Mob FilesPublic-domain archive of American organized crime
Senator Estes Kefauver in glasses, carrying a hat and coat and raising one hand, on the steps of the White House, with a man holding papers in the doorway behind him.
Open the full imageJPG, 644 × 800 px, 0.1 MB

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

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.

Date
1952-01-15
Kind
photograph
Source
National Archives Catalog, Harry S. Truman Library, Photograph Collection
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
338958794
Rights
A photograph by Abbie Rowe, National Park Service photographer, a work of the United States government. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists Use: Unrestricted. Truman Library identifier 73-3767.

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).

itemSenate Historical Office: the Kefauver Committee, Notable Senate InvestigationsThe U.S. Senate Historical Office's account of the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: its resolution, chairmen and members, funding, extension, and television audience. A secondary account written by the Senate.