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  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    01:15:00 PM
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Hoffa left home

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    01:15:00 PM

    On July 30, 1975, Hoffa left home in his green Pontiac Grand Ville at 1:15 p.m. Before heading to the restaurant.




  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    02:00:00 PM
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Disappearance

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    02:00:00 PM

    Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975, after going out to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone. The meeting was arranged to take place at 2 p.m. at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, a suburb of Detroit. The Machus Red Fox was known to Hoffa; it had been the site for the wedding reception of his son, James. Hoffa wrote the date in his office calendar: "TG—2 p.m.—Red Fox".




  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    02:15:00 PM
    Jimmy Hoffa

    An Annoyed Hoffa Called His Wife

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    02:15:00 PM

    On July 30, 1975, At 2:15 p.m., an annoyed Hoffa called his wife from a payphone on a post in front of Damman Hardware, directly behind the Red Fox and complained, "Where the hell is Tony Giacalone? I'm being stood up." His wife told him she had not heard from anyone. He told her he would be home at 4:00 p.m. Several witnesses saw Hoffa standing by his car and pacing the restaurant's parking lot. Two men saw Hoffa emerge from the Red Fox after a long lunch and recognized him; they stopped to chat with him briefly and to shake his hand.




  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    03:27:00 PM
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Hoffa called Linteau

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    03:27:00 PM

    On July 30, 1975, At 3:27 p.m., Hoffa called Linteau complaining that Giacalone was late. Hoffa said, "That dirty son of a bitch Tony Jocks set this meeting up, and he's an hour and a half late." Linteau told him to calm down and to stop by his office on the way home. Hoffa said he would and hung up; this is Hoffa's last known communication.




  • Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Hoffa stopped in Pontiac

    Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 30, 1975

    On July 30, 1975, Hoffa stopped in Pontiac at the office of his close friend Louis Linteau, a former president of Teamsters Local 614 who now ran a limousine service.




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