Category: Crime
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Kefauver at the Movies: “The Captive City”
A look at a 1952 movie inspired by the Kefauver Committee organized crime hearings… featuring an appearance from the Senator himself.
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Kefauver’s Moment of Game-Show Fame
Kefauver’s crime hearings briefly made him a national celebrity… enough of one to be the mystery celebrity on an episode of “What’s My Line?”
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Facing “The Face of U.S. Gangland”: The Crime Hearings
In the early 1950s, Kefauver chaired a series of hearings into organized crime. The hearings made Kefauver a household name, a Presidential contender… and Public Enemy Number One to Democratic leaders.
