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Title page of the printed hearings before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, pursuant to S. Res. 202, headed "Part 16, Florida".
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Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 16: Florida (1951)

Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 16, Florida: sessions in Miami, June 1951.

Date
1951-06-21/1951-06-22
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Hearings before the Special Committee, 82d Cong., Part 16: 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.

The title page reads “Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. Hearings before a Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate”, and this volume is Part 16, headed “Florida”. The dates printed on the title page are June 21 and 22, 1951. The volume belongs to the 82d Congress, 1st session. It is part of the printed record of the committee created by Senate Resolution 202 (81st Congress), the Kefauver Committee, and prints sworn testimony, a contents list of witnesses with page numbers, and a schedule of exhibits. The Internet Archive scan has 256 page images.

The session datelines place the hearings in Miami. The session lines print these rooms and buildings:

  • Room 401, Dade County Courthouse, Miami

The contents page lists, among the witnesses, Accardo, Martin Leo; Voiler, Harry O.; Sullivan, James Alexander; Sullivan, Daniel P.; Clein, Reubin; Raskin, Jack Louis; Mears, David James; Hall, David W.. The names follow the contents page; spelling was corrected only where the OCR was plainly wrong. A list of witnesses is not a list of findings: the volume prints questions and answers, and this archive does not summarize them.

These hearings were chaired by Senator Herbert R. O’Conor, who succeeded Senator Kefauver as chairman. Senate Report 562, on the contempt of Martin Accardo, says his subpoena was returnable at “the Federal Building, 300 Northeast First Avenue, Miami, Fla.”; this volume’s session line gives room 401, Dade County Courthouse.

The archive.org copy is a Boston Public Library scan of the Government Printing Office print, and the Internet Archive marks it not in copyright. The room lines and datelines above were read from the archive’s OCR text of the scan.

itemSenate Report 562: proceedings against Martin Accardo (1951)Senate Report No. 562, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Martin Accardo, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 180 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 1: Florida (1950)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 1, Florida: sessions in Miami and Washington, May to September 1950.itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 1A: Florida (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 1A, Florida: sessions in Washington and Tampa, November 1950 to February 1951.