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🗓️ 13 November 2019
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0:00.0 | Here's a special report from news for investigators are searching a 40 acre field in Oakland County's |
0:06.5 | Watford Township for what could be the body of missing Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa. When I tell people I'm working on a podcast about Jimmy Hoffa, |
0:20.0 | they ask me if we found the body. |
0:22.0 | No, we haven't. |
0:24.0 | We did not uncover any evidence relevant to the investigation on James Hoffa. |
0:31.0 | If you're from Michigan, it's almost a rite of passage every summer that there's some |
0:34.9 | dig going on somewhere in the state. But after two weeks of digging they come up |
0:39.7 | with nothing. You just grow up with it. |
0:43.0 | Oh yeah, they're digging for Jimmy Hoffa today. |
0:45.0 | What's new? |
0:47.0 | The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa |
0:50.0 | is one of the most iconic unsolved crimes in American history. |
0:54.0 | But Hoffa's story is more than a murder mystery. |
0:57.0 | It's more than a who-donic. |
0:58.0 | It's the story of a man who was willing to mortgage everything for power and control. |
1:03.0 | He was short, aggressive, pugnacious, |
1:06.0 | wouldn't back down from anybody, |
1:08.0 | was willing to do whatever he thought he had to do |
1:10.0 | to increase his own power, and to a large extent to benefit the members of the union, but he was not unwilling to sit down with the devil. |
1:21.0 | Once you start digging into Hoffa, you find yourself in a rabbit hole of dark tunnels. |
1:26.5 | You look at the Teamsters Union and end up in a Senate hearing led by Bobby Kennedy. |
1:31.6 | Do you have any evidence of the $20,000 in cash that you put into the business? |
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