Jimmy Hoffa Research Paper
Cheryl Cavin
Professor Kelly Daubek
English 111-48A
30 November 2014
Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
America’s biggest missing person case is probably the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa. For decades, investigators have spent great effort, time and money to find the answer to the question, “What happened and where is Jimmy Hoffa?”
It was Wednesday afternoon, July 30, 1975, a hot and muggy 92° summer day, outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa, age 62, was impatient and surveying the parking lot, keeping an eye out for the men he was supposed to meet for lunch at 2:00 pm. Wearing a dark blue short-sleeve shirt, blue pants, white socks and black Gucci loafers he walked to the nearby hardware …show more content…
When the car was located, O’Brien’s fingerprints were recovered from items in the automobile. The investigators believed that Hoffa would have been comfortable with O’Brien to get into the car. O’Brien claimed that he had not seen Hoffa on July 30 and gave investigators an account of his whereabouts. O’Brien’s story could not be corroborated by the investigators (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone claimed to know nothing about a scheduled meeting to take place with Hoffa on July 30, 1975. Both were able to provide witnesses and iron clad alibis to their whereabouts that day, with Provenzano being in New Jersey and Giacalone at the Southfield Athletic Club (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Eight days after Hoffa’s disappearance, and with the Federal Bureau of Investigations now involved, specially trained scent dogs were flown in and given a pair of shorts and moccasins Hoffa wore the day before he disappeared. The dogs picked up Hoffa’s scent in the back seat and the trunk of Joe Giacalone’s maroon Mercury. In March 2001, 26 years later a DNA match was made between a hair found in the car and a hair taken from Hoffa’s hair brush (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ …show more content…
The Toronto Sun, 30 July 2014. Web. 31 Sept. 2014. <http://blogs.canoe.ca/parker/news/the-day-jimmy-hoffa-disappeared/>. The Dissappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. University of Florida, n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2014. <http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall05/slewis/index.html>.
"Document: 'Hoffex Memo, ' official FBI report on Jimmy Hoffa disappearance." San Jose Mercury News. Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21647886/document-hoffex-memo-official-fbi-report-jimmy-hoffa>. The Hoffa Files: The Missing Body of Jimmy Hoffa. 8newsnow.com, 16 Nov. 2006. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. <http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5689300/the-hoffa-files-the-missing-body-of-jimmy-hoffa>.
"Hot Hoffa Hunt - Blood Clue Leads DA to Tear up Detroit Home." New York Post [New York, NY] 29 May 2004: n. pag. Print. James Riddle Hoffa. The Biography.com, 2014. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-hoffa-9341063>.
Kalikow, Lisa, prod. "Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?" Hosted by Tukufu Zuberi, Kaiama Glover, and Wes Cowan. Episode #4. History Detectives Special Investigations. PBS. WTTW, Chicago. Television. Missing Persons - Jimmy Hoffa. Foxnews.com, 30 July 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.
Professor Kelly Daubek
English 111-48A
30 November 2014
Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
America’s biggest missing person case is probably the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa. For decades, investigators have spent great effort, time and money to find the answer to the question, “What happened and where is Jimmy Hoffa?”
It was Wednesday afternoon, July 30, 1975, a hot and muggy 92° summer day, outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa, age 62, was impatient and surveying the parking lot, keeping an eye out for the men he was supposed to meet for lunch at 2:00 pm. Wearing a dark blue short-sleeve shirt, blue pants, white socks and black Gucci loafers he walked to the nearby hardware …show more content…
When the car was located, O’Brien’s fingerprints were recovered from items in the automobile. The investigators believed that Hoffa would have been comfortable with O’Brien to get into the car. O’Brien claimed that he had not seen Hoffa on July 30 and gave investigators an account of his whereabouts. O’Brien’s story could not be corroborated by the investigators (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone claimed to know nothing about a scheduled meeting to take place with Hoffa on July 30, 1975. Both were able to provide witnesses and iron clad alibis to their whereabouts that day, with Provenzano being in New Jersey and Giacalone at the Southfield Athletic Club (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Eight days after Hoffa’s disappearance, and with the Federal Bureau of Investigations now involved, specially trained scent dogs were flown in and given a pair of shorts and moccasins Hoffa wore the day before he disappeared. The dogs picked up Hoffa’s scent in the back seat and the trunk of Joe Giacalone’s maroon Mercury. In March 2001, 26 years later a DNA match was made between a hair found in the car and a hair taken from Hoffa’s hair brush (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ …show more content…
The Toronto Sun, 30 July 2014. Web. 31 Sept. 2014. <http://blogs.canoe.ca/parker/news/the-day-jimmy-hoffa-disappeared/>. The Dissappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. University of Florida, n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2014. <http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall05/slewis/index.html>.
"Document: 'Hoffex Memo, ' official FBI report on Jimmy Hoffa disappearance." San Jose Mercury News. Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21647886/document-hoffex-memo-official-fbi-report-jimmy-hoffa>. The Hoffa Files: The Missing Body of Jimmy Hoffa. 8newsnow.com, 16 Nov. 2006. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. <http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5689300/the-hoffa-files-the-missing-body-of-jimmy-hoffa>.
"Hot Hoffa Hunt - Blood Clue Leads DA to Tear up Detroit Home." New York Post [New York, NY] 29 May 2004: n. pag. Print. James Riddle Hoffa. The Biography.com, 2014. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-hoffa-9341063>.
Kalikow, Lisa, prod. "Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?" Hosted by Tukufu Zuberi, Kaiama Glover, and Wes Cowan. Episode #4. History Detectives Special Investigations. PBS. WTTW, Chicago. Television. Missing Persons - Jimmy Hoffa. Foxnews.com, 30 July 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.