Why would someone want to kill Jimmy Hoffa? Almost in any book you read Jimmy Hoffa was an achiever and set his goals high. He started the union known as the Teamsters and was very well known in politics.
The thing that got Hoffa into trouble though was his ties with the mob. He went on trial for many different convictions. The death of Hoffa was a tragedy and a mystery. To this day,we never found out what exactly what happened to Hoffa, even though there are many different theories of his death. During Hoffa?s life, he had many achievements, which I will call the Rise of Hoffa, and he had many trials, arrests, and convictions which I will call the Fall of Hoffa Hoffa was seventeen when he participated in his first strike. This was his first move as a leader because he stepped forward and direacted the discontent of his co- workers into a group protest. They were protesting against the long hours, low pay, and poor working conditions for his crew on the loading docks of the Kroger Company in
Detroit. After this happened, ?Jimmy Hoffa had made his first move as a leader and
henceforth would never be anything else.? (1)
He obtained a charter from the American Federation of Labor to form a local union with a group of men. They moved into the Teamsters in 1932. The following year, Hoffa was in charge of local 299 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters inn Detroit. This is just one of the many unions that Hoffa was a part of during his On Sunday, October 14, Hoffa was in Detroit for a special membership meeting of local 299. He pushed through a new set of by-laws for the local gave him, as president of the local, almost dictorial control over its activities. So this right here tells me that the union lost a great leader when Hoffa died. Hoffa was a smart man. Since he knew that people were always after him, when he took over the Central States Conference of Teamsters, Gibbons became his number two man. To reinforce his own muscle, Gibbons in 1937 recruited Robert ?Barney? (2) Baker, a 300 pound former prizefighter. This would be a big threat to any one who tried To talk about all the good achievements in Hoffa?s short life would be like writing a book. The thing that puzzles me the most is why would people be out to kill him if he was suck a great person and leader. Threw my research this is what I found out. Jimmy Hoffa was in and out of the courtroom more times then the hairs on my head. He was always getting into trouble. His convictions ranged from assault and battery, extortion, jury tampering, and bribery. His death might have been an act of retaliation by someone he might have troubled. In 1946 Hoffa was convicted of assault and battery on a picket line. He was quoted as saying, ?Guys who tried to break me got broken up, with baseball bats and tire irons.? (3) With an attitude like that its no wonder why people would be out to kill Hoffa. Maybe someone that was beaten by Hoffa got him back by killing him.
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Hoffa was charged with extortion in 1948 for forcing small grocers to buy permits from the Teamsters just to use their own trucks. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, paid a $500 fine and had to return $7600 he had collected for the permits. On March 4, 1952 Hoffa was convicted on two counts of jury tampering. Courts later added convictions for the mail and wire fraud and misuse of union pension funds.
Three years later, after all appeals had been made, Hoffa began serving a 13-year Sentence. So Hoffa wasn?t a rookie in jail because he?s been there plenty of times and
he probably has hit man in jail too. Hoffa was also a very violent man. In May 1960, Hoffa called Teamsters field director Sam Baron into his office and, ?belted him in the face, knocked him down twice and gave him a black eye.? (4) Hoffa believed Baron was ratting to federal Investigators.
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Baron pressed charges and Hoffa was arrested and booked. Maybe Baron wasn?t happy enough with Hoffa being arrested and wanted something more dreadful to happen to Hoffa. Maybe, just maybe, Baron killed or had someone kill Hoffa. Hoffa also had the power to scare people. On June 10 Hoffa called O?Donoghue and accused him of lying, cheating, and trying to destroy the International. O?Donoghue finally said, ?Mr. Hoffa, I am not going to take this abuse from you,? (5) and he hung up Hoffa thought that his fame and riches would get him out of anything. Like on May 9, 1962, when Hoffa was on trial in Nashville for jury tampering. He attempted to bribe five different jury members with $5000. On the following Monday Hoffa appeared in federal court in Philadelphia where he pleaded not guilty, waived a hearing and was If there was a record book for police charges against someone then Hoffa might have his name at the top of the list. There was a hearing that was investigating Hoffa?s operations in1963. Well on Saturday, September 28, Senator McClellan concluded the hearings by making thirty-four additional charges against Hoffa including misuse of union and welfare funds, obstruction of justice and association with racketeers.
I think Hoffa had two different personalities based on when he was in public and when he was in private. When he was out in the public, he knew that everyone knew his name and knew who he was so he played it cool. But when he was with his companions he was like a don, in mob terms. Like the type of person who never actually did the bad deed but had enough conections to get someone to do it for him. Hoffa did his time in the pen. On January 11, 1963, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for review by Hoffa and his co-defendants of their conviction in the Chicago Pension Fund fraud trial. It had taken seven years to go through this tedious process. For the others, it meant they would soon go to prison. For Hoffa, it established that he was now serving a thirteen year sentence. It might be cool to be on the top like Hoffa was but when your on the top and you fall, you fall hard. Hoffa?s bad reputation made no one want him in their presence. On January 5, 1964, Jimmy Hoffa flew to Florida and moved into his apartment in the Blair House, an apartment building in Miami Beach built in 1961 with the loans from the Teamsters Pension Fund. Hoffa had announced that he intended to vacation there with his wife, who was getting better from her recent illness. Well one day Hoffa was returning to his Americana Hotel in Miami Beach where the AFL-CIO Executive Council was meeting.
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When George Meany heard of Hoffa?s presence he said, ?What?s that gut doing around here?? (6) Hoffa told the newsman that he was active in the real estate business in Florida. So Hoffa had to lie sometimes just to take a vacation. That isn?t the kind of life On April 27, 1964, James R. Hoffa and seven co-defendants went on trial in Chicago on the charges that they had conspired to defraud the Teamsters Pension Fund.
On the same day the DRIVE News Service issued a series of releases. One contained excerpts from Representative O?Konski?s speech in defense of Hoffa. Another centered on the appointment by Representative Celler of the special subcommittee to look into Sid Zargi?s charges. A third was a reprint of a resolution by the Building Trades Council urging its members to write to President Johnson and their Congressmen protesting the persecution of Hoffa and demanding an investigation. Also on that day The Nation published a twenty-four-page article by Fred J. Cook that was called ?The Hoffa Trial.? It was an outrageous attack on the judge, FBI, and the Department of Justice in connection with the Chattanooga case.
Cook presented all of Hoffa?s and Zagari?s charges as fact, and concluded by recommending that Congress examine the record to determine ?whether federal law enforcement is becoming a law into itself.? (7) The magazine was mailed to every federal judge in the United States. It was also passed out at subway entrances and street corners in Chicago. Jimmy Hoffa knew people in high places. For instance he knew John F. Kennedy. But Hoffa hated the Kennedys so much that when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Hoffa?s reaction was ?I hope the worms eat his eyes out.? He hated the Kennedys because of a quarrel he had with the family years ago. Jimmy Hoffa has a lot of guts to say something like that about a former president of our country.
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Hoffa did not care what anyone thought about him. What man is his right mind would say something like that. Not a true leader.
On January 2, 1971, in the same Senate Caucus room where all of the hearings have been held, Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Jimmy Hoffa responded to Kennedy?s candidacy by stating that ?Kennedy sacrificed the entire labor movement to pacify the Southern politicians for a few delegate votes at the Democratic convention.? (8) On March 12 Hoffa and the other defendants appeared before Judge Wilson for sentencing. The judge spoke first to Hoffa and asked him if he had anything to say before the sentence was pronounced. Hoffa stood and faced the judge and did as he always did by protesting his innocence. Judge Wilson then sentenced Hoffa to eight years in prison and finned him $10,000. Co- Defendants Larry Campbell, Thomas Parks and Ewing King were sentenced to three years in prison. Jacques Schiffer, the attorney for Parks, but actually one of Hoffa?s lawyers, was cited by Judge Wilson for contempt of court and sentenced to sixty days in prison. At 12:30 a.m. on June 4, 1972, Ray Cohen was convicted of embezzlement by a jury in Philadelphia. Shortly before noon on the same day the Chicago indictment was returned.
Its twenty-eight counts charged Hoffa and the other seven men had obtained by fraud fourteen loans from the Pension Fund totaling $20,000,00 and had diverted more than $1,000,000 for their own personal benefit. The grand jury charged Hoffa with violating his duty as a trustee of the fund by making false and misleading statements to the other trustees and by using his influence to obtain approval of the loans. The defendants were charged with carrying out the plan, beginning sometime before July, 1975, which involved fraudulent misrepresentation in applications for loans, demanding and receiving fees and stock options, and diversions of funds for their own The death of Hoffa is a mystery. No one knows who exactly killed Hoffa or even where his body is but there are many different theories.
On the morning of July 30, 1975, two weeks after that meeting with Franco, Jimmy Hoffa got a telephone call. A few hours later, he left his home at Orion Lake to drive to Manchu?s Red Fox Restaurant in a shopping center at Fourteen Mile Road and Telegraph in Detroit. He never returned. The call Hoffa received that morning was one of two men, or someone trying to represent them, requesting a meeting early that afternoon at the Red Fox. Hoffa knew both men well, because he had dealt with them through the years. Their names are Anthony ?Tony Pro? Provenzano and Anthony ?Tony Jack? Giacalone. One magazine article says, ?it finds credibility in the claim of convicted killer Ricky Powell, which puts Hoffa in 30 feet of water between two dams on the Au Sable River in Michigan.? (9) Boating magazine has posted a $10,000 reward for the recovery of the body of onetime Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa, whose remains vicariously have been reported residing underneath Giants Stadium or somewhere in the Florida Keys. Jimmy Hoffa wasn?t bad he was notorious. Hoffa committed a lot of crimes and paid for most of them by doing time in jail. You would think that after being caught so many times he would wise up a little bit but he just kept on doing what he thought had to be done. He was a selfish man. It was either his way or the highway. Hoffa left his mark on America though by establishing the union. And I know now why some people wanted him dead. I think whoever killed him had to be jealous of him because even though he was in jail so many times he was still fighting to get back on top.
Kennedy Speech Essay
In President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address he speaks few words, but the words he says speak loudly. His words make people think about more than just what he is saying because he utilizes many rhetorical devices. Practicing the devices helps the audience paint a bigger picture in their mind about what he is going to do for us during his presidency. There are many descriptive words throughout ...
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