Jimmy hoffa

1957: Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa Gives Attorney Robert Kennedy A Sly Bird

Where's Hoffa

Al Pacino, Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa served as president of the powerful Teamsters Union from 1957 until his imprisonment for conspiracy and fraud in the late 1960s. He went missing in July 1975 and was declared legally dead seven years later.

It's one of the most enduring narratives in American crime history, and there's more to it than we see in Martin Scorsese's film.

Historical Photo of the Day: July 30, 1975

Martin Scorsese’s new movie, The Irishman, purports to do what the FBI and others seem unable to do: tell us who killed Jimmy Hoffa, and how. The film is based on a 2004 book whose central claim is that Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran murdered Hoffa in 1975. I have a personal stake in the veracity of Sheeran’s confession to being the hitman. Sheeran also repeats the public conventional wisdom that a man named Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien drove the car that picked up Hoffa from the suburban parking…

Photo Henk Walker