it is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in american history -- whatever happened to jimmy hoffa,he onetime leader of the teamsters union? he disappeared in 1975, never to be seen again. the man who became an immediate suspect was chucky o'brien, hoffa's right-hand man. now o'brien's stepson has written a book about the case. jack goldsmith is a former government lawyer and author of "in hoffa's shadow." joined me a short time ago. thanks for being with us. jack: thanks for having me. laura: you were 12 years old when jimmy hoffa disappeared. your stepfather became a suspect. what was that time like? jack: it was a crazy time because i barely knew my stepfather. he had been my stepfather for a few weeks, i had just known him for a few months. i adored him. i'd already come to idolize him and then jimmy hoffa disappears. it was a notorious front-page event for months, as was his face on the front page of all the national newspapers and fbi suspicions. it was a very difficult time. laura: can you explain to our viewers how the disappearance of jimmy hoffa became this mystery that ca

love and affection i never had i thought he was the greatest six months after my mom married him jimmy hoffa disappeared mysteriously from a parking lot in the suburbs of detroit michigan and to this day there was no direct evidence of what happened to hoffa he vanished there's a lot of theories but nobody knows what happened. he was in the parking lot and seated the parking lot at 2:45 p.m. the next thing you know his last phone call at 330 and that is it there a lot of theories how he was picked up but we don't know to this day what happened jimmy hoffa in the fifties and sixties one of the most well-known public figures in the country led the teamsters union when the most powerful union in the country he has personality and the extraordinary labor leader for the teamsters and also corrupted many ways. with many ties to organized crime and use the pension fund to line his own pockets but is a huge large figure basically went to jail in 1967 when nixon pardoned him or commuted his sentence was trying to regain the presidency of the teamsters when he disappeared. certainly at the behest of t

it was in this country who didn't know who jimmy hoffa was. charging guy wouldn't go what a night you want to so you charge it again when i feel there's already speculation the academy will be running to nominate the irish man for oscars. that makes no difference to me i'm here to defend your right. you have to see the movie the norwegian all over canals god is best known for his 6 autobiographical novels called by struggle but he's also written a definitive book about norway's most famous artists and wagner monk monk is best known for his picture of the scream but he was a very prolific artist there are over 1700 works by him a museum and docile dog had the bright idea of asking canals god to curator an exhibition of monks works in cooperation with the monk museum in oslo. carlo the close court has achieved worldwide fame as an old firm by divulging intimate details of his life now he's face to face with another norwegian icon so is this about a movie or about janelle scored or about something completely different so what i have experienced a

telling me the truth. >> reporter: he said hoffa's body was cremated. >> they took the body to the incinerator. that was a funeral parlor? >> funeral parlor, yeah. jimmy put into the incinerator. >> reporter: but he went even further, not only did he know what happened to hoffa after he was murdered, he confessed he was the one who killed him. with two bullets to the back of the head in this house in detroit. and that was that. at the end of the day, do you bee him? >> i do, yeah. >> reporter: you think he did it? >> i do. that's me. i do. >> yeah, i sort of do, too. too many things when he tells the stories, they're so accurate. if i were to tell you of my day, which i really think is interesting, by the way -- >> reporter: especially today. >> especially today and the last five minutes, you know, you would know i'm telling the truth, you know. and then i went and then the bus -- and it was going this way and i said, well, i'll get a cab. i saw the cab driver -- there are so many details that come out -- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. that's great. >> you just say, that's real. >> reporter: do you ever wonder what he would think of the film? >> oh, gosh. >> i

ok pepsi's character once sheerin played by robert de niro to take out the powerful union leader jimmy hoffa played by pitino. well glad to meet you too even if it's over the phone the irish man is a milestone in movie history the 1st time ever that the great italian american actors have all teamed up together with the great italian american director martin scorsese. it's like being at war and you know get up there you know you haven't met with martin scorsese and so you take chances which i like you about these movies and they have been times when i come out 15 years in the making a lot of that is getting the scripts right getting the actors getting everybody available and then it got to a point where we would have someone with our schedules doing other films and other commitments that by the time we got to do it they could play younger so we have to get into this. digital age which is experimental not to sit down and that's right this is not just good makeup it's what it is aging technology let's course a.z. make the film with flashbacks spanning about half a century with the stars sometim

paint houses" the life story of philadelphia tough guy frank sheeran who worked for the mob and jimmy hoffaough to get into "vinyl" which marty directed so i got into his rolodex and he offered me this role. >> he trusted you. >> yeah, which was scary for me. >> did you have second thoughts or did you think -- >> i'm having second thoughts now. it was petrifying, i'm meeting these guys for the first time, i'm scared meeting you for the first time. >> somehow i doubt that. >> "the irishman" will have a limited run in theaters and then go to netflix which produced it, the price tag spent on technology to make the actors look decades younger. >> became more of a reality, and did some tests and then i don't know what came first, the test or netflix, probably netflix and we could get the money to do it. >> pacino plays jimmy hoffa, a name as faded as the power of labor unions in the united states but in his day -- >> my father was a teamster, jimmy hoffa was a god in my house, he wore the buttons, my father wore the buttons. >> he was a real icon back then. wanted to know who he was, really, whe

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