Jimmy Hoffa, His Life And Disappearance

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During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his
boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were
also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of
seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse
in Detroit for thirty-two cents an hour. It was there that he organized
his first labor strike (Franco 150). It is risks like that one that led
Hoffa to becoming such a powerful figure in America. Hoffa married at a
young age and had two children, Barbara and James Jr..
While Hoffa was always a hard worker, he wasn't always the type of
man that you would like to call your friend. He wasn't always on the side
of the law that is accepted by society. ". . . it is true that Hoffa used
the thugs to climb to the top . . ."(Brill 84). Hoffa used the underworld
to obtain power, he also shared in their crimes. He made thousands of
dollars in extortion schemes that bled innocent businessmen of all they ...

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for attempting to bribe a lawyer, John Cheasty, to become a member
of the McClellan Committee staff and obtain confidential committee
memorandums for him(Brill 201). The McClellan Committee was investigating
the corruption and inept administration in the handling of employee benefit
plans in America's labor Unions(Internet). When Cheasty went to Robert
Kennedy and told him of the offer, Kennedy arranged for the FBI to take
pictures of Cheasty at street-corner meetings as he passed government
documents to Hoffa in return for cash(Brill 202). With incriminating
evidence such as photos of the crime this should of been as easy conviction.
Coming as it did on the eve of Hoffa's planned ...

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