James R. Hoffa Documentation Collection 1934-2011.

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James R. Hoffa Documentation Collection 1934-2011.

1934-2011

https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/111

The collection contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, trial transcripts, publicity materials, and copies of congressional hearings. This material covers a variety of background materials on James R. Hoffa, covering the time period from 1956, when Hoffa was Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, until his disappearance in 1975.

3.0 linear feet 6 document boxes.

eng, Latn

George Washington University

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George Washington University

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