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I found Jimmy Hoffa doing genealogy!

6/27/2016

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I was at the Archives of Michigan this last Saturday, looking through the Detroit Recorders Court misdemeanor books for 1939 on a wild goose chase. The pages are unindexed and are in order of the date of the hearing. Since I didn't know if the person I was looking for was even in there, I had to look at each entry on each of the 540 or so pages of the books. Then on page 473 a name caught my eye. It wasn't the name I was looking for, but people have been looking for this person for years. I found Jimmy Hoffa! (see image below)

Turns out Jimmy and two others were brought in for "Interfering with a person in the lawful pursuit of his avocation". Jimmy and one of the others were found not guilty, not so for the other guy. He was fined $10 (equivalent to $168.95 in today's money) which is marked as "Paid". We might not know where Jimmy is today, but we know where he was on October 9, 1939, in the Detroit Recorder's Court!
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