# Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 3: Black market operations (1950)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-3-black-market-1950/

Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 3, Black market operations: sessions in Washington, August 1950.

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 3, headed "Black market operations". The dates printed on the title page are August 22, 1950. The volume belongs to the 81st Congress, 2d 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 156 page images.

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

- Room 457, Senate Office Building

The contents page lists, among the witnesses, Livorsi, Frank S.; Betancourt, Mario; Cohen, Michael; Giglio, William J.; Hausman, Arthur; Ketcham, Frank S.; Lawn, Howard M.; Lubben, David George; Messel, Victor R.; Pfeffer, Harry; Roth, Louis J.; Stone, Ronald; Feldmann, Beatrice. 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.

This is a one-day volume. The Michael Cohen of this volume is listed on the contents page as "Cohen, Michael, Brooklyn, N. Y." and is not the Los Angeles witness of Part 10.

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.

## Sources

- Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy): https://archive.org/details/investigationofo03unit
- Full text (OCR) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/download/investigationofo03unit/investigationofo03unit_djvu.txt
- PDF on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/download/investigationofo03unit/investigationofo03unit.pdf