Archive for January 2008
ORGANIZED CRIME ON TRIAL: The Kefauver Hearings
The Kefauver hearings arrived in Tampa in December of 1950. Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver started his traveling hearings to uncover the deep well of official corruption that had allowed organized crime to grow and thrive in America. Despite FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s warnings that the Mafia did not exist, the commission was surprisingly well-informed…
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