The $50 a person event is scheduled a week before the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of former Teamsters boss Jimmy ...

Squat, muscular James Riddle Hoffa. 46, once tried to sum up in four short sentences his career after he left school at the end of the seventh grade: “I got a job in a department store—stock boy.

It was 49 years ago this week that the former Teamsters union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, vanished without a trace, and the Hoffa riddle is a befitting title for the anniversary week of his disappearance.

Hoffa’s fisty proposal: a conference, to be held next month, of leaders of some 50 transportation unions, whose membership runs to 3.5 million.

James Riddle Hoffa was one of America’s most prominent labor organizers. Born on Feb. 14, 1913, in Indiana, Hoffa and his family would move to Detroit’s west side when he was about 11 years ...

Who was Jimmy Hoffa? Closeups of James Hoffa, president of the teamsters union in April 1966 (Getty Images) James Riddle Hoffa was one of America’s most prominent labor organizers.

Watch: "Riddle, The Search For James R. Hoffa," streaming on Fox Nation. The latest episode, number 6, tells the story of "The Last Living Suspect," Gabe Briguglio.

It may be fitting that the "R" in James R. Hoffa is for Riddle; his actual middle name, and the maiden name of Hoffa's mother. The Scoop That Never Was: 40 years ago Jimmy Hoffa probably ...