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They included: Kefauver; Herbert O'Conor ( Maryland ), Lester C. Hunt ( Wyoming ), Alexander Wiley ( Wisconsin ), and Charles W. Tobey ( New Hampshire ). [4] The Kefauver Committee held hearings in 14 major cities across the United States. [4] [5] More than 600 witnesses testified.
Though not the first congressional committee to televise its proceedings, the Kefauver Committee hearings became the most widely viewed congressional investigation to date. An estimated 30 million Americans tuned in to watch the live proceedings in March 1951.
El 5 de enero de 1950, el senador Estes Kefauver (D-Tennessee) introdujo una resolución que podría permitir al Comité del Senado sobre el Poder Judicial investigar el rol del crimen organizado en el comercio interestatal.
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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.
After decades of looking the other way, in 1950 the U.S. Senate launched an investigation into organized crime. Senator Estes Kefauver chaired the investigation committee.
Estes Kefauver, a U.S. senator from Tennessee, introduced Senate Resolution 202 in January 1950, which called for a national investigation of organized crime. The rapid growth of crime syndicates in major cities across the United States meant an increase in illegal gambling, drug trafficking, extortion, and prostitution.
The Kefauver Committee held hearings in 14 cities across the country, including one in the courtroom of this building. The Kefauver hearings confirmed the existence of a national crime syndicate and revealed lax enforcement.
