Robert Kennedy briefing the press for the McClellan Committee, 20 January 1958 (Library of Congress)
U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler of Robert Kennedy, chief counsel to the Senate McClellan Committee, briefing the press on graft in the Operating Engineers Union, 20 January 1958. A copy is stored here.
- Date
- 1958-01-20
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- The Library of Congress rights advisory on the item record reads: "No known restrictions on publication. For information see "U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/078_usnw.html" Collection: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: LC-U9-1209- 6 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-77928 (digital file from original).
The Library of Congress titles this photograph “[Robert Kennedy, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s McClellan Committee, giving a briefing to the press about graft in Operating Engineers Union, Washington, D.C.] / WKL.” The record gives the date as 20 January 1958.
Kennedy appears as committee counsel. The photograph is filed here as context for the committee’s hearings; the record does not name the reporters in the frame.
The photograph is in the U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. The copy stored here is the Library’s service JPEG.
