# Robert F. Kennedy testifying, 25 September 1963 (Library of Congress)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2011648827-robert-kennedy-testifying-1963-09-25/

U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the witness table on the first day of the 1963 Senate hearings on crime. A copy is stored here.

The Library of Congress titles this photograph "[Attorney General Robert Kennedy testifying before a Senate subcommittee hearing on crime]." The record notes that the title was devised by Library staff. Its contact sheet folder caption reads: "Attn. General Robert Kennedy before the Senate Subcom. Hearing on Crime, WKL, 9/25/63." The record names Warren K. Leffler as photographer and gives the date as 1963 September 25. The contact sheet is job 10528, frame 36.

That is the day Kennedy opened the hearings of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. His testimony is filed here from the printed record. The photograph shows him at the witness table. It is not a record of what he said.

The photograph is in the U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. The copy stored here is the Library's service JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011648827/