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On January 5, 1950, Senator Estes Kefauver ( D - Tennessee) introduced a resolution that would allow the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to investigate organized crime's role in interstate commerce. [3] [4] However, the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce already claimed jurisdiction over the issue.
First-term senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee drafted a resolution to create a special committee to investigate the issue. The Commerce and Judiciary Committees battled to control the investigation, and following a protracted debate, Vice President Alben Barkley cast the tie-breaking vote to establish a special committee. Process
The Kefauver investigation into television and juvenile delinquency in the mid-1950s led to an even more intensive investigation in the early 1960s. The new probe came about after people became increasingly concerned over juvenile violence, and the possibility of this behavior being related to violent television programs.
Kefauver gained national prominence and popularity as a result of the hearings. He was on the cover of Time magazine and co-wrote a book, Crime in America, about the investigation.
El comité especial del senado de los Estados Unidos para investigar la delicuencia en el comercio interestatal, fue un comité especial del Senado de los Estados Unidos que existió entre 1950 a 1951 y que investigó el crimen organizado que traspasaba los límites estatales en los Estados Unidos.
- 1950 a 1951
- comité
KEFAUVER INVESTIGATION AND KNAPP COMMISSION. The pervasive reach of organized crime in the United States has made it a target of investigations and legal action since the nineteenth century. Two of the most noteworthy attacks were the Kefauver investigation in the 1950s and the Knapp Commission hearings in the 1970s.
Process. Senate Resolution 202 provided the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, commonly known as the Kefauver committee, with $150,000 to study interstate crime. When the five member committee was set to expire at the end of February 1951, the public inundated Congress with letters demanding that the inquiry continue.