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Title
Lights, action, camera! Kefauver crime probe gets a 'premiere' opening
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
In 1949 the American Municipal Association, representing more than 10,000 cities, petitioned the federal government to combat the growing influence of organized crime. Newspapers and magazines at the time were reporting that organized crime was extensive, with labor racketeering threatening the American economy. Federal law provided few tools for the government to act. The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was established in 1950. The committee, led by U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, became known as the Kefauver Committee. It investigated organized crime that crossed state borders in the United States from 1950-1951. Kefauver was the committe's first chairman, from May 1950 until April 1951. Senator Herbert O'Conor of Maryland assumed the chairmanship until the committee ended on September 1, 1951.
Photograph caption dated February 27, 1951 reads "All kinds of cameras, from candid to TV, aim at Senator Estes Kefauver (1) and Carey S. Hill (2), foreman of 1950 grand jury, as Kefauver's Senate crime probers swing into action here." Pictured is a crowded room with men and women in chairs facing men at a desk in front of the American flag. An ABC KECA-TV camera can be seen in the photo.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106436
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1487
CARL0005334131
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33920
Subject
Kefauver, Estes,--1903-1963
United States.--Congress.--Senate.--Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
ABC Television Network
Legislators--United States
Legislative hearings--California--Los Angeles
Organized crime--United States
Committees--United States
Criminal investigation--California--Los Angeles
Television cameras
Microphones
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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