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Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance is one of the great crimes of the century. Despite a massive Federal investigation spanning 4 decades and hundreds of suspects, only the general contours of the crime are known. In the American mythology Hoffa is both hero and villain; a self-made man who ran the nation's largest union and was so beloved by the rank and file Teamsters he represented that they supported him as union president even as he served time in prison. Hoffa's name is synonymous with corruption thanks to Bobby Kennedy's campaign against him, but the truth is much more complex. Hoffa's glory years coincided with the golden age of the Union movement and the American economy; he also was enmeshed in the Machiavellian world of organized crime. "Killing Jimmy Hoffa" tells the whole story for the first time, using exclusive interviews, never before seen news footage and photographs, and revealing the real story of the day he died.
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00:00The most prominent labor leader in America just disappears and nobody saw anything.
00:07Jimmy Hoffa is a Robin Hood. He may have to get his hands dirty.
00:11Jimmy Hoffa was an enemy of orthodox society. Jimmy Hoffa was a person who had to be stopped.
00:17The most fascinating mystery in the criminal annals of America.
00:21The Shakespearean tragedy.
00:23Without a guy like Hoffa to fight the system for higher wages, there is no American dream.
00:31The hatred between Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa was of mythical proportion.
00:37He was under attack by the Kennedys, squeezed by the mafia, stabbed in the back by his own teamster brothers.
00:44And then he disappeared.
00:47Hoffa is seen getting into this car and the car is seen driving away, never to be seen again.
00:53The FBI today admitted it still has no new lead on Hoffa's whereabouts.
00:57The Hoffa family has offered a large chunk of money to help find him.
01:00More than 200 FBI agents are involved in the search for Hoffa.
01:03They knew who was going to do it, they knew how they were going to kill him, and they knew where they were going to dispose of the body.
01:09Hoffa stuffed into a 55-gallon jar.
01:11He was ground up, churned up, put in sausage.
01:14There will be a major announcement concerning the Hoffa case.
01:19That the murder of John Kennedy is a straight mob hit.
01:22Hoffa had the motive, opportunity, and means to plan the murder.
01:28Teddy Oswald has been shot.
01:29Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante arrange and execute the murder.
01:35Hoffa was actually a full-fledged informant by the end.
01:38Jimmy Hoffa was going to say something that nobody wanted him to say.
01:44In 2003, investigators dug under a swimming pool in northern Michigan.
01:48In 2004, they ripped up the floorboards of a Detroit house.
01:52This does not happen in America.
01:56This murder must be solved.
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