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Dan: Jimmy Hoffa was an enemy of orthodox society.
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Voiceover: Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa
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threatened John Kennedy,
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Robert Kennedy, or both.
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Scott: Hoffa was actually a full-fledged informant
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by the end.
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Dan: Hoffa's associationwith organized crime
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just quadrupled thethreat to this country.
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Dr. Buccellato: That the Teamsters were protecting
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these drug traffickers.
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Voiceover: We have no information as,
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as to the fact that he is alive,
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but we don't know that he is dead either.
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Voiceover: More than 200 FBI agents
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are involved in the search for Hoffa.
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Voiceover: It is one of the most famous
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and enduring American mysteries.
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What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
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Scott: Hoffa is seen getting into this car,
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and the car is seen driving away, never to be seen again.
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Hoffa vanished,
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and with this disappearance really started
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the most fascinating mystery
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in the criminal annals of America.
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Dr. Russell: Jimmy Hoffawas born and raised
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in coal mining towns in Southern Indiana
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in the 1910s and 1920s,
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hardscrabble towns filled with coal miners and bootleggers,
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a lot of whites from the South
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and emigrated to Southern Indiana.
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By the 1920s, it became a hub
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of the Ku Klux Klan nationally
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and where violence really determined a lot of conflicts.
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In the towns he grew up in,
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there were more saloons than there were churches.
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His mother was a single mother,
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who was forced to take in laundry from neighbors
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to support the family.
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Hoffa lived on the edge
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throughout his childhoodand early adulthood,
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and I think that also defined his outlook on life
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and his career.
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Al: So Jimmy Hoffa and his family
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arrived in Detroit in 1924,
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looking for bettereconomic opportunities.
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Detroit was one of the fastest growing cities
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in the country.
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It was also one of the most violent.
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Scott: You had the Italians with several groups,
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the River Gang, the East Side Gang,
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the West Side Gang,
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the Jewish Purple Gang.
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And then you had other factions,
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such as the Lizard Gang,
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which is a Polish gang out of Hamtramck.
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A gangland economic boomthat was taking place
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not just in Detroitbut around the country,
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that was the situation that Hoffa was coming up in
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as a young man.
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Al: Then the Depression hit,
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and it hit Detroit harder than almost anywhere.
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Half the city was out of work,
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bread lines in the street.
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Thousands of people would show up
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for a single job opening.
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Dr. Russell: Hoffa was lucky to get a job
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as a warehouse worker unloading crates
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on a dock at Kroger's.
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He lived in a world in which
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poverty and unemploymentwas the norm
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and in which violence often determined
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the outcome of class struggle.
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Al: In 1932, the very bottom year of the Great Depression,
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the year of the national crime wave,
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John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde,
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Jimmy Hoffa was about 19 years old,
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and he did something pretty amazing.
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He organized his first strike.
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Dr. Russell: I think it's important to see Jimmy Hoffa
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as always having been an entrepreneur
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and looking at the labor movement as an entrepreneur.
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He saw the potential for a strike
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not as a means to redo the economy
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or even redo the management of Kroger's
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but as a means simply to make higher wages.
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Workers striking, refusing to work was leveraged
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for simply economic means.
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Al: Hoffa was seeing the American system
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exposed all around him,
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Wall Street taking advantage of Main Street,
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and the rise of gangsters and bandits.
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Dr. Buccellato: Land speculators, banks gobbling up land
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foreclosing on small farmers.
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Al: For many people, men like John Dillinger and Al Capone
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became the heroes.
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Doing whatever it took to get ahead in life,
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that was what was important.
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Dr. Buccellato: Jimmy Hoffa is growing up in the Midwest
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during the Great Depression.
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He's aware of the outlaw personality.
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He's part of the community
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that is marginalized.
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These communities are responding
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to people like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd.
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So by the time that Jimmy Hoffa becomes involved
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in labor politics,
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this is an important part of his character.
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Al: I think the lessonthat Jimmy Hoffa learned
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from the Depression wasto fight tooth and nail
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for everything you could get
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because Big Business and the government
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were not the friends of the working man.
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Dr. Russell: His careerthrived in large part
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in a very unregulated economy and political atmosphere
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in Detroit in the 1930s.
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He saw, in fact, that workers could succeed
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more often than not
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in that sort of jungle environment.
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George: Rum owners and guys
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who were moving liquor into the country,
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they needed trucks.
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The Teamsters were driving those trucks.
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You've got the nexusright there of the Mob,
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corruption, and laborers.
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And when Prohibition ends,
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that connections remain,
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and it just grows out of that.
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Dr. Russell: Often,owners, business owners
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would hire thugs withbaseball bats and clubs
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and sometimes pistols
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to intimidate or beat union organizers.
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And quite often, those union organizers would fight back
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with violence as well,
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and so many of these battles are fought in the streets.
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Dr. Buccellato:Management and ownership
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breaking promises and breaking legs,
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it is morally acceptableto fight fire with fire.
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George: The Mob was muscle,
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and the Mob worked forwhoever would hire them.
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In terms of the organized labor movement,
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there were times when corporate America,
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whether it's the garmentindustry or whatever,
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would hire Mob muscle tointimidate the unions.
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So it wasn't like theMobsters were embracing
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organized labor movement in America.
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The Mobsters went wherever there was a payday.
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Dr. Russell: And workers often found
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that they could win those conflicts.
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In particular, Hoffa found that those conflicts
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could be settled throughtheir willingness
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to fight industries.
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Dr. Buccellato: For union rank and file,
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Jimmy Hoffa is a Robin Hood,
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and like Robin Hood,
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he may have to resort to extralegal acts.
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He may have to get his hands dirty.
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But in the end, his workers
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and these marginalized communities are better off.
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Dr. Russell: Hoffa was most likely involved
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in car bombings.
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You had to keep scabsout of those workplaces.
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You had to keepreplacement workers out,
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or else you had nopower as a union leader.
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Al: The first real documented proof
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of Hoffa's connection with the Mob
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comes in about 1937.
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Hoffa was married by this time,
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but he had an ex-girlfriend
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who was sort of a gangster moll,
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Sylvia Pagano, a.k.a. Sylvia Paris.
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Dr. Buccellato: At the time,
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Pagano is dating Frankie"Three Fingers" Coppola,
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a bootlegger from Los Angeles
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who has a criminal record extending back
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to his youth in Sicily.
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Pagano introduces Coppola to Hoffa,
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Al: Frank Coppola associated with Santo Perrone,
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a Detroit Sicilian mobster
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who was known for providing goons and muscle
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to either unions or to businesses,
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again, playing both sides of the fence
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in various union battles in the 1930s.
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Dr. Buccellato: They come up with a plan.
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The Mob can provide muscle to back
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this union movement that is struggling.
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The odds are against them.
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The Mob will offer access to muscle
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to defend the workers, to counterattack.
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Al: The Teamsters, at this time,
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were engaged in a brutal strike
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with the Kroger's Supermarket chain,
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people being shot,
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heads being busted,
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and supposedly, Hoffa asked his new friend,
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Santo Perrone,
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to hold his goons back and not help Kroger
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while the Teamsters tried to fight this struggle.
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Dan: The old adage about Hoffa was that
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he wound up going to the Mob
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because he was trying to use them
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to go after stubborn employers
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who refuse to be unionized.
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In fact, he used theMob to go after the CIO,
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which was raiding the Teamsters' turf in Detroit.
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Al: I think Jimmy Hoffa used the Mafia
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and other organized crime
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the same way he used everybody else.
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He was always the smartest guy in the room,
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and I think to say thatthe Mob controlled him
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or controlled theTeamsters is misleading.
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Dr. Russell: There's no evidence
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that he was ever beholden to them.
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There's no evidence that they ever dominated his unions.
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Dr. Buccellato: I don't think someone like Jimmy Hoffa
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makes a decision that,
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"Well, I'm going to become a racketeer."
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Rather, it's an organic response.
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Hoffa has an opportunity here
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to secure some type of defense
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on behalf of his workers
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by forming various partnerships
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with members of the underworld.
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George: Jimmy Hoffa recognized,"This is the way to go.
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"This is the way to rise to the top,
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"and you got to get in bed with these guys,
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"and they're going to benefit and I'm going to benefit."
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Not complicated at all.
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Al: One of the most stunning claims
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about Hoffa and the Teamsters
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is that they were integral to the development
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of the global heroin trade.
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Teamster trucks and locals may have been used
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to help flood the United States with Sicilian heroin
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in aftermath of World War II.
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And it all centered aroundHoffa's first friend in the Mob,
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Frank Coppola.
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Dr. Buccellato: A number ofcongressional committee reports
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documented the relationship between Coppola and Hoffa
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and the Teamsters.
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Now Coppola is a reallyinteresting character.
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He's a bootlegger in Los Angeles.
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He is a human trafficker in Mexico.
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He is a labor racketeer in Detroit.
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He's running drugs out of Cuba.
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He's all over the place.
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The United Statesdeports Coppola in 1948.
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Communist Party is popular in Italy.
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The labor unions are gaining strength in Italy,
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and the U.S. State Department has a very real concern
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that Italy will fall into communist hands.
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And back in Sicily, he's a political power broker.
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He has unique connections to Italian senators.
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His brother is a powerfulmember of the clergy in Sicily.
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Al: Even before the Nazis surrendered,
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the Cold War was begining,
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and the U.S. government was making deals with criminals
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in former Fascism Europe
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to help fight a dirty war against communism.
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In Italy, this was knownas Operation Gladio.
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Mafia boss of bosses, Lucky Luciano,
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was working with the U.S. government,
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and so was Jimmy Hoffa's old friend, Frank Coppola.
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(sinister music)
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Dan: Coppola and Luciano got together
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and created a drug network.
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From Montreal, there were two routes.
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One was straight South into New York,
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where it was handled by
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a guy from the Bonanno crime family,
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a guy named Carmine Galante,
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and then across Canada, overthe Detroit River into Detroit.
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Dr. Buccellato: Congressional committee reports identified
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Priziola and Quasarano as two of the most significant
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and important drug traffickers in North America.
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Dan: And Jimmy Hoffa, inorder to give these guys
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a facade of legitimacy,
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he set up a dummy local for them,
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Teamsters local forthem to operate out of.
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Dr. Buccellato: And the evidence suggests
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that for quite some time,
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New York Mafiosi were buying their heroin
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from the Detroit suppliers.
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Did Hoffa know about thenarcotics trafficking?
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I can't prove that.
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I suspect that someone as smart as Hoffa
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would not want to knowabout what was going on,
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but I've interviewed retired federal agents from FBN,
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and they contend that within their offices,
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it was well known that the Teamsters
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were protecting these drug traffickers.
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(suspense music)
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Al: In 1952, Dave Beck became
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the new president of the Teamsters,
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and Jimmy Hoffa became vice president.
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This was the peak moment
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for the union movement in the United States,
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the most members, the strongest voice,
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the most power.
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Dr. Russell: And government leaders and business leaders
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both wanted to curb that.
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They wanted to curb the union movement.
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And it's crucial to understand that that period
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coincided with the risein labor regulation,
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especially from the federal government.
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So in the '30s, when Hoffa was coming up,
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he was faced with constant competition from other unions,
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which forced him to bemilitant and accountable
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to his members.
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It forced him to be a good union leader.
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By the 1950s, it was all but impossible
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for unions to compete against one another.
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Al: So now with no outside elements left to fight,
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Jimmy Hoffa turns his attentions inward.
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He goes after his own president, Dave Beck.
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And Hoffa makes a deal with some really bad people,
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(sinister music)
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including a New York racketeer named Johnny Dio.
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Dio was infamous.
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He had been implicated in an acid attack
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on crusading journalist,Victor Riesel,
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where acid was thrown in his face
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and he was blinded permanently.
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George: Did theAmerican labor movement
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go off track to a certain degree?
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Yeah, for sure, it did.
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But did corporate America go off track?
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Sure, it did.
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It's almost a human condition
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when you've got that much power,
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that much status, that much wealth.
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Al: So meanwhile, Hoffa has an un-yet known nemesis
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crisscrossing the country trying to bring him down,
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Bobby Kennedy,
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who's working for John McClellan,
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a senator running a Senate investigation
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into labor and union corruption.
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Dr. Russell: The McClellan hearings was also a means
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through which to attackthe union movement
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in terms of public relations,
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that the movement was full of goons and criminals,
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people like Jimmy Hoffa,
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and that's really the purpose it served.
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Al: Hoffa knew he was next to be called
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in front of the Senate,
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but he had a plan.
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He tried to plant a spy right inside Bobby Kennedy's office.
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Dan: Hoffa, trying to keep tabs
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on what the Senate committee was doing,
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was introduced to a guynamed John Cye Cheasty.
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Cheasty was an honest guy,
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and he went to Bobby Kennedy's people,
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and he said, "Listen, Jimmy Hoffa has come to me
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"and made me this offer."
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Al: So Kennedy and Cheasty set Hoffa up.
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When he goes to pass themoney off to Cheasty,
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the FBI is there to arrest him.
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Dan: He gives the documents to Jimmy Hoffa.
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Jimmy Hoffa gives him the money.
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This is all memorialized on film,
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and Hoffa is indicted,charged with extortion.
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Keith: He was represented by Edward Bennett Williams,
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who was the premiere criminal defense attorney in America.
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He, being Williams, arranged to have
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Joe Lewis sit in the front row.
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And when the juryselection was going on,
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he shook hands with Joe Lewis.
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It's difficult again today
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to go back to realize what a symbol
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to the African-Americancommunity Joe Lewis was
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in the '50s and the '60s,
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and this was a carefullyorchestrated event
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to give Jimmy Hoffa some credibility.
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Dan: The jury comes out,
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and sure enough, Jimmy Hoffa is acquitted.
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Al: August of '57, fresh off his victory at trial,
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Jimmy Hoffa is finally called
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in front of the McClellan Committee on Labor Corruption,
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and he and Bobby Kennedy go at it.
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Dan: The hatred between Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa
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was of mythical proportions.
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Dr. Russell: Kennedy really had
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a paternalist image of the world.
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He was a wealthy boy who was raised
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with this idea of noblesse oblige,
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the idea that the wealthy
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are obligated to help their lessers.
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He had to remove the dictators who were oppressing
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the people of the Third World.
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He had to remove the dictators from within the unions
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who were oppressing the working class,
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like Jimmy Hoffa.
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Al: I think Bobby Kennedy saw all this as a chance
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to get himself some national exposure,
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probably at his father, Joe Kennedy's suggestion.
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By creating a mythology of Hoffa
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being so dangerous to America,
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a tactic he learned at the feet of Joe McCarthy,
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who was actually a family friend of the Kennedys,
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he made himself into ahero protecting America
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from the bad men like Jimmy Hoffa.
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Dan: Bobby Kennedythought that Jimmy Hoffa
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was an enemy of orthodox society.
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He believed that withHoffa having the ability
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to shut down thiscountry with his control
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over the trucking union
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that he was a national security threat.
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(sinister music)
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and he believed that Hoffa's association
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with organized crime
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just quadrupled thethreat to this country.
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Consequently, Jimmy Hoffa was a person
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who had to be stopped.
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Dr. Russell: He was alsoa very Christian man,
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with the idea that the holy should save and redeem
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and uplift those who have not been saved.
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He saw the whole world as a group of people
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inferior to himself
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who needed to be raised to his level.
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(suspense music)
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Dr. Buccellato: I don't think Hoffa ever viewed himself
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as a racketeer.
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In fact, to the extent that he acknowledged
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his relationships with the underworld,
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he was actually unapologetic about it.
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Robert Kennedy: Did you say,
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"That SOB, I'll break his back?"
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Jimmy Hoffa: Who?
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Robert Kennedy: You.
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Jimmy Hoffa: Say it to who?
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Robert Kennedy: To anyone.
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Did you make that statement after these people
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testified before the committee?
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Whose back were you going to break, Mr. Hoffa?
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Jimmy Hoffa: Figurative speech.
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I don't even know who I was talking about,
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and I don't know what you're talking about.
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Al: As for Bobby, his father, Joe's money and influence,
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were the only reason the Kennedy brothers
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were such rising stars on the political scene
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at such a young age.
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Dr. Russell: The federal government really had no business
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in intervening in that.
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But Bobby Kennedy saw to it anyway,
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and in many ways,
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he and the Democratic leadership,
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with the CIO leadership,
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really put a web of constraints about,
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around the labor movement
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that destroyed labor activism.
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Al: Some of his close associates claimed
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he would write a check to the boss and archdiocese,
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say, for a million dollars.
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The archdiocese would take 900,000 in cash
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from the parishioners' contributions
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and give it to Kennedy.
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Kennedy then could write off his million dollar donation,
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and he had 900,000 in cash to pass around
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and grease palms
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to help his two sons get elected.
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(suspense music)
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So it must have been a real bitter pill
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for Jimmy Hoffa to swallow
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to sit in front of that Senate committee
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and be browbeaten (sinister music)
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by the likes of the son of Joe Kennedy.
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The hearings eventually ended,
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and Teamster president,Dave Beck, got indicted
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and sent to prison,
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and Jimmy Hoffa became Teamsters president.
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So now, Jimmy Hoffa has the power,
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and it's time to pay back
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the people who helped him get there,
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and one of the ways he could do that
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was with the Teamsters pension fund.
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Dan: Which was operated by a hastily thrown together
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insurance company called Union Casualty,
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which was run by a guy named Paul Dorfman
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and his son, Allan Dorfman.
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Keith: Huge amounts of the Las Vegas Strip
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were financed with loans from the Central State Pension fund
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which was under thecontrol of Jimmy Hoffa.
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Al: The Tropicana, the Circus Circus,
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the Aladdin, Caesars Palace,
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the Hacienda, the Stardust, the Fremont,
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all of them funded withTeamster pension money
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and all of them mobbed up.
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Dr. Russell: So what gets lost in all of this talk
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about the Teamster's pensions
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and how it went to Las Vegas and other Mafia endeavors,
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which is all true,
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it is also true their pensions were tremendous.
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They were much higher than they would have been
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have Hoffa not existed.
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Even during his corrupt phase,
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they were getting very wealthy pensions.
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They were getting wagesthat were far higher
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than truck drivers weremaking 20 years earlier.
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Jimmy Hoffa: Nobody in this country respects what's weak,
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you believe me.
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But because we are financially solid,
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because we do have an organization
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that is equipped to handle any situation
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that comes in front of us,
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we're successful in getting from the employers
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what our members want and need with our strengths.
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George: Chicago,Cleveland, Kansas City,
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they would rack the money up
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depending on which mob families
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had a piece of that particular casino.
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The number varies from 12 million to 20 million a year,
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from six casinos to 10 casinos, however many.
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Al: The Jewish Dorfman was a towering figure
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in organized crime
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and wasn't afraid of violence.
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Dan: I got an anonymouscall to meet a source
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who's going to give me information about Dorfman.
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Broad daylight, public place, I'd even hesitate to go,
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and I got jumped there and I got really ...
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It was the worstbeating I've ever taken.
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George: A lot of them were prosecuted.
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A lot of the guys who were involved in this
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were indicted and went to jail,
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but it was all about cooking the books.
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Al: The story of Allan Dorfman in Las Vegas
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was dramatized in Martin Scorcese's movie, "Casino,"
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and Dorfman himself wasgunned down in Chicago
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in the early 1980s.
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Newscaster: Here inChicago this afternoon,
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Allan Dorfman, a man withreported ties to organized crime
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and to the Teamsters union for the past 30 years,
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was shot to death in what police are describing
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as a gangland-style execution.
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Voiceover: Dorfman died here
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in a suburban Chicago parking lot
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from as many as seven 22-calibergunshot wounds to the head.
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Reporter: Dorfman was about to go to prison
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for his conviction last month
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in the Teamsters briberyconspiracy trial.
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(triumphant music)
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Voiceover: From his stronghold
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in the wild Sierra Maestra mountains,
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Cuba's Fidel Castro emerged triumphant
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after two years of guerilla warfare
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against the Batista regime.
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Al: In the late '50s, Jimmy Hoffa got himself mixed up
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in the deepest levels of America's secret politics.
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When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba,
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Dwight Eisenhower told the CIA to kill him.
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But of course, this waseasier said than done
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because the hit could never be linked back
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to the U.S. government.
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So, unbelievably, theCIA contacted the Mafia
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to help them kill Fidel Castro.
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Mob bosses like Santo Trafficante,
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Carlos Marcello,and Meyer Lansky
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had lost tens of millions of dollars
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when Castro seized power,
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and they were the onesthat had the connections
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to the Cuban exile community
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that could help the CIA get poison in
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or get an assassin and take Castro out.
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The CIA's first contact with the Mob
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may well have been through Jimmy Hoffa.
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During this time, Hoffa's right-hand man, Rolland McMaster,
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a high-ranking Teamster official,
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went down to Florida,
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set up a Teamster office in Miami,
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which was full of Cuban exiles,
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was a hotbed of anti-Castro activity.
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And right inside the Teamster office in Miami,
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Santo Trafficante,
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one of the most powerful mob bosses in the country,
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had an office.
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Dan: A guy named Bob Mayhew came in,
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was brought in to the plots
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by the head of Covert Operations
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for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Al: Robert Mayhew, incidentally,
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was close friends and business partners
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with Jimmy Hoffa's old lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams,
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and shared office space with him back in Washington D.C.
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Dan: I interviewed Mayhew just a few blocks from here
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at the Georgetown Inn here in Washington.
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He told me that his job was to get to Santo Trafficante,
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who had been released from the Cuban prison
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after he had been imprisoned by Castro
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in April of '59.
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But Mayhew didn't know Trafficante.
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He knew that it was going to take a boss
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to deal with another boss,
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but he didn't know a boss.
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But he did know a guy named Johnny Roselli,
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and so Bob Mayhew workedwith Johnny Roselli,
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who brought in ...
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Johnny Roselli was a Chicago gangster,
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and so he bringsin Sam Giancana,
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who, at the time, was the acting boss in Chicago,
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and it was Sam Giancana who brings in Santo Trafficante
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into what becomes a CIA-Mafia plot to kill Castro.
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We have evidence to thefact that Jimmy Hoffa
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was the original liaison between the CIA and the Mafia
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and the Castro assassination plots
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during that period between December 1959
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and August of 1960,
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when Bob Mayhew becameinvolved in those plots.
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Al: While the CIA-mob plots to kill Castro obviously failed,
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they did have profound consequences,
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(sinister music)which likely culminated
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in the murder of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
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The CIA's bungledmaneuvering had created
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a dangerous nexus of players,
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ranging from Hoffa and the Teamsters
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to Cuban dissidents, mob bosses,
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(camera click)
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and fringe characterslike Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Dan: So when Bobby Kennedy became Attorney General,
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he had a hit list oforganized crime figures
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and their associates whom he had targeted for prosecution,
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and number one on that hit list was Jimmy Hoffa.
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Al: Dan Moldea wrote the seminal book
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on Hoffa and the Teamsters
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right in the immediate aftermathof Hoffa's disappearance,
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and he is convinced thatNew Orleans mob boss,
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Carlos Marcello,
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who had his own run-inswith Bobby Kennedy,
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conspired with Hoffa and others
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to somehow manipulate Lee Harvey Oswald
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into killing JFK
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and then had Mafia associate Jack Ruby kill Oswald
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(gunshot)
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before he could spill the story.
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Voiceover: He's been shot.
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He's been shot.
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Lee Oswald has been shot.
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Dan: That the murder of John Kennedy is a straight mob hit.
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Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante
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arranged and executed the murder.
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Al: Marcello, Hoffa, and Trafficante
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did share the same lawyer,
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a guy named Frank Ragano,
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who made the claim years later,
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when he was trying to sell a book,
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(camera flash)that Hoffa had him carry
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the contract to kill JFK to Marcello and Trafficante.
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Dan: The mob guys were absolutely horrified
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as to what was going on,
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saying that they were going to have to go back to Europe
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just to feed themselves,
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that Bobby Kennedy was just destroying their businesses,
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that they would die themselves
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if they could get rid of Bobby Kennedy as Attorney General.
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Al: I think the Kennedys
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were definitely playingboth sides of the fence
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when it came to organized crime.
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(sinister music)
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The FBI actually recorded a wiretap
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between Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli
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that their donation to JFK's campaign had been accepted
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but that Bobby Kennedy wouldn't let up
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on them and their friends.
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(suspense music)
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(dramatic music)
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It was his fourth criminal trial in 10 years,
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but this time, Bobby Kennedy had a new trick up his sleeve.
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He had a mole inside Hoffa's camp
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that was feeding him informationas the trial was going on.
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Dan: The person who ended up
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being the key government witness
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against Jimmy Hoffa was a guy named Ed Grady Partin
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from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Local Five.
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He was a Teamster official.
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And Ed Partin had knowledge of the fixing of the jury.
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In fact, when he calledthe Justice Department
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and spoke with Walter Sheridan,
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who was the head of Bobby Kennedy's
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"Get Hoffa Squad,"
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he said flat out, "Hoffa is fixing to fix the jury."
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Al: The problem with all this was Ed Partin himself.
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Partin supplied Kennedywith the inside info
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to convict Hoffa on jury tampering,
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but Partin was a guy who've been arrested for everything,
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from manslaughter toembezzling union funds,
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and he was actually outon bail for those crimes
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when he miraculously saw the light
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and decided to help get Hoffa.
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Dan: And one of the reasons
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why Ed Partin had stepped forward
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was because Jimmy Hoffa had told him
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that he was planning to kill Bobby Kennedy.
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When Walter Sheridanheard this information,
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they immediately put him on a polygraph,
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not just about thejury tampering business
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but about the attempted,
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the plot to murder Bobby Kennedy.
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Ed Partin passed the polygraph test on everything,
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flying colors.
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September of 1962, another FBI informant
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was talking to a Mafia guy named Carlos Marcello,
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who probablycontrolled Jimmy Hoffa.
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And Marcello said, "We're not killing Bobby Kennedy
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"because everyone would know in two seconds who did it
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"if Bobby Kennedy was found dead.
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"We're going to kill the president,
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"the guy who controls Bobby Kennedy.
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"If you get rid of the president,
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"you get rid of Bobby Kennedy,
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"and we've got a guy to do the job."
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Marcello's partner, alter ego, Santo Trafficante,
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the Mafia boss of Tampa, Florida,
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was talking to another FBI informant
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named Jose Aleman,
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and he made it clearthat it was Jimmy Hoffa
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who was making the arrangementsfor the president's murder.
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Al: In the weeks leading up to Kennedy and Oswald's murders,
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Jack Ruby had numerous phone calls
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with people like Teamster enforcer Barney Baker,
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who was suspected in many murders
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and had worked personally for Hoffa and Myer Lansky.
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(suspense music)
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So, was Jimmy Hoffa involved in a plot to kill JFK?
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The Church Committee, which was a Senate investigation
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looking into U.S.intelligence operations,
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determined that Hoffa had the means, motive,
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and opportunity to helpkill John F. Kennedy.
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But that doesn't mean he did.
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(suspense music)
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Dan: It was determinedthat Hoffa had tampered
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with a member of the jury,
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and so he was re-indicted on charges of jury tampering,
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for which he receivedan eight-year sentence.
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He was convicted on a second case in Chicago
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involving pension fraud,
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where he received another five years.
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So he was given a13-year prison sentence.
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(victorious music)
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Voiceover: With his raincoat covering handcuffs,
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Hoffa arrives at federal prisonin Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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He said his attorneyswould continue his fight
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while he's in jail.
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Parole is possible in 32 months.
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At $100,000 annually,
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he is the nation's highest paid prisoner.
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Al: So Jimmy Hoffa gets sent to Lewisburg Federal Prison.
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Things get even more complicated for Hoffa there
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because he's housed withGenovese mob captain,
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Tony Provenzano,
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who was also the president of a huge Teamster local
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in New Jersey at the time,
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and the two of them actually got into a fistfight,
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with Hoffa yelling, "It's guys like you
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"that got me in here in the first place."
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At the time all this is going on in prison,
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a national mob war is brewing out in the real world.
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Dan: 1964, '65, '66 was the Bonanno wars,
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Joe Bonanno's son, Bill Bonanno,
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deciding to whack three of the heads of the five families.
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(gunshots)
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Joe Bonanno wound up in Tucson, Arizona.
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And in Tucson, Arizona,
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he made a pact with two Southernorganized crime figures.
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One was Carlos Marcello, the Mafia boss of New Orleans,
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and the other was SantoTrafficante of Tampa.
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Al: If the Bonanno-Marcello-Trafficante Southern powers
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could control Hoffa,
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they probably could control
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the single biggest prize in the country,
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the Teamster pension fund,
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which was really the goose that was laying
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golden egg after golden egg.
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Ultimately, the Mafia commission patched up
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the rift between the Mafia families,
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and Jimmy Hoffa was left on the outside looking in
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but now with a newdeadly enemy in the form
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of Anthony "TonyPro" Provenzano.
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(suspense music)
789
00:32:50,469 --> 00:32:51,703
Jimmy Hoffa: A murderer upstairs
790
00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:54,040
or a man with 50 years alongside of you.
791
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,476
And when you're trying to sleep under those conditions,
792
00:32:57,476 --> 00:32:59,678
unless you have a tremendous willpower,
793
00:32:59,678 --> 00:33:02,048
you're constantly one eye open,
794
00:33:02,048 --> 00:33:03,882
looking to see whether or not you'll survive the night
795
00:33:03,882 --> 00:33:05,051
for the next day.
796
00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:10,789
(clapping) (jolly music)
797
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:34,580
Dr. Russell: From the1930s through the 1970s,
798
00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:36,615
most unions were giving their money,
799
00:33:36,615 --> 00:33:38,517
their campaign money to Democrats.
800
00:33:38,517 --> 00:33:41,087
Hoffa gave his money to whomever would help
801
00:33:41,087 --> 00:33:42,754
the Teamsters and himself,
802
00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:44,556
and so sometimes he gavehis money to Democrats,
803
00:33:44,556 --> 00:33:45,791
sometimes to Republicans.
804
00:33:45,791 --> 00:33:48,394
By the early 1970s, when he was in prison,
805
00:33:48,394 --> 00:33:49,695
Richard Nixon was president,
806
00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:51,230
and it became quite convenient
807
00:33:51,230 --> 00:33:55,401
for the Teamster to give money to Nixon and the Republicans,
808
00:33:55,401 --> 00:33:58,337
and in exchange, he received a pardon.
809
00:33:58,437 --> 00:33:59,771
Jimmy Hoffa: I appreciate the fact
810
00:33:59,771 --> 00:34:02,308
that he signed the commutation papers.
811
00:34:02,308 --> 00:34:04,343
Whatever effect it will have on the members, I can't say.
812
00:34:04,343 --> 00:34:05,844
I haven't talked to any members.
813
00:34:05,844 --> 00:34:08,147
Reporter: Do you regard this as a strictly political move?
814
00:34:08,147 --> 00:34:09,348
Jimmy Hoffa: No, I do not.
815
00:34:09,348 --> 00:34:11,250
I think it was a regularroutine commutation
816
00:34:11,250 --> 00:34:13,119
based upon my time served,
817
00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:15,687
based upon my sentence and the background of the sentence.
818
00:34:15,687 --> 00:34:17,123
Reporter: Do you plan on supporting him soon
819
00:34:17,123 --> 00:34:19,125
because he [unintelligible] or what?
820
00:34:19,125 --> 00:34:20,992
Jimmy Hoffa: It's too far away to make any prediction
821
00:34:20,992 --> 00:34:22,294
of what I will do politically.
822
00:34:22,294 --> 00:34:23,529
George: Now why would Nixon do that
823
00:34:23,529 --> 00:34:25,264
and if Hoffa was this terrible
824
00:34:25,697 --> 00:34:28,500
organized labor figure/gangster,
825
00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:30,136
why is he entitled to a pardon?
826
00:34:30,136 --> 00:34:32,238
Those kind of things were all questions back then.
827
00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:34,373
It certainly underminedNixon to a great degree.
828
00:34:34,373 --> 00:34:35,674
I mean that was one of the many things
829
00:34:35,674 --> 00:34:38,144
that when people startedto talk about Nixon
830
00:34:38,144 --> 00:34:42,914
as a president who didn't play by the rules,
831
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:44,916
Nixon as a president who ultimately became
832
00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:46,918
the paranoid president,
833
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:48,387
this was an example of that.
834
00:34:48,387 --> 00:34:49,955
This was Nixon, the deal-maker.
835
00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:53,159
Al: While Jimmy Hoffa was in prison from '67 to '71,
836
00:34:53,425 --> 00:34:55,861
America changed a lot.
837
00:34:55,861 --> 00:34:57,363
And when he got out,
838
00:34:57,363 --> 00:35:00,466
Hoffa's time had reallypassed in a lot of ways.
839
00:35:00,466 --> 00:35:03,769
George: Hoffa, for one segment of the American population,
840
00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:08,174
epitomized organized labor working for the blue collar,
841
00:35:08,174 --> 00:35:09,175
the common man,
842
00:35:09,175 --> 00:35:10,409
giving him his rights,
843
00:35:10,409 --> 00:35:12,778
giving him decent wagesand working conditions.
844
00:35:12,778 --> 00:35:14,780
But for the people that were involved
845
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:18,184
in the protests of the 1960s that wanted change,
846
00:35:18,184 --> 00:35:18,884
that were progressive,
847
00:35:18,884 --> 00:35:20,252
that were liberal,
848
00:35:20,252 --> 00:35:22,188
organized labor had become, in a lot of ways,
849
00:35:22,188 --> 00:35:23,389
part of the problem.
850
00:35:23,389 --> 00:35:25,557
The sons and daughters of blue-collar workers
851
00:35:25,557 --> 00:35:27,593
wh had gone on to get an education
852
00:35:27,593 --> 00:35:29,195
kind of looked askance at all of that.
853
00:35:29,195 --> 00:35:31,997
They didn't appreciate what unions really were about.
854
00:35:31,997 --> 00:35:34,366
What they saw were unions corrupting the system.
855
00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:36,702
And I think Hoffa epitomized that for them.
856
00:35:36,702 --> 00:35:38,337
On the other hand, he epitomized
857
00:35:38,337 --> 00:35:40,739
the champion for the common man
858
00:35:40,739 --> 00:35:42,841
for the earlier generation of workers.
859
00:35:42,841 --> 00:35:45,311
Al: Teamster Vice President Frank Fitzsimmons
860
00:35:45,311 --> 00:35:48,447
was running the Teamsters show,with Hoffa away in prison,
861
00:35:48,447 --> 00:35:50,982
and he was even more accommodating
862
00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:53,952
than Hoffa had been to organized crime.
863
00:35:53,952 --> 00:35:57,323
Dan: But Fitzsimmons just let everyone to do their thing.
864
00:35:57,723 --> 00:35:59,124
That's the way he liked it,
865
00:35:59,124 --> 00:36:01,927
and that's the way the vice presidents liked it,
866
00:36:01,927 --> 00:36:04,296
and that's the way the mob liked it.
867
00:36:04,296 --> 00:36:05,997
Frank: For this union nor I
868
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,634
am in the hands of organized crime.
869
00:36:08,634 --> 00:36:10,569
This union has nothing to hide
870
00:36:10,569 --> 00:36:13,104
under general presidencyof Frank Fitzsimmons.
871
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,606
Keith: Many of these guys
872
00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:17,443
had feathered their own personal nests pretty well
873
00:36:17,443 --> 00:36:20,246
during the Fitzsimmons tenure.
874
00:36:20,246 --> 00:36:21,313
Richard: And the only thing
875
00:36:21,313 --> 00:36:22,581
that he was looking at at that point
876
00:36:22,581 --> 00:36:24,115
was trying to get back into
877
00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:26,752
the leadership positionwith the union,
878
00:36:26,752 --> 00:36:28,887
who didn't seem to wanthim around anymore.
879
00:36:28,887 --> 00:36:31,056
Scott: He really only had one thing on his mind,
880
00:36:31,056 --> 00:36:34,760
which was claiming back the Teamsters presidency.
881
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,630
This was his baby,really his joy in life,
882
00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:40,832
was being the presidentof the Teamsters.
883
00:36:40,832 --> 00:36:42,634
Keith: Even though he had been involved
884
00:36:42,634 --> 00:36:43,835
with organized crime,
885
00:36:43,835 --> 00:36:47,038
he always figured itwas a 50-50 relationship
886
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:49,174
where he was getting things from them
887
00:36:49,174 --> 00:36:51,777
in return for giving things to them
888
00:36:51,777 --> 00:36:54,112
not only personally butfor the labor movement.
889
00:36:54,112 --> 00:36:55,981
He thought that Frank Fitzsimmons
890
00:36:55,981 --> 00:37:00,619
had become a lackey for the members of organized crime,
891
00:37:00,619 --> 00:37:02,721
and he was very interested in getting back in
892
00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:04,290
to the Teamsters union.
893
00:37:04,290 --> 00:37:05,891
He was going to do whatever he could
894
00:37:05,891 --> 00:37:07,693
to get his power back,
895
00:37:07,693 --> 00:37:10,962
and if that involved agreeing to
896
00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:13,932
or deciding to take someof the mob influence
897
00:37:13,932 --> 00:37:15,334
out of the union,
898
00:37:15,334 --> 00:37:18,304
Hoffa was willing to do that to get the power back.
899
00:37:18,304 --> 00:37:20,406
Scott: Hoffa's desperation reached a point
900
00:37:20,406 --> 00:37:23,575
where my sources in the federal government tell me
901
00:37:23,575 --> 00:37:26,011
that he actually becamean FBI informant.
902
00:37:26,011 --> 00:37:29,681
This is a well-kept secret in the fact
903
00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:32,217
that it really hasn't been public record
904
00:37:32,217 --> 00:37:34,152
but that Hoffa was actually
905
00:37:34,152 --> 00:37:36,121
a full-fledged informant by the end.
906
00:37:36,121 --> 00:37:37,956
There was an actual quid pro quo
907
00:37:37,956 --> 00:37:41,192
between Hoffa and his handlers in the federal government,
908
00:37:41,192 --> 00:37:42,628
in the FBI,
909
00:37:42,628 --> 00:37:45,063
that in exchange for Hoffa feeding them information
910
00:37:45,063 --> 00:37:45,997
about what he knew,
911
00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:47,333
the FBI, the federal government
912
00:37:47,333 --> 00:37:49,835
was going to help lift the restriction
913
00:37:49,835 --> 00:37:51,670
on Hoffa's ability to run
914
00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:53,339
for the presidency of the Teamsters
915
00:37:53,339 --> 00:37:55,707
and that he would beallowed to run in 1976.
916
00:37:55,707 --> 00:37:59,411
The word on the street was that Hoffa's restriction
917
00:37:59,411 --> 00:38:01,347
was most likely to be lifted
918
00:38:01,347 --> 00:38:05,551
was really a problem for the mob
919
00:38:05,551 --> 00:38:07,619
in the sense that they realized
920
00:38:07,619 --> 00:38:09,355
that Hoffa had enough support
921
00:38:09,355 --> 00:38:11,923
and enough momentum behind him
922
00:38:11,923 --> 00:38:15,026
that he could easilywin that 1976 election.
923
00:38:15,026 --> 00:38:17,529
George: For Machiavelli,fortune favors the bold.
924
00:38:17,529 --> 00:38:20,198
He was going to make a bold move to try to come back.
925
00:38:20,198 --> 00:38:22,167
But I think there were just too many players involved,
926
00:38:22,167 --> 00:38:24,470
too many people who didn't want him to come back,
927
00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:27,706
and he couldn't control allthe events and all the players,
928
00:38:27,706 --> 00:38:29,841
as he could have maybe 20 years earlier,
929
00:38:29,841 --> 00:38:32,678
when he was at the peak of his power in the Teamsters union.
930
00:38:32,678 --> 00:38:34,480
Scott: So Hoffa's relationship
931
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,215
with the Mafia is quickly deteriorating.
932
00:38:37,215 --> 00:38:39,818
His really only life raft at this point
933
00:38:39,818 --> 00:38:41,286
are the Giacalone brothers,
934
00:38:41,286 --> 00:38:42,921
Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone
935
00:38:42,921 --> 00:38:44,656
and Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone,
936
00:38:44,656 --> 00:38:46,525
the street bosses of the Detroit Mafia,
937
00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:49,395
the men that arereally the faces
938
00:38:49,395 --> 00:38:51,262
of organized crime in Detroit.
939
00:38:51,262 --> 00:38:52,398
They do all the dirty work.
940
00:38:52,398 --> 00:38:53,665
They're the junkyard dogs,
941
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:56,602
and they have long been Hoffa's contacts.
942
00:38:56,602 --> 00:38:58,704
Greg: The Detroit family goes way back.
943
00:38:58,704 --> 00:39:00,806
I mean it's one of the original families.
944
00:39:00,806 --> 00:39:02,708
It's part of the Commission,
945
00:39:02,708 --> 00:39:04,309
part of the National Comission.
946
00:39:04,309 --> 00:39:06,144
Bill: Through my years of undercover work,
947
00:39:06,144 --> 00:39:10,315
I don't believe that I was ever able to really penetrate
948
00:39:10,315 --> 00:39:12,918
the mob, the Detroit Mafia, if you will.
949
00:39:12,918 --> 00:39:16,422
These people had charisma.
950
00:39:16,422 --> 00:39:18,990
Some of them were very likable people.
951
00:39:18,990 --> 00:39:22,428
I think they were friendly, but from a distance,
952
00:39:22,428 --> 00:39:24,229
from afar, they were not the kind of people
953
00:39:24,229 --> 00:39:27,766
that would take a shining to strangers.
954
00:39:27,766 --> 00:39:29,668
As part of their culture, their makeup,
955
00:39:29,668 --> 00:39:32,103
they don't deal with strangers.
956
00:39:32,103 --> 00:39:33,204
Scott: The mob knew the only way
957
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:34,706
to get Hoffa out in the open
958
00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:35,874
was to lure him,
959
00:39:35,874 --> 00:39:38,577
and that lure was Tony Pro Provenzano.
960
00:39:38,877 --> 00:39:41,079
Hoffa understood the only way
961
00:39:41,079 --> 00:39:44,750
that he was going to get the requisite number of delegates
962
00:39:44,750 --> 00:39:47,619
to take back the Teamsters union in the '76 election
963
00:39:47,619 --> 00:39:49,588
was to make peace with Tony Provenzano,
964
00:39:49,588 --> 00:39:52,658
a man that he had actually put into power in the union,
965
00:39:52,658 --> 00:39:54,826
was very good friends with until they had
966
00:39:54,826 --> 00:39:57,463
a rather bitter falling out in prison.
967
00:39:57,463 --> 00:39:59,598
Hoffa knew he had to squash the beef.
968
00:39:59,598 --> 00:40:02,934
The Giacalones knew that bringing
969
00:40:02,934 --> 00:40:05,403
Tony Provenzano to Detroit as a lure
970
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,238
would be the way to getHoffa out in the open
971
00:40:07,238 --> 00:40:09,307
because Hoffa needed that support.
972
00:40:09,307 --> 00:40:11,877
Richard: I mean there was a saying in Detroit that
973
00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:14,412
if you didn't know that person
974
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:16,915
when he was sucking his Mama's breast,
975
00:40:16,915 --> 00:40:17,916
stay away from him.
976
00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:19,084
Don't trust him.
977
00:40:19,084 --> 00:40:21,720
And that's the way they acted.
978
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:23,221
They grew up together.
979
00:40:23,221 --> 00:40:24,690
They socialized together.
980
00:40:24,690 --> 00:40:27,358
They married one another.
981
00:40:27,358 --> 00:40:29,728
And they died together.
982
00:40:29,728 --> 00:40:33,599
Insulated protected group by themselves.
983
00:40:33,699 --> 00:40:37,202
Scott: It was appropriate, in Hoffa's mind,
984
00:40:37,202 --> 00:40:39,738
that Giacalone would be acting as the go-between.
985
00:40:39,738 --> 00:40:45,143
Tony Provenzano's first cousin was Tony Giacalone's wife.
986
00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:47,946
The Giacalone brothers were actually going to his house,
987
00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:50,816
I believe, on July 26th and July 27th,
988
00:40:50,816 --> 00:40:55,286
trying to A) get Hoffa to come out of hiding, if you will.
989
00:40:55,286 --> 00:40:57,455
He was very cautious about who he was dealing with
990
00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:58,924
out in the public.
991
00:40:58,924 --> 00:41:02,060
And they also wanted to ease his worries
992
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:03,361
that he was in danger.
993
00:41:03,361 --> 00:41:05,030
Well, in fact, he was in danger,
994
00:41:05,030 --> 00:41:06,732
but the Giacalones wereplaying both sides of the fence
995
00:41:06,732 --> 00:41:07,966
at this point.
996
00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:10,969
They arranged a meetingat the Machus Red Fox
997
00:41:10,969 --> 00:41:16,307
for 2:00 on July 30th, 1975.
998
00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:19,377
Hoffa felt comfortable going to that meeting
999
00:41:19,377 --> 00:41:22,113
because he was toldthat both Tony Giacalone
1000
00:41:22,113 --> 00:41:24,449
and Lenny Schultz wouldbe at that meeting
1001
00:41:24,449 --> 00:41:26,051
brokering the deal.
1002
00:41:26,051 --> 00:41:30,956
Hoffa was willing then to bury the hatchet with Provenzano
1003
00:41:30,956 --> 00:41:33,458
if Provenzano came to Detroit.
1004
00:41:33,458 --> 00:41:35,794
The Giacalones convinced Hoffa
1005
00:41:35,794 --> 00:41:37,428
that Provenzano was coming to Detroit,
1006
00:41:37,428 --> 00:41:39,965
so they set that meetingfor that afternoon.
1007
00:41:39,965 --> 00:41:44,102
Hoffa lounged around the house for most of that morning.
1008
00:41:44,102 --> 00:41:46,605
He left around 12:30,
1009
00:41:46,605 --> 00:41:49,174
stopped in Pontiac, a limo service that was run
1010
00:41:49,174 --> 00:41:52,177
by a friend of his by the name of Louie Linteau.
1011
00:41:52,177 --> 00:41:53,378
People called him "The Pope."
1012
00:41:53,378 --> 00:41:54,846
He showed up there.
1013
00:41:54,846 --> 00:41:57,849
Linteau was not there, so Hoffa left him a message
1014
00:41:57,849 --> 00:41:59,685
and took off to the meeting himself
1015
00:41:59,685 --> 00:42:05,023
and arrived at the Machus Red Fox 1:45, 2:00.
1016
00:42:05,023 --> 00:42:07,693
He waited in the restaurant for around a half hour
1017
00:42:07,693 --> 00:42:10,228
and realized that he had been stood up.
1018
00:42:10,228 --> 00:42:13,398
Hoffa was frazzled by this.
1019
00:42:13,398 --> 00:42:14,833
He was upset.
1020
00:42:14,833 --> 00:42:19,104
He went across the parking lot to a hardware store
1021
00:42:19,104 --> 00:42:20,606
and made two phone calls.
1022
00:42:20,606 --> 00:42:23,942
The first was to Louie Linteau at that limousine service
1023
00:42:23,942 --> 00:42:26,511
to tell him that he had been stood up
1024
00:42:26,511 --> 00:42:27,412
and that he was leaving,
1025
00:42:27,412 --> 00:42:28,614
that he was upset about it,
1026
00:42:28,614 --> 00:42:30,481
and then the second was to his wife.
1027
00:42:31,182 --> 00:42:33,084
At this point, Hoffa is seen
1028
00:42:33,084 --> 00:42:35,621
walking to his car in the parking lot.
1029
00:42:35,621 --> 00:42:37,288
It's around 2:45,
1030
00:42:37,288 --> 00:42:41,927
and he is met by a Mercury Marquis,
1031
00:42:41,927 --> 00:42:43,261
according to witnesses,
1032
00:42:43,261 --> 00:42:45,731
was occupied by three men,
1033
00:42:46,197 --> 00:42:48,767
two men in the front seat and one in the back.
1034
00:42:48,767 --> 00:42:51,136
Hoffa is seen getting into this car,
1035
00:42:51,136 --> 00:42:54,840
and the car is seen driving away onto Telegraph Road,
1036
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,507
never to be seen again.
1037
00:42:57,508 --> 00:43:00,511
And with this disappearance really started
1038
00:43:00,511 --> 00:43:04,182
arguably the most fascinating mystery
1039
00:43:04,182 --> 00:43:06,151
in the criminal annals of America.
1040
00:43:06,384 --> 00:43:09,788
Keith: The most prominent labor leader in America
1041
00:43:09,788 --> 00:43:10,889
just disappears,
1042
00:43:10,889 --> 00:43:12,824
and nobody saw anything.
1043
00:43:12,824 --> 00:43:15,560
Even though his wife was concerned and was calling people,
1044
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,296
nobody was overly concerned about an adult male
1045
00:43:18,296 --> 00:43:21,299
not coming home at 5, 6, 7, 8:00 at night.
1046
00:43:21,299 --> 00:43:23,568
I mean that's been known to happen.
1047
00:43:23,568 --> 00:43:26,137
Voiceover: The Hoffas are reportedly under heavy guard here.
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But late this afternoon, the family broke its silence
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and asked for public assistance
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in the search for Jimmy Hoffa.
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James: I have asked anybody who might have information
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concerning my father's whereabouts
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to please come forward.
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Keith: Agents in the organized crime units
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in every major city
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but particularly New York, New Jersey,
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Detroit, Chicago, Boston
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were all taking every effort they could
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to establish any connection or any interaction
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between the cities.
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These were almost all face-to-face meetings
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in private settings.
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David: I remember the time period.
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People were running around with shovels
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digging holes in fields all around Metro Detroit.
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Greg: The whole experience
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when I first got to Detroit is
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this is just like the movies.
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I had always wanted to be an FBI agent,
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and now it would seem like
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you were going from onemajor case to another.
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(ambient traffic noise)
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David: All of these whack job nutty people would call me.
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I finally got to the pointwith people when they called me
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who told me where he was.
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I just said, "Go get a shovel.
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"Go dig a hole.
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"If you find anything, call me before you call the FBI."
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Greg: I think the feeling was
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that we're going to throw all our resources at this,
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and our history is suchthat generally speaking,
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we get to the bottom of it.
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Reporter: According to a spokesman
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for the Organized Crime Strike Force,
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there will be a major announcement
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concerning the Hoffa case by the end of this week.
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(helicopter sounds overhead)
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Keith: I mean I believe these guys
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were smarter than we sometimes give them credit for,
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and I think that when they picked the people
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that were going to get rid of Jimmy Hoffa,
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they picked people who they were 100 percent sure
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would never reveal what they had done.
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They knew how they were going to get rid of the body
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before they whacked him.
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I mean there is no doubtin my mind about that.
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So they weren't driving around looking for a place to go.
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They weren't going to say,
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"Let's put him in this temporary space
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"and then we're going to move him."
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They clearly had plenty oftime to do anything they wanted
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with the remains of Jimmy Hoffa
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between the time theyleft the Machus Red Fox
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and the time anybody fully started looking,
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which was 10, 11, 12:00the following day.
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I believe this thing was planned out with precision.
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They knew who was going to do it.
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They knew how theywere going to kill him,
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and they knew where they were going to dispose of the body.
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(camera flash)
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Richard: The reputationof Anthony Giacalone
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was that he was a brilliant man
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who could have run one of the Big Three,
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that he was that smart.
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Keith: Feared by the average person
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and well known to the media,
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he had a very imposing personal presence.
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That point, he was notorious for dressing
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in a very flashy style.
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Scott: He was a man of very few words
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but was someone, withjust a nod of his head,
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could make things happen,
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such as people disappearing.
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Voiceover: The Giacalones,
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Joseph Giacalone and Vito Giacalone were in yesterday,
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but speculation as to when you might be calling
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Anthony Giacalone.
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Investigator: You're going to have to continue to speculate.
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I wish I could help you, but you know that I can't.
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Reporter: Did your client [pled]the Fifth or not, Mr. Early?
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Atty. Early: I can only assume he did.
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I advised him to do that.
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He was only in there a short minute or two,
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and he came out.
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I didn't ask him the question.
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I assumed he did.
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Reporter: You have no idea what kind of questions
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[unintelligible] in there?
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Atty. Early: I doubt if it got past his name and address.
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Keith: Tony Giacalone that day shows up
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at the Southfield Athletic Club,(camera flash)
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spends the entire day at the Southfield Athletic Club.
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He was known by many people to be a very sort of
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surly taciturn kind of guy,
1145
00:47:15,233 --> 00:47:17,368
but he must have asked 50 people
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at the Southfield Athletic Club,
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00:47:18,937 --> 00:47:19,905
"What time is it now?
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"You got the time?
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00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:21,606
"You got the time?"
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Scott: Never talked to anybody.
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They didn't need to talk,
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especially didn't talk to regular civilians
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00:47:27,078 --> 00:47:28,413
on a regular basis.
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00:47:28,413 --> 00:47:30,348
He was going aroundshaking everyone's hand,
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asking people what time it was,
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00:47:32,417 --> 00:47:33,718
how their day was going
1157
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to establish an alibi for himself.
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According to FBI surveillance records,
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Jack Tocco, the acting boss
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of the Detroit family at that time,
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came from Macomb Countyto Oakland County
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to meet with Giacalone.
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00:47:47,798 --> 00:47:50,401
Giacalone and Tocco were not very close.
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00:47:50,401 --> 00:47:53,038
They did not meet face to face very often.
1165
00:47:53,038 --> 00:47:55,706
The fact that Tocco was coming to Oakland County,
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coming to South AthleticClub that afternoon
1167
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really told the FBI and investigators
1168
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that something very important had just happened.
1169
00:48:03,748 --> 00:48:05,183
(sinister music)
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Chuckie O'Brien was a surrogate son, if you will,
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to Jimmy Hoffa.
1172
00:48:12,623 --> 00:48:16,161
He was also very close to Tony Giacalone.
1173
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His mother, Sylvia Pagano, was a bit of a gun moll,
1174
00:48:20,865 --> 00:48:24,302
one of those women that got passed around the mob.
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00:48:24,302 --> 00:48:26,671
She had affairs with several members
1176
00:48:26,671 --> 00:48:28,106
of organized crime in Detroit,
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two of them being Jimmy Hoffa and Tony Giacalone.
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He'd had a falling out with Jimmy Hoffa
1179
00:48:32,377 --> 00:48:34,812
and had really aligned with Tony Giacalone.
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00:48:34,812 --> 00:48:36,714
Attorney: After my client's full cooperation
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00:48:36,714 --> 00:48:38,516
with the Federal Bureauof Investigation,
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the Michigan State Police,
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00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:41,552
and the Bloomfield Township Police
1184
00:48:41,552 --> 00:48:44,222
for a total of nearly eighthours of intensive interviewing
1185
00:48:44,222 --> 00:48:46,224
on an entirely voluntary basis,
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I am surprised and somewhatchagrined, as a matter of fact,
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that the government now feels compelled
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to make furtherinquiry of Mr. O'Brien.
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Reporter: Do you expect to see your father again?
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Chuckie: I'm praying.
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00:49:03,074 --> 00:49:06,311
Scott: O'Brien was said to have been in possession
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00:49:06,311 --> 00:49:09,447
of Giacalone's son, Joey's car that afternoon,
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00:49:09,447 --> 00:49:12,317
the car that the FBI andinvestigators believe
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00:49:12,317 --> 00:49:14,085
Hoffa was kidnapped in.
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00:49:14,085 --> 00:49:18,023
Keith: Why was he usinga Giacalone kid's car
1196
00:49:18,023 --> 00:49:19,757
on that particular day?
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00:49:19,757 --> 00:49:22,727
That's always been an issue that fascinated the Bureau
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and caused them to lookinto Chuckie O'Brien.
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Scott: Now, the issue that I have
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with that specific allegation
1201
00:49:31,236 --> 00:49:34,139
is the fact that Hoffaand O'Brien at that time
1202
00:49:34,139 --> 00:49:39,044
had really, really beenon very, very bad terms
1203
00:49:39,310 --> 00:49:42,047
and that Jimmy Hoffa would not feel comfortable
1204
00:49:42,047 --> 00:49:44,215
getting in a car with Chuckie O'Brien.
1205
00:49:44,215 --> 00:49:46,651
Despite that, there are a lot of people that believe
1206
00:49:46,651 --> 00:49:49,454
O'Brien was the one that took Hoffa
1207
00:49:49,454 --> 00:49:52,190
from the Red Fox to the place that he was murdered.
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00:49:52,190 --> 00:49:54,425
Keith: I don't think they would have felt comfortable
1209
00:49:54,425 --> 00:49:56,061
with Chuckie O'Brien out there as a guy
1210
00:49:56,061 --> 00:49:58,096
who could point a finger at them.
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Richard: What worse person could you put in charge
1212
00:50:00,931 --> 00:50:04,635
of your life and with getting critical information
1213
00:50:04,635 --> 00:50:05,936
than Chuckie O'Brien?
1214
00:50:05,936 --> 00:50:08,173
Keith: Why do they haveto borrow anybody's car?
1215
00:50:08,173 --> 00:50:10,641
Have some guy steal acar and give it to you,
1216
00:50:10,641 --> 00:50:13,378
two, three layers of removal,
1217
00:50:13,378 --> 00:50:14,612
and then you pick it up.
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00:50:14,612 --> 00:50:16,581
These guys wouldn't havetrouble getting a car.
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00:50:16,581 --> 00:50:18,083
David: The Hoffa [unintelligible] says
1220
00:50:18,083 --> 00:50:21,986
that he was basicallyincompetent and a liar.
1221
00:50:21,986 --> 00:50:23,954
Why didn't they kill O'Brien afterward?
1222
00:50:23,954 --> 00:50:25,156
Why would they leave him alive?
1223
00:50:25,156 --> 00:50:27,658
Why would they leaveany of these guys alive?
1224
00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:32,130
Scott: I don't believe that the organized crime members
1225
00:50:32,130 --> 00:50:35,066
that set this hit up would use Chuckie O'Brien
1226
00:50:35,066 --> 00:50:37,502
in any way, shape, or form
1227
00:50:37,502 --> 00:50:40,838
other than very, very menial tasks.
1228
00:50:40,838 --> 00:50:43,308
And frankly, being the one to drive Hoffa
1229
00:50:43,308 --> 00:50:46,144
to his murder destination is not a menial task.
1230
00:50:46,144 --> 00:50:47,712
(suspense music)
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00:50:47,712 --> 00:50:50,047
George: Tony Pro was a capital in the Genovese crime family,
1232
00:50:50,047 --> 00:50:52,617
and the Genovese crime family, in my estimation,
1233
00:50:52,617 --> 00:50:54,152
was the most powerful,
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00:50:54,152 --> 00:50:55,653
the most well-run, and the most organized
1235
00:50:55,653 --> 00:50:57,322
of the five New York families,
1236
00:50:57,322 --> 00:51:01,992
Tony Pro controlled Teamsters Local 560 out of North Jersey.
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00:51:01,992 --> 00:51:04,028
Voiceover: Today,Provenzano acknowledged
1238
00:51:04,028 --> 00:51:05,463
Hoffa was an old friend,
1239
00:51:05,463 --> 00:51:07,598
but he said he hadn't seen him in years
1240
00:51:07,598 --> 00:51:10,268
and could shed no light on Hoffa's disappearance.
1241
00:51:10,735 --> 00:51:12,670
Reporter: Were you supposed to meet with Hoffa today -
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00:51:12,670 --> 00:51:13,504
Tony: No, no.
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00:51:13,504 --> 00:51:14,805
I know nothing.
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00:51:14,805 --> 00:51:16,774
None whatsoever, no.
1245
00:51:18,743 --> 00:51:20,778
Woody: Did you manage tofinish testimony before-
1246
00:51:20,778 --> 00:51:21,546
Bill: Yes, we did.
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00:51:21,546 --> 00:51:22,547
Yes, we did, Woody.
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00:51:22,547 --> 00:51:23,681
Woody: Why so brief, sir?
1249
00:51:23,681 --> 00:51:24,749
Bill: It wasn't that brief.
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00:51:24,749 --> 00:51:26,151
Woody: No?
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00:51:26,151 --> 00:51:27,152
Bill: They asked questions and we gave answers.
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00:51:27,152 --> 00:51:29,454
Reporter: [unintelligible]
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00:51:30,288 --> 00:51:32,457
Bill: I don't believe that we would serve
1254
00:51:32,457 --> 00:51:36,694
any worthy purpose to discuss out here on the street
1255
00:51:37,728 --> 00:51:40,265
what transpired in the grand jury room.
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00:51:40,265 --> 00:51:43,000
They have a job to do, andthey are doing their very best,
1257
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,469
and we wish them luck.
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00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:47,172
Dan: We knew there was an eye witness
1259
00:51:47,172 --> 00:51:51,075
who had kind of, but not quite,
1260
00:51:51,542 --> 00:51:53,944
identified Sal Briguglio.
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00:51:53,944 --> 00:51:56,281
David: His problem was that he had read newspaper accounts,
1262
00:51:56,281 --> 00:51:59,884
and I think he was trying to sort of help the FBI along
1263
00:51:59,884 --> 00:52:03,721
rather than simply beingan untainted witness.
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00:52:03,788 --> 00:52:05,456
But the problem was they didn't know
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00:52:05,456 --> 00:52:08,259
if his information wascoming from news reports
1266
00:52:08,259 --> 00:52:12,897
or whether it was untainted information he had witnessed.
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00:52:12,997 --> 00:52:16,367
Scott: Briguglio was a old-school grizzle gangster
1268
00:52:16,367 --> 00:52:17,968
that really looked the part
1269
00:52:17,968 --> 00:52:21,839
and someone that really didn't flash a smile that much.
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00:52:21,839 --> 00:52:24,742
It's a wide belief thatBriguglio and Andretta
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00:52:24,742 --> 00:52:28,279
were sent by Provenzano to Detroit
1272
00:52:28,279 --> 00:52:30,981
to be his representatives on the Hoffa hit.
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00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,950
(suspense music)
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Dan: We knew that aguy named Ralph Picardo
1275
00:52:35,653 --> 00:52:38,823
was telling the FBI
1276
00:52:39,790 --> 00:52:41,759
what they knew about Jimmy Hoffa's murder.
1277
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According to Ralph Picardo,
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Hoffa is stuffed into a 55-gallon drum
1279
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and shipped via GatewayTransportation truck
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to an unknown destination.
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Al: And this is what the FBI's initial understanding
1282
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of the case was.
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00:52:54,739 --> 00:52:56,241
Dan: So you have Russell Bufalino,
1284
00:52:56,241 --> 00:52:59,744
who is the acting head of the Genovese crime family.
1285
00:52:59,744 --> 00:53:02,647
You have Tony Provenzano, who is a capo
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in the Genovese crime family.
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00:53:04,415 --> 00:53:07,652
Then you have his guys, Sal Briguglio, Gabe Briguglio,
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Tommy Andretta, Stevie Andretta
1289
00:53:10,255 --> 00:53:12,257
being the guys who wereactually the mechanics
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00:53:12,257 --> 00:53:14,158
in this operation.
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Richard: Two people can keep a secret if one is dead.
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00:53:17,262 --> 00:53:19,297
There isn't a want or a need for information
1293
00:53:19,297 --> 00:53:21,566
and they don't know about it or want to know about it
1294
00:53:21,566 --> 00:53:23,000
for that very purpose.
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David: Does it make any sense that you would carry
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Jimmy Hoffa around in a 55-gallon barrel
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when you could just simply take him to Central Sanitation
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and dispose of the body?
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I think that that's where the feds
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eventually landed on that.
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00:53:34,779 --> 00:53:37,282
George: It just bottom line makes no sense at all.
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00:53:37,282 --> 00:53:38,449
You don't kill somebody
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00:53:38,449 --> 00:53:40,017
and then cart their body across country.
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00:53:40,017 --> 00:53:42,152
Nobody in the underworld isgoing to do that kind of stuff.
1305
00:53:42,152 --> 00:53:44,655
(slow beat music) (sinister music)
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Dan: The next day, I pick up the phone.
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00:53:45,923 --> 00:53:48,893
I call Sal Briguglio up
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and asked for him at Local 560.
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He gets on the phone and he says,
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"Yeah, who's this?"
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00:53:54,699 --> 00:53:56,401
and I said, "My name is Dan Moldea,"
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00:53:56,401 --> 00:53:58,002
and he says, "What do you need?"
1313
00:53:58,002 --> 00:54:00,037
and I said, "I'm a journalist
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00:54:00,037 --> 00:54:01,906
"and I'd like to come and talk to you."
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He says, "What do you want to talk about?"
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I said, "The Hoffa disappearance."
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He goes, "What makes you think
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"I have anything to say about that?"
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I said, "Because, Mr. Briguglio,
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"you've neither been indicted nor arrested,
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00:54:11,816 --> 00:54:13,384
"and the entire world is saying
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00:54:13,384 --> 00:54:15,553
"that you killed Jimmy Hoffa,
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00:54:15,686 --> 00:54:18,389
"and the government is putting this information out,
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00:54:18,389 --> 00:54:20,224
"and I think the government might be violating
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"your civil rights."
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Bill: We are innocent.
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We're presumed to be innocent.
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We remain-
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Dan: But you must theorize on why the government
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is doing this to you,
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and this goes back to how-
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Bill: No, you know they're a bunch of motherfuckers.
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Dan: The possibility of Hoffa's body
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00:54:33,471 --> 00:54:36,607
being stuffed in a55-gallon drum pickled,
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maybe put in a liquid preservative.
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00:54:38,343 --> 00:54:39,710
Bill: Well, man, what the hell?
1337
00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:41,612
Would you ever pickle anybody and keep preserving?
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00:54:41,612 --> 00:54:44,715
I'd like to put yourself in the position of the bad guy.
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00:54:44,715 --> 00:54:46,584
Would you try to perserve him?
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Two [powers] out of Chicago
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00:54:49,219 --> 00:54:54,058
met their Maker at the expense
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or at the hands of the CIA
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00:54:56,527 --> 00:54:57,428
because -
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Dan: Roselli and Giancana?
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00:54:58,529 --> 00:54:59,864
Bill: Yeah, Roselli and Giancana.
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00:54:59,864 --> 00:55:04,769
Now, you'd be better off asking the CIA
1347
00:55:04,769 --> 00:55:06,404
to investigate the FBI
1348
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and the FBI to investigate with CIA,
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00:55:09,574 --> 00:55:12,209
and then there you'd have the answer.
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(suspense music)
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Dan: This guy was a giant.
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He was a big guy,
1353
00:55:17,382 --> 00:55:19,249
had a glass eye too.
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00:55:19,750 --> 00:55:22,219
One eye would be following you wherever you went,
1355
00:55:22,219 --> 00:55:24,254
and the other eye wasjust staring straight at
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and into the distance.
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He was a scary guy.
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Keith: McMaster was a larger than life character
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both physically and story-wise.
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He was a business agentfor the Teamsters.
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He was involved in union activities,
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organizing, getting union votes.
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00:55:40,471 --> 00:55:44,141
He probably weighed 300 pounds and was 6'6 or 6'7,
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huge hands,
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personally an intimidating guy,
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and I think if you wanted to send the message
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to people to physicallyintimidate them,
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Rolland McMasterwas the guy who,
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if he showed up at your door,
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probably generated that kind of reaction.
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Dan: I mean McMaster was working
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with Santo Trafficantedown in Miami for sure.
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McMaster was part of the Cuban process.
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McMaster knew a lot of stuff.
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A lot of people viewed McMaster as a knuckle dragger.
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This guy was a sharp guy.
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Scott: I tend to agree with him that Rolland McMaster
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could have played a rolein the assassination.
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He was one of the most trusted non-Italian,
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non-mob union members
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and someone that had a lot of knowledge
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of past union mob relationship,
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union mob wrongdoing.
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Dan: Because I was convinced that Rolland McMaster
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and his zombie stooges who worked for him
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00:56:44,368 --> 00:56:47,572
were somehow involvedin Jimmy Hoffa's murder
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and probably responsiblefor the disposal
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of Jimmy Hoffa's body.
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I believe that.
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I got a call on that on August 4th, 1975.
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That's five days after Jimmy Hoffa's,
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and I have not moved from that position since then.
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Everything I have seen and heard
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reinforces everything I believe.
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David: There was a lot of violence going on in the Teamsters
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in the months leading up to Hoffa's disappearance.
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Dan Moldea believes thatRolland was involved,
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00:57:17,502 --> 00:57:21,539
deeply involved and probably knew what happened to Hoffa.
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00:57:21,539 --> 00:57:23,741
Dan: Hoffa people being under siege,
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where their houses were being bombed,
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00:57:25,409 --> 00:57:27,044
their boats were being bombed.
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00:57:27,044 --> 00:57:29,246
You had people being shot.
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00:57:29,246 --> 00:57:31,048
Keith: People today don't realize
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00:57:31,048 --> 00:57:37,221
bombings of businesses and union officials' cars
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00:57:37,221 --> 00:57:38,623
and these kinds of things
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00:57:38,623 --> 00:57:40,658
were much more common occurrence.
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Dan: The real action is right in Detroit.
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This is where it's all happening.
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00:57:46,063 --> 00:57:49,767
This Local 299 violenceis a big story,
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00:57:49,767 --> 00:57:51,736
and everybody is ignoring it.
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David: He was going after this story full board.
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00:57:54,404 --> 00:57:58,676
He was willing to put himself in harm's way to get the book.
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Dan: There was one guy who was so upset about McMaster,
1414
00:58:01,979 --> 00:58:03,581
that I was asking questions about Mc ...
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00:58:03,581 --> 00:58:04,749
and this is a Hoffa guy.
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00:58:04,749 --> 00:58:06,183
This is a guy I felt comfortable with.
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00:58:06,183 --> 00:58:09,754
The guy pulls a gun out and sticks it in my mouth.
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Yeah, sticks thefucking gun in my mouth.
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00:58:12,757 --> 00:58:15,325
Scott: Less than two months before Hoffa disappeared,
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00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:17,662
Little Fitz, Richard Fitzsimmons,
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00:58:17,662 --> 00:58:19,096
the son of Frank Fitzsimmons,
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00:58:19,096 --> 00:58:20,765
the current Teamsters president,
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00:58:20,765 --> 00:58:23,634
had his car blown out in the parking lot of Nemo's,
1424
00:58:23,634 --> 00:58:27,471
a popular tavern right by the 250 Local.
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00:58:27,471 --> 00:58:29,406
There was a lot of people that believed
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00:58:29,406 --> 00:58:31,475
that Hoffa set that bomb
1427
00:58:31,475 --> 00:58:34,244
and tried to kill Fitz and Little Fitz.
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00:58:34,244 --> 00:58:35,746
There are other people that believe
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00:58:35,746 --> 00:58:38,749
that there were actual Teamster goons
1430
00:58:38,749 --> 00:58:41,318
that set that bomb and that car
1431
00:58:41,318 --> 00:58:43,187
to make it look likeHoffa was trying to kill
1432
00:58:43,187 --> 00:58:45,690
the Fitzsimmons and in return would get Hoffa killed.
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00:58:45,690 --> 00:58:47,491
Voiceover: Teamster president Frank Fitzsimmons
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00:58:47,491 --> 00:58:49,794
is now a principal figure in the investigation
1435
00:58:49,794 --> 00:58:52,162
of the disappearance of James Hoffa.
1436
00:58:52,462 --> 00:58:54,498
But federal agents on the Hoffa case
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00:58:54,498 --> 00:58:58,235
are now taking a very closelook at Fitzsimmon's activities
1438
00:58:58,235 --> 00:59:00,671
just before and justafter Hoffa disappeared.
1439
00:59:01,038 --> 00:59:03,273
(suspense music)
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00:59:03,273 --> 00:59:04,942
Dan: It's impossible to believe
1441
00:59:04,942 --> 00:59:08,613
that the guys who were behind all of this Local 299 violence
1442
00:59:08,613 --> 00:59:11,749
which goes right up until 20 days before Hoffa disappears
1443
00:59:11,749 --> 00:59:14,652
with the bombing of Fitz and his car
1444
00:59:15,185 --> 00:59:18,255
and that these guys aren't involved in the [denouement]
1445
00:59:18,255 --> 00:59:20,958
when Jimmy Hoffadisappears on July 30th?
1446
00:59:21,425 --> 00:59:22,326
Please.
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00:59:22,627 --> 00:59:23,961
Scott: On the other hand,
1448
00:59:23,961 --> 00:59:25,630
you look at it and you say to yourself,
1449
00:59:25,630 --> 00:59:29,333
well, the Mafia familiesin New York, in Detroit,
1450
00:59:29,333 --> 00:59:34,639
they had a long list ofvery, very established
1451
00:59:34,639 --> 00:59:37,341
and well-honed executioners,
1452
00:59:37,341 --> 00:59:38,643
hitmen, if you will,
1453
00:59:38,643 --> 00:59:40,244
and it makes you think
1454
00:59:40,244 --> 00:59:42,346
why would they bring in a guy like McMaster
1455
00:59:42,346 --> 00:59:46,250
when they have so manyguys that can do the job
1456
00:59:46,250 --> 00:59:47,685
in their own backyard?
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00:59:47,685 --> 00:59:49,519
Keith: They wouldn't have trouble finding a house
1458
00:59:49,519 --> 00:59:52,757
or a location to do whatever they wanted to do.
1459
00:59:52,757 --> 00:59:54,091
And I don't think they would leave it
1460
00:59:54,091 --> 00:59:55,893
on a piece of property they own
1461
00:59:55,893 --> 00:59:58,528
or in a barn on RollandMcMaster's property,
1462
00:59:58,528 --> 01:00:00,698
unless they're trying toframe Rolland McMaster.
1463
01:00:00,698 --> 01:00:01,899
(suspense music)
1464
01:00:01,899 --> 01:00:03,067
Voiceover: We broke the story yesterday
1465
01:00:03,067 --> 01:00:05,535
how Frank Sheeran claims he shot Hoffa
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01:00:05,535 --> 01:00:08,138
two times in the back ofthe head in his house.
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01:00:08,138 --> 01:00:10,507
Sheeran was a Delaware Teamsters union president,
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01:00:10,507 --> 01:00:12,309
a self-confessed mob hitman,
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01:00:12,309 --> 01:00:13,944
a close friend of Jimmy Hoffa,
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01:00:13,944 --> 01:00:15,279
and the subject of a new book.
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01:00:15,279 --> 01:00:17,347
He says the mob ordered Hoffa's death
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01:00:17,347 --> 01:00:18,382
to prevent him from running
1473
01:00:18,382 --> 01:00:20,250
for the Teamsters' presidency.
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01:00:20,384 --> 01:00:24,554
Scott: Frank Sheeran was a high-ranking union official
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01:00:24,554 --> 01:00:26,924
out of Pennsylvania and Delaware,
1476
01:00:26,924 --> 01:00:29,794
as well as a high-ranking mob associate
1477
01:00:29,794 --> 01:00:32,396
that was very close to Russell Bufalino.
1478
01:00:32,396 --> 01:00:35,365
He was Bufalino's bodyguard and driver.
1479
01:00:35,365 --> 01:00:37,334
He was another man that would often act
1480
01:00:37,334 --> 01:00:39,904
as a go-between or a liaison
1481
01:00:39,904 --> 01:00:41,271
between the mob and Hoffa.
1482
01:00:41,271 --> 01:00:43,407
(sinister music)
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01:00:43,407 --> 01:00:47,044
David: They stopped at Port Clinton in Ohio, near Toledo.
1484
01:00:47,044 --> 01:00:50,380
Sheeran gets out, climbs on a small private plane,
1485
01:00:50,380 --> 01:00:51,548
and they fly to Detroit
1486
01:00:51,548 --> 01:00:53,951
and they land at the Pontiac Airport.
1487
01:00:53,951 --> 01:00:57,321
Sheeran gets on a carthat's waiting for him,
1488
01:00:57,321 --> 01:00:59,189
drives to this location,
1489
01:00:59,189 --> 01:01:01,325
picks up a couple of guys,
1490
01:01:01,325 --> 01:01:03,828
goes up to the Machus Red Fox to get Jimmy,
1491
01:01:03,828 --> 01:01:06,630
bring him back, and Sheeran kills him.
1492
01:01:06,630 --> 01:01:10,467
But I had a pilot tell me you can't just fly a private plane
1493
01:01:10,467 --> 01:01:12,602
to Pontiac Airport Metro Airport.
1494
01:01:12,602 --> 01:01:16,206
You got to get around the air traffic area.
1495
01:01:16,206 --> 01:01:19,343
And he found his story to be a little improbable.
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01:01:19,343 --> 01:01:20,978
George: You're going to get somebody like Frank Sheeran
1497
01:01:20,978 --> 01:01:22,780
who also claims to have been involved
1498
01:01:22,780 --> 01:01:24,481
in the murder of Joey Gallo
1499
01:01:24,481 --> 01:01:25,916
and also claims to have provided the guns
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01:01:25,916 --> 01:01:28,052
that were used in the Kennedy assassination.
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01:01:28,052 --> 01:01:30,420
Well, if those things are true,
1502
01:01:30,420 --> 01:01:33,590
this guy sitting under theradar for a very, very long time
1503
01:01:33,590 --> 01:01:34,925
and it's kind ofhard to believe.
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01:01:34,925 --> 01:01:37,061
Dan: They heard that Sheeran was writing a book,
1505
01:01:37,061 --> 01:01:39,864
and they wanted to bringme on as a consultant
1506
01:01:40,297 --> 01:01:41,766
about Sheeran.
1507
01:01:41,799 --> 01:01:43,667
But then that one fell apart
1508
01:01:43,667 --> 01:01:46,636
because they just caughthim in so many lies
1509
01:01:47,137 --> 01:01:50,474
and that apparently, MariaShriver had done the interview.
1510
01:01:50,775 --> 01:01:54,444
Once again, they're going to bring me on as a consultant,
1511
01:01:54,444 --> 01:01:57,347
and once again, Sheeran's lies just cause
1512
01:01:57,347 --> 01:01:59,216
the whole thing to fall apart.
1513
01:01:59,316 --> 01:02:02,519
In 2001, he says Sal Briguglio was the killer.
1514
01:02:02,519 --> 01:02:05,455
Then 2003, when Dateline NBC calls me,
1515
01:02:05,455 --> 01:02:07,591
there was one different thing.
1516
01:02:07,591 --> 01:02:08,993
I said, "What's that?"
1517
01:02:08,993 --> 01:02:11,561
He says, "Sheeran's nowclaiming that he is the killer."
1518
01:02:11,561 --> 01:02:14,264
And I go, like, "He is saying himself
1519
01:02:14,264 --> 01:02:15,933
"that he did the job?"
1520
01:02:15,933 --> 01:02:17,534
And he said, "Yeah."
1521
01:02:17,534 --> 01:02:18,869
He says, "What's more valuable,
1522
01:02:18,869 --> 01:02:20,805
"a book by a guy who was there
1523
01:02:20,805 --> 01:02:23,340
"or a book by a guy who actually pulled the trigger?"
1524
01:02:23,340 --> 01:02:25,609
David: I don't know what motivates a guy
1525
01:02:25,609 --> 01:02:28,512
to make up the story that says he killed Hoffa
1526
01:02:28,512 --> 01:02:29,947
before he died.
1527
01:02:30,014 --> 01:02:33,017
Well, these guys don't think the way the rest of us do.
1528
01:02:33,150 --> 01:02:36,453
I mean Sheeran was mostly concerned about the money
1529
01:02:36,586 --> 01:02:38,655
because he was going todie and he was broke,
1530
01:02:38,655 --> 01:02:40,657
and he needed to leave some money to his family.
1531
01:02:40,657 --> 01:02:42,893
Keith: I never boughtthe Frank Sheeran story.
1532
01:02:42,893 --> 01:02:45,662
I mean if you're the Mafia, all right?
1533
01:02:45,662 --> 01:02:47,164
If you're organized crime
1534
01:02:47,164 --> 01:02:50,167
and you're going to kill a person like Jimmy Hoffa,
1535
01:02:50,167 --> 01:02:51,101
kidnap and kill him,
1536
01:02:51,101 --> 01:02:52,369
why would you bring a guy
1537
01:02:52,369 --> 01:02:54,238
who's not part of your organization,
1538
01:02:54,238 --> 01:02:56,606
who's not subject to therules and discipline,
1539
01:02:56,606 --> 01:02:58,608
who hasn't agreed to what you believe in?
1540
01:02:58,608 --> 01:03:01,045
Why would you bring in somebody from the outside?
1541
01:03:01,045 --> 01:03:04,081
They certainly had more than enough people capable
1542
01:03:04,081 --> 01:03:06,083
and, in the government's opinion,
1543
01:03:06,083 --> 01:03:08,485
more than enough people who murdered people in the past?
1544
01:03:08,485 --> 01:03:12,056
There is no need to go outside and find anybody else.
1545
01:03:12,056 --> 01:03:15,025
Scott: I have a hardtime believing his story
1546
01:03:15,025 --> 01:03:16,693
strictly based on the fact
1547
01:03:16,861 --> 01:03:19,864
where he claims the murder took place.
1548
01:03:19,864 --> 01:03:23,333
He claims it took placeoff 7 Mile in Detroit
1549
01:03:23,333 --> 01:03:25,335
on a street named Beaverland,
1550
01:03:25,335 --> 01:03:28,505
which would be a good 20, 25-minute drive
1551
01:03:28,505 --> 01:03:30,107
from the Machus Red Fox.
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01:03:30,107 --> 01:03:32,943
And it's a house that hecan't source to anybody,
1553
01:03:32,943 --> 01:03:36,013
he can't claim whose house it was
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01:03:36,013 --> 01:03:37,581
or why they took him there.
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01:03:37,581 --> 01:03:39,649
Dan: There was a DNA analysis done
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01:03:39,649 --> 01:03:43,553
on the blood stains found in the entrance to the house.
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01:03:43,553 --> 01:03:46,223
They proved not to be Hoffa,
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01:03:46,223 --> 01:03:47,892
which was really disappointing to a lot of us
1559
01:03:47,892 --> 01:03:49,960
because we really wantedto see this thing done
1560
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:51,395
once and for all.
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01:03:51,395 --> 01:03:53,230
Scott: I personally have a difficult time believing
1562
01:03:53,230 --> 01:03:55,632
that the Mafia would set up the Hoffa hit
1563
01:03:55,632 --> 01:03:58,468
in any place thatwasn't 100% controlled.
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01:03:58,468 --> 01:04:00,404
(sinister music)
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01:04:00,404 --> 01:04:02,239
Richard: He thought hewas speaking to somebody
1566
01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:08,045
who was a large-scale Italian drug importer from Europe
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01:04:08,045 --> 01:04:09,279
who came through Canada.
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01:04:09,279 --> 01:04:13,217
And Tony Palazzolobrought the RCMP officer
1569
01:04:13,217 --> 01:04:15,052
to this sausage factory.
1570
01:04:15,052 --> 01:04:18,455
And as the RCMP officer described it,
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01:04:18,455 --> 01:04:19,924
it was like a
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01:04:19,924 --> 01:04:21,825
organized crime hall of fame.
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01:04:21,825 --> 01:04:25,262
When he walked in, hesaw pictures on the wall
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01:04:25,262 --> 01:04:29,366
of Lucky Luciano, Al Capone.
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01:04:29,366 --> 01:04:30,800
There were crossed shotguns,
1576
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,736
as if they were crossed sabers.
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01:04:32,937 --> 01:04:34,704
During the course of that conversation,
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01:04:34,704 --> 01:04:38,042
which was used at the trial,
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01:04:38,508 --> 01:04:43,013
Tony Palazzolo pointed to the Auger, which was enormous,
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01:04:43,013 --> 01:04:45,815
and he said, "That's where Jimmy Hoffa is,"
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01:04:45,815 --> 01:04:46,716
or was.
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01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:48,752
"That's where we put him."
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01:04:48,752 --> 01:04:54,024
And that is where I believe Jimmy Hoffa went.
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01:04:54,024 --> 01:04:56,360
I think he was ground up, churned up,
1585
01:04:56,360 --> 01:05:00,797
and put in sausage or otherwise.
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01:05:00,797 --> 01:05:03,433
Scott: Tony Palazzolo is definitely known
1587
01:05:03,433 --> 01:05:05,569
as someone that was looked at
1588
01:05:05,569 --> 01:05:08,338
as a possible participant in the Hoffa hit.
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01:05:08,338 --> 01:05:11,375
He is someone that is currently in the 2000s
1590
01:05:11,375 --> 01:05:13,243
a Detroit mob captain
1591
01:05:13,243 --> 01:05:15,212
but at the time of the disappearance
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01:05:15,212 --> 01:05:18,082
was a up-and-coming young buck in the mob
1593
01:05:18,082 --> 01:05:20,384
that had made his name as a bodyguard and driver
1594
01:05:20,384 --> 01:05:22,552
for Peter "Bozzi" Vitale.
1595
01:05:22,552 --> 01:05:24,989
The Vitales are anothergroup of mobsters
1596
01:05:24,989 --> 01:05:27,157
that had a lot of closeties with Jimmy Hoffa
1597
01:05:27,157 --> 01:05:28,758
and the Teamsters.
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01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:30,294
The fact that Tony Palazzolo
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01:05:30,294 --> 01:05:31,595
might have been involved in this
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01:05:31,595 --> 01:05:34,264
is frankly very easy to believe.
1601
01:05:35,865 --> 01:05:39,036
Keith: How did they get Jimmy into a car
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01:05:39,036 --> 01:05:41,005
when he was at the Red Fox
1603
01:05:41,005 --> 01:05:42,706
supposedly meeting Tony Giacalone?
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01:05:42,706 --> 01:05:44,074
If he goes, they seize him.
1605
01:05:44,074 --> 01:05:45,242
Who went to meet him?
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01:05:45,242 --> 01:05:46,810
Who was there to pick him up?
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01:05:46,810 --> 01:05:48,145
And who was there to explain
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01:05:48,145 --> 01:05:50,880
why he couldn't go with Tony Giacalone?
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01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,550
Billy Giacalone, hiswhereabouts on that day
1610
01:05:53,550 --> 01:05:56,486
are certainly not nearly as well known as his brother's.
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01:05:56,486 --> 01:05:58,088
If Billy had said, "Hey, look, Jimmy,
1612
01:05:58,488 --> 01:05:59,589
"Tony can't make it.
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01:05:59,589 --> 01:06:00,390
"He is here or there.
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01:06:00,390 --> 01:06:01,858
"Let's get in the car."
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01:06:02,526 --> 01:06:04,661
Dan: I know Vito Giacalone is in this thing.
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01:06:04,661 --> 01:06:07,331
Vito Giacalone is right in the middle of this whole thing.
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01:06:07,331 --> 01:06:09,533
I just can't figure outexactly where he is.
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01:06:09,533 --> 01:06:11,035
Mike: The State Police have been following
1619
01:06:11,035 --> 01:06:14,038
Billy Giacalone around that week that Hoffa disappeared.
1620
01:06:14,038 --> 01:06:16,673
They went out that morning that Hoffa disappeared
1621
01:06:16,673 --> 01:06:18,242
looking for him, andthey couldn't find him,
1622
01:06:18,242 --> 01:06:19,643
and nobody saw him all day,
1623
01:06:19,643 --> 01:06:22,646
so that tells me that he was probably there
1624
01:06:22,646 --> 01:06:24,781
as the Detroit representative.
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01:06:24,781 --> 01:06:27,717
Scott: I believe, after talking to numerous sources,
1626
01:06:27,717 --> 01:06:30,954
both in the FBI and on the street itself,
1627
01:06:30,954 --> 01:06:33,057
guys that are actually in the mob,
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01:06:33,057 --> 01:06:38,395
I believe that Hoffa was taken less than two miles away
1629
01:06:38,395 --> 01:06:41,331
to the house of Carlo Licata.
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01:06:41,331 --> 01:06:45,902
Licata was a Detroit mobmember, a mob soldier,
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01:06:45,902 --> 01:06:51,308
who was the brother-in-law of Jack and Tony Tocco.
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01:06:51,308 --> 01:06:55,245
Licata's house was lessthan a five-minute drive
1633
01:06:55,245 --> 01:06:57,081
from the Machus Red Fox.
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01:06:57,081 --> 01:07:01,185
Licata's house was also a place that Hoffa had been
1635
01:07:01,185 --> 01:07:04,888
to meet the Giacalones on several occasions before.
1636
01:07:04,888 --> 01:07:07,557
It was a house that wasused as a meeting point.
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01:07:07,557 --> 01:07:11,195
Licata himself was a trusted member of the family,
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01:07:11,195 --> 01:07:13,363
related to the administration,
1639
01:07:13,363 --> 01:07:16,966
as well as the house was almost a perfect location
1640
01:07:16,966 --> 01:07:20,137
in the sense that it was back on a hill,
1641
01:07:20,137 --> 01:07:21,705
removed from the road.
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01:07:21,705 --> 01:07:23,607
Greg: We think that he probably went to
1643
01:07:23,607 --> 01:07:26,510
Licata's house that wasn't too far.
1644
01:07:26,510 --> 01:07:28,712
Mike: I think they got him in a house,
1645
01:07:28,712 --> 01:07:30,614
and I think Billy Giacalone was probably there.
1646
01:07:30,614 --> 01:07:33,750
I think somebody like Andrettas, Briguglio,
1647
01:07:33,750 --> 01:07:35,119
somebody like that was there,
1648
01:07:35,119 --> 01:07:36,520
and he was killed,
1649
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:40,190
and then he was taken and disposed of pretty quickly.
1650
01:07:40,190 --> 01:07:42,326
Greg: We think that theydisposed of the body
1651
01:07:42,326 --> 01:07:44,461
by taking it to the sanitation place
1652
01:07:44,461 --> 01:07:47,397
where they had contacts.
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01:07:47,397 --> 01:07:51,701
Scott: I'm convinced that within a half hour to a hour
1654
01:07:51,701 --> 01:07:53,603
of Hoffa breathing his last breath
1655
01:07:53,603 --> 01:07:55,339
that he was incinerated,
1656
01:07:55,339 --> 01:07:58,007
that the body ceases to exist,
1657
01:07:58,007 --> 01:08:02,512
and the ability to get rid of the body
1658
01:08:02,512 --> 01:08:06,283
was incredible with the Detroit mob
1659
01:08:06,283 --> 01:08:08,185
in the sense that they had three separate
1660
01:08:08,185 --> 01:08:12,222
sanitation companies allowned by mob members,
1661
01:08:12,222 --> 01:08:16,393
and the one that everyone looks at primarily,
1662
01:08:16,393 --> 01:08:17,794
Central Sanitation,
1663
01:08:17,794 --> 01:08:19,596
was owned by Jimmy Quasarano,
1664
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:20,764
(camera flash)
1665
01:08:20,764 --> 01:08:22,031
Paul and Peter Vitale,
1666
01:08:22,031 --> 01:08:23,400
and Carlo Licata.
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01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:24,601
Keith: There are a number of people that think
1668
01:08:24,601 --> 01:08:26,436
Central Sanitation, the facility,
1669
01:08:26,436 --> 01:08:29,439
played a role in the disappearance of the body
1670
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,341
of James Hoffa,
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01:08:31,341 --> 01:08:33,443
and clearly, Quasarano and Vitale
1672
01:08:33,443 --> 01:08:34,878
would have been people,
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01:08:34,878 --> 01:08:37,214
because of their equity interest in that company,
1674
01:08:37,214 --> 01:08:38,382
who would have,
1675
01:08:38,382 --> 01:08:40,684
had to be involved in the decision.
1676
01:08:40,684 --> 01:08:45,822
And remember, shortly after the events took place,
1677
01:08:45,822 --> 01:08:48,024
Central Sanitation burned to the ground.
1678
01:08:48,024 --> 01:08:49,193
Scott: And what I believe
1679
01:08:49,193 --> 01:08:50,860
really puts the theory over the edge
1680
01:08:50,860 --> 01:08:53,062
is that on the sixth-year anniversary
1681
01:08:53,062 --> 01:08:54,464
of Hoffa's disappearance,
1682
01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:57,501
on July 30th, 1981,
1683
01:08:57,501 --> 01:09:02,005
Carlo Licata himself ended up dead at that house
1684
01:09:02,005 --> 01:09:05,209
of two gunshot wounds to the chest.
1685
01:09:05,209 --> 01:09:06,210
(gunshot)
1686
01:09:06,210 --> 01:09:08,412
It was ruled a suicide,
1687
01:09:08,412 --> 01:09:09,746
but there are a lot of people,
1688
01:09:09,746 --> 01:09:12,382
both on the street and in law enforcement,
1689
01:09:12,382 --> 01:09:14,284
that believe this wasanything but a suicide,
1690
01:09:14,284 --> 01:09:16,019
that this was a message.
1691
01:09:16,019 --> 01:09:21,225
Keith: And obviously, Mr. Licata met his demise in that
1692
01:09:21,225 --> 01:09:25,462
whether it's generally considered to be a pedestrian manner.
1693
01:09:25,962 --> 01:09:28,965
Scott: Anyone that would even consider giving information
1694
01:09:28,965 --> 01:09:33,102
about the Hoffa hit, no matter how close they are
1695
01:09:33,102 --> 01:09:35,004
to the leaders of the mob,
1696
01:09:35,004 --> 01:09:37,407
they will be sacrificed.
1697
01:09:37,407 --> 01:09:39,509
(sinister music)
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01:09:42,412 --> 01:09:44,348
Voiceover: The report names Carlos Marcello
1699
01:09:44,348 --> 01:09:45,682
and Santo Trafficante
1700
01:09:45,682 --> 01:09:48,252
as the most likely organized crime bosses
1701
01:09:48,252 --> 01:09:49,586
to have been involved.
1702
01:09:49,586 --> 01:09:52,256
It provides evidence,some of it inconclusive,
1703
01:09:52,256 --> 01:09:55,158
that they and Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa
1704
01:09:55,158 --> 01:09:58,495
threatened John Kennedy,Robert Kennedy, or both.
1705
01:09:58,495 --> 01:10:01,064
Further, it suggests associations through which
1706
01:10:01,064 --> 01:10:03,500
they could have influenced accused assassin,
1707
01:10:03,500 --> 01:10:04,868
Lee Harvey Oswald,
1708
01:10:04,868 --> 01:10:07,203
or Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby.
1709
01:10:07,203 --> 01:10:10,173
Teamster boss Hoffathreatened John Kennedy,
1710
01:10:10,173 --> 01:10:11,808
Robert Kennedy, or both.
1711
01:10:11,808 --> 01:10:15,211
The committee documents still unexplained phone contacts
1712
01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:17,013
between Hoffa aides and Ruby
1713
01:10:17,013 --> 01:10:19,048
within a month of the assassination
1714
01:10:19,048 --> 01:10:21,851
and says Hoffa had the motive, opportunity, and means
1715
01:10:21,851 --> 01:10:23,453
to plan the murder.
1716
01:10:23,453 --> 01:10:24,954
Richard: Now prior to that,
1717
01:10:24,954 --> 01:10:27,891
there were two witnesses who were also subpoenaed to appear
1718
01:10:27,891 --> 01:10:29,593
before the Church Committee,
1719
01:10:29,593 --> 01:10:32,462
Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana,
1720
01:10:32,462 --> 01:10:36,400
and both of whom were executed
1721
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:38,602
prior to their testimony.
1722
01:10:38,602 --> 01:10:42,506
So there is speculation that Jimmy Hoffa would have gone
1723
01:10:42,506 --> 01:10:44,541
to that committee and would have testified,
1724
01:10:44,541 --> 01:10:46,276
at least in part truthfully.
1725
01:10:46,376 --> 01:10:47,544
It's certainly clear
1726
01:10:47,544 --> 01:10:49,746
that those threemurders were connected.
1727
01:10:49,746 --> 01:10:51,581
Dan: The CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro
1728
01:10:51,581 --> 01:10:55,151
really weren't knownuntil many years later,
1729
01:10:55,151 --> 01:10:57,821
when Johny Roselli started talking,
1730
01:10:57,821 --> 01:11:00,524
and then the Church Committee had their hearings,
1731
01:11:00,524 --> 01:11:05,094
and it was understood that Jimmy Hoffa was cooperating
1732
01:11:05,094 --> 01:11:06,530
with the Church Committee.
1733
01:11:06,530 --> 01:11:10,166
Richard: I think thatthat was the culmination
1734
01:11:10,166 --> 01:11:13,537
and the concern of the people or person
1735
01:11:13,537 --> 01:11:15,739
who ended Jimmy Hoffa's life,
1736
01:11:15,739 --> 01:11:17,907
that before that committee,
1737
01:11:17,907 --> 01:11:20,510
Jimmy Hoffa was going to say something
1738
01:11:20,510 --> 01:11:22,679
that nobody wanted him to say.
1739
01:11:22,679 --> 01:11:26,950
(sinister music)
1740
01:11:26,950 --> 01:11:28,752
Keith: By 1990, I became the chief
1741
01:11:28,752 --> 01:11:31,755
of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section,
1742
01:11:31,755 --> 01:11:34,424
and it was my unit that was charged
1743
01:11:34,424 --> 01:11:37,026
with investigating the Hoffa disappearance.
1744
01:11:37,026 --> 01:11:39,363
You would hear stories of guys who claim they were
1745
01:11:39,363 --> 01:11:42,732
asked to dispose of a car or bring a package here
1746
01:11:42,732 --> 01:11:44,368
or bring a box here,
1747
01:11:44,368 --> 01:11:48,004
and the Bureau correctly assiduously pursued all of those,
1748
01:11:48,004 --> 01:11:49,539
but I never believed that.
1749
01:11:49,539 --> 01:11:51,608
I think that these guys knew
1750
01:11:51,608 --> 01:11:53,943
that they had to keep this operation
1751
01:11:53,943 --> 01:11:56,380
to members of their own organization,
1752
01:11:56,380 --> 01:11:58,181
keep the number of people involved
1753
01:11:58,181 --> 01:12:01,385
in any substantive way as small as possible.
1754
01:12:01,385 --> 01:12:03,453
Richard: Every time a wise guy was picked up
1755
01:12:03,453 --> 01:12:05,822
or every time a case was indicted,
1756
01:12:05,822 --> 01:12:09,225
if it was traditional La Cosa Nostra,
1757
01:12:09,959 --> 01:12:11,628
people would be asked about it,
1758
01:12:11,628 --> 01:12:14,998
then they would inherently give the same answer,
1759
01:12:15,399 --> 01:12:16,866
which was nothing.
1760
01:12:17,266 --> 01:12:19,168
Keith: I would say the one that we became
1761
01:12:19,168 --> 01:12:21,638
most excited about and ultimately turned out
1762
01:12:21,638 --> 01:12:23,206
not particularly beneficial
1763
01:12:23,206 --> 01:12:26,576
was the DNA evidenceon the hair sample and-
1764
01:12:26,576 --> 01:12:27,977
Greg: Analysis was done,
1765
01:12:27,977 --> 01:12:31,147
hair or more than one hair was found in the car
1766
01:12:31,147 --> 01:12:33,517
in the passenger compartment of the car
1767
01:12:33,517 --> 01:12:37,921
that indicated that Hoffa had been in that car.
1768
01:12:37,921 --> 01:12:39,656
We had hair fromhis hairbrushes,
1769
01:12:39,656 --> 01:12:42,626
and he said categorically unequivocally
1770
01:12:42,626 --> 01:12:45,795
that that dog had put Hoffa,
1771
01:12:45,795 --> 01:12:49,466
Hoffa's scent in the trunk of that,
1772
01:12:49,466 --> 01:12:51,735
of Joey Giacalone's Mercury.
1773
01:12:51,735 --> 01:12:53,670
That gives you the ideathat he was transported
1774
01:12:53,670 --> 01:12:56,606
wherever he was killed in the passenger compartment,
1775
01:12:56,606 --> 01:12:57,974
and for whatever reason,
1776
01:12:57,974 --> 01:12:59,543
when he was transportedsomewhere else,
1777
01:12:59,543 --> 01:13:00,810
he was in the trunk.
1778
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:02,446
David: Hoffa had been in that car.
1779
01:13:02,446 --> 01:13:06,349
But the question is was he in the car the day that he died
1780
01:13:06,349 --> 01:13:07,350
or the day that he disappeared?
1781
01:13:07,350 --> 01:13:08,985
Who knows?
1782
01:13:09,052 --> 01:13:11,755
Voiceover: In 2003, investigators dug under a swimming pool
1783
01:13:11,755 --> 01:13:13,222
in Northern Michigan.
1784
01:13:13,222 --> 01:13:16,493
In 2004, they ripped up thefloorboards of a Detroit house.
1785
01:13:16,493 --> 01:13:18,462
Carol: Just where is Jimmy Hoffa?
1786
01:13:18,462 --> 01:13:19,829
And that question hasn't been answered
1787
01:13:19,829 --> 01:13:22,766
since the Teamsters boss disappeared three decades ago.
1788
01:13:22,766 --> 01:13:26,202
But this week, the FBI showed up at a Michigan horse farm
1789
01:13:26,202 --> 01:13:27,504
and started digging.
1790
01:13:27,504 --> 01:13:29,038
Dan: And I jumped out of my seat
1791
01:13:29,038 --> 01:13:31,508
and I did a quadruple fist pump,
1792
01:13:31,508 --> 01:13:36,913
hoping that it was thefarm I wanted it to be.
1793
01:13:36,913 --> 01:13:38,715
And slowly but surely,
1794
01:13:38,715 --> 01:13:39,883
the information came out,
1795
01:13:39,883 --> 01:13:42,552
and it was Rolland McMaster's farm.
1796
01:13:42,719 --> 01:13:45,188
They tore down the barn.
1797
01:13:45,188 --> 01:13:47,624
They had to rebuildthe barn, public money,
1798
01:13:47,624 --> 01:13:48,992
controversy.
1799
01:13:48,992 --> 01:13:51,027
The congressman out there raised hell,
1800
01:13:51,495 --> 01:13:53,329
and the dig stopped.
1801
01:13:53,329 --> 01:13:55,031
But the FBI said,
1802
01:13:55,031 --> 01:13:58,034
their last statement tothe New York Times was,
1803
01:13:58,034 --> 01:14:03,306
"We believe that Hoffa'sbody is buried here
1804
01:14:03,306 --> 01:14:05,174
"and that it has not been moved,
1805
01:14:05,174 --> 01:14:06,976
"and we may return to this place."
1806
01:14:06,976 --> 01:14:08,912
Mike: You're always going to have some boss somewhere
1807
01:14:08,912 --> 01:14:10,747
that wants to make his or her career
1808
01:14:10,747 --> 01:14:12,516
on the fact that they were the one who was in charge
1809
01:14:12,516 --> 01:14:13,983
when they found Jimmy Hoffa.
1810
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Bob: My name is Bob Foley.
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I'm with the FBI's Detroit Division.
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With me here, I've got Mike Bouchard,
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Oakland County Sheriff,
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and Geof Gaudard
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with the Bloomfield Township Police Department.
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The FBI and our partnersare here this morning
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to execute a search warrant
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based on information that we have
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involving the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
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Keith: There's really stories that
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01:14:39,543 --> 01:14:42,211
he heard this story from Tony Giacalone.
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Tony: Mr. Hoffa was picked up
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and taken and buried alive.
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[crosstalk]
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Voiceover: Anthony Zerilli gave the information
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claiming that the property that Hoffa was put on
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at the time was owned by Jack Tocco,
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his cousin and the convicted mob godfather of Detroit.
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Keith: Looking for money,
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he's had some financial reversals.
1831
01:15:03,933 --> 01:15:06,402
He's looking for money,trying to write a book,
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trying to get somebody to pay him some money.
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Richard: Who has a Twitter account,
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who has a website and Facebook,
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and a website that says HoffaFound.com,
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writing a book,
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01:15:17,581 --> 01:15:19,583
who's supposedly going to disclose
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where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
1839
01:15:21,384 --> 01:15:22,786
It's a kind of behaviorthat would make
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01:15:22,786 --> 01:15:25,388
Lucky Luciano spin in his grave.
1841
01:15:25,388 --> 01:15:27,256
And that's what traditional organized crime
1842
01:15:27,256 --> 01:15:30,393
has come to here, at least here in Detroit.
1843
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Scott: To me, it is agiant wild goose chase.
1844
01:15:33,262 --> 01:15:36,199
The fact that there arepeople running around
1845
01:15:36,199 --> 01:15:39,102
trying to find a body is ludicrous.
1846
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Richard: Solving that crime, very improbable at best.
1847
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Mike: I think it would be nice, but it's not essential.
1848
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I think there's other more important things
1849
01:15:46,676 --> 01:15:48,344
the Bureau is involved in nowadays
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01:15:48,344 --> 01:15:50,614
than solving Jimmy Hoffa's murder
1851
01:15:50,614 --> 01:15:54,417
Dan: This does not happen in America.
1852
01:15:54,618 --> 01:15:56,986
This murder must be solved.
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01:15:56,986 --> 01:15:58,421
Keith: I don't know any case
1854
01:15:58,421 --> 01:16:00,289
in the history of the federal government
1855
01:16:00,289 --> 01:16:02,025
criminal investigation
1856
01:16:02,025 --> 01:16:03,459
that has been looked at
1857
01:16:03,459 --> 01:16:06,195
as many different ways and as many different times.
1858
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George: There's no easyanswer to any of this,
1859
01:16:08,297 --> 01:16:10,299
and I don't think we'reever going to know.
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01:16:10,634 --> 01:16:12,435
(sinister music)
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01:16:12,435 --> 01:16:14,704
(rewinding tape)
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01:16:14,704 --> 01:16:15,672
(gunshot)
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01:16:15,739 --> 01:16:17,173
(light music)
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01:16:17,173 --> 01:16:18,541
Dr. Russell: Yeah, I think both the champions of Hoffa
1865
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and his detractors are wrong.
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01:16:20,209 --> 01:16:21,778
His champions think
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that he was this great, wonderful, crusading union leader
1868
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who cared about the working class and his rank and file.
1869
01:16:27,751 --> 01:16:29,686
I don't see any evidence for that.
1870
01:16:29,886 --> 01:16:33,556
His detractors see him as this immoral satanic figure
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who was willing to sell out his members for anything.
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01:16:37,326 --> 01:16:39,996
Hoffa was simply a product of his times.
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Hoffa was militant because he had to be.
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Hoffa was able to be militant because he could be.
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01:16:47,236 --> 01:16:49,438
Hoffa was simply interested
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in advancing himself and his career
1877
01:16:52,141 --> 01:16:54,010
and enlarging his power within the union
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01:16:54,010 --> 01:16:55,278
and the labor movement.
1879
01:16:55,278 --> 01:16:56,713
He had no other motives.
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01:16:56,713 --> 01:16:58,147
He was a product of his times,
1881
01:16:58,147 --> 01:17:00,884
and that explains why he was who he was.
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Al: Jimmy Hoffa hadoutlived his usefulness,
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and he knew too much,
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so it was just easier to kill him.
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He had played a very complex game
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01:17:09,425 --> 01:17:10,593
for a long time,
1887
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and eventually, he overplayed his hand,
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and that was it.
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Dr. Buccellato: Was he a true believer?
1890
01:17:15,598 --> 01:17:17,300
Because I think early on,
1891
01:17:17,300 --> 01:17:19,068
he was a true believer in terms of
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01:17:20,937 --> 01:17:22,105
workers' rights.
1893
01:17:22,706 --> 01:17:25,041
It becomes difficult for him to detach
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(slow piano music)
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from these partnerships that he formed with the underworld.
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01:17:30,714 --> 01:17:31,981
People are coming after him
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01:17:31,981 --> 01:17:34,417
within his own labor movement.
1898
01:17:34,417 --> 01:17:36,552
The feds are coming after him.
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01:17:36,552 --> 01:17:38,454
I think that's a nice way of thinking about it,
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is Shakespearean tragedy.
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How do you navigate through these complicated
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moral questions?
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Al: If it wasn't for Jimmy Hoffa and others like him
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to fight on behalf of workers,
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there wouldn't have beenthat huge middle class
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01:17:53,737 --> 01:17:55,805
that girded the countryduring the so-called
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golden age of the '50s and '60s.
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He had to get his hands dirty to do it,
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01:18:00,810 --> 01:18:04,047
and he loved the power and the perks that came with it,
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but so do politicians like the Kennedys,
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and so do the so-called captainsof industry who he battled.
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He didn't go to an Ivy League college,
1913
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he wasn't born with connections,
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01:18:14,023 --> 01:18:16,760
but he became one of the most powerful men in the country,
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01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:18,194
one of the most loved men
1916
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and one of the most hated.
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(dramatic music)
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They don't make men likeJimmy Hoffa anymore,
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at least not in America.
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(sinister music)
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(soft music)
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Man in glasses: I believe the Teamsters
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01:18:46,890 --> 01:18:51,795
are never going to take anything away
1924
01:18:51,795 --> 01:18:53,863
from their dedication to Mr. Hoffa
1925
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because he happens to be the person
1926
01:18:55,264 --> 01:18:57,200
that they knew and respected
1927
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,435
for a great number of years.
1928
01:18:59,602 --> 01:19:01,204
I think they're all going to be delighted
1929
01:19:01,204 --> 01:19:03,139
over the fact that he's home.
1930
01:19:03,572 --> 01:19:05,875
I've had the associationof knowing Mr. Hoffa
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01:19:05,875 --> 01:19:08,044
since he was a young man of 17
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and I was a youth of 18,
1933
01:19:10,279 --> 01:19:12,481
and I hope that thefact that I'm a Teamster
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01:19:12,481 --> 01:19:13,649
is not going to deny me the right
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to be able to say hello to him.
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(soft music)
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