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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 4, Missouri".
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Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 4: Missouri (1950)

Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 4, Missouri: sessions in Washington and Kansas City, July to September 1950.

Date
1950-07-06/1950-09-30
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, 81st Cong., Part 4: Missouri
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 4, headed “Missouri”. The dates printed on the title page are July 6, September 28, 29, and 30, 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 438 page images.

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

  • Room G-16, the Capitol
  • Courtroom No. 1, United States Courthouse, Kansas City, Mo.

The contents page lists, among the witnesses, Balestrere, James; Gizzo, Anthony; Lacoco, Thomas; DiGiovanni, Joseph; Klein, Morris; Osadchey, Edward Philip (Eddie Spitz); Smith, Hon. Forrest; Pendergast, James M.; Purdome, J. A.; Milligan, J. M.; Follmer, Claude A.; White, George H.; Cohn, R. Robert. 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.

Part 4A, the second Missouri volume, covers further sessions in Washington, St. Louis and Kansas City.

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.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 4A: Missouri (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 4A, Missouri: sessions in Washington, St. Louis, and Kansas City, June 1950 to February 1951.