# Hearing of October 9, 1963: final day of Part 1

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearing-1963-10-09/

The last day of Valachi's public testimony, with further New York police and staff witnesses. The chairman stated a chart total of 338 persons, 289 of them identified by Valachi.

The proceedings of October 9, 1963 begin at printed page 319 of Part 1 and run to page 396, which are NCJRS PDF pages 346 to 424. Valachi testified for the last time in public. New York police and staff witnesses also appeared, among them Sergeant Ralph Salerno, John L. Bergin and John A. Fitzsimmons.

Near the end, Chairman McClellan asked Salerno to confirm a breakdown "Showing the totals to be on the chart a total of 338 persons, and the number identified by Valachi as 289 persons, and those not identified were 49." Salerno answered: "That is correct." Exhibit 15, a grand jury presentment of 1941 on the death of Abe Reles, and Exhibit 16 were filed with the subcommittee and not printed.

## Sources

- National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303): https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/119303NCJRS.pdf
- NCJRS catalog record (NCJ 119303): https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/organized-crime-and-illicit-traffic-narcotics-hearing-us-senate