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This interview could have been destroyed like so many interviews where the interviewer feels the need to dominate the conversation by asking a billion questions. Cavett said little and let Hoffa talk. Well done. Very interesting.

My father was a Teamster. That good life in America is over. I'm glad this is still on KZfaq so people can see the real man and judge for themselves.

“If the media can do this too Jimmy Hoffa then they can this to any citizen in the United States” That turned out to be true.

Almost 50 yrs ago and people are still being sentenced to prison for minor offenses. Hoffa was on point!

Who would have thought watching this in 1973, that 46 years later Jimmy Hoffa would have the most normal looking haircut of anyone on the show?

Thank you Jimmy for all you've done for labor and the middle class.

Jimmy Hoffa is one of the most fascinating figures in US history.

Hoffa just commands a room. This interview is intoxicating. Wow. Hoffa & Cavett had more intelligence in their ring fingers than all of the talk show hosts on tv today do combined.

JH only had a 7th grade education but he sounded more educated and articulate than a lot of college graduates that I know in today's society.

This interview is a real historical document about a fascinating figure. Thank you so much for posting it.

Jimmy is sharp as a knife, very articulate smart man

This is an awesome interview. 9 years for two marijuana cigarettes that's is absurd. Hoffa was talking prison reform in 1973!!

Enjoyed the movie "The Irishman' but this interview with Hoffa is far more insightful

Great interview. He's so much more intelligent than the way they portray him in Hollywood movies. Clear thinking, concise. No wonder they had to get rid of him.

Hoffa did what he had to do for the working man… We've lost that now. Companies dictate our rights and treatments, and governments are submissive to companies. Hoffa corrupt or not he was the people's champ in many ways. He understood men better than our politicians.

Fascinating listening to him talk. Could listen to him talk for hours. Very intelligent man....

Back in the 80's I worked in a furniture factory and was in teamsters union and our benefits were greats. It was the best job I ever had.

A political prisoner who was more honest than those the politicians who put him in jail.

Hoffa was a superstar to the working man back when I was a kid ..my dad was a teamster and Hoffa was big in our house . I believe he truly cared about his members and all working people . We need stronger unions these days .. Working men and women need to have representation because our government has failed in representing us .

Smart, powerful, tough as a nail!! A REAL MAN!! Don’t see this type of man much today. this country is so screwed. God bless ur Soul Jimmy!

I was surprised to hear how well-spoken and intelligent he was. Illuminating interview.

I am forever grateful for Hoffa. My dad worked for GM and without Hoffa he would have made pennies. He also made the job safe. TY to Mr. Hoffa.

My grandfather who ran away from home at age 13 in Russia or Ukraine, served in the Czar’s navy. When the revolution occurred he started traveling working on ships as a merchant marine. Wound up in USA. Was a truck driver in NYC. He was a Teamster and loved J Hoffa

A strong, famous, powerful person, with more focus on helping than taking, never survives long in this world.

So much praise for a man who defrauded the pension of hard working folks

A truly fascinating interview with Jimmy Hoffa.

Wow this man was truly fearless

They dont make em like this no more folks.

Dick Cavett, one of the best TV host. Hoffa wouldn't have gotten in two words before a host now day's would have jumped in and talked about himself for most of the show.

Hoffa was speaking facts

I never thought that I could ever feel any sympathy for Jimmy Hoffa. These Cavett interviews are extremely informative...an invaluable education in so many ways...

This show never disappoints. Intelligent, articulate, and non-politically correct conversation. Tremendous.

He really was a more honest man than our government.

No wonder he was So Powerful Such a Great Leader…. HES BRILLIANT he’s meticulous he’s another level

I’ve been a Teamster for 23 years!! Best decision I ever made was to join this union!!

I’ve been a Teamster for 25 years and very proud of that. I also had the pleasure of meeting James P Hoffa too. Mr. Hoffa was quite an interesting man.

I so appreciate this interview. For someone that has been keenly interested in Mr Hoffa there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of candid interviews like this one.

You’d never have a conversation like this on TV today. Were people just much more educated back then??

I used to hate unions as a new executive, they were a pain in the butt to negotiate with and slowed things down trust me they weren't perfect. Never was a fan of paying folks more just because of seniority vs meritocracy. But seeing the bottom line, we screwed our workers over in a lot of ways. I came to realize, Unions really need to balance corporate greed.

Watching this interview nearly 50 years later was so fascinating because so much of it rings true even today probably more so than I did back at the time! In my opinion Hoffa was a great man who was targeted by the federal government and the mafia for standing up to principal and looking after his union workers.

This man was self educated, very intelligent and ahead of his time, He bravely stood by what he believed, I disagree with some of his politics, but I respect his rights to his views. He was a great leader and hero to the working man, sucks that he was pushed aside when he was at the point of achieving great labor reform. Great man so sad he became vilified.

FASCINATING...this could never happen today!

Damn he is so candid.

This man has balls.

Jimmy Hoffa this man was 1 in a billion

WOW!!! Thank you so much for posting this.

Fascinating interview thank you for posting

Hoffa was a very intelligent and interesting man. He would not bite when Cavett attempted to provoke a sensational or controversial response. Objective and incisive.

I admire Mr Hoffa for his strength free thinking the guys a leader. Stand up guy.

Go Jimmy! You’ll always be remembered as a friend of the working man.

Excellent and important video. Thank you for devoting your time to make it. I wish more people could see it for it’s worth.

In 1924, Viola moved the family to Detroit in search of the same things Sylvia Pagano would seek sixteen years later: a steadier job and better wages. Viola worked long hours polishing radiator caps at the Fisher Body plant and washed laundry in her spare time. Hoffa worked odd jobs on weekends and evenings to help his mother. He also got in fights. When he first moved to Detroit, a group of Polish boys taunted him and his brother, Billy. “We learned that unless you were willing to fall into line and accept the pecking order of an existing clan, you had to establish your right to maintain your own private domain,” Hoffa later recalled. “This was accomplished by bloody noses and shiners, but finally we won acceptance into the neighborhood youth’s social order.” The same philosophy would later guide Hoffa in his confrontations with recalcitrant employers, rival unions, and the federal government. The young Hoffa also absorbed his mother’s Protestant ethic. He loved to work from the time he was a child, and he would always live frugally, even in the years when his Teamsters office looked out on the nation’s capital and he was surrounded by suitcases full of cash. Hoffa never smoked or drank, and he looked down on others who did. He embraced what he described as his mother’s “remarkable independence, responsibility, resourcefulness, and steadfastness.” It is little surprise that a young man with these values, in his family’s circumstances, would quit school after ninth grade and go to work full-time. In 1927, the fourteen-year-old Hoffa began work as a stock boy at Frank & Cedar’s Dry Goods and General Merchandise, earning $12 each week for sixty hours of work. He loved the job and his co-workers. His bosses told him he had great prospects there, and the future labor leader dreamed of running the store one day. But then the stock market crashed in October 1929, hitting Detroit harder than any city in the country. The automobile industry collapsed, and with it the city’s jobs. One-third of the Detroit workforce was unemployed within a year, and Hoffa’s prospects at Frank & Cedar’s suddenly looked bleak. Taking the advice of a co-worker that the food business was a more secure place to work because people had to eat, Hoffa got a job through friends at a Kroger warehouse near his home. If Hoffa’s happy days working at Frank & Cedar’s would later inform his sometimes-cozy relationship with employers, his job at Kroger at the height of the Depression would teach him the need for unions and make him a labor leader. He worked the night shift, unloading freight cars of fresh produce at thirty-two cents per hour. With Detroit’s economy still shrinking, with tent cities, public begging, and garbage-eating growing, and with no public welfare to cushion the blow, Hoffa was lucky to have a job. But conditions were gruesome. The workers lacked job security and were paid only for the hours they loaded and unloaded, which meant that they often hung around the warehouse all night for just a few hours’ pay. Making matters much worse was the foreman, Al Hastings, a cruel, dictatorial screamer who took pleasure in taunting the workers and firing men on a whim-“the kind of guy who causes unions,” as Hoffa later said. Hoffa and the other workers tolerated Hastings’s “outrageous meanness” because the alternative-joining long lines of starving men and women begging for a few hours of paid work-seemed worse. But by the spring of 1931, after Hastings fired two workers for no apparent reason, the situation had become intolerable. Hoffa and four other workers decided to form a union. The idea was risky to the point of irresponsible. Unions aim to establish a cartel among workers at a firm in order to extract from employers wage, benefit, and workplace protections above what the free labor market would provide. This was not a popular idea in 1931, especially in Detroit, which a contemporary observer described as “the open shop capital of America.” Nor was it easy to achieve, since unions at the time had no legal protections, and employers, backed by politicians, police, and hired strikebreakers, fiercely resisted nascent union movements. If Hoffa and his friends had simply presented their grievances, Hastings would have quickly fired and easily replaced them. The men went forward in a different way. One hot May evening, on Hoffa’s cue, they stopped transferring crates of fresh strawberries from a refrigerated car into a trailer, and left them on the loading docks. Hastings barked orders and threatened to fire the men. But the strikers stood firm. As the strawberries began to wilt, Hastings folded and called his supervisor, who agreed to meet with Hoffa over the men’s grievances if they returned to work. Over the days that followed, the five “strawberry boys” negotiated a one-year contract that recognized their union, guaranteed a half-day’s pay, and established modest work rules. Hoffa spent the next few years working at the warehouse and for the fledgling Kroger union until he and Hastings had a final confrontation that caused Hoffa to leave. The next day, Joint Council 43 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which had been trying for years to organize the Kroger warehouse, offered him a job as a business agent for Detroit Local 299. The union had emerged at the turn of the century to represent the rough-and-tumble teaming trade. By the early 1930s it had developed into a fragmented and poorly run affiliate of the American Federation of Labor with 40,000 members nationwide, most of whom were inner-city haulers of specialized products (like coal and ice) transitioning from horse-drawn to motor vehicles. Local 299 had only a few hundred members and was near bankruptcy. It offered Hoffa no salary, but rather a portion of the dues of each new member he signed up. At age twenty-one, and still living with his mother, the squat, muscular Hoffa-by then a dense five feet six inches and 170 pounds-had found his calling. He had worked for a mean-spirited boss and experienced what he later described as the workingman’s “constant insecurity, his pointless frustrations, his perpetual submersion in a pool of hopelessness.” For the rest of his life Hoffa identified with struggling workers and possessed an angry intensity about righting power imbalances in the workplace.

I love how he said the whole story, noting even that it is a controversial subject even because of the guest. I get the feeling that talk shows wouldn't dare to do anything like that today

At 13:05 into this video Hoffa makes a profound statement about what can happen when the government and media align.

If only we had a Jimmy Hoffa for todays labor rights advocacy.

The best prison reform interview that predates all

Can u imagine how many people saw this episode back then!!! All them old wise guys

Good, bad or indifferent JH was a real MAN. He didn't whine. He just took his lumps and did it.

Dick Cavett rules. Intelligent. Funny. Respectful. Humble. We were blessed to have him.

Crazy how many experts there are on jimmy hoffa now that we watched the Irishman

It’s nice to see this is available for us to see many years later. They don’t make talk show hosts like this anymore. We now have fake laughing constantly interrupting people talk show hosts doing silly skits. They need to go back and study this. I was only 8 when this came out but I remember Dick’s show. I also remember Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas and the great guests they had ❤️from🇨🇦

Always have an open mind, because, we're being Lied to all the time.

I'm happy they have this interview with Jimmy Hoffa always wondering what he was like so thank you this was very interesting!

Hoffa was tough as nails

Hoffa was not a saint but he was the only man in the US that successfully and truthfully fought for labor and health care rights for the working class in America (good wages, regular hours, good healthcare, scholarships, etc). He was the only man that could say no to the mob wanting full access to the teamsters pension fund, to the same mob that he had to work with to stop mobsters from bracking the Union's strikes. He said: Be aware that it will be a tought fight to keep the rights we work so hard to achieve because the government and big corporations want to do anything it takes to take them away. Little did he know that his mob friends would betrayed him along with his VP and others and helped the government and the big corporations in getting him out of the way. A natural leader and good man, he risked himself deffending prisioners rights and trying to help them. He fought for non discrimination, civil rights and against segregation way before anyone. He was soo right regarding probation.

Let Hoffa's comment at 12:55 sink... and this is 1973. Quite relevant in 2021.

“THEY WOULDN’T DARE.....”

I wish this Show went on for another Hour or Two..this was Great Conversation, Never a Dull moment...

This man, as well as Jim Traficant, tried to do the right thing with the circumstances they were given. Jimmy Hoffa was a damn good man. A man's man.

Best talk show of all time without a doubt

thank you..... Loyal Opposition for the upload... A bold and brilliant man... Mr.Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa was a hero to so many who were able to receive a decent wage for the hours they were working.

Many, many government people should have been in jail way before any thoughts of him going.

90% of judges are good. (Mr. Hoffa) “How would you like to have one of the bad ones on your case?” Truth

Every so-called "reporter" and so-called "interviewer" in today's media should be forced to watch what a real interview should be like. From Rachel Maddow to those idiots on Fox. Watch and learn.

Wow. What a great interview Hoffa was exceptional. Called it what is was. The fact he was honest about Kennedy is amazing.

great video i was interested after being to the movie The irishman.

I had a friend whose father was a Teamster. I remember when he would tell me stories about what it was like being the son of a Teamster. Unfortunately my friend passed away earlier this year from a heart attack due to an advanced stage of cancer. He was a veteran, a guitarist and friend. Rest in peace, Terry (Gumbo) Moccabee 66 years old. Job well done, Sir.🇺🇲🍻🕊️

I have been binge watching Dick Cavett shows for the last 6 hours. Thanks for this.

Thanks for this post. DC shows are fascinating.

Funny how when Hoffa started going in on oversaturated media so you dont get a fair trial, Dick changed the subject quick.

I totally enjoyed this interview!!

Best and most interviews I've seen in years and very pertinent even in 2020 .

What an insightful, articulate man; What would he have said about the decimation of the middle class.

Pretty amazing the cast of historical figures who were guests on that show.

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Cavett is the most elegant and cultured host in the history of TV. Just brilliant.

Very fortunate to have found this. Amazing dialogue, this should be in a time capsule

Does anyone do intelligent unbiased talk like this today? This is amazing!

Cant' Stop Watching This..!! I'm Starting To Believe That If This Man Had Been Allowed To Do His Job, Detroit Would Be Stronger Than Ever. Any More Good Pieces Like This..?

Fascinating how relevant this episode is today especially when compared to current late night talk shows

Brilliant show, just brilliant. We need shows like this today. Huge masters of their realms conversing while the interviewer sits back and lets it roll.

Dick Cavett seems to have a fixation with homosexuals in prison. He keeps dwelling on the subject.

RIP Jimmy!!! He may not have been perfect, but like I always say, I'm gonna vote/cheer/fight with the crook that does the most for the working class and the poor and it is not hard to see what side does that these days...just look at the trillion-dollar tax breaks for the top 1 percent and you can figure it out!!!

James Hoffa was a very intelligent individual. He was sadly removed by evil individuals who did not approve of the truth and feared it when spoken.

Newest subscriber.!!.. Well earned as well may I say..this interview demonstrates in true light, the quality of man Jimmy Hoffa was. Knowing the art of surveillance back then was no little thing, the denial response was comical to say the least..lmao.

Wow, now that's a talk show! Look at what we have today.

He was giving good advice for betterment of jail life. Yet they ignored it.

He really does sound like one of the stars of The Godfather but it isn't Pacino. It's Duvall.