Jimmy Hoffa Vanishes: America's Greatest Mystery
Jimmy Hoffa walked into the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, expecting to meet two Mafia figures. He was never seen again. Hoffa had led the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for thirteen years, building it into the largest union in America while entangling the organization so deeply with organized crime that he served four years in federal prison for jury tampering and fraud. President Nixon commuted his sentence in 1971 on the condition that he stay out of union politics for ten years. Hoffa was trying to reclaim the Teamsters presidency when he vanished. Despite decades of investigation, including digging up horse farms and searching beneath a Detroit driveway, his body has never been found.
July 30, 1975
51 years ago
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