Which year really did Robert Kennedy begin his harrasement of Jimmy Hoffa and the teamsters?
Hoffa took over the presidency of the Teamsters in 1957, when his predecessor, Dave Beck, was convicted on bribery charges and imprisoned. Hoffa worked to expand the union, and, in 1964, succeeded in bringing virtually all over-the-road truck drivers in North America under a single national master-freight agreement. Hoffa then tried to bring the airlines and other transport employees into the union. Both President John F. Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, put pressure on Hoffa through the president’s brother Robert F. Kennedy (then Attorney General), in an attempt to investigate his activities and disrupt his ever-growing union. Having expelled the Teamsters in the 1950s, the AFL-CIO aided the Democrats in their investigations. Robert Kennedy was NOT the head of the U.S. Court system, which is independent of the executive branch of government. There is no credible evidence that Hoffa had any connections with Lee Harvey Oswald or the death of either Kennedy brother.
