Talk:Estes Kefauver
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[edit] When did Kefauver become a congressman?
The article says Kefauver was elected to the third district seat in Congress in 1938. But the article on his predecessor in that seat, McReynolds, says McReynolds held the seat from 1923-03-04 until his death on 1939-07-11. How reconcile these statements? Jm546 00:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- McReynolds did indeed die in 1939; Kefauver replaced him in a special election. The first regular election he won was in 1940. For all I know, it's the norm to refer to tenures in congressional office by the term in which the congressman served, that is K. was in the congress that met 1938-1940. But it would be better to be clear on the point.
- I notice that there's no mention in the article of the rather silly Senate investigation by the "Kefauver Committee" into the connection between "juvenile delinquency" and comic books. (The plague of "juvenile delinquency" was itself a phantasm, and unremarkably therefore the Kefauver committee wasn't able to detect any connection between things like crime comics, Tales from the Crypt, and so on (even Mad Magazine, for heaven's sake!) and the imaginary outbreak of juvenile delinquency.) Maybe it's just as well. Alsihler 20:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kefauver's Censorship
Conspicuously absent from the article on Kefauver are the Kefauver hearings which led to the dismantling of Irving Klaw's photography business. Klaw's business sold "racy" pictures which actually weren't even pornographic-his models, including Bettie Page had to wear two layers of underwear to ensure that he wasn't breaking the (stupid) law. As far as I know it isn't illegal to wear lingerie and it's blatantly censorship to argue that photos of a legal act should be illegal. And the Democrat's claim that they are the one's protecting the bill of rights...a former vice presidential candidate tried to ban photos of girls in underwear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.116.30.24 (talk) 18:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
