Jimmy Hoffa Jimmy Hoffa James Riddle Hoffa (February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975) was an American labor union leader who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union from 1957 until 1971. He vanished in late July 1975, at age 62. From an early age, Hoffa was a union activist and became an important regional figure with the IBT by his mid-20s. By 1952 he was national vice-president of the IBT, and was its general president between 1957 and 1971. He secured the first national agreement for teamsters' rates in 1964 with the National Master Freight
Missing in action “Vietnam had advocates. This was an older generation, and they didn’t know who to turn to.” In 2008, investigators began to conduct searches on Tarawa atoll in the Pacific Ocean, trying to locate the remains of 139 American Marines, missing since the Battle of Tarawa in 1943. Between 2013 and 2016 the remains of 37 USMC were recovered from Tarawa. As of December 14, 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Accounting Office, there were still 72,776 U.S. servicemen and Civilians still unaccounted for from World War II. According to official US Department of Army and