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Article: Hoffa Jr. and his lion king. (professional and personal motivation of Teamsters president James P. Hoffa)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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No one could know, back then, whether the next call might be the real thing, so Jim Hoffa took them all. His father's body was in a swamp north of Detroit, said one caller. No, it was buried in the Florida Everglades, said another. No, his father was being held in a California poker club. No, he was actually free and living in Canada. Day after day, the son sat by the phone at his desk in Detroit, under the big color portrait of his dad, James R. Hoffa, the Teamsters Union president who disappeared July 30, 1975, in a presumed mob hit. One by one, the FBI confirmed each call as a hoax, and Jim Hoffa slipped into despair and anger. Without a body, a funeral, a burial, the ...