• Victor Riesel (/rɪˈzɛl/; March 26, 1913 – January 4, 1995) was an American newspaper journalist and columnist who specialized in news related to labor...
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  • in the acid attack which led to the blinding of newspaper columnist Victor Riesel, and for his role in creating fake labor union locals to help Jimmy...
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  • Riesel may refer to: Hans Riesel (1929–2014), Swedish mathematician who discovered a Mersenne prime Victor Riesel (1913–1995), American labor union journalist...
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  • Victor Riesel for making radio and television broadcasts about labor union corruption. In the morning of April 5, 1956, Telvi attacked Victor Riesel as...
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    5, 1956, Abraham Telvi, a mobster and hit man, attacked journalist Victor Riesel with acid, blinding him as he left the restaurant. Milton Berle frequented...
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  • In some cases, journalists have been attacked but survived, such as Victor Riesel. The only professional, working journalist to die while covering the...
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  • Ducks", Lucchese crime family Don and Mafia Commission member March 26 – Victor Riesel, New York organized crime journalist April 30 – Sam DeCavalcante "The...
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    threw an alkaline solution on a car in Clapham, south west London. Victor Riesel was a broadcast journalist, specializing in labor issues, who was attacked...
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  • Pete Hamill, New York Times, 31 December 1995, The Lives They Lived: Victor Riesel and Walter Sheridan;In Defense of Honest Labor JFK Library, Walter Sheridan...
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  • the entertainment industry, including Walter Winchell, Hedda Hopper, Victor Riesel, Jack O'Brian, and George Sokolsky, regularly offered up names with...
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    brass" were regularly sent to meet with him. An article written by Victor Riesel for Inside Labor on May 28, 1957 reveals that Dave Beck, President of...
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  • family following the death of Jack Dragna. April 5 – After journalist Victor Riesel is assaulted and blinded with acid, mobster Johnny Dio is charged with...
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    (PDF) from the original on April 1, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2012. Victor Riesel (February 1, 1974). "Inside Labor Front". The Morning Herald. Uniontown...
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    President Gerald Ford, U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, labor columnist Victor Riesel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Harrison Salisbury, and economist...
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    experiences and tales coming out of Korea. The film was attacked by reporter Victor Riesel for being "pro-Communist" and "anti-American." Critic Westford Pedravy...
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    Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America Cast: Max Lerner, Victor Riesel, Rex Stout February 2, 1944 WHN 30 min. Author Meets the Critics A discussion...
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  • to slander the entire conservative movement". Labor-union journalist Victor Riesel, while writing of "anti-capitalistic movements, ranging all the way...
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  • John Chafee September 15, 1966 28 28 "Should Labor Power Be Reduced?" Victor Riesel September 19, 1966 29 29 "Communist China and the United Nations" Max...
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  • February 6, 1953, Hook discussed "The Threat to Academic Freedom" with Victor Riesel and others in the evening on WEVD radio (a Socialist radio station whose...
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  • Congress (CLC), was formed. 5 April 1956 (United States) Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against labor racketeers, was blinded in New York City when...
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  • Benjamin Mandel, Barney Balaban, Rabbi Ben Schultz, Maurice Tishman, and Victor Riesel. In 1954, the committee honored Roy Cohn with a dinner at the Astor...
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    Randall Jr. (1899–1980), philosopher, New Thought author, and educator Victor Riesel (1913–1995), American newspaper journalist and columnist Benito Romano...
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    to unemployment. [1] According to Victor S. Navasky, "Newspaper columnists such as George Sokolsky, Victor Riesel, Walter Winchell, Jack O'Brian, and...
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  • Gross wrote in the New York Daily News that the premiere episode about Victor Riesel "was re-enacted in a graphic manner". He added, "Judging by the opening...
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    Victor both withdrew copies of the song from sale at the end of August 1950. The widely syndicated anti-communist newspaper columnist Victor Riesel condemned...
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  • and composer, plane crash. Valery Nosik, 54, Soviet/Russian actor. Victor Riesel, 81, American newspaper journalist and columnist, heart failure. Heshmat...
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    professor Sidney Hook discussed "The Threat to Academic Freedom" with Victor Riesel and others in the evening on WEVD radio. In 1975, WEVD was approved...
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  • UTU. Kersten 2007, p. 152. Kersten 2007, p. 153. Smith 2007, p. 52. Victor Riesel 1960, p. 12. Profile of the month: 1962, p. 278. Sources "Alexander...
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  • 1948–49 included Walt Kelly's Pogo, the adventure strip Tex Austin, Victor Riesel's "Inside Labor" column and a facts panel, Wizard of Odds. On March 1...
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    Dave Price (now at WNBC) Shimon Prokupecz (now at CNN) Gene RayburnD Victor RieselD Bobby RiversD Jim Ryan (retired) Roxie RokerD John Roland (1969–2004)D...
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