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Kefauver gained national prominence and popularity as a result of the hearings. He was on the cover of Time magazine and co-wrote a book, Crime in America , about the investigation.
Detail - 1951. February 28, 1951 - Preliminary report from the Senator Estes Kefauver investigation that had begun on May 11, 1950 into organized crime is issued, stating that gambling take was in excess of $20 billion per year. Organized crime was rampant, a growing problem in cities across the United States.
21. Mai 2018 · Estes Kefauver. Born July 26, 1903 (Madisonville, Tennessee) Died August 10, 1963 (Bethesda, Maryland) U.S. senator. Estes Kefauver was a senator from Tennessee who gained national attention as chairman of the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. Conducted by the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses in 1950 and 1951 ...
interstate scale. Whether Kefauver's investigation. 2 . will score anywhere near as many points as the grand total chalked up by Dewey's investigation remains to be seen-hopefully. We might ask ourselves why it required an investigation by a U. S. Senate committee in order for certain city and county governments to begin a long-overdue
Television, Kefauver and His Crime Investigation Senate in 1948, he began searching for "an adequate vehicle for his crusading tendencies."' He found it in his curiosity about the operation of organized crime across state lines. As a result of his persistence, a special committee was created and Kefauver appointed to head the investigation ...
Kefauver Investigation: Directed by Edmund Reek. With Joe King, Joe Adonis, Frank Costello, Vito Genovese. The Movietone news department took the televised proceedings of the United States Senate Crime Investigating Committee hearings, also filmed in their entirety by Movietone News cameraman, culled out the hours of dull senators-vs-lawyers exchanges, and came up with fifty-two minutes of ...
Joseph L. Nellis, Legal Aspects of the Kefauver Investigation, 42 J. Crim. L. Criminology & Police Sci. 163 (1951-1952) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology by an authorized editor of ...
