Good info, but as always you need to pick the bits and pieces that you feel relevant. It's like the JFK assassination and RFK, MLK and more. There is one fact that happened and so sadly we will never know it. If you are interested in listening to people's opinions and some factual evidence in order to make your own opinion of the Hoffa disappearance/murder, then I suggest watch this video, absolutely. Does it clear anything up? Absolutely not, but then nothing will in regard to this case in 2022. My recommendation is if you want to seek opinions and evidence to help you make an opinion, watch thsi video, If you want answers, then this is probably not for you. 6/10 - Recommended, Good.
Killing Jimmy Hoffa
2014
Documentary
Killing Jimmy Hoffa
2014
Documentary
Keywords: jimmy hoffa
Plot summary
Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance is one of the great crimes of the century. Despite a massive Federal investigation spanning 4 decades and hundreds of suspects, only the general contours of the crime are known. In the American mythology Hoffa is both hero and villain; a self-made man who ran the nation's largest union and was so beloved by the rank and file Teamsters he represented that they supported him as union president even as he served time in prison. Hoffa's name is synonymous with corruption thanks to Bobby Kennedy's campaign against him, but the truth is much more complex. Hoffa's glory years coincided with the golden age of the Union movement and the American economy; he also was enmeshed in the Machiavellian world of organized crime. "Killing Jimmy Hoffa" tells the whole story for the first time, using exclusive interviews, never before seen news footage and photographs, and revealing the real story of the day he died.
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Good info, but as always you need to pick the bits and pieces that you feel relevant
American History They Don't Teach You in School
This is a very interesting, very engrossing documentary about a figure who was on the News daily forty years ago. Hard to believe now, the most anyone born after 1960 is that he a public figure who mysteriously disappeared. But as one interviewee says in this piece, "He was a product of his times, and his times were a product of him." He was a magnetic, energetic figure, who, and, thanks to Martin Scorcese's movie The Irishman, now in the public's view again. This documentary is a good introduction of Hoffa's life for these people.
This documentary is about his disappearance, and it also a story of his life and times, of the people with whom he did business, socialized and opposed. What this documentary offers, however, perhaps unintentionally, is a history of the significant events of the last half Century - JFK's assassination, Cuba, Watergate - presented in a compelling and illuminating way. The names run like a who's-who of recent US history of the 60s and 70s. Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, various figures from the American Mafia, and most of all President John Kennedy. One take-away from the documentary is that if there is any person who is connected with all these historical figures, it is Jimmy Hoffa.
The information in this documentary cuts through all the chaff of wild theories about the assassination of John Kennedy. When viewed through the life - and death -- of Jimmy Hoffa that tragic event and those events which follow are put in a perspective which makes sense. As a result, it dispels the belief that the assassinations of President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy was the result of a lone nut.
But mainly this is a documentary that tries to pin down exactly what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. All the usual suspects and theories are examined. Archival footage, of course, is used to supplement the explanations. The documentary does not arrive at any conclusions, and as an interviewee said, we will likely never know for sure what happened. You will be left wondering yourself, not only what happened to Jimmy Hoffa but all those people, famous of not, who knew him.
Mafia Tales
"Killing Jimmy Hoffa" is a window to a time nowadays hard to imagine. A time when worker's rights were fought out on the streets, where the mafia gangs ruled the streets and one of the most influential men could just disappear over night.
It is, of course, hard to set a documentary around such a case, in which most details are still unknown to the public. A lot of what is provided is actually guess work. Still, through the choice of experts, you get a sense for what kind of a man Jimmy Hoffa was, in which company he acted and what's likable to have led to his sudden disappearance.
As much as this film resolves around the mystery surrounding the Hoffa case, it is at the same time historical evidence, depicting the different layers of cooperation and dependence between politics and underworld. In the end we aren't still able to solve the mystery, but we do learn a lot about how it could rise.