# George Kelly (Illinois Sports News)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/george-kelly-illinois-sports-news/

Owner of the Illinois Sports News scratch sheet in Chicago from January 1947, by his own 1950 testimony; earlier a road man for James Ragen's Continental Press.

The role line is his own testimony. The committee staff's Exhibit 40 calls Illinois Sports News a Continental "dummy"; that is the staff's characterization.

A George L. Kelly was one of the partners trading as Illinois Sports News in the 1963 Seventh Circuit case [Kelly v. Illinois Bell](/items/courtlistener-kelly-v-illinois-bell-325-f2d-148/). The opinion does not say he is the 1950 witness. His home address in the hearing record is not copied.

## Sources

- Kefauver Committee, Part 5: testimony of George Kelly (19 December 1950), via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/investigationofo05unit