AF Steve Kopesky and Ted Rubinstein on Jimmy Hoffa - Part 3

Steve Kopesky and Ted Rubinstein on Jimmy Hoffa - Part 3

James Riddle Hoffa was an American labor union leader who
served as the president of the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971. He is notorious for his
alleged ties to organized crime and for his disappearance
under mysterious circumstances in 1975.From an early age, Hoffa was
a union activist: he became an important regional figure with the
IBT by his mid-20s. By 1952, he was the national vice-president of
the IBT and between 1957 and 1971 he was its general president.
Hoffa secured the first national agreement for teamsters' rates in
1964 with the National Master Freight Agreement. He played a major
role in the growth and the development of the union, which
eventually became the largest by membership in the United States,
with over 2.3 million members at its peak, during his terms as its
leader.Hoffa became involved with organized crime from the early
years of his Teamsters work, a connection that continued until his
disappearance. He was convicted of jury tampering, attempted
bribery, conspiracy, along with mail and wire fraud in
1964 in two separate trials. He was imprisoned in 1967 and
sentenced to 13 years.








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