# Senator Estes Kefauver leaving the White House, January 15, 1952 (Truman Library)

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Abbie Rowe photograph of Senator Estes Kefauver leaving the White House on January 15, 1952, after meeting President Truman. It postdates the committee and does not show the hearings.

The National Archives catalog title is "Kefauver Leaves White House," dated January 15, 1952, by Abbie Rowe, a National Park Service photographer. The Truman Library's local identifier is 73-3767. It shows Senator Estes Kefauver, in glasses and carrying a hat and coat, raising his hand as he leaves the White House after meeting President Harry S. Truman; a man holding papers stands in the doorway behind him.

The photograph postdates the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, which ceased to exist on September 1, 1951, and it does not show the hearings. It is filed as a federal portrait of the committee's chairman. No Truman Library or National Archives photograph of the hearings themselves was found. Two more frames from the same day are "Kefauver Speaks with Press" (NAID 338958796) and "Kefauver Addresses Media" (NAID 338958798).

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog, Harry S. Truman Library, Photograph Collection: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/338958794