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<\/a>By Larry Henry<\/strong><\/p>\nA special news program about former labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, whose disappearance in 1975 remains unsolved, is part of the debut lineup on the new Fox Nation streaming service.<\/p>\n
The hour-and-a-half special by Eric Shawn, a Fox News anchor and senior correspondent, looks at different theories surrounding Hoffa\u2019s disappearance and calls upon the federal government to release unredacted FBI documents on the case.<\/p>\n
In a recent telephone interview, Shawn told me it is time for the FBI to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and release the files.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s let it all out,\u201d Shawn said.<\/p>\n
The broadcast special, \u201cRiddle: The Search for James R. Hoffa,\u201d plays upon the former Teamsters leader\u2019s middle name, Riddle, and the longstanding mystery over his disappearance more than 43 years ago. His body has never been recovered.<\/p>\n
The Fox Nation streaming service, which debuted in late November, is available to subscribers at nation.foxnews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975, outside the Machus Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant, where he was supposed to have met with Mafia leaders to resolve differences. Some underworld figures were unhappy that Hoffa, after serving a prison term on jury tampering and pension fraud convictions, was attempting to regain control of the Teamsters and had threatened to expose the union\u2019s Mob connections.<\/p>\n Next year, a movie directed by Martin Scorsese is set to run on Netflix, asserting that Frank \u201cThe Irishman\u201d Sheeran, a Teamsters official and Mafia hit man, killed his friend Hoffa on orders from the Mob.<\/p>\n Starring Robert De Niro as Sheeran, the movie is centered on the 2004 book \u201cI Heard You Paint Houses\u201d by Charles Brandt, a former Delaware chief deputy attorney general. Painting houses is underworld code for a contract killing.<\/p>\n Some Hoffa experts, including journalist and author Dan E. Moldea, doubt Sheeran\u2019s version of the Hoffa disappearance, saying Sheeran changed his story over the years. In 2003, Sheehan died at age 83.<\/p>\n Moldea has written that the killer was not Sheeran but instead was New Jersey Teamsters business agent Salvatore \u201cSally Bugs\u201d Briguglio. In 1978, only three years after the Hoffa disappearance, two unknown assassins shot Briguglio to death on Mulberry Street in New York City\u2019s Little Italy.<\/p>\n I recently wrote about the controversy surrounding the upcoming Scorsese movie, \u201cThe Irishman,\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shawn told me in late November that the Hoffa story still generates widespread interest and that he plans to continue reporting on the subject.<\/p>\n In an earlier television broadcast, Shawn said, \u201cJimmy Hoffa left a legacy for the labor movement and a fascination for many that continues to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n Larry Henry\u2019s YouTube channel includes videos he shot of Mob sites in Las Vegas, the apartment building in Santa Monica, California, where Whitey Bulger was arrested, and the remote Arkansas airport where Barry Seal transported drugs into the U.S for the Medellin Cartel. <\/strong><\/em>Subscribe HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [si-contact-form form=’2′]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [AdSense-A] By Larry Henry A special news program about former labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, whose disappearance in 1975 remains unsolved, is part of the debut lineup on the new Fox Nation streaming service. The hour-and-a-half special by Eric Shawn, a Fox News anchor and senior correspondent, looks at different theories surrounding Hoffa\u2019s disappearance and calls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19236],"class_list":["post-76543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-the-mafia-chronicles-television-special-explores-hoffa-disappearance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76543"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}