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charges in the 1980’s, but was eventually released from prison when his conviction was
overturned on appeal. He died on March 3, 1993 at age 83. He had been suffering from
dementia. In the 1960’s, Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering, fraud, and other
charges. He began serving a 13-year prison sentence in 1967, but received executive
clemency from President Richard Nixon in 1971. James Riddle Hoffa famously
disappeared on July 30, 1975, and his body has never been recovered. Authorities
believe that Teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons conspired with the mob to kill Hoffa
to thwart his bid to regain the leadership of the union.
Davis alleged that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was an associate
of Marcello and sought to protect the crime boss by alleging a CIA plot to kill Kennedy
through his prosecution of businessman Clay Shaw. Davis denounced as “preposterous”
the theories advanced in Oliver Stone’s celebration of Garrison in the movie JFK. 473
Davis states that Stone “transformed the volatile, flamboyant, unscrupulous, frequently
irresponsible egomaniac, and publicity hound” Garrison into “the quiet, serious, low key,
crusading strait arrow” prosecutor portrayed by actor Kevin Costner. 474 The Kennedy
assassination conspiracy theorists do not just criticize the Warren Commission: they
frequently eviscerate each other on behalf of their pet theories. There is a great debate
among the theorists over whether the mob or some part of the government, especially the
CIA, was responsible for the murder of President Kennedy. Davis’ theory rests on the
473 Davis, 232.
474 Davis, 236.
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