The secret of Jimmy Hofa’s disappearance continues after 50 years: NPR

His full name is James Ridel Hofa. But everyone knew Jimmy. The leader of the Labor Party, which flourished in the world of the cruel and struggling union, contracts, and the sit -in lines … and the defense of workers properly. When he disappeared, the news of the first page was. But how many imagined people are still talking about that moment after 50 years through the primary question “What happened?” It is still unanswered.

On the day when he disappeared – July 30, 1975 – Hofa was 62 years old. By that time, he was a former head of the Teamsters program – he was released from the Federal Prison, where he spent time for bribery and focused on restoring his place on the top of the federation. Follow this goal while he was fully aware of his constant position as a legendary figure in the history of American action and In American pop culture.

When he was a teenager in Detroit, Hofa moved to Union in the organization early in the field of groceries. It was smart and difficult. Focus on harsh. He is a natural strategic expert, he knew how to choose his goals, organize strikes and provinces, and raised through the Teamster team that gets deep loyalty to truck drivers and warehouse workers in a city that has become an industrial power thanks to the auto industry.

In 1957, Hofa was appointed head of the Muslim Brotherhood.

It was a union who has already participated in corrupt activities.

Hofa has negotiated important national contracts for truck drivers, and even fought federal officials looking in trade union relations with organized crimes.

During his first year as head of the Teamsters team, there were prominent listening sessions in the Capitol Hill in Washington, and famous clashes with a young lawyer working for the Senate Labor Committee named Robert Kennedy, all of this was broadcast on the coast to the Tire in black and white. It was a confrontation TV made.

It was not the last time RFK and Jimmy Hofa were signing. When John F. Kennedy as president, his brother Robert became his prosecutor and used his new authority to continue the investigation of Hofa.

Ultimately, in 1967, Jimmy Hofa was sent to the Federal Prison after he was convicted of a member of a member of a major jury along with a separate fraud. After unsuccessful calls, Hofa was spending more than four years under the lock and key.

It was then President Richard Nixon who overcame his punishment in 1971-but there was hunting. Hofa was free, but it is forbidden to participate in the activities of the Federation. A deal was concluded, but as soon as it is out of prison, Hofa soon started to challenge this decree. He started hunting to restore the higher position on the Teamsters team, but this effort was suffering from this the fact that the current union leaders liked to be responsible. They had their own relations of organized crime and are now in control of the union. In short, the old organ was now a strong enemy. They had their corrupt (profitable) operations for protection.

All this leads us to events that feature today’s anniversary.

On that day in late July fifty years ago, Jimmy Hofa held a afternoon meeting at Macchus Red Fox in the town of Bloomfield on the outskirts of Detroit. It was closed for a long time, and one of those lighting places was dim with deep and luxurious kiosks. It is believed that Hofa planned to meet a pair of local organized crime leaders.

Hofa pulled the car park that day. It has not been seen since then.

With his sudden and unjustified disappearance, a great legend has already become one of the great puzzles of our time.

What happened to Jimmy Hofa? Counts of conspiracies were born: hold the mobs and get rid of the body. It now lives under a highway in Detroit, or even more famous, under the final area of the Giants Stadium in New Jersey. All of these theories are horrific. None of them has been published after the evidence.

Every year, it seems, new strands are found. A new witness. Another theory. The yellow police tape rises somewhere. The back load and other equipment are brought. This entitles the research.

then … nothing. Hofa was 62 years old when he disappeared.

Although Hofa was legally announced by the Michigan Court and Sufi in 1982 – seven years after his disappearance – officially, the Detroit branch at the FBI says the case is still open.

The Federation of the International Muslim Brotherhood in Washington, DC, celebrated the anniversary of the anniversary of a statement issued by the current President Sean O’Brien, and praised the Hofa legacy in the Labor Party and the intellectuals of “cultural jokes that are unavoidable” that were made from his life.

“For many years, his death was the subject of uncompromising cultural jokes, and I lost a vision of the fact that the family lost a husband and father, and our nation lost an extraordinary leader,” an O’Brien statement said. “Today, always, we remember James R

On a previous anniversary on the Union website, there is a quote from Hofa describing the ultimate goal of the unions as “creating a sustainable and skillful work that allows Americans to win a fair wage with the advantages that allow them to pay for housing and food on the table and maintain a middle -class lifestyle.”

Dozens of books were written on the disappearance. Of course, Hollywood was weighing. Jack Nicholson in his role in Hofa in 1992, while Al Patino won great comments on his filming of the leader of the Labor Party trapped in the 2024 Martin Scorsese movie.

This is probably not the last.

The story and legend of Jimmy Hofa continues.