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Jimmy Hoffa: Life and Disappearance
Jimmy Hoffa was clearly one of the most influential men of the early twentieth century. Primarily a United States citizen, Jimmy Hoffa was born on the 14th of February, in the year 1913 (Siracusa 198). From the start, it seemed that fate was turned against him. Emerging from the difficulties of a troublesome childhood, Jimmy Hoffa rose to become the famed president of the Teamsters union from1957 till his imprisonment 10 years later in 1967. His adulthood was seemingly characterizable of the already cliched troublesome memoirs. His sudden disappearance from the scene has remained a mystery and initiated the most exhaustive series of inspections in the history of the FBI. Before foretelling the events of his disappearance, it is imperative to know the nature of the man whom we know as Jimmy Hoffa.
He was the son of a coal prospector, belonging to a small town located...
He lost his father when he was four years old, and a couple of years later, he and his mother shifted to Detroit (Clay 2). He was a rebel from the start, quitting school at the tender age of 14 and possessed the most endless supply of exuberant energy. He married off young and had two children, and it was around that time hat he witnessed his first labor strike.
Jimmy Hoffa, though a hard worker, did not always earn his living as an honest an, It was a well-known fact at that time that a guy like Jimmy wasn't anybody's friend and he used thugs and mobsters to climb all the way up to the top, bleeding and wrecking thousands of businesses dry. But it was during this turmoil that Jimmy made powerful enemies, namely Robert Kennedy and several mobsters. Later on, Hoffa was arrested and sentenced to 96 months of imprisonment on the charges of bribing his way into the McClellan Committee…
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Moldea, D.E. The Hoffa Wars: The Rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa. SP Books, 1992. Print
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