On this day in 1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappears

I recall the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa as related on the news. However, the news is always painfully unaware of the facts behind what they broadcast or print and lately they've taken to making up their own material in an effort to sway the opinion of the massess ...

This was a particularly dark time in my existence with me attempting to find my way through those myriad mistakes that layed waste to my life and it was a long and hard journey which persisted well after the memories of Hoffa's murder faded in my memory.

In what was a personal tragedy for his family, Jimmy Hoffa, activist and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971 disappeared from the face of the earth never to be seen again.

The speculation was much and varied with the general consensus in the end that he was killed by his competition for the leadership of the union. This whack went down in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, near Detroit, at around 2:30 pm.

The saddest part of the entire mess was that lack of sympathy for the man I felt radiated from those discussing the matter. I suppose this was the beginning of people losing their humanity and empathy for their fellows and though Hoffa might well have deserved what he got in the eyes of many; still he paid a tough price for his political inclinations.

He disappeared on July 30, 1975 and believed to have been murdered by the Mafia. He was declared legally dead in 1982. That which he was and how he ended have been and remain matters of protracted debate.