What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?

On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa waited in the parking lot of a restaurant outside Detroit for a meeting with two mobsters. They never showed. He called his wife from a pay phone — and was never seen again. In this episode, we trace Hoffa's rise from Detroit warehouse worker to the most powerful labor leader in America, his feud with Robert Kennedy, his prison sentence and Nixon's commutation, and his doomed attempt to take back the Teamsters. Then we look at the evidence, the theories, and the fifty years of digging that have never turned up a body.

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