Life and Disappearance of Organized Labor Union Legend Jimmy Hoffa

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 in Brazil, Indiana. 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 and 45 months more on the charges of fraud. In the reign on Nixon, 5 years short of his 13-year sentence, he was called off on the condition that he shall abandon his pursuit of labor politics until 1980. Despite the warning, Jimmy Hoffa continued his pursual and being as stubborn as he was, he even tried to regain his control over the Union.

On the 30th of July 1975, Hoffa went over to the Red Fox Restaurant situated over at Detroit to supposedly meet three men at 2.00p.m in the afternoon. After waiting for several minutes, the guys did not show up upon which he called his wife to tell her that he shall wait a few more minutes than depart. It was the last time his wife talked to him (Moldea, 388).