Selwyn Raab was an American journalist, author and investigative reporter for The New York Times.
14 Facts About Selwyn Raab
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Selwyn Raab wrote extensively about the American Mafia and criminal justice issues.
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Selwyn Raab's father was a bus driver from Austria and his mother was a homemaker from Poland; his family was Jewish.
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Selwyn Raab got his first jobs as a reporter with the Bridgeport Sunday Herald newspaper in Bridgeport, Connecticut and The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, New Jersey.
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Selwyn Raab uncovered evidence that led to the dismissal of a third murder accusation against Whitmore.
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Selwyn Raab proved that Whitmore was elsewhere on the day of the killings and helped clear him.
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Selwyn Raab received a New York Press Club Award for Outstanding Television Journalism for his work on the case.
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Selwyn Raab's work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News Feature Reporting Within a Regularly Scheduled News Program for the feature Shooting Gallery aired on December 18,1973.
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Selwyn Raab became Executive Producer of The 51st State until he left for The New York Times in 1974.
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In 1974, Selwyn Raab became a metropolitan staff reporter for The New York Times where he covered criminal justice and government corruption stories, particularly those that involved the American Mafia.
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Selwyn Raab was a consultant on organized crime for TV documentaries, primarily on the History and Biography channels.
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Selwyn Raab was involved as a consultant for the six-part series Inside the American Mob, being interviewed with prominent Cosa Nostra members as well as current and former FBI agents, US Attorneys and detectives who were heavily involved with the pursuit of the Mafia and giving first-person accounts of major events involving the mob.
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Selwyn Raab was an adviser on scripts for the 10-part television series, The Making of the Mob: New York, based partly on Five Families, which premiered on June 15,2015, on AMC.
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Selwyn Raab died of intestinal complications in Manhattan, New York, on March 4,2025, at the age of 90.