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In Hoffa's Shadow A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

Jack Goldsmith

" As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of t...

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It was discussed as a book about Jack Goldsmith's stepfather, who was a suspect in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and how Jack's perception of his stepfather and his own life changed as a result of his involvement in the case.

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It's called In Hoffa's Shadow, A Stepfather, A Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth.

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Episode: Targeted Killings: Suleimani & Hoffa (with Jack Go...

It was discussed as a book about Jack Goldsmith's stepfather, who was a suspect in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and how Jack's perception of his stepfather and his own life changed as a result of his involvement in the case.

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It's called In Hoffa's Shadow, A Stepfather, A Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth.

And what makes it fascinating, we'll get into it in some detail shortly, is that it's a book about law and about crime, but also personal to you.

It's a book about law and about crime, but also personal to you.

So, Jimmy Hoffa was the leader of the Teamsters Union, truckers, warehouse workers and others which was the largest union in the nation, almost a couple of million people in the 50s and 60s.

And then very famously and very mysteriously on the afternoon of July 30th, 1975, he was in a parking lot outside a suburban Detroit restaurant waiting for a meeting with a few mobsters and he disappeared and nobody knows what happened to him.

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