Tag: j howard mcgrath

  • No Lamb for Slaughter

    No Lamb for Slaughter

    In 1954, the FCC – lead by a Joseph McCarthy acolyte – went after a close friend of Kefauver’s for alleged Communist ties. Kefauver stood up for his friend and for civil liberties – even at a political cost.

  • FBI: No Time For Organized Crime

    FBI: No Time For Organized Crime

    Kefauver’s hearings on organized crime exposed just how little the FBI was doing to combat the problem. So they learned their lesson from that, right? Yeah… not so much.