Summary

In Chapter 7, Brand indicates that Hoffa was involved in JFK’s assassination because he believed it would end Bobby Kennedy’s obsession with putting Hoffa in jail. Instead, Bobby Kennedy kept the attorney general position even after his brother’s death. Hoffa was finally jailed on jury tampering charges in 1976. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated while Hoffa was in jail. However, this was only a “lucky break” (66) for Hoffa.

Hoffa and the Teamsters supported Nixon during the presidential election. In turn, Nixon’s administration offered Hoffa a commutation of his sentence. Once Hoffa was out of jail, he became obsessed with getting control of the Teamsters back from Fitzsimmons. At one point, Hoffa even came up with a plan to kill Fitzsimmons. The narration states: “The biggest blow to Hoffa in the mind of the leaders of the American Mafia was his promise...