McClellan Part 33: testimony of Marshall Caifano (11 July 1958), pp. 12802-12808

Caifano appeared without counsel and declined, on the ground that his answer might incriminate him, every question including his occupation, birthplace and citizenship. Exhibit 24 was a photograph of Caifano and Sam Battaglia.

Date: 1958-07-11
Kind: hearing
Source: Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

Part 33 of the McClellan Committee’s hearings covers the restaurant industry in the Chicago area, July 1958. Marshall Caifano testified on 11 July 1958 (pp. 12802-12808). He appeared without counsel and, to every question, including his occupation, birthplace and citizenship, answered that he declined on the ground that his answer might incriminate him.

Senator Curtis asked whether other hoodlums had told him not to testify; he gave the same answer. Senator Mundt also questioned him. Exhibit 24 was a photograph of Caifano and Sam Battaglia.

The questions carry the only content about him on these pages; his answers state nothing. Quotations follow the Internet Archive’s OCR of the printed volume. Page numbers are the printed running heads and can be off by one near a page break.

itemMcClellan Part 33: testimony of Sam Battaglia (11 July 1958), pp. 12774-12781A witness recorded as Sam Battaglia appeared without counsel, gave an Oak Park residence, and declined on self-incrimination grounds to give his occupation or birthplace. The record does not say he is the Salvatore Battaglia of the 1968 Seventh Circuit opinion.itemMarshall v. Sawyer, 365 F.2d 105 (9th Cir. 1966)Ninth Circuit opinion of August 10, 1966 affirming judgment against John Marshall, who sued Nevada officials and the Desert Inn's operator after being excluded from casinos as one of eleven men in the 1960 "black book," with a footnote giving his birth name as Marchello Caifano.