Kefauver Committee files: Homicide lists (National Archives file unit 45640425)

National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: homicide lists. The catalog shows no digitized pages.

Date

1950/1951

Kind

finding-aid

Source

National Archives Catalog, Center for Legislative Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate (RG 46)

Retrieved

2026-10-12

NAID

45640425

Rights

A federal record of the United States Senate. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists Access: Unrestricted and Use: Unrestricted.

The National Archives catalog title is “Homicide Lists Received by the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce during the 81st and 82nd Congresses.” The file unit belongs to the committee’s own records, held by the Center for Legislative Archives in the Records of the U.S. Senate (Record Group 46), in the series “Records Relating to Crime (NAID 579673).”

The catalog’s scope note, paraphrased: replies from police departments of large cities to the committee’s request of December 21, 1950, for information on outstanding murders of the previous ten years: transmittal letters, homicide lists and photographs. The catalog shows no digitized pages for this file unit, so this page describes the catalog entry only and does not describe any document inside it.

The dates given are the life of the committee, the 81st and 82nd Congresses, as the title states; the catalog gives no narrower date. Reading the file would need a reading-room visit or a reproduction order from the National Archives.