# Senator Estes Kefauver with the press at the White House, January 15, 1952 (Kefauver Speaks with Press, Truman Library)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-338958796-kefauver-speaks-with-press-1952/

Abbie Rowe photograph of 15 January 1952: per the catalog, Senator Estes Kefauver speaks with reporters after meeting President Truman. It postdates the crime committee and does not show the hearings.

The National Archives catalog title is "Kefauver Speaks with Press," Truman Library identifier 73-3768, dated 15 January 1952, with the credit "Photographer: Abbie Rowe, National Park Service." The description reads: "Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver speaks with unidentified members of the press after a meeting with President Harry S. Truman at the White House."

The photograph shows a tall man in glasses, a coat and hat over his arm, surrounded by reporters writing in notebooks. The identification of Kefauver is the catalog's; the reporters are unidentified.

The picture is one of three frames of the same day; the first, "Kefauver Leaves White House," is filed here as well. All three postdate the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, which Kefauver chaired and whose final report of 1951 is filed in this archive. They do not show the hearings, and the catalog does not say what was discussed at the White House.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog, Harry S. Truman Library, Photograph Collection: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/338958796
- Truman Library series: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman (NAID 198606): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/198606