Original 1947 AP Wirephoto showing Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, smoking while testifying before the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee in Washington, D.C. The hearing was examining Howard Hughes' wartime aircraft contracts, a major postwar congressional controversy. Roosevelt is shown seated before several microphones, blowing a cloud of cigarette smoke during his testimony. Photograph and separate original AP caption are mounted on black archival paper with period tape and corner mounts. Overall size approximately 7¾ x 7⅜ inches. Shows expected age, surface wear and newsroom/archive handling consistent with its history. Came from the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
