Jimmy Hoffa Final Interview - Talks About Getting Whacked!

Playboy interview. I just bought it, and just uploaded it. Shouldn’t be taken down, but I’ll stress urgency. This is an amazing interview.

I don’t want to give any spoilers, but I don’t want to be accused of pasting a link and running away. So spoilers below…

At first, Hoffa is a tiny bit standoffish on the Mob stuff. He says “There is no Mafia” and uses Hoover’s statement years before when he said “There is no Mafia”, but I think that was because the FBI had information on Hoover as being a transvestite. Notice when the interviewer says “Bullshit”, Jimmy starts getting more open. I think it stripped the formalism, and maybe felt at home, and even gets defensive. He mentions the mob later, even hints at murder, by saying “Self-preservation is a big word”.

I think the mob is always blamed for his death, but the FBI was always after him, and he only got out because of Nixon’s commutation. Greatest labor leader, tripled incomes, got his workers benefits. I don’t think the truth will ever come out. I certainly don’t believe that drunk Sheehan who told multiple stories, trying to get any shit to stick to pay his lawyer, so of course, after being turned down by multiple publishers, his lawyer writes that book (awful movie, too, you can watch Hoffa on Cavett on YouTube, and see Pacino not coming close).

Just my theory, but I think many of those guys with “deathbed confessions” only do so because they have nothing to lose and figure they can get the heat off the real killer, and get a payoff and protection for his immediate family/friends.

Hoffa makes a good point about not having a bodyguard, that only cheats would have one, and how many died with bodyguards, because guys relax.

The only source saying Hoover was a cross dresser was Susan Rosenstiel a convicted perjurer. And, yeah, Hoover denied the mafia existed for many years because he favored going after communist. But in the late 50s he sicced the FBI on top mafia bosses.

Presidents were supposedly looked as transients, since Hoover had dirt on them, but he seemed to have no values whatsoever besides looking under every bed for Communists.

As said in “The Grapes of Wrath” - “Any man who wants to be paid a nickel more a Red?” (paraphrase)

I believe in the original source material for the film Amadeus (which may have been a play of the same name—I don’t recall) the motivation posited for Salieri confessing to the murder of Mozart was the fame. Whether he actually did it or not (and the historical record makes it appear unlikely Mozart’s death was anything but natural, albeit premature, Salieri’s confession notwithstanding), he “confessed” (as the source play/musical has his character explain in a sort of monologue) in order to be associated with Mozart, and so be remembered for all time in spite of his “mediocrity.” Achieving enduring fame through his confession, whether any part of it is true or not.

“Mediocrities everywhere, I absolve you!”

If Scorsese’s recent film is any indication, I think it’s fair to say that Sheehan, too, was at best a mediocrity.

Hoover used to bet on horses and when he won he won and when he lost he didn’t have to pay. I tried that and was told I didn’t know the right people. He and the mob had a close understanding. Neither commies nor anticommies are very influential in the racing game.

I saw that movie when I was pretty young, but would like to see that again. I wasn’t sure about his death and really don’t know much about him besides the music. I did doubt that he’d scream like Tom Hulce though :slight_smile:

Just for the record, Amadeus is fiction and wildly inaccurate fiction at that. Salieri was a respected composer and teacher. Mozart’s music did not just come to him, he worked hard at it. There is no evidence that Salieri had anything to do with Mozart’s death. He had no motive to do so. The whole thing was made up by Peter Shaffer. Even the Simpsons had Lisa point this out.

So…Salieri killed Hoffa then?

Hmmm… chin scratch

He’s equally responsible for both Mozart’s and Hoffa’s deaths.

Do you have a cite saying that Hoover didn’t have to pay when he lost or that he gambled illegally? Horse racing in general was a lot more popular in the 40s, 50s, and 60s than it is today. Wikipedia says that Hoover used to send FBI agents with $100 to place bets for him. Where did that money go when he lost?

How can you read this and not read the sentence immediately before it from the same source?

“Gangster Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.[40] Hoover had a reputation as “an inveterate horseplayer” known to send Special Agents to place $100 bets for him.[40] Hoover said the Bureau had “much more important functions” than arresting bookmakers and gamblers.[40]”

Sifakis, Carl (1999). “The Mafia Encyclopedia”. New York: Facts on File. p. 127.
Sifakis, p.127.

And what does this have to do with the arts? Moving to MPSIMS.

What part of that cite said Hoover didn’t pay when he lost?

I came by this article and thought you might (or others) might like it… Entitled, “How I Met J. Edgar Hoover At The Races”

I don’t think you’re reading “sure winners” the same way I am.

Well, you’re outside a poker flat :slight_smile:

You mean Nicholson? Or did Pacino play Hoffa once?

Pacino just tried to play him. Nicholson was better. I never saw the one with Robert Blake, though.