one was jay sarnow, who had a very good relationship with jimmy hoffa and the teamsters. he was able to get money from him. he decided, he came to vegas in 1963 and hated it, he thought it was the most boring place. even though he was a compulsive gambler and like to do a lot of other things that people like to do in vegas. so he decided they needed something special. that something was a theme, a fantasy, excitement. so he built a place called caesar's palace. if you were lucky enough to be invited to the opening, you had a big beefy centaur ian -- cen turian-looking guy come to your house and hand you this scroll. they would invite you for an or gy ofexcitement -- an or excitement featuring andy williams and dancing maidens. this was really great. the idea, what made caesar's palace different, it's it -- as it says in the last paragraph, , the hordesaesar's of gladiators and maidens are here to serve your every wish and command. this is what made las vegas a different kind of destination , and jay had the idea of what happens in vegas stays in vegas long before anybody

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now, in this set of wiretaps, there is a -- i would call it a threat to the attorney for jimmy hoffa and various teamsters leaders. the heading was how he could live to his next birthday. he had a loan to operate the dunes. he was having a little trouble. representatives of the teamsters were reminding him he needed to pay. well, we all think of organized crime as violent, and we should, it was very violent. a lot of people depicted in this and.m were in the business -- end. they were skimming money or they were just operating casinos where the profits go to some organized crime people, some who are not connected, and the casinos here are going to find all kinds of things going on nationally and internationally from the drug trade to various violent crimes or burglary rings. when somebody leaves this museum, i hope they realize that history itself can be fascinating. not everybody thinks that, unfortunately. and that the history of organized crime and law enforcement is intertwined. there are bad guys on both sides. the good guys are on the law enforcement side. organized crime provi

now, in this set of wiretaps, there is a -- i would call it a threat to the attorney for jimmy hoffa and various teamsters leaders. the heading was how he could live to his next birthday. he had a loan to operate the dunes. he was having a little trouble. representatives of the teamsters were reminding him he needed to pay. well, we all think of organized crime as violent, and we should, it was very violent. a lot of people depicted in this museum were in the business end. they were skimming money or they were just operating casinos where the profits go to some organized crime people, some who are not connected, and the casinos here are going to find all kinds of things going on nationally and internationally from the drug trade to various violent crimes or burglary rings. when somebody leaves this museum, i hope they realize that history itself can be fascinating. not everybody thinks that, unfortunately. and that the history of organized crime and law enforcement is intertwined. there are bad guys on both sides. the good guys are on the law enforcement side. organized crime provide

it reminds me of the old jimmy hoffa case, they brought joe louis to shake hands with him in front ofverybody thought we knew the life of o.j. simpson, thought we figured it out. then we got into the courtroom, we didn't know anything. i was covering it that whole year, every night for two hours. when that jury went out for a couple of hours i thought they'd come back fast. when they did i said, conviction for sure. i was blown away as so many people were. tell us about how you went into this and what you were able to do to teach us what we should have learned when it happened. >> i mean -- what's interesting about everything you're saying thus far in terms of irony of the case, it seems to have been forgotten as far as what we're really dealing with as far as who o.j. was as a man before that trial in 1994. i think we in the last 20 years especially have, as a culture, dismissed him as a monster. and i think one of the goals of this story is to just show him in all his human glory and all his celebrity. and have you be seduced by him once again to understand why people were so shocke

this manipulation of the jury reminds me of what happened in the old jimmy hoffa case, when they brought in to shake hands with him. everybody knew, we thought the life of o.j. simpson, we thought, we all figured it all out. we got into that courtroom and didn't know anything was going to happen. i was covering it, that whole year. i covered it every night for two hours. and when that jury came back, i thought they would come back fast. and i said, conviction, for sure. i was blown away, as so many people were. tell us about how you went into this and what you were able to do here, to each us, what we should have learned what had happened? >> what's interesting about everything you're saying, thus far, in terms of the irony of the case, it seems to have been forgotten, as far as what we're really dealing with as far as who o.j. was, as a man before that trial in 1994, i think we in the last 20 years, especially, have, you know, as a culture, dismissed him as a monster. and i think one of the goals of this story is to show him in all his human glory and his celebrity. and have you be sedu

wiretaps, there is -- i would call it a threat to andttorney for jimmy hoffa various teamsters leaders it says how he could live to his next birthday. .e was having a little trouble representatives of the teamsters were reminding him he needed to pay. of organized crime as violence, and we should. it was very violent. a lot of people depicted in this museum though who were in las vegas were in the business end. they were skimming money or they were just operating casinos where the profits go to some organized crime people, some who are not connect it, and the casinos here are going to find all kinds of things going on nationally and internationally from the drug trade to various violent crimes or burglary rings. when somebody leaves this museum, i hope they realize that historyis self -- itself can be fascinating. not everyone thinks that, unfortunately. the history of organized crime and law enforcement is intertwined. there are bad guys on both sides. were on the law enforcement side. organized crime provided a lot of economic benefit to places like that -- like las vegas. aople thin