Jimmy Hoffa

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: FIU Digital Commons - The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa (PDF).	Emily Rodriguez	Dec 16, 2024
	Add new Web site: BBC - Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt.	Grace Young	Oct 29, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Jul 26, 2024
	Add new Web site: Indiana Historical Bureau - James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa.	Gloria Lotha	May 28, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 13, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Feb 10, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 27, 2023
	Cross-references added.	Amy McKenna	Feb 09, 2021
	Changed article title from "James R. Hoffa" to "Jimmy Hoffa."	Adam Augustyn	Aug 08, 2019
	Add new Web site: Crime Museum - Biography of Jimmy Hoffa.	Emily Rodriguez	Apr 11, 2019
	Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - James R. Hoffa.	Emily Rodriguez	Apr 11, 2019
	Add new Web site: Teamsters - A Workers Hero: The Life And Legacy Of James R. Hoffa.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 27, 2018
	Media added.	Michael Ray	Sep 26, 2017
	Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Experience - Biography of James R. Hoffa.	Emily Rodriguez	Feb 22, 2017
	Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Jimmy Hoffa.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 10, 2014
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of James Riddle Hoffa.	Parul Jain	Feb 20, 2012
	Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Jimmy Hoffa.	Parul Jain	Feb 15, 2012
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 25, 2001
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998