Description given with photo: "Ferguson Questions Hughes, Washington: While Howard Hughes listens through a headset, Sen. Homer Ferguson (R, Ich.) questions him during a session of the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee. Flanking Ferguson are (left) Chief Committee Counsel William P. Rogers and Assistant Chief Committee Investigator Francis Flanagan. At Hughes right is T.A. Slack, attorney for the Hughes Tool Co. Credit (ACME) 8/9/47."
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official U.S. Air Force Photograph AFBMD HQ ARDC, Inglewood, Calif." Photo taken in front of the Air Research and Development Command building.