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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 7, New York-New Jersey".
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Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 7: New York-New Jersey (1950–1951)

Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 7, New York-New Jersey: sessions in Washington and New York, July 1950 to March 1951.

Date
1950-07-11/1951-03-21
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 and 82d Cong., Part 7: New York-New Jersey
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 7, headed “New York-New Jersey”. The dates printed on the title page are July 11; August 15; October 11, 12; December 12, 13, 1950; February 13, 14, 15; March 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 1951. The volume belongs to the 81st Congress, 2d session, and 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 1762 page images.

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

  • District of Columbia committee room, the Capitol
  • Room 513, room 2804 and room 2832, United States Courthouse, Foley Square, New York
  • Twenty-eighth floor and room 318, United States Courthouse, Foley Square (March 1951)
  • Room 457, Senate Office Building

The contents page lists, among the witnesses, Costello, Frank; Doto, Joseph (alias Joe Adonis); Erickson, Frank; Hauser, Virginia Hill; Lansky, Meyer; Moretti, Salvatore; Moretti, William; O’Dwyer, Hon. William; Anastasia, Umberto (Albert); Anastasia, Anthony; Profaci, Joe; Catena, Gerald; Lynch, James; Longano, Arthur; Haffenden, Charles R.; Murtagh, Hon. John M.; Braden, Spruille. 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.

The March 1951 New York sessions in this volume are the hearings that the Senate Historical Office page describes as televised. The contents OCR spells Lansky’s first name “Mever”; Hill is listed as “Hauser, Virginia Hill, Spokane, Wash.” and Adonis as “Doto, Joseph, alias Joe Adonis, Fort Lee, N. J.” The Frank Costello contempt report (Senate Report 199) rests on the sessions of February 13 and March 13 to 21, 1951 that this volume prints.

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.

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