Jimmy Hoffa standing with his right hand raised before a Senate committee, 24 January 1961. — Open the full imageJPG, 691 × 1024 px, 0.3 MB

Jimmy Hoffa before the McClellan Committee, right hand raised, 24 January 1961 (Library of Congress)

U.S. News & World Report photograph by John T. Bledsoe of Teamster President James "Jimmy" Hoffa standing with his right hand raised before the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, 24 January 1961. A copy is stored here.

Date: 1961-01-24
Kind: photograph
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
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://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.078.usnw" Collection: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: LC-U9-5503- 18 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-99977 (digital file from original).

The Library of Congress titles this photograph “[Teamster President James “Jimmy” Hoffa standing with right hand raised while appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, also known as the “McClellan Committee”] / JTB.” The record gives the date as 24 January 1961.

Hoffa appears here as a labor leader before a Senate committee. The record does not charge him with any organized-crime role, and this archive files the photograph as hearing context, not under any family.

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

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