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Jimmy Hoffa Missing. This word was everywhere on July 30th, 1975. One of the most famous or infamous to some. Jimmy Hoffa was the president of The International Brotherhood of Teamsters was missing. Jimmy Hoffa one of the most influential IBT presidents of all time. He almost completed the biggest deal in the unification of all trucking businesses in the United States of America. The disappearance behind Jimmy Hoffa can be summed up in two theories Tony pro and many other people.
James R. Hoffa, the most influential leader of American labor. Hoffa was born in 1913 to a poor miner in Brazil, Indiana. At a young age, he was a natural leader, his first labor-related work was at the age of 20 when he helped organize a labor strike in Detroit. …show more content…

Hoffa was very determined to expand the union and negotiate better agreements for his constituents anyway possible (Jimmy Hoffa Biography) But Hoffa didn't always keep his nose clean, while elected “ his …show more content…

Tony Pro) found Fitz easier to deal with than Hoffa. Thony Pro got out of prison in 1970 still brooding about his pension being lost and blazing hatred for Jimmy Hoffa.(Katz) In 1972 Tony sent Hoffa a message “tell Hoffa I’m gonna snatch his granddaughter and put her eyes out.” Startled by that Hoffa called him “ a crazy son of a bitch.” (without a Trace) Hoffa seemed to believe that no one would want to kill him, He stated that “ I don’t cheat nobody, I don’t lie about nobody. I don’t frame nobody I don’t talk bad about people If I do I tell’em, so what the hell's people gonna try to kill me for!” (without a trace) In 1973 and 1974 Hoffa went to Tony Pro to offer peace and reconciliation. But Tony Threatened to pull out Hoffa's guts and renewed his kidnapping threat.(WithOut a Trace) Hoffa could have kept his enemy at bay only if he would stop his campaign to take back the IBT, who knows he might still be alive today, but he couldn't back off. On July 1975 after being stood up in Bloomfield Mi. Hoffa disappeared with two people one of those people was believed to be Tony Pro. Although some evidence suggests that a group of Teamsters from NJ were Tony was President of may have been part of the abduction and murder of Jimmy Hoffa. (son ’s; Baughman) With all the threats made by Tony, it’s hard to not see him as a suspect in Hoffa's

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