Senate Report 779: proceedings against Joseph C. Baldassari (1951)
Senate Report No. 779, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph C. Baldassari, who refused to answer questions and to produce records. The report accompanies S. Res. 213 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- Date
- 1951-09-18
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- S. Rept. No. 779, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951); Serial Set 11489
- Rights
- A work of the United States Congress. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105.
The printed caption is “Proceedings against Joseph C. Baldassari for contempt of the Senate.” It is Senate Report No. 779, 82d Congress, 1st Session, submitted by Senator O for the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, to accompany S. Res. 213, ordered printed September 18 (legislative day, September 13), 1951. It is printed in Serial Set volume 11489; the text was read from the Serial Set PDF on govinfo.
The report asks the Senate to certify the facts of Joseph C. Baldassari’s contempt of the Senate to the United States Attorney. The report states that the witness appeared on August 7, 1951, at room 318, Senate Office Building, and that his refusal to answer and to produce records prevented the committee from receiving testimony. It annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
A committee report asking the Senate to certify a contempt is the committee’s account and request, not a court judgment. The refusals it describes are not admissions, and the outcome of the proceeding is not covered by this record. The committee’s closing report, filed separately, has a section on the status of the contempt cases.
The printed hearing volume that lists this witness: Part 19: Pennsylvania.
