Welcome back listeners.
Hoffa is on top, and the Wire Men are coming for him.
As the 1950's come to a close, Jimmy Hoffa, Harold Gibbons, and the Teamsters are at the height of their power. They are within an arm's reach of what Hoffa described as labor's "Atom Bomb": an alliance between the Teamsters and the the most militant communist and socialist-led unions in the country, with the aim to control every part of the American transportation system and deliver historic gains for workers.
But not if Robert Kennedy, his counter-espionage trained henchman Walter Sheridan, and an army of attorneys, feds, wire men, and (oddly) state troopers can help it. In this two-parter (it was long), we break down the details of every trumped up charge, and some real ones too, laid against Hoffa to bring him down, but even in the courtroom big H and the Teamsters Union still have a lot of cards to play.
Muzak: Special thanks as always to Komakino for our opening/closing theme. And credit to Obsidian Soundfields for the background ambience of "The Mourning Hall" in the interlude segment. Sound clips borrowed from the 1955 noir film "The Wiretapper" for the interlude.
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