Documented · The FBI compiled extensive investigative files on Jimmy Hoffa, including materials related to his disappearance.
Richard Nixon1
- Official · Hoffa was imprisoned and later received executive clemency through a sentence commutation by President Richard Nixon.
Robert F. Kennedy1
- Documented · Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa had a prolonged, highly publicized adversarial conflict over labor racketeering and union power.
Other3
- Documented · A condition of Hoffa's commutation barred him from participating in union activities.
- Documented · Hoffa gave a filmed interview at Cornell University's ILR School only months before he vanished.
- Contested · Competing books and later investigations continue to advance differing accounts of who was responsible for Hoffa's disappearance and what happened to his body.