Alt Left Mr. Hoffa deserves to be home it's been decades Lord please bring him home for closure something has to be out there to find his wallet , something!! I honestly believe no matter what Mr. Hoffa was a giver for the poor he knew what hunger was and for someone who was uneducated because he needed to help his mother feed his siblings that never left his heart ! Once President Nixon pardoned Mr. Hoffa with the stipulation that he could not go back to the team since presidency for nine years after he been released Hoffa wasn't having it! Welll, that help sign Mr. Hoffa's death certificate people can let the Mob take the fall but, so many enemies had been within Mr. Hoffa's path including our judicial system - those days were the beginnings of finally buying your way to the best of the best look how this Country of ours has fallen completely on deaf ears ! I'm hoping each day that when reach my day to leave this earth that it's before the Big Bang - it's coming Lord Bless you & yours Happy Holidays to you & yours as well ...
@@RisvoldTheGreat I'm glad you have a good union, you should tell your story more, because people are so misled. It's just unions are either non-existent now for the most part, or they aren't as good. Jimmy was the best. Just look at wages, benefits and compare them to the lack of improvement of today.
This interview could have been destroyed like so many interviews where the interviewer feels the need to dominate the conversation by asking a billion questions. Cavett said little and let Hoffa talk. Well done. Very interesting.
I agree with both quotes and I also would like to add that people were more refined and knew how to have conversations regardless if they were fantastic TV talk show interviewer... it's all taken for granted now. Dick Cavett was presenting somebody in a clear well-spoken manner.
Too many interviewers want to remind people that they are (so they think) the star of the show, or they are trained to control the elements of the conversation so that a guest cannot leak out unauthorized things...
The media is the most powerful entity is the world. It has the power to make guilty men innocent and innocent men guilty and that’s powerful to control the minds of the masses. --- Malcom X
You're welcome! I think it's the best way to learn about real everyday history. Lots of other guys like Hoffa on this channel. They all have one thing in common - I'll let you guess :) Biographies, too, to a lesser extent. I highly recommend his autobiography available on archive.org
@@susanb2015 Come on, if you seen somebody walking down the street with Dick Cavett's exact hair cut from this year, you would definitely do a double take lol.
@@martytdd1606 Ten years ago maybe. I was born in the late 60s and I loved it when hair and clothes changed in the early 80s. I used to make fun of Everything 70s. But then at the end of the 90s men's cool hairstyles started to get short and music was almost totally dead. Then everything got worse the next decades until I can't stand men's and women's Ugly hairstyles and clothes. Now I love and miss the 70s and I only listen to old music and I watch mostly old TV shows especially 70s. I miss the 80s fashions but I'll take the 70s over today and I don't think his hair is ugly anymore. And I don't make fun of the 70s anymore. It was a wonderful time compared to now.
Hoffa did what he had to do for the working man… We've lost that now. Companies dictate our rights and treatments, and governments are submissive to companies. Hoffa corrupt or not he was the people's champ in many ways. He understood men better than our politicians.
You have it wrong. The government isn't submissive to anything or anyone. They fought the Mafia so they could become it. Now they are and run most aspects of our lives - and they want more. Half of America in their mentally sleeping state are voting for them to do so.
@ Dan bullshit. corporatism has been running rampant since Reagan. Amazon, Facebook, wal-mart, Microsoft in the 90s. Those corporations can and have found cheap labor elsewhere. Rothschild was a banker he once said “Give me control of a nations money and I care not who makes the laws”
@@captainobvious5993 yes like his "adopted son" Chucky O'Brien, that's always been the theory about how he was likely lured into a car, that probably had other more dubious characters in it.
Hoffa just commands a room. This interview is intoxicating. Wow. Hoffa & Cavett had more intelligence in their ring fingers than all of the talk show hosts on tv today do combined.
Hoffa was a superstar to the working man back when I was a kid ..my dad was a teamster and Hoffa was big in our house . I believe he truly cared about his members and all working people . We need stronger unions these days .. Working men and women need to have representation because our government has failed in representing us .
That's great, and thank you for the story. Any specific stories you hear. It's the only way we get the truth, instead of Hollywood baloney. It's odd. Reagan got rid of the air-traffic controllers, and they name an airport after him. Unfortunately, most people under 85 have no idea what labor is, the respect for work. The average person thinks he was a mobster. It's not just Hoffa. People will judge guys like JFK, Jim Morrison and many more based on a distorted movie by Oliver Stone, etc.. People say they want the truth, but as long as it's fed to them simply.
Unions are outdated. They had a purpose, but now are just as greedy as the companies. It’s because of them we lose jobs to Mexico and China. They chase out manufacturers with continuing demands for more money.
@@TKinfinity01 They go to China because they pay their workers 5 cents a day. NAFTA (and the rest) made it an incentive, along with "tax reform" etc.. Unions make up of 8% of private sector jobs - which is probably a reason why things suck. Automation is another problem for workers and consumers, so 99% of the people.
@@LoyalOpposition I agree that automation is a glowing problem. But Unions have already achieved what they once stood up for. Workplace safety and security. Not there are Federal laws dictating that companies are safe and reasonable to work at. All Unions do now is try to suck up as much money as possible. They have nothing more to fight for.
Then you'll love this interview, which has never been on UA-cam (I just bought the rights). It's even MORE candid. He's even asked about getting whacked. I won't spoil nothing -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
Yeah, and then he used California as an example. I’m not sure the exact #, but this interview took place in 73, and I’m sure California has opened multiple new prisons since. Not to mention the rest of the state is a shit-hole
@@LoyalOpposition his '0pposition' resorted to more than calling him names, they killed him. His body was NEVER found. Or is he buried under the 50 yrd line in Green Bay?Or Chicago?
Great interview. He's so much more intelligent than the way they portray him in Hollywood movies. Clear thinking, concise. No wonder they had to get rid of him.
Now days people are terrified to speak their mind. Afraid to offend someone or be branded a racist, misogynist or whatever ist. Not happening here. This cancer of political correctness is nothing but new age Nazism.
@@3-ddjr460 ironically the low IQ Street waste products who call themselves antifa behave like the poster children for fascists. Just Google night of the broken glass, what antifa and black lives matters are doing in Democrat control cities around America is exactly what the brown shirts did in Germany around 1938, as they were incrementally working their way up to committing mass genocide.
They didn't get rid of him because he was too intelligent. They got rid of him because he wanted back in and wouldn't take no for an answer. He was warned what would happen if he pushed them. And he kept pushing. And what did it get him? A legacy of "where was he buried?"
@@theophrastusbombastus1359 And they didn't want him back in because he was too smart. He knew what they were up to, always one step ahead of them. Shortly after he was gone, they deregulated everything, busted the Teamsters. He knew what the game was, they had to get rid of him.
@@ronald516 The Membership votes. Is it not so much the Union selling out its membership. Or is it decades of anti-union legislation slowly weakening collective bargaining and organized labor? Stagnant wages, regardless of representation or not has caused fear in the working class. The un-godly costs of health care which is always considered in wage packages in negotiations, the thought of going out on strike, especially on a master contract, which is understood that most members who are more then likely living paycheck to paycheck, in most cases cant sustain a prolonged strike, will cross lines to make ends meet. When you negotiate contracts, no matter how big or small, the first thing you take into account is what the membership will vote on. people love to point fingers and say the "Union" fucked us. Unfortunately most don't understand that the membership is the Union and the Union is only as strong as the membership.
If your dad worked for GM then it would be more accurate to say that without Walter Reuther he would have made pennies. Both Hoffa and Reuther though opposite in personality and tactics were the ultimate champions of the worker, and from the city of Detroit ensured a decent standard of living for the average American. It's a shame today that only Hoffa has been given fame and that the media presents it as infamy because they equate him to a gangster. They never mention Walter Reuther because he was clean as ivory soap.
@@kristoffermiller8929 when Hoffa was gone Walter threw his hands up. The mob walked away. Flint used to be a paradise. Everyone knew their place and what was expected of them.
MsCathy42 Walter Reuther fought for the working man up until his untimely death in an unlikely plane crash in 1970. I don't know what you mean by "he threw his hands up" or "everyone knew their place".
If you liked this, you'll probably love the interview I uploaded a few days ago, or my favorite and most-telling - JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
@ Michael Hoffa was certainly was self righteous in his later years 1970s, but make no mistake never has anybody did more for the American worker than Hoffa. He was a significant factor in forming a middle class america in the mid 20th century.
Who are you talking about? Hoffa? Yeah, he was good for organized labor and the working man but he was extremely corrupt and in league with the mob. He was pretty far from honest.
He was a complicated figure. He took trucking from a dangerous and low-paying job and turned it into a high-paying and relatively safe profession. On the other hand, under him 80 percent of the Teamsters’ pension fund was tied up in mob-controlled property investment, which obviously wasn’t good for the average worker.
I used to hate unions as a new executive, they were a pain in the butt to negotiate with and slowed things down trust me they weren't perfect. Never was a fan of paying folks more just because of seniority vs meritocracy. But seeing the bottom line, we screwed our workers over in a lot of ways. I came to realize, Unions really need to balance corporate greed.
look at the insurance!! if you got union insurance it is good, you go to a company get insurance stay five years the new company new insurance pre existing conditions, the average job lasts five years by the time you are 20 years at work, you have no coverage for any chronic conditions.You can't really do anything to fix that as an employer.
@@RAsphalt you are quite optomistic that they will go to another company. How about the choice between slinging cocaine for 20,000$ a month, or working fast food for 20,000$ a decade.Choice one work your entire life and live in your car for the back end of your life or have it all now, maybe go to prison.?
Dick Cavett, one of the best TV host. Hoffa wouldn't have gotten in two words before a host now day's would have jumped in and talked about himself for most of the show.
@@fifthbusiness1678 More importantly, Hoffa was the type who held his own effectively enough (i.e.:spoke his CONVICTION, stood up for himself, etc.) that I think they would've had trouble getting a word in edgewise with HIM! Frankly, I'd treat them the SAME way! My point is, it doesn't matter what walk of life you're from, IF you stand by and AREN'T afraid to speak the COURAGE of your convictions, even those who might try bullying you will eventually RESPECT you (if begrudgingly) because they'll KNOW you won't take shit from ANYBODY! It's like what Mr. Hoffa (yes, I actually respect him enough to call him Mr.!; besides, he was old enough to be my grandfather) said about inmates in prison, the strong EARN respect while the weak are run roughshod all over!
total hogwash assumption. You don't have to shit on other people to build another up. Cavett was a great interviewer. See, I pumped up Cavett without having to shit on anyone else.
@@gatchrocks Assumption? No Gatch, it's what I see on talk shows, they want to talk over their guest and cut them off all the time so your ass-umption is your's and mine is mine. What you take from it is on you.
Exactly, and that's the government's trick. Discredit and use the media to make others responsible. Of course, years later, the truth comes out, but they know how strong first impressions are, and the information usually comes out too late.
Honest man knowingly diverting teamster pension funds to prop up Las Vegas for the mob??,not sure if he was just dense,,or just complacent about doing deals with the mob to help himself hold power and get rich,,either way talk shows and the mob are a BIG no-no..
Chocolate Fudge The teamster pension fund didn’t have any problems until the government got involved. You may or may not agree with some of the investments made with the fund during Hoffa years, but you can not argue the fact that they were much more profitable than they are now. Even though the overall stock market has done marvelously.
Once the Mafia comes and tells you either you give me a cut or im going to have you clipped, dont have much of a choice. Its called extortion and even Donald Trump was a victim of it.
If you check out the other interviews, you'll see how candid he could be. Especially the interview I pinned on here. Go to archives.org and read his first auto-biography.. Very intelligent with a sense of honor and virtue.
Loved Dick Cavitt show. Very Articulated@ he was very up front. He had difficulty in His personal life.... Like all of us at times ...Terrific show Dick Cavitt ...
Tommy Dimopoulos - It’s easy to lose sight of the abysmal depths into which our level of public discourse has descended until one gets to compare what passes for talk show conversation nowadays with these old interviews...what a delight to watch!
Hoffa was a very intelligent and interesting man. He would not bite when Cavett attempted to provoke a sensational or controversial response. Objective and incisive.
He was indeed a highly intelligent and articulate self-educated man. I realize he was no saint, but he did a lot of good things for a lot of people and I can't help but feel sorry for him and the fate that would become him. I only hope it was quick and that he was mostly unaware. He would have had to be actually. He was WAY too intelligent to be trapped otherwise, real time smarts, an extraordinary combination of rhetorical AND street sensibilities almost unrivaled in this one man. Consummate Judas level betrayal was the only way you were likely to get a bullet in to the back of his head. In a lot of ways he was railroaded. His work necessitated acquaintance and playing along with unsavory types, a difficult tight rope to walk and I do believe he kept his eye on the greater good, the overarching aims and welfare of the people he looked out for and lead with loyalty and integrity. Also, he did not live some outlandish, extravagant material life as he surely could have been far more corrupted by the power he attained. He did seem to be a sincere family man and champion of the little guy. But such fascinating discussions, we have nothing like this now. Most peoples eyes would glaze over with an equivocal guest roster today.
I so appreciate this interview. For someone that has been keenly interested in Mr Hoffa there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of candid interviews like this one.
My grandfather who ran away from home at age 13 in Russia or Ukraine, served in the Czar’s navy. When the revolution occurred he started traveling working on ships as a merchant marine. Wound up in USA. Was a truck driver in NYC. He was a Teamster and loved J Hoffa
Hoffa was not a saint but he was the only man in the US that successfully and truthfully fought for labor and health care rights for the working class in America (good wages, regular hours, good healthcare, scholarships, etc). He was the only man that could say no to the mob wanting full access to the teamsters pension fund, to the same mob that he had to work with to stop mobsters from bracking the Union's strikes. He said: Be aware that it will be a tought fight to keep the rights we work so hard to achieve because the government and big corporations want to do anything it takes to take them away. Little did he know that his mob friends would betrayed him along with his VP and others and helped the government and the big corporations in getting him out of the way. A natural leader and good man, he risked himself deffending prisioners rights and trying to help them. He fought for non discrimination, civil rights and against segregation way before anyone. He was soo right regarding probation.
@@TheSands83 Yes, greatest labor leader. I think it's because he believed in America, and believevd in workers. He was a fair man, and stood up for those who didn't have a voice, which is the ultimate threat in America.
The man has an immense presence about him. He obviously believed his own bullshit which was in the end his demise but there's no mistaking that he is a natural born leader and converser and negotiator
I never thought that I could ever feel any sympathy for Jimmy Hoffa. These Cavett interviews are extremely informative...an invaluable education in so many ways...
It's good you have an open mind. His free autobiography is on archive.org/ -- it's always good to read the other side (but no one does, just the official FBI stuff or media)
Every so-called "reporter" and so-called "interviewer" in today's media should be forced to watch what a real interview should be like. From Rachel Maddow to those idiots on Fox. Watch and learn.
None of these comments make any sense!! What do those shoes have to do with shows like this? Two totally different art forms. This is much more in the tradition of late night television, which are now all of the same sort of ilk. Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, etc, etc, were like a much more laid back tonight show. No plugs or anything. Very cool
This man was self educated, very intelligent and ahead of his time, He bravely stood by what he believed, I disagree with some of his politics, but I respect his rights to his views. He was a great leader and hero to the working man, sucks that he was pushed aside when he was at the point of achieving great labor reform. Great man so sad he became vilified.
Watching this interview nearly 50 years later was so fascinating because so much of it rings true even today probably more so than I did back at the time! In my opinion Hoffa was a great man who was targeted by the federal government and the mafia for standing up to principal and looking after his union workers.
I agree 100% and think the FBI killed him. I have a few other interesting interviews, but got a couple of copyright strikes, took them down... I have two right before his death, one which the interviewer asks, "Do you think you're gonna get whacked now that you want to be President again" and says some interesting stuff!
I’ve been a Teamster for 25 years and very proud of that. I also had the pleasure of meeting James P Hoffa too. Mr. Hoffa was quite an interesting man.
duh legalize weed, give lifeless unwashed idiots $30 an hour so they can buy drugs and do them on the job. Free rehab, free health care for the losers. Have goons beat any strike breakers oh my Allah what a wonderful world it would be
If you're talking about the mafia, then yes, he was removed by them (permanently) But not because of any reason you seem to be hinting at. Mafioso have been hinting at it for decades since
@End Racism 2k17 Exactly.. Jimmy only talks about prison reform on this show, where he talks being murdered, union, Mafia, Kennedys, Jim Garrison... And it seemed like they've probably had previous interviews the way he first started with the cursing, saying "Bullshit", and did a pretty good job. It will be a while before I can decipher it all, connect the names, etc.
His death helped lead that demise. They killed off Hoffa because he wouldn't engage in bad investents. Fitzsimmons was weak and was only interested in himself, but Jimmy talks endlessly about the working-class in his autobiography.
You think THAT was candid, check this video out. He's even asked about possibly being murdered for trying to get back the Presidency -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
I love how he said the whole story, noting even that it is a controversial subject even because of the guest. I get the feeling that talk shows wouldn't dare to do anything like that today
RIP Jimmy!!! He may not have been perfect, but like I always say, I'm gonna vote/cheer/fight with the crook that does the most for the working class and the poor and it is not hard to see what side does that these days...just look at the trillion-dollar tax breaks for the top 1 percent and you can figure it out!!!
Even just one man like Jimmy Hoffa made so much difference. We are going through a malnutrition of every industry.. And the few great people in the arts are over the age of 60, and they are dead, dying, or retiring.
Hoffa's son is nothing like his father. Jimmy did not want his son to follow the same path as he did. As parents, you would always push your child to do better than yourself. Which is what he did and Hoffa's son went to study to become an attorney. Using his knowledge, he was able to be voted in and became the President of the Teamsters. Being the son of Hoffa also helped, but because of his knowledge, he bent backwards for corporations instead of representing the working man. I am very curious to see whos going to grab the seat in 2022. Hopefully its someone who will back the working class.
I was in one of the top three unions in the country for five years up until March and they laid down to the company every year. Every year they gave away a few more of our rights.
In 1924, Viola moved the family to Detroit in search of the same things Sylvia Pagano would seek sixteen years later: a steadier job and better wages. Viola worked long hours polishing radiator caps at the Fisher Body plant and washed laundry in her spare time. Hoffa worked odd jobs on weekends and evenings to help his mother. He also got in fights. When he first moved to Detroit, a group of Polish boys taunted him and his brother, Billy. “We learned that unless you were willing to fall into line and accept the pecking order of an existing clan, you had to establish your right to maintain your own private domain,” Hoffa later recalled. “This was accomplished by bloody noses and shiners, but finally we won acceptance into the neighborhood youth’s social order.” The same philosophy would later guide Hoffa in his confrontations with recalcitrant employers, rival unions, and the federal government. The young Hoffa also absorbed his mother’s Protestant ethic. He loved to work from the time he was a child, and he would always live frugally, even in the years when his Teamsters office looked out on the nation’s capital and he was surrounded by suitcases full of cash. Hoffa never smoked or drank, and he looked down on others who did. He embraced what he described as his mother’s “remarkable independence, responsibility, resourcefulness, and steadfastness.” It is little surprise that a young man with these values, in his family’s circumstances, would quit school after ninth grade and go to work full-time. In 1927, the fourteen-year-old Hoffa began work as a stock boy at Frank & Cedar’s Dry Goods and General Merchandise, earning $12 each week for sixty hours of work. He loved the job and his co-workers. His bosses told him he had great prospects there, and the future labor leader dreamed of running the store one day. But then the stock market crashed in October 1929, hitting Detroit harder than any city in the country. The automobile industry collapsed, and with it the city’s jobs. One-third of the Detroit workforce was unemployed within a year, and Hoffa’s prospects at Frank & Cedar’s suddenly looked bleak. Taking the advice of a co-worker that the food business was a more secure place to work because people had to eat, Hoffa got a job through friends at a Kroger warehouse near his home. If Hoffa’s happy days working at Frank & Cedar’s would later inform his sometimes-cozy relationship with employers, his job at Kroger at the height of the Depression would teach him the need for unions and make him a labor leader. He worked the night shift, unloading freight cars of fresh produce at thirty-two cents per hour. With Detroit’s economy still shrinking, with tent cities, public begging, and garbage-eating growing, and with no public welfare to cushion the blow, Hoffa was lucky to have a job. But conditions were gruesome. The workers lacked job security and were paid only for the hours they loaded and unloaded, which meant that they often hung around the warehouse all night for just a few hours’ pay. Making matters much worse was the foreman, Al Hastings, a cruel, dictatorial screamer who took pleasure in taunting the workers and firing men on a whim-“the kind of guy who causes unions,” as Hoffa later said. Hoffa and the other workers tolerated Hastings’s “outrageous meanness” because the alternative-joining long lines of starving men and women begging for a few hours of paid work-seemed worse. But by the spring of 1931, after Hastings fired two workers for no apparent reason, the situation had become intolerable. Hoffa and four other workers decided to form a union. The idea was risky to the point of irresponsible. Unions aim to establish a cartel among workers at a firm in order to extract from employers wage, benefit, and workplace protections above what the free labor market would provide. This was not a popular idea in 1931, especially in Detroit, which a contemporary observer described as “the open shop capital of America.” Nor was it easy to achieve, since unions at the time had no legal protections, and employers, backed by politicians, police, and hired strikebreakers, fiercely resisted nascent union movements. If Hoffa and his friends had simply presented their grievances, Hastings would have quickly fired and easily replaced them. The men went forward in a different way. One hot May evening, on Hoffa’s cue, they stopped transferring crates of fresh strawberries from a refrigerated car into a trailer, and left them on the loading docks. Hastings barked orders and threatened to fire the men. But the strikers stood firm. As the strawberries began to wilt, Hastings folded and called his supervisor, who agreed to meet with Hoffa over the men’s grievances if they returned to work. Over the days that followed, the five “strawberry boys” negotiated a one-year contract that recognized their union, guaranteed a half-day’s pay, and established modest work rules. Hoffa spent the next few years working at the warehouse and for the fledgling Kroger union until he and Hastings had a final confrontation that caused Hoffa to leave. The next day, Joint Council 43 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which had been trying for years to organize the Kroger warehouse, offered him a job as a business agent for Detroit Local 299. The union had emerged at the turn of the century to represent the rough-and-tumble teaming trade. By the early 1930s it had developed into a fragmented and poorly run affiliate of the American Federation of Labor with 40,000 members nationwide, most of whom were inner-city haulers of specialized products (like coal and ice) transitioning from horse-drawn to motor vehicles. Local 299 had only a few hundred members and was near bankruptcy. It offered Hoffa no salary, but rather a portion of the dues of each new member he signed up. At age twenty-one, and still living with his mother, the squat, muscular Hoffa-by then a dense five feet six inches and 170 pounds-had found his calling. He had worked for a mean-spirited boss and experienced what he later described as the workingman’s “constant insecurity, his pointless frustrations, his perpetual submersion in a pool of hopelessness.” For the rest of his life Hoffa identified with struggling workers and possessed an angry intensity about righting power imbalances in the workplace.
Brilliant show, just brilliant. We need shows like this today. Huge masters of their realms conversing while the interviewer sits back and lets it roll.
I actually had the Jim Traficant documentary, but UA-cam took it down. I think its on vimeo or dailymotion.. "The Man From Youngstown" (or something like that)..Some good interviews of him on YT, though.
Cant' Stop Watching This..!! I'm Starting To Believe That If This Man Had Been Allowed To Do His Job, Detroit Would Be Stronger Than Ever. Any More Good Pieces Like This..?
Try watching this interview, weeks before his death. He's even asked if he's scared of possibly being murdered - ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
The ENTIRE COUNTRY would be better. He built the largest union in the world, which also caused other businesses to unionize. Even the anti-unions thought, "Well, let's pay our workers a living wage so they don't DEMAND a union"
I highly recommend the DC shows with Mort Sahl (there's two on UA-cam), and JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
he is an unsung hero, all that safety stuff log books etc, came from jimmy. No one can say how many people would be dead on the high way if we did not have saint jimmy to get some rules.
I was at a retired Teamster officials' house 2 nights ago. He's 96 and had Hoffa memorabilia. It was pretty cool holding a photo that Hoffa signed to him. The gentleman retied in 1985 and while a Teamster official they gave him a new Cadillac every year.
@@LoyalOpposition I will be going back again soon, I didn't get to talk to him much, most of the time it was with his son, I was there for about 5 hours and dad's naptime was near, but his son told me that if he heard how interested I was his dad would gab about everything from those days. He fell recently and had a head injury so he is not as quick as he used to be but never forgot the union days. His son did tell me that their home in Detroit was bugged by the FBI and every year Teamsters gave him a brand new Cadillac, there is a pic in the house of him standing next to his new Cadillac in 1971. I think the home in Detroit has since been demolished but they were nice homes. He started out as a truck driver in the 40s became a union steward and moved up into the local 299 office where Hoffa's office was, became a director and later retired as the president of the credit union. He had to take the witness stand in Tennesee in the early 60s and he must have made a good impression on Hoffa since after that his work life changed for the better though he loved driving a truck from what his son told me. When he was a truck driver in the early 60s he was bringing in $250 dollars a week which was almost double what an auto worker made. I hope he'll be around longer because I want to hear everything he has to say.
I was watching another UA-cam channel about Russel Bufalino when I saw the thumnail of JH on Dick Cavett ! Jimmy Hoffa! Had to watch it. I have heard about Jimmy Hoffa since I was 13 or 14 . But in the home I grew up in no one knew anything so I always wondered who Hoffa was & why he disappeared. I also want to check the link on here provided by 'loyal opposition' Thank you for the link!
I just uploaded one yesterday on this channel, but here's my favorite - JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
@@LoyalOpposition Few professions where the stakes are as high. If you are a bad landscaper you can be incompetent or corrupt with few consequences. If you’re a airline pilot or heart surgeon, not so much. Police, judges and prosecutors are in the same category. You don’t have the luxury of picking the wrong guy and just excusing it because most of your selections are good and ethical. Would the public accept if ten or twenty percent of pilots crashed into mountains regularly? Some things require perfection, or at least the pursuit or expectation....
@@richstafford1245 You make good points.. I'd also add how those in the most powerful positions can screw up, but be rewarded for it (bankers, politicians, etc)
No question, Hoffa did some shady things in his time heading the Teamsters. However, there is no doubt in my mind that he made the lives of a lot of hard-working people infinitely better than they would've been if he hadn't fought so hard to get them better treatment. Also can't help but give him credit for sticking to his principles at the end and trying to get the mob out of the union, to the point that it probably cost him his life. He was a complex guy, but one that I think did a lot of good.
He got to where he was with the help of the Mafia and he had to know that turning on them would get him killed. Supposedly, he was a government informant at the end of his life, but that didn't stop him from getting killed. Jimmy's ego was his undoing. Very smart man, but he had to win and the game was set up so that he couldn't win. I understand his motives, but I wish he would have thought of his family before making that fateful decision to take the Union back.
This has been relevant for decades... Unfortunately, you don't see shows like this, which is why I uploaded it and others that need to be seen (unless it's already on UA-cam).
Cavett should not clown around so much when someone like Hoffa is speaking about prison where Cavett would be terrorized beyond description. Cavett saids prison is romantic well let's hear his thoughts after being raped there. He won't be making jokes then.
@@emmapeeljohnsteed3284 Dick cavett did say that and it's something many subscribe to, but it's rarely talked about, how a bad claim to fame is better than no claim to fame at all, and it gets in the way of rehabilitation when people feel like that's they're shining moment that defines them as a "tough guy", a strong individual that they did time in jail or prison rather than something positive . Or that being a criminal proves you're a tough, strong- individual, as if it's something positive like being a war hero.
You're welcome.. If you liked that interview, you might love this - JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
Actors (Nicholson, Pacino) have portrayed this guy as a cartoonish character. Hoffa is not like that at all. I'm sure he was complicated, and he had to deal with some heavy people. But was a cartoonish villain or buffoon or lunatic? No. Hollywood always fucks up on this kind of stuff.
THIS is why I had to find this to upload and show people the real person. It's not just Hoffa - people are always referencing an awful movie when they talk to me.
hoffa was a much different man in front of cavett than he was the teamsters. this was a man who prided himself as "man of the people". so there's plenty of room for cartoonish embellishments
This was great, I was in HS when he disappeared. Although I lived only 20 miles from where he was taken, I never really knew much about the man before.
I had a friend whose father was a Teamster. I remember when he would tell me stories about what it was like being the son of a Teamster. Unfortunately my friend passed away earlier this year from a heart attack due to an advanced stage of cancer. He was a veteran, a guitarist and friend. Rest in peace, Terry (Gumbo) Moccabee 66 years old. Job well done, Sir.🇺🇲🍻🕊️
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My father was a Teamster. That good life in America is over. I'm glad this is still on UA-cam so people can see the real man and judge for themselves.
Alt Left Mr. Hoffa deserves to be home it's been decades Lord please bring him home for closure something has to be out there to find his wallet , something!! I honestly believe no matter what Mr. Hoffa was a giver for the poor he knew what hunger was and for someone who was uneducated because he needed to help his mother feed his siblings that never left his heart ! Once President Nixon pardoned Mr. Hoffa with the stipulation that he could not go back to the team since presidency for nine years after he been released Hoffa wasn't having it! Welll, that help sign Mr. Hoffa's death certificate people can let the Mob take the fall but, so many enemies had been within Mr. Hoffa's path including our judicial system - those days were the beginnings of finally buying your way to the best of the best look how this Country of ours has fallen completely on deaf ears ! I'm hoping each day that when reach my day to leave this earth that it's before the Big Bang - it's coming Lord Bless you & yours Happy Holidays to you & yours as well ...
@@RisvoldTheGreat I'm glad you have a good union, you should tell your story more, because people are so misled. It's just unions are either non-existent now for the most part, or they aren't as good. Jimmy was the best. Just look at wages, benefits and compare them to the lack of improvement of today.
@C Hoc and you look to the liberal socialists to take care of you
@C Hoc They stole youre jobs ? google NAFTA And GATT ,hmm go look at detroit ,democrats turned Detroit into a wasteland .
@Guillermo Guzman who stole the United Airlines pensions after 9/11? My husband's retirement pension was cut by 2/3s.
This interview could have been destroyed like so many interviews where the interviewer feels the need to dominate the conversation by asking a billion questions. Cavett said little and let Hoffa talk. Well done. Very interesting.
You could get the best interviewer today and it wouldn't make much difference -- there aren't interesting people out there anymore.
I agree with both quotes and I also would like to add that people were more refined and knew how to have conversations regardless if they were fantastic TV talk show interviewer... it's all taken for granted now. Dick Cavett was presenting somebody in a clear well-spoken manner.
@@LoyalOpposition Yeah - they are all puppets with a script.
Too many interviewers want to remind people that they are (so they think) the star of the show, or they are trained to control the elements of the conversation so that a guest cannot leak out unauthorized things...
That's the way he did every interview.
“If the media can do this too Jimmy Hoffa then they can this to any citizen in the United States”
That turned out to be true.
Richard Jewel to name another
@Mr. Deez you only "know" what you've been hearing second hand, I bet you've never done any reading about him on your own.
The media is the most powerful entity is the world. It has the power to make guilty men innocent and innocent men guilty and that’s powerful to control the minds of the masses. --- Malcom X
NVM
IF THEY CAN DO IT TO A PRESIDENT .LIE ,HALF TRUTHS TRUMP 2020 and election fraud Michigan still investigating and have alot of evidence also Arz..
So true.
Jimmy Hoffa is one of the most fascinating figures in US history.
Rafael Pinefa not really.
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@@LoyalOpposition why are you so passionate about this subject?
@@chocolatefudge5263 I'm interested in truth, and I hate inaccuracies. But I also love Jimmy Hoffa.
@@LoyalOpposition when i see the movie from scorcese i retain that jimmy hoffa hired for murder and that he had it coming. What do you think about it?
This interview is a real historical document about a fascinating figure. Thank you so much for posting it.
You're welcome! I think it's the best way to learn about real everyday history. Lots of other guys like Hoffa on this channel. They all have one thing in common - I'll let you guess :)
Biographies, too, to a lesser extent. I highly recommend his autobiography available on archive.org
Thank you Jimmy for all you've done for labor and the middle class.
The best leader ever.
Who would have thought watching this in 1973, that 46 years later Jimmy Hoffa would have the most normal looking haircut of anyone on the show?
I like the longer hair. Today's hairstyles are hideous compared to the 70s.
@@susanb2015 Come on, if you seen somebody walking down the street with Dick Cavett's exact hair cut from this year, you would definitely do a double take lol.
Yup!!. .decent hair ✂ shaved closely on da sides and trim slightly on top.
@@martytdd1606 Ten years ago maybe. I was born in the late 60s and I loved it when hair and clothes changed in the early 80s. I used to make fun of Everything 70s. But then at the end of the 90s men's cool hairstyles started to get short and music was almost totally dead. Then everything got worse the next decades until I can't stand men's and women's Ugly hairstyles and clothes. Now I love and miss the 70s and I only listen to old music and I watch mostly old TV shows especially 70s. I miss the 80s fashions but I'll take the 70s over today and I don't think his hair is ugly anymore. And I don't make fun of the 70s anymore. It was a wonderful time compared to now.
@@petecastanedo5961 You're kidding right?
Hoffa did what he had to do for the working man… We've lost that now. Companies dictate our rights and treatments, and governments are submissive to companies. Hoffa corrupt or not he was the people's champ in many ways. He understood men better than our politicians.
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Well said.
You have it wrong. The government isn't submissive to anything or anyone. They fought the Mafia so they could become it. Now they are and run most aspects of our lives - and they want more. Half of America in their mentally sleeping state are voting for them to do so.
@ Dan bullshit. corporatism has been running rampant since Reagan. Amazon, Facebook, wal-mart, Microsoft in the 90s. Those corporations can and have found cheap labor elsewhere. Rothschild was a banker he once said “Give me control of a nations money and I care not who makes the laws”
He did what he was told. Nothing more
Jimmy is sharp as a knife, very articulate smart man
@Justin Horn must have been people in the car to whom he felt safe with, so he would not suspect anything
He WAS smart. He's dead.
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@@captainobvious5993 yes like his "adopted son" Chucky O'Brien, that's always been the theory about how he was likely lured into a car, that probably had other more dubious characters in it.
Not smart at all. How did he think he could go against the mob and live?
Hoffa just commands a room. This interview is intoxicating. Wow. Hoffa & Cavett had more intelligence in their ring fingers than all of the talk show hosts on tv today do combined.
Right.. And I wasn't even born in the 70s, but I relate more.. There's a ton of Hoffa stuff - check out his last interview on this channel.
Yeah ok. But I choose not to live in the past.
Hoffa was a superstar to the working man back when I was a kid ..my dad was a teamster and Hoffa was big in our house . I believe he truly cared about his members and all working people . We need stronger unions these days .. Working men and women need to have representation because our government has failed in representing us .
That's great, and thank you for the story. Any specific stories you hear. It's the only way we get the truth, instead of Hollywood baloney.
It's odd. Reagan got rid of the air-traffic controllers, and they name an airport after him. Unfortunately, most people under 85 have no idea what labor is, the respect for work. The average person thinks he was a mobster. It's not just Hoffa. People will judge guys like JFK, Jim Morrison and many more based on a distorted movie by Oliver Stone, etc.. People say they want the truth, but as long as it's fed to them simply.
Unions are outdated. They had a purpose, but now are just as greedy as the companies. It’s because of them we lose jobs to Mexico and China. They chase out manufacturers with continuing demands for more money.
@@TKinfinity01 They go to China because they pay their workers 5 cents a day. NAFTA (and the rest) made it an incentive, along with "tax reform" etc.. Unions make up of 8% of private sector jobs - which is probably a reason why things suck. Automation is another problem for workers and consumers, so 99% of the people.
@@LoyalOpposition
I agree that automation is a glowing problem. But Unions have already achieved what they once stood up for. Workplace safety and security. Not there are Federal laws dictating that companies are safe and reasonable to work at. All Unions do now is try to suck up as much money as possible. They have nothing more to fight for.
@@TKinfinity01 Wages! They've been stagnant since the 70s. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Enjoyed the movie "The Irishman' but this interview with Hoffa is far more insightful
Then you'll love this interview, which has never been on UA-cam (I just bought the rights). It's even MORE candid. He's even asked about getting whacked. I won't spoil nothing -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
Once one does the RESEARCH life is ALWAYS more interesting than film. Hoffa would probably been placed in Alcatraz if it were still open at the time.
@@robertdore9592 I guess many people are too lazy, and rather give out derivative opinion and cliches.
Right. If the Irishman were a Hoffa biopic it would’ve probably been more and more nuanced. Fact is that it wasn’t an interview with the actual man
chester rockwell Lol this is the best review for any movie I’ve seen in years
Fascinating listening to him talk. Could listen to him talk for hours. Very intelligent man....
I'm hoping people keep uploading more stuff.. (I'm uploading some stuff right now, including some interviews, all in one video).
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This is an awesome interview. 9 years for two marijuana cigarettes that's is absurd. Hoffa was talking prison reform in 1973!!
He was ahead of his time with labor, too. So popular, they opposition could only resort to calling him a Communist.
Yeah, and then he used California as an example. I’m not sure the exact #, but this interview took place in 73, and I’m sure California has opened multiple new prisons since. Not to mention the rest of the state is a shit-hole
@@LoyalOpposition and nowadays they call you a "racist"
@@LoyalOpposition his '0pposition' resorted to more than calling him names, they killed him. His body was NEVER found. Or is he buried under the 50 yrd line in Green Bay?Or Chicago?
@@kymberlynnethompson9306 They burnt him immediately so there was no body of evidence
Almost 50 yrs ago and people are still being sentenced to prison for minor offenses. Hoffa was on point!
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Back in the 80's I worked in a furniture factory and was in teamsters union and our benefits were greats. It was the best job I ever had.
I bet!
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Great interview. He's so much more intelligent than the way they portray him in Hollywood movies. Clear thinking, concise. No wonder they had to get rid of him.
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Now days people are terrified to speak their mind. Afraid to offend someone or be branded a racist, misogynist or whatever ist. Not happening here. This cancer of political correctness is nothing but new age Nazism.
@@3-ddjr460 ironically the low IQ Street waste products who call themselves antifa behave like the poster children for fascists.
Just Google night of the broken glass, what antifa and black lives matters are doing in Democrat control cities around America is exactly what the brown shirts did in Germany around 1938, as they were incrementally working their way up to committing mass genocide.
They didn't get rid of him because he was too intelligent. They got rid of him because he wanted back in and wouldn't take no for an answer.
He was warned what would happen if he pushed them. And he kept pushing.
And what did it get him? A legacy of "where was he buried?"
@@theophrastusbombastus1359 And they didn't want him back in because he was too smart. He knew what they were up to, always one step ahead of them. Shortly after he was gone, they deregulated everything, busted the Teamsters. He knew what the game was, they had to get rid of him.
A strong, famous, powerful person, with more focus on helping than taking, never survives long in this world.
Very true. They always kill the good ones, especially those with influence.
Filthy Daggo mafia
Ghandi did
@@johnnyt3392 Kinda didn't go against power players making money did he??
@@ronald516 The Membership votes. Is it not so much the Union selling out its membership. Or is it decades of anti-union legislation slowly weakening collective bargaining and organized labor? Stagnant wages, regardless of representation or not has caused fear in the working class. The un-godly costs of health care which is always considered in wage packages in negotiations, the thought of going out on strike, especially on a master contract, which is understood that most members who are more then likely living paycheck to paycheck, in most cases cant sustain a prolonged strike, will cross lines to make ends meet.
When you negotiate contracts, no matter how big or small, the first thing you take into account is what the membership will vote on. people love to point fingers and say the "Union" fucked us. Unfortunately most don't understand that the membership is the Union and the Union is only as strong as the membership.
I am forever grateful for Hoffa. My dad worked for GM and without Hoffa he would have made pennies. He also made the job safe. TY to Mr. Hoffa.
Thanks for the story. Today, NO ONE represents the working-class, and its the one group you can say or do whatever without consequence.
If your dad worked for GM then it would be more accurate to say that without Walter Reuther he would have made pennies. Both Hoffa and Reuther though opposite in personality and tactics were the ultimate champions of the worker, and from the city of Detroit ensured a decent standard of living for the average American. It's a shame today that only Hoffa has been given fame and that the media presents it as infamy because they equate him to a gangster. They never mention Walter Reuther because he was clean as ivory soap.
@@kristoffermiller8929 when Hoffa was gone Walter threw his hands up. The mob walked away. Flint used to be a paradise. Everyone knew their place and what was expected of them.
MsCathy42 Walter Reuther fought for the working man up until his untimely death in an unlikely plane crash in 1970. I don't know what you mean by "he threw his hands up" or "everyone knew their place".
Loyal Opposition wrong about that. Perhaps you’ve heard of a man named Donald J Trump.
Smart, powerful, tough as a nail!! A REAL MAN!! Don’t see this type of man much today. this country is so screwed. God bless ur Soul Jimmy!
If you liked this, you'll probably love the interview I uploaded a few days ago, or my favorite and most-telling - JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
JH would be a better president than what we have experienced since Reagan
he was a crook who worked with crooks, nothing less
@ Michael Hoffa was certainly was self righteous in his later years 1970s, but make no mistake never has anybody did more for the American worker than Hoffa. He was a significant factor in forming a middle class america in the mid 20th century.
A political prisoner who was more honest than those the politicians who put him in jail.
Who are you talking about? Hoffa? Yeah, he was good for organized labor and the working man but he was extremely corrupt and in league with the mob. He was pretty far from honest.
It were ever thus.
He was a complicated figure. He took trucking from a dangerous and low-paying job and turned it into a high-paying and relatively safe profession. On the other hand, under him 80 percent of the Teamsters’ pension fund was tied up in mob-controlled property investment, which obviously wasn’t good for the average worker.
Honest? Political prisoner? Jury tampering, bribery, mob affiliations, pension meddling. Hardly.
A truly fascinating interview with Jimmy Hoffa.
There's another last interview of his where he's asked about being murdered. It's longer than this, and more candid (on this channel)
@@LoyalOpposition L.O.L
Do you get paid by each hit to that website? How many times have you posted that here, I keep running across it.
@@frankpaya690 I don't get paid a penny - I do this to get the word out.
I used to hate unions as a new executive, they were a pain in the butt to negotiate with and slowed things down trust me they weren't perfect. Never was a fan of paying folks more just because of seniority vs meritocracy. But seeing the bottom line, we screwed our workers over in a lot of ways. I came to realize, Unions really need to balance corporate greed.
@E W - exactly how is union labor nazism?
@E W Unions equal communism? You're a moron. I'm not fan a of them but they have a place.
look at the insurance!! if you got union insurance it is good, you go to a company get insurance stay five years the new company new insurance pre existing conditions, the average job lasts five years by the time you are 20 years at work, you have no coverage for any chronic conditions.You can't really do anything to fix that as an employer.
‘You don’t have to take the job’. Haha yes they do, they have to eat. Stop acting like some other company will be more fair
@@RAsphalt you are quite optomistic that they will go to another company. How about the choice between slinging cocaine for 20,000$ a month, or working fast food for 20,000$ a decade.Choice one work your entire life and live in your car for the back end of your life or have it all now, maybe go to prison.?
Wow this man was truly fearless
That is another reason people love him.
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You’d never have a conversation like this on TV today. Were people just much more educated back then??
Yes. These phones have made everyone into zombies.
Smartphones and reality tv my friend.
@@DdotRay86 I don't have one (and never will)
@@LoyalOpposition without a smartphone I wouldn't be watching this vid🤔
@@Scareface80 In 5 years, we'll be reading everyone telling their children, "Without a smartphone, you kids wouldn't be born"
JH only had a 7th grade education but he sounded more educated and articulate than a lot of college graduates that I know in today's society.
I highly recommend reading his two autobiographies.
Going to school and getting a degree has no correlation to being educated.
Read and learn.
@@goldgeologist5320 Obviously. It's exactly what I said.
@@goldgeologist5320 Agree
Yes he is thoughtful and well spoken. Amazing interview
Dick Cavett, one of the best TV host. Hoffa wouldn't have gotten in two words before a host now day's would have jumped in and talked about himself for most of the show.
I don’t agree. It’s Jimmy Hoffa, after all. Not a vacuous celebrity.
@@fifthbusiness1678 More importantly, Hoffa was the type who held his own effectively enough (i.e.:spoke his CONVICTION, stood up for himself, etc.) that I think they would've had trouble getting a word in edgewise with HIM! Frankly, I'd treat them the SAME way! My point is, it doesn't matter what walk of life you're from, IF you stand by and AREN'T afraid to speak the COURAGE of your convictions, even those who might try bullying you will eventually RESPECT you (if begrudgingly) because they'll KNOW you won't take shit from ANYBODY! It's like what Mr. Hoffa (yes, I actually respect him enough to call him Mr.!; besides, he was old enough to be my grandfather) said about inmates in prison, the strong EARN respect while the weak are run roughshod all over!
total hogwash assumption. You don't have to shit on other people to build another up. Cavett was a great interviewer. See, I pumped up Cavett without having to shit on anyone else.
@@gatchrocks Assumption? No Gatch, it's what I see on talk shows, they want to talk over their guest and cut them off all the time so your ass-umption is your's and mine is mine. What you take from it is on you.
You must watch some s*** interviews
He really was a more honest man than our government.
Exactly, and that's the government's trick. Discredit and use the media to make others responsible. Of course, years later, the truth comes out, but they know how strong first impressions are, and the information usually comes out too late.
Loyal Opposition just like Budd Dwyer.
@@rocknroller77 I only know about the public suicide, but would like to see the documentary.
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Honest man knowingly diverting teamster pension funds to prop up Las Vegas for the mob??,not sure if he was just dense,,or just complacent about doing deals with the mob to help himself hold power and get rich,,either way talk shows and the mob are a BIG no-no..
So much praise for a man who defrauded the pension of hard working folks
He cared alot more for the hard working folk than the ones who succeeded him,if we are all honest governments and banks these days do the same.
Chocolate Fudge Not a true statement
Chocolate Fudge The teamster pension fund didn’t have any problems until the government got involved. You may or may not agree with some of the investments made with the fund during Hoffa years, but you can not argue the fact that they were much more profitable than they are now. Even though the overall stock market has done marvelously.
Once the Mafia comes and tells you either you give me a cut or im going to have you clipped, dont have much of a choice. Its called extortion and even Donald Trump was a victim of it.
I was surprised to hear how well-spoken and intelligent he was. Illuminating interview.
If you check out the other interviews, you'll see how candid he could be. Especially the interview I pinned on here. Go to archives.org and read his first auto-biography.. Very intelligent with a sense of honor and virtue.
This show never disappoints. Intelligent, articulate, and non-politically correct conversation. Tremendous.
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Loved Dick Cavitt show. Very Articulated@ he was very up front. He had difficulty in His personal life....
Like all of us at times ...Terrific show Dick Cavitt ...
@@petecastanedo5961 I don't know, you could sense something was off with the guy, I found him uncomfortable to watch honestly
Tommy Dimopoulos - It’s easy to lose sight of the abysmal depths into which our level of public discourse has descended until one gets to compare what passes for talk show conversation nowadays with these old interviews...what a delight to watch!
Tommy Dimopoulos yes A great show
Great host
Intelligent talk
Hoffa was a very intelligent and interesting man. He would not bite when Cavett attempted to provoke a sensational or controversial response. Objective and incisive.
He was indeed a highly intelligent and articulate self-educated man. I realize he was no saint, but he did a lot of good things for a lot of people and I can't help but feel sorry for him and the fate that would become him. I only hope it was quick and that he was mostly unaware. He would have had to be actually. He was WAY too intelligent to be trapped otherwise, real time smarts, an extraordinary combination of rhetorical AND street sensibilities almost unrivaled in this one man. Consummate Judas level betrayal was the only way you were likely to get a bullet in to the back of his head.
In a lot of ways he was railroaded. His work necessitated acquaintance and playing along with unsavory types, a difficult tight rope to walk and I do believe he kept his eye on the greater good, the overarching aims and welfare of the people he looked out for and lead with loyalty and integrity. Also, he did not live some outlandish, extravagant material life as he surely could have been far more corrupted by the power he attained. He did seem to be a sincere family man and champion of the little guy. But such fascinating discussions, we have nothing like this now. Most peoples eyes would glaze over with an equivocal guest roster today.
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@@michaelesgro9506 who is a saint and an early death is never warranted.
@@DaveSCameron LOL. Yes, so true. That is such a hackneyed expression, I can't believe I used it!!!
Yes!
I so appreciate this interview. For someone that has been keenly interested in Mr Hoffa there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of candid interviews like this one.
You want candid, look no further. I just bought the rights to the Playboy interview - ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
My grandfather who ran away from home at age 13 in Russia or Ukraine, served in the Czar’s navy. When the revolution occurred he started traveling working on ships as a merchant marine. Wound up in USA. Was a truck driver in NYC.
He was a Teamster and loved J Hoffa
Thanks so much for sharing that story!
Hoffa was not a saint but he was the only man in the US that successfully and truthfully fought for labor and health care rights for the working class in America (good wages, regular hours, good healthcare, scholarships, etc). He was the only man that could say no to the mob wanting full access to the teamsters pension fund, to the same mob that he had to work with to stop mobsters from bracking the Union's strikes. He said: Be aware that it will be a tought fight to keep the rights we work so hard to achieve because the government and big corporations want to do anything it takes to take them away. Little did he know that his mob friends would betrayed him along with his VP and others and helped the government and the big corporations in getting him out of the way.
A natural leader and good man, he risked himself deffending prisioners rights and trying to help them.
He fought for non discrimination, civil rights and against segregation way before anyone.
He was soo right regarding probation.
He's the greatest man from Michigan.
Hoffa did more for the working man than anybody.. he’s a great great man
@@bradmeeds1226 And moved to Michigan quite soon after he was born.
@@TheSands83 Yes, greatest labor leader. I think it's because he believed in America, and believevd in workers. He was a fair man, and stood up for those who didn't have a voice, which is the ultimate threat in America.
Gestapo Brad Larry Bird!
No wonder he was So Powerful Such a Great Leader…. HES BRILLIANT he’s meticulous he’s another level
There's some even more candid interviews on here!
The man has an immense presence about him. He obviously believed his own bullshit which was in the end his demise but there's no mistaking that he is a natural born leader and converser and negotiator
I never thought that I could ever feel any sympathy for Jimmy Hoffa. These Cavett interviews are extremely informative...an invaluable education in so many ways...
It's good you have an open mind. His free autobiography is on archive.org/ -- it's always good to read the other side (but no one does, just the official FBI stuff or media)
Couldn’t agree more
Hoffa was speaking facts
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Fascinating interview thank you for posting
You're welcome. I have a few more on this channel. Thanks for commenting!
WOW!!! Thank you so much for posting this.
You are welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed this. I had to dig it up after hearing so much lies about Hoffa.
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They dont make em like this no more folks.
Not in this country. Plenty of men in Africa are still this blunt. No joke.
Every so-called "reporter" and so-called "interviewer" in today's media should be forced to watch what a real interview should be like. From Rachel Maddow to those idiots on Fox. Watch and learn.
Well said. The media is just another arm of the government.
@@lamper2 No, they are joined at the hip.
They're all idiots, and Rachel Maddow is the circus ringleader.
... Or the lefties democrats on Democracy Now or CNN.
None of these comments make any sense!! What do those shoes have to do with shows like this? Two totally different art forms. This is much more in the tradition of late night television, which are now all of the same sort of ilk. Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, etc, etc, were like a much more laid back tonight show. No plugs or anything. Very cool
This man was self educated, very intelligent and ahead of his time, He bravely stood by what he believed, I disagree with some of his politics, but I respect his rights to his views. He was a great leader and hero to the working man, sucks that he was pushed aside when he was at the point of achieving great labor reform. Great man so sad he became vilified.
Well said. Jimmy was "The Real McCoy"....
Jimmy Hoffa this man was 1 in a billion
Thank God for that huh. Hahaha!!!
@@Revolver1981 what god
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@James Robert Because he was a corrupt sociopath.
@James Robert He should've never been involved with the mob.
Go Jimmy! You’ll always be remembered as a friend of the working man.
Probably the LAST true friend of the working-man, too.. Besides Ralph Nader.
Watching this interview nearly 50 years later was so fascinating because so much of it rings true even today probably more so than I did back at the time! In my opinion Hoffa was a great man who was targeted by the federal government and the mafia for standing up to principal and looking after his union workers.
I agree 100% and think the FBI killed him. I have a few other interesting interviews, but got a couple of copyright strikes, took them down... I have two right before his death, one which the interviewer asks, "Do you think you're gonna get whacked now that you want to be President again" and says some interesting stuff!
George Noory of coast to coast claims he was the last person to interview him.
At 13:05 into this video Hoffa makes a profound statement about what can happen when the government and media align.
Hobby Flying true
Yep
I’ve been a Teamster for 25 years and very proud of that. I also had the pleasure of meeting James P Hoffa too. Mr. Hoffa was quite an interesting man.
*James R. Hoffa
James Hoffa was a very intelligent individual. He was sadly removed by evil individuals who did not approve of the truth and feared it when spoken.
duh legalize weed, give lifeless unwashed idiots $30 an hour so they can buy drugs and do them on the job. Free rehab, free health care for the losers. Have goons beat any strike breakers oh my Allah what a wonderful world it would be
If you're talking about the mafia, then yes, he was removed by them (permanently)
But not because of any reason you seem to be hinting at. Mafioso have been hinting at it for decades since
@@theophrastusbombastus1359 He got endorsed by the POTUS. That's more than most people get.
FASCINATING...this could never happen today!
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Podcasts?
@End Racism 2k17 Glad you loved it. It's my favorite! But for some reason, it has about 5% of this video (views)
@End Racism 2k17 Exactly.. Jimmy only talks about prison reform on this show, where he talks being murdered, union, Mafia, Kennedys, Jim Garrison... And it seemed like they've probably had previous interviews the way he first started with the cursing, saying "Bullshit", and did a pretty good job. It will be a while before I can decipher it all, connect the names, etc.
Why not?
What an insightful, articulate man; What would he have said about the decimation of the middle class.
His death helped lead that demise. They killed off Hoffa because he wouldn't engage in bad investents. Fitzsimmons was weak and was only interested in himself, but Jimmy talks endlessly about the working-class in his autobiography.
Damn he is so candid.
You think THAT was candid, check this video out. He's even asked about possibly being murdered for trying to get back the Presidency -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
I love how he said the whole story, noting even that it is a controversial subject even because of the guest. I get the feeling that talk shows wouldn't dare to do anything like that today
But I don't know, it's just a sort of preconcept that I have
Shows today are awful, but even if you had the same host today, there aren't enough interesting and talented celebrities today.
I'm happy they have this interview with Jimmy Hoffa always wondering what he was like so thank you this was very interesting!
You're welcome. There's more candid interviews on this channel and on archive.org - you can read his autobiography.
RIP Jimmy!!! He may not have been perfect, but like I always say, I'm gonna vote/cheer/fight with the crook that does the most for the working class and the poor and it is not hard to see what side does that these days...just look at the trillion-dollar tax breaks for the top 1 percent and you can figure it out!!!
Well said
Mr. Hoffa was a true hero to the blue collar worker and always will be...
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This man has balls.
That got him really far in life 😂 where is he now? 😂 i wonder ? 😂 huge hdifference between balls and sense . his so called balls got him killed
He had balls. Then he got wacked! #stayinyourlane
Alpha Male
Isn’t it funny that all the guys with balls and the so called “guys you don’t mess with” are all dead and the ones with brains are still alive.
Lex Luthor name one with brains
I’ve been a Teamster for 23 years!! Best decision I ever made was to join this union!!
Very nice! What are the differences between Hoffa Sr. and Jr.?
I admire Mr Hoffa for his strength free thinking the guys a leader. Stand up guy.
Same.. I highly recommend his autobiography available on archive.org
Can u imagine how many people saw this episode back then!!!
All them old wise guys
Right, good point to consider!
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Very fortunate to have found this. Amazing dialogue, this should be in a time capsule
There's plenty more on this channel. Enjoy!
If only we had a Jimmy Hoffa for todays labor rights advocacy.
Even just one man like Jimmy Hoffa made so much difference. We are going through a malnutrition of every industry.. And the few great people in the arts are over the age of 60, and they are dead, dying, or retiring.
His son is still active and is head of the Teamsters, but he's literally powerless as the unions have been stripped of their power.
Hoffa's son is nothing like his father. Jimmy did not want his son to follow the same path as he did. As parents, you would always push your child to do better than yourself. Which is what he did and Hoffa's son went to study to become an attorney. Using his knowledge, he was able to be voted in and became the President of the Teamsters. Being the son of Hoffa also helped, but because of his knowledge, he bent backwards for corporations instead of representing the working man. I am very curious to see whos going to grab the seat in 2022. Hopefully its someone who will back the working class.
I was in one of the top three unions in the country for five years up until March and they laid down to the company every year. Every year they gave away a few more of our rights.
Labor unions are the gatekeepers to enslavement...ask biden
Many, many government people should have been in jail way before any thoughts of him going.
Exactly. They harassed this man for years and years until enough people lied to save their own asses.
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Such as members of the Biden crime family
In 1924, Viola moved the family to Detroit in search of the same things Sylvia Pagano would seek sixteen years later: a steadier job and better wages. Viola worked long hours polishing radiator caps at the Fisher Body plant and washed laundry in her spare time. Hoffa worked odd jobs on weekends and evenings to help his mother. He also got in fights. When he first moved to Detroit, a group of Polish boys taunted him and his brother, Billy. “We learned that unless you were willing to fall into line and accept the pecking order of an existing clan, you had to establish your right to maintain your own private domain,” Hoffa later recalled. “This was accomplished by bloody noses and shiners, but finally we won acceptance into the neighborhood youth’s social order.” The same philosophy would later guide Hoffa in his confrontations with recalcitrant employers, rival unions, and the federal government.
The young Hoffa also absorbed his mother’s Protestant ethic. He loved to work from the time he was a child, and he would always live frugally, even in the years when his Teamsters office looked out on the nation’s capital and he was surrounded by suitcases full of cash. Hoffa never smoked or drank, and he looked down on others who did. He embraced what he described as his mother’s “remarkable independence, responsibility, resourcefulness, and steadfastness.”
It is little surprise that a young man with these values, in his family’s circumstances, would quit school after ninth grade and go to work full-time. In 1927, the fourteen-year-old Hoffa began work as a stock boy at Frank & Cedar’s Dry Goods and General Merchandise, earning $12 each week for sixty hours of work. He loved the job and his co-workers. His bosses told him he had great prospects there, and the future labor leader dreamed of running the store one day.
But then the stock market crashed in October 1929, hitting Detroit harder than any city in the country. The automobile industry collapsed, and with it the city’s jobs. One-third of the Detroit workforce was unemployed within a year, and Hoffa’s prospects at Frank & Cedar’s suddenly looked bleak. Taking the advice of a co-worker that the food business was a more secure place to work because people had to eat, Hoffa got a job through friends at a Kroger warehouse near his home.
If Hoffa’s happy days working at Frank & Cedar’s would later inform his sometimes-cozy relationship with employers, his job at Kroger at the height of the Depression would teach him the need for unions and make him a labor leader. He worked the night shift, unloading freight cars of fresh produce at thirty-two cents per hour. With Detroit’s economy still shrinking, with tent cities, public begging, and garbage-eating growing, and with no public welfare to cushion the blow, Hoffa was lucky to have a job. But conditions were gruesome. The workers lacked job security and were paid only for the hours they loaded and unloaded, which meant that they often hung around the warehouse all night for just a few hours’ pay.
Making matters much worse was the foreman, Al Hastings, a cruel, dictatorial screamer who took pleasure in taunting the workers and firing men on a whim-“the kind of guy who causes unions,” as Hoffa later said. Hoffa and the other workers tolerated Hastings’s “outrageous meanness” because the alternative-joining long lines of starving men and women begging for a few hours of paid work-seemed worse. But by the spring of 1931, after Hastings fired two workers for no apparent reason, the situation had become intolerable. Hoffa and four other workers decided to form a union.
The idea was risky to the point of irresponsible. Unions aim to establish a cartel among workers at a firm in order to extract from employers wage, benefit, and workplace protections above what the free labor market would provide. This was not a popular idea in 1931, especially in Detroit, which a contemporary observer described as “the open shop capital of America.” Nor was it easy to achieve, since unions at the time had no legal protections, and employers, backed by politicians, police, and hired strikebreakers, fiercely resisted nascent union movements. If Hoffa and his friends had simply presented their grievances, Hastings would have quickly fired and easily replaced them.
The men went forward in a different way. One hot May evening, on Hoffa’s cue, they stopped transferring crates of fresh strawberries from a refrigerated car into a trailer, and left them on the loading docks. Hastings barked orders and threatened to fire the men. But the strikers stood firm. As the strawberries began to wilt, Hastings folded and called his supervisor, who agreed to meet with Hoffa over the men’s grievances if they returned to work. Over the days that followed, the five “strawberry boys” negotiated a one-year contract that recognized their union, guaranteed a half-day’s pay, and established modest work rules.
Hoffa spent the next few years working at the warehouse and for the fledgling Kroger union until he and Hastings had a final confrontation that caused Hoffa to leave. The next day, Joint Council 43 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which had been trying for years to organize the Kroger warehouse, offered him a job as a business agent for Detroit Local 299. The union had emerged at the turn of the century to represent the rough-and-tumble teaming trade. By the early 1930s it had developed into a fragmented and poorly run affiliate of the American Federation of Labor with 40,000 members nationwide, most of whom were inner-city haulers of specialized products (like coal and ice) transitioning from horse-drawn to motor vehicles. Local 299 had only a few hundred members and was near bankruptcy. It offered Hoffa no salary, but rather a portion of the dues of each new member he signed up.
At age twenty-one, and still living with his mother, the squat, muscular Hoffa-by then a dense five feet six inches and 170 pounds-had found his calling. He had worked for a mean-spirited boss and experienced what he later described as the workingman’s “constant insecurity, his pointless frustrations, his perpetual submersion in a pool of hopelessness.” For the rest of his life Hoffa identified with struggling workers and possessed an angry intensity about righting power imbalances in the workplace.
Rafael Pinefa u would of never said that in jimmys prime 😂 he would of polished u right up.
thank you..... Loyal Opposition for the upload... A bold and brilliant man... Mr.Hoffa
You're very welcome.
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Brilliant show, just brilliant. We need shows like this today. Huge masters of their realms conversing while the interviewer sits back and lets it roll.
We need people with guts!
Always have an open mind, because, we're being Lied to all the time.
That's the most important thing to know. But when it's 50/50 - I'll believe the average citizen before some government or industrialist.
This man, as well as Jim Traficant, tried to do the right thing with the circumstances they were given. Jimmy Hoffa was a damn good man. A man's man.
I actually had the Jim Traficant documentary, but UA-cam took it down. I think its on vimeo or dailymotion.. "The Man From Youngstown" (or something like that)..Some good interviews of him on YT, though.
Cant' Stop Watching This..!!
I'm Starting To Believe That If This Man Had Been Allowed To Do His Job, Detroit Would Be Stronger Than Ever.
Any More Good Pieces Like This..?
Try watching this interview, weeks before his death. He's even asked if he's scared of possibly being murdered - ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
The ENTIRE COUNTRY would be better. He built the largest union in the world, which also caused other businesses to unionize. Even the anti-unions thought, "Well, let's pay our workers a living wage so they don't DEMAND a union"
Excellent and important video. Thank you for devoting your time to make it. I wish more people could see it for it’s worth.
Thanks for this post. DC shows are fascinating.
I highly recommend the DC shows with Mort Sahl (there's two on UA-cam), and JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
I totally enjoyed this interview!!
:) (there's another on this channel, right before he disappeared.. Talks about possibly getting murdered)
Jimmy Hoffa was a hero to so many who were able to receive a decent wage for the hours they were working.
Amen...
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he is an unsung hero, all that safety stuff log books etc, came from jimmy. No one can say how many people would be dead on the high way if we did not have saint jimmy to get some rules.
@@doctormcgoveran2194 Very true. No one talks about that; I'm glad you did.
I have been binge watching Dick Cavett shows for the last 6 hours. Thanks for this.
I highly recommend the one with Mort Sahl (there's a fight)
Thank you!!
@@ssunny7172 You're welcome! (there's actually two really good Mort Sahl/Cavett on UA-cam, one with ALL the Fondas)
Wow. What a great interview
Hoffa was exceptional. Called it what is was. The fact he was honest about Kennedy is amazing.
There's two (even) better interviews on this channel. This one is SO frank - ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
Good, bad or indifferent JH was a real MAN. He didn't whine. He just took his lumps and did it.
and a REAL criminal who setback unions for decades.
@@guywithcents he did more good for unions than bad.
Hoffa was tough as nails
Maybe that's why so many people don't like him today... Society of wimps. The masses think strength is "tweeting"
The best prison reform interview that predates all
Yes, this was very good.
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Fascinating how relevant this episode is today especially when compared to current late night talk shows
Yeah, there hasn't been anything vital for many years.
This is wayyyy to Intellectual for today's Americans if the bachelor is any indication of Americas Intelligence we are doomed
crazy was thinking this is the best tv I've seen years lol
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Pretty amazing the cast of historical figures who were guests on that show.
Yeah, we had an abundance of good people. Now, we have .....?
Dick Cavett rules. Intelligent. Funny. Respectful. Humble. We were blessed to have him.
I saw this trailer with Cavett and Mort Sahl not too long ago on UA-cam. I haven't seen any shows, but haven't looked in quite a while.
I was at a retired Teamster officials' house 2 nights ago. He's 96 and had Hoffa memorabilia. It was pretty cool holding a photo that Hoffa signed to him. The gentleman retied in 1985 and while a Teamster official they gave him a new Cadillac every year.
Wow, that's great.. Any stories? I actually love the many stories of Jimmy helping the random man off the street, union or not.
@@LoyalOpposition I will be going back again soon, I didn't get to talk to him much, most of the time it was with his son, I was there for about 5 hours and dad's naptime was near, but his son told me that if he heard how interested I was his dad would gab about everything from those days. He fell recently and had a head injury so he is not as quick as he used to be but never forgot the union days. His son did tell me that their home in Detroit was bugged by the FBI and every year Teamsters gave him a brand new Cadillac, there is a pic in the house of him standing next to his new Cadillac in 1971. I think the home in Detroit has since been demolished but they were nice homes. He started out as a truck driver in the 40s became a union steward and moved up into the local 299 office where Hoffa's office was, became a director and later retired as the president of the credit union. He had to take the witness stand in Tennesee in the early 60s and he must have made a good impression on Hoffa since after that his work life changed for the better though he loved driving a truck from what his son told me. When he was a truck driver in the early 60s he was bringing in $250 dollars a week which was almost double what an auto worker made. I hope he'll be around longer because I want to hear everything he has to say.
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He really does sound like one of the stars of The Godfather but it isn't Pacino. It's Duvall.
Totally
Pacino’s portrayal of Jimmy in the Irishman was a disgrace and laughable- Pacino couldn’t hold Jimmy’s jock.
He sound's like the senator looking for a pay off in godfather 2.
Actually he sounds a huge amount like Senator Pat Geary from GF2
I was watching another UA-cam channel about Russel Bufalino when I saw the thumnail of JH on Dick Cavett ! Jimmy Hoffa! Had to watch it. I have heard about Jimmy Hoffa since I was 13 or 14 . But in the home I grew up in no one knew anything so I always wondered who Hoffa was & why he disappeared. I also want to check the link on here provided by 'loyal opposition' Thank you for the link!
I just uploaded one yesterday on this channel, but here's my favorite - JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
90% of judges are good. (Mr. Hoffa) “How would you like to have one of the bad ones on your case?” Truth
Right.. That could be said for a lot of other professions!
@@LoyalOpposition Few professions where the stakes are as high. If you are a bad landscaper you can be incompetent or corrupt with few consequences. If you’re a airline pilot or heart surgeon, not so much. Police, judges and prosecutors are in the same category. You don’t have the luxury of picking the wrong guy and just excusing it because most of your selections are good and ethical. Would the public accept if ten or twenty percent of pilots crashed into mountains regularly? Some things require perfection, or at least the pursuit or expectation....
@@richstafford1245 You make good points.. I'd also add how those in the most powerful positions can screw up, but be rewarded for it (bankers, politicians, etc)
No question, Hoffa did some shady things in his time heading the Teamsters. However, there is no doubt in my mind that he made the lives of a lot of hard-working people infinitely better than they would've been if he hadn't fought so hard to get them better treatment. Also can't help but give him credit for sticking to his principles at the end and trying to get the mob out of the union, to the point that it probably cost him his life. He was a complex guy, but one that I think did a lot of good.
He got to where he was with the help of the Mafia and he had to know that turning on them would get him killed. Supposedly, he was a government informant at the end of his life, but that didn't stop him from getting killed. Jimmy's ego was his undoing. Very smart man, but he had to win and the game was set up so that he couldn't win. I understand his motives, but I wish he would have thought of his family before making that fateful decision to take the Union back.
Dick Cavett seems to have a fixation with homosexuals in prison. He keeps dwelling on the subject.
Well he did refer to jail as "romantic and exciting" and inmates as "glamorous". Cavett was a strange one.
@@PeeboTyson he was a comedy writer on the tonight show....Johnny Carson like him for the very reason that he was different and let people speak
Crazy how many experts there are on jimmy hoffa now that we watched the Irishman
fuck that movie.
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Best talk show of all time without a doubt
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Let Hoffa's comment at 12:55 sink... and this is 1973.
Quite relevant in 2021.
This has been relevant for decades... Unfortunately, you don't see shows like this, which is why I uploaded it and others that need to be seen (unless it's already on UA-cam).
@@dabearcub Trump is the anti-Hoffa...
He seems more down to earth and subdued than how Pacino played him though that's not really surprisng lol.
Exactly. A man who has power doesn't need to shout.
That's the difference between being an actor and being the real deal.
I felt that Jack Nicholson looked & sounded much more like Hoffa than Pacino.
Everyone's subdued compared to Pacino!!!!
Funny how when Hoffa started going in on oversaturated media so you dont get a fair trial, Dick changed the subject quick.
Cavett should not clown around so much when someone like Hoffa is speaking about prison where Cavett would be terrorized beyond description. Cavett saids prison is romantic well let's hear his thoughts after being raped there. He won't be making jokes then.
@@emmapeeljohnsteed3284 Dick cavett did say that and it's something many subscribe to, but it's rarely talked about, how a bad claim to fame is better than no claim to fame at all, and it gets in the way of rehabilitation when people feel like that's they're shining moment that defines them as a "tough guy", a strong individual that they did time in jail or prison rather than something positive . Or that being a criminal proves you're a tough, strong- individual, as if it's something positive like being a war hero.
The Warden had a issue with Hoffa finding guys jobs on the outside? File that one under the you-gotta-be-kidding file.
Fascinating interview. Thank you.
You're welcome.. If you liked that interview, you might love this - JIMMY HOFFA TALKS ABOUT GETTING MURDERED IN FINAL INTERVIEW -- ua-cam.com/video/wssESZtgPLs/v-deo.html
@@LoyalOpposition Thank you.
@@TexasNightRider You're welcome, and if you get a chance, please comment on what you think of that interview.
Actors (Nicholson, Pacino) have portrayed this guy as a cartoonish character. Hoffa is not like that at all. I'm sure he was complicated, and he had to deal with some heavy people. But was a cartoonish villain or buffoon or lunatic? No. Hollywood always fucks up on this kind of stuff.
THIS is why I had to find this to upload and show people the real person. It's not just Hoffa - people are always referencing an awful movie when they talk to me.
Pacino didn’t portray him as a cartoon. Pacino is just a cartoon 😂
Nicholson’s version was hilarious, especially when juxtaposed with Danny DeVito, whose character never existed.
Ray Liotta could nail it now, if he could get the accent, and if anyone was interested in doing another Hoffa movie.
hoffa was a much different man in front of cavett than he was the teamsters. this was a man who prided himself as "man of the people". so there's plenty of room for cartoonish embellishments
This was great, I was in HS when he disappeared. Although I lived only 20 miles from where he was taken, I never really knew much about the man before.
Check out the interview on this channel (talks about getting whacked), it's the closest Jimmy got... Very free and easy with his words.
I had a friend whose father was a Teamster. I remember when he would tell me stories about what it was like being the son of a Teamster. Unfortunately my friend passed away earlier this year from a heart attack due to an advanced stage of cancer. He was a veteran, a guitarist and friend. Rest in peace, Terry (Gumbo) Moccabee 66 years old. Job well done, Sir.🇺🇲🍻🕊️
Thanks for watching, and thanks for your comments. Take care and enjoy the new uploads!
Does anyone do intelligent unbiased talk like this today? This is amazing!
Have you found any since this comment?
Best and most interviews I've seen in years and very pertinent even in 2020 .
I wish this Show went on for another Hour or Two..this was Great Conversation, Never a Dull moment...
Jimmy Hoffa is always interesting. I have handfuls of videos on this channel. I highly recommend his autobiography (free) on Archive.org