Kefauver Part 1-A, Exhibit 3: chart, "Enforcement of Gambling Laws, City and County"
A staff bar chart printed at page 483 of Part 1-A, "Enforcement of Gambling Laws, City and County, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 1950": 96 arrests, 45 forfeited bonds, 43 discharged, 6 fined, 2 pending, none jailed.
- Date
- 1950-12-29
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Hearings before the Special Committee, 81st and 82d Cong., Part 1A: Florida
- Rights
- A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright.
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. 3 is printed at the top of page 483. The schedule of exhibits calls it a chart indicating “Enforcement of gambling laws.” Its heading reads “Enforcement of Gambling Laws, City and County, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 1950,” and its bars give arrests (96), forfeited bonds (45), discharged (43), fined (6), pending (2) and jailed (none). Rice told the witness it was “a chart compiled from figures which have been furnished to the committee” and that it showed “that no one in Tampa has gone to jail for violation of the gambling laws” (page 54).
The chart gives totals, not cases, and names no one. The figures are as the committee staff drew them; the printed record does not say which police or court office furnished them.
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.
