# Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 1 (September 25 to October 9, 1963)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-1-1963/

The first printed volume of the 1963 Senate hearings: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's opening testimony, Joseph Valachi's public testimony, New York police witnesses, Exhibit 8 and Charts A to E.

Part 1 of the printed hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, "Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics." The title page reads: Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session, pursuant to Senate Resolution 17, 88th Congress, Part 1, September 25, 27, October 1, 2, 8, and 9, 1963. It covers printed pages 1 to 396, which are NCJRS PDF pages 2 to 424.

It opens with the testimony of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on September 25. Joseph Valachi testified in public from September 27 to October 9. New York police witnesses testified alongside him. The contents page lists Exhibits 1 to 16 and "Charts printed in the record" A to E, at printed pages 248, 274, 294, 308 and 313. Chart C is bound out of order, after printed page 162. Several exhibits, among them criminal records and photographs, were filed with the subcommittee and not printed.

This archive cites the National Criminal Justice Reference Service scan, a 1,650-page PDF of all five parts and the index. The copy is the Bureau of Narcotics library copy. The Internet Archive holds no copy of these hearings, and govinfo does not carry Senate hearings of this date. HathiTrust's catalog lists a full-view copy, but its page viewer could not be opened when this record was made.

## 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