CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES September 13, 1971 Brown, Hon. Edmond G., chairman, National Commission on Reform of Cahalan, William L., secretary, National District Attorneys' Association, Hechinger, John, former chairman of the City Council, Washington, D.C.. September 14, 1971 Rossides, Eugene T., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforce- Murphy, Patrick, commissioner of police, New York City (accompanied Potter, Mrs. Lillian K., private citizen, Providence, R.I.. Page 44 59 82 91 104 108 131 168 174 203 Stonebreaker, Jack, Jr., national legislative committee chairman, grand lodge fraternal order of police, Muncie, Ind. (accompanied by Richard Lis, police officer, intelligence division, Chicago, Ill., Police Department). 218 October 5, 1971 Mikva, the Hon. Abner J., U.S. Representative from the Second District of Illinois_-. 231 Santarelli, Donald E., Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice... 258 280 Nichols, John, commissioner of Police, Detroit, Mich. Serr, Harold A., retired Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms 292 314 329 October 27, 1971 Busch, Joseph P., district attorney of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, Calif. (accompanied by Tom McDonald, assistant to the district attorney, Los Angeles County) _ _ _ . 343 Kelley, Clarence M., chief of police, Kansas City Police Department, 352 Bergan, Harold, Assistant to Congressman Yates, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.. 358 Van Valkenburg, James, chairman, legislative committee, Delaware 374 November 1, 1971 Tamm, Quinn, executive director, International Association of Chiefs of 383 EXHIBITS 1. Text of Senate Resolution 32, 92d Congress, first session, dated Page March 1 (legislative day, February 17), 1971, authorizing expenditures for the subcommittee to investigate juvenile delinquency 2. Text of S. 2507, "to amend the Gun Control Act of 1968," dated September 14, 1971. 3. Text of Public Law 90-618, 90th Congress, H.R. 17735, dated Octo- 4. Letter from Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, 1 2 3 41 The 42 43 6. Document of the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, entitled, "Factoring Criteria for Weapons," dated November 1969__ 7. Letter from Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated August 30, 1971__ 8. Document entitled, "Homicide in Chicago, 1965-1970," by Richard Block and Franklin E. Zimring, presented at the American Sociological Association Convention, Denver, Colo., dated August 31, 1971 9. Study, "Seeking of ammunition and gun barrels with a radioactve isotope, so that the bearer of concealed weapons could be readily detected in public places," prepared by Rand Corp. in 1966 and submitted to the Violence Commission in 1969.......... 10. Letter from Geoffrey M. Alprin, general counsel, Government of the District of Columbia, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C. to Lawrence Speiser, staff director and chief counsel, Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, dated October 29, 1971. 11. Letter from Hon. Birch Bayh, to James B. Conlisk, Jr., superintendent of police, Chicago Police Department, dated August 11, 1971----12. Letter from James B. Conlisk, Jr., superintendent of police, Chicago Police Department, to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated September 7, 1971.. 13. Letter from William L. Dickey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, The Department of the Treasury, to Hon. Birch Bayh dated October 26, 1971 14. Senator Hruska asked Mr. Dickey of the Treasury Department to assemble information regarding the cost as far as the manufacture is concerned of proofing weapons. To date this information has not been supplied---. 15. Letter, statement and correspondence between H. P. White Laboratory, Donald R. Dunn, manager, Bel Air, Md. and Hon. Birch Bayh, dated September 8, 20, and 28, 1971... 16. Letter from Hon. Birch Bayh, to Hon. John B. Connally, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., dated July 22, 1971-7 17. Letter from Eugene T. Rossides, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated October 1, 1971__ 18. Letter from Hon. Birch Bayh, to Hon. Eugene T. Rossides, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., dated October 8, 1971 19. Letter from William L. Dickey, Acting Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated November 5, 1971.. 20. Letter from Patrick O. Murphy, Police Commissioner, New York City to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated December 6, 1971.. 21. Senator Hruska asked Mayor Lindsay to provide information as to how many prosecutions were filed in New York last year of the 9,000 guns picked up in New York. To date this information has not been supplied.. 22. Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Report, page 29, section II, program priorities for funding, planning priorities, and objectives, submitted by Hon. Roman L. Hruska.. 59 60 73 117 121 122 152 154 154 163 163 166 166 185 190 192 23. Letter from Patrick V. Murphy, police commissioner, city of New York, to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated September 15, 1971.. 24. Article from the Saturday Review entitled, "The Failure of Federal Gun Control," by Carl Bakal, submitted by Mrs. Lillian K. Potter. 25. Pictures of 83-year-old man, victim of the "Saturday Night Special" handgun, shot seven times, the subjects involved in this felonious murder were 15, 17, and 21 years of age- 26. Pictures of weapons submitted by Lieutenant Stonebraker. 27. Stonebraker-p. 271 28. Newspaper article from the Washington Post, September 30, 1971, entitled, "Pupil Slain, 2 Shot in Class; Petersburg Youth Charged". 29. Newspaper article from the Evening Star, September 30, 1971, entitled, "Petersburg Boy, 14, charged in Classroom Gun Slaying". 30. Letter and attachment from Hon. Abner J. Mikva, U.S. Congressman, 2d District, Illinois, to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated November 9, 197131. Article entitled, "Are Firearms Controls Effective?" by Colin Greenwood, Guns, October 1971.. 32. Letter from Hon. Birch Bayh, to J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal 33. Letter from John Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investi- 38. Letter from Hon. Birch Bayh, to Mr. Edward Kane, executive vice 39. Letter from Hon. Birch Bayh, to Mr. Alan Bernkrant, president, 40. Letter from Al Bernkrant, president, Firearms Import & Export Corp., 1971_ 42. Letter from Allen M. Bernkrant, president, Firearms Import & Export Corp., Miami, Fla., to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated September 8, 197143. Letter from Ralph M. Joyce, lieutenant in command, homicide unit, Cleveland Police Department, to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated November 18, 1971. Page 202 204 220 222 232 232 242 250 275 276 276 286 286 294 294 295 295 299 299 303 44. Article entitled, "Lindsay Appeals for Gun Control," New York Times, dated August 26, 1971... 305 45. Article entitled, "A War of Guns on Our Streets, New York's Shooting Deaths Exceed Those of Vietnam," Washington Post, dated September 4, 1971---. 46. Pictures of "Saturday Night Special" handguns and victims, submitted by Lt. Ralph M. Joyce, commanding officer, homicide bureau, Cleveland Police Department- 47. Article entitled, "Gun Club President Reports an Easing In Demand for Curb," New York Times, dated April 4, 1971. 308 309 322 48. Letter from Maxwell E. Rich, major general (ret.), executive vice president, the National Rifle Association, to Hon. Birch Bayh, dated November 19, 1971.. 328 49. Statement of Warren Page, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., dated September 14, 1971... 337 50. Letter from Clarence M. Kelley, chief of police, Kansas City, Mo., to 51. Editorial entitled, "How the 1968 Gun Act 'Creates Criminals,'" The 53. List of police officers killed by suspects using some type of handgun 54. Final report, "Handgun Safety Evaluation," vol. I, September 1971, H. P. White Laboratory, Bel Air, Md., vol. II, app. B, "Individual Handgun Data-Revolvers," and vol. III, app. C, "Individual Handgun Data-Pistols," to be found in the files of the subcommittee.. APPENDIX (Additional letters and articles submitted for record) 1. Statement by Hon. Harrison A. Williams, Jr., U.S. Senator, New Page 356 364 375 395 Page 397 398 3. Resolution by the Committee for Effective Crime Control, dated October 29, 1971.... 399 4. Article entitled "A Handgun Control Law-Now" from Miami (Fla.) Herald, September 2, 1971 400 5. Article entitled "Pistol Packin' Country," Washington Star, September 17, 1971.. 400 6. Article entitled "Case Against Handguns," Chicago Daily News, September 16, 1971 401 7. Article entitled "Another Try at Gun Control," Minneapolis Star, September 18, 1971.. 402 8. Article entitled "Making Murder Cheap and Easy," Washington Post, September 24, 1971.. 402 9. Article by Richard L. Strout entitled "Two Murders a Day," Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 1971-- 403 10. Article entitled "Debate Over Guns to Reopen Today," by Ben A. Franklin, New York Times, September 13, 1971. 404 11. Article by Martha Angle entitled "Hearings Tomorrow on Bill To Forbid Sale of Handguns," Washington Star, September 12, 1971.12. Article entitled "24,000,000 Guns," by TRB, The New Republic, September 18, 1971. 405 406 13. Article entitled "Bayh Gunning for Pistol Ban" from Chicago Daily News, September 13, 1971... 408 14. Article entitled "What Price Gun Control?" from The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 1971.-. 15. Article entitled "Strangely Still" from Alan L. Otten's "Politics and People" column in The Wall Street Journal, September 30, 1971.. 16. News release entitled "IRS Names Firearms Experts To Import Advisory Panel" from Internal Revenue Service, November 21, 1968... 17. Excerpts from Congressional Record, October 27, 1971-. 408 409 411 411 18. Article entitled "Gun Banners Again," Dallas Morning News, September 20, 1971.. 422 19. Article entitled "Guns for Sale," New York Times, August 23, 1971.. 423 423 21. Article entitled "Handgun Controls Now," Christian Science Monitor, August 27, 1971__. 424 22. Article entitled "Getting Guns Registered," Washington Post, March 23. Article entitled "Policemen and Guns," Washington Star, June 6, 1971 25. Article entitled "Are Pistols Indispensable?", Washington Post, June Page 425 425 426 426 26. Article entitled "Protecting the Police," Washington Post, June 5, 427 27. Editorial entitled "Outlaw the 'Saturday Night Special'", WTOP 428 28. Article entitled "Handguns: American Tragedy," ADA World, Octo- 429 29. Article entitled "Spiking Cheap Handguns," Memphis Commercial 430 31. Poem Yevtushenko's Poem to Allison Krause, Murdered, Kent State, 30. Article entitled "Cheap Handguns," San Francisco Examiner, Septem- 431 432 |