• 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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