# Kefauver Part 1-A, Exhibit 2: chart, "Organized Gambling in Tampa"

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-exhibit-2-organized-gambling-in-tampa-chart/

A staff chart printed at page 482 of Part 1-A, headed "Organized Gambling in Tampa", listing killings and attempted killings in Tampa from 1931 to 1950 with the arrest or conviction noted against each; received in evidence at the Tampa hearing on December 29, 1950.

On December 29, 1950, at the Tampa hearing, Senator Lester C. Hunt told the witness Fowler that "we are going to direct your attention to some charts which the staff has prepared." Later that day, before Noah W. Caton testified, Senator Hunt asked that "the three sheets to be numbered, respectively, Nos. 2, 3, and 4, and admitted as exhibits for the record"; the record notes that the charts "were received in evidence as exhibits 2, 3, and 4, respectively, and appear in the appendix on pp. 482 and 483" (printed pages 53 and 71 of Part 1-A).

Exhibit No. 2 is printed at page 482. The schedule of exhibits calls it a chart showing "Organized gambling in Tampa." Under that heading the chart names "Numbers," "Rackets," "Narcotics," "Some public officials" and "Unsolved murders," then lists dated entries from July 26, 1931 to June 5, 1950, each with a name and a note such as "(no arrest)," and a lower band headed "Attempted Assassinations." Introducing it, associate counsel Rice said the chart "has been compiled by information obtained by the committee and is intended to depict a chronological history of the number of assassinations and attempted assassinations that have happened in Tampa" (page 53).

On February 22, 1951, questioning the county solicitor, Senator Tobey asked: "What is this sickening record here, this chart from Life magazine of 19 murders, or attempted murders, and no arrests in almost every case, and 1 conviction out of 15 cases?" (page 455). The printed record does not tie that remark to Exhibit No. 2 by number, and this archive does not decide whether the chart Tobey held is this one. Because the record leaves open whether the artwork came from a 1951 magazine, the image of this exhibit is withheld pending the owner's rights review. The page keeps the printed description and the testimony around it.

This is a hearing exhibit. The names, dates and outcomes on it are the labels of the chart as the committee staff drew it; they are not findings of the committee or of a court, and none is copied to a family page or a person page.

## Sources

- Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy): https://archive.org/details/investigationofo01aunit
- Full text of the volume (Internet Archive, OCR): https://archive.org/download/investigationofo01aunit/investigationofo01aunit_djvu.txt