Kefauver Committee, Gambling, and Organized Crime

In 1950 and 1951, Senator Estes Kefauver chaired the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and discovered vast corruption and crime rings involving gambling and narcotics throughout the United States. The committee became popularly known as the Kefauver Committee.

Kefauver Committee Final Report

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