Jimmy Hoffa was a prominent labor leader and fierce union organizer starting in the late 1930s and up through the 1960s. He rose through the ranks of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to become its president, was eventually jailed, and barred from participating in union activities as a condition of a commutation by President Richard Nixon. On July 30, 1975 he disappeared while waiting to meet with business associates who were well-known Mafia figures. He was officially declared dead by a Michigan probate court in 1982,, and the mystery surrounding his disappearance has gone unsolved and has been turned into numerous books and two major motion picture films – one recent film was The Irishman. All these works, except for a handful of scholarly publications, have largely relied on suspects whose accounts have long since been debunked, leaving mystery and intrigue in their wake.
