Jimmy Hoffa Is Shot With an Air Pistol Nashville, Tennessee December 5, 1962

Jimmy Hoffa was tried in Nashville, Tennessee in December 1962. Hoffa was indicted for violating the Taft-Hartley Act when after he took money from a Detroit transportation in return for settling a labor dispute. Before this case the Teamsters boss had beaten federal government raps on three successive occasions. On December 5th the judicial proceedings were interrupted by a man who rushed through a gated partition between court spectators and trial principals.