Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed
The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, popularly known as the Kefauver Committee after chairman Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN), convenes televised hearings in New York City in March 1951 that become the most widely viewed congressional investigation to …
Estes Kefauver
U.S. Senate
Frank Costello
Virginia Hill
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