Word: raab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addict knows, Kojak is a dapper detective who exudes animal charm and a street-wise sixth sense. The man whose investigative exploits led to the series, however, is no cop, and he is no well-tailored charmer. He is Reporter Selwyn Raab, 40, who looks more like rumpled Peter Falk than Telly Savalas. His tenacious reporting has brought him a dozen awards and the pleasure of seeing two victims of law-enforcement abuses walk out of prison...
...hopes to see two more men freed soon. Last week, because of stories by Raab, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Samuel Larner was considering reopening the murder convictions of Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter and Grocery Clerk John Artis after a 1966 shoot-out in Paterson, N.J. Raab was instrumental in getting two witnesses to admit that they had lied about seeing Carter and Artis at the murder scene...
Bogus Clinic. "I'm not a detective," protests Raab, peering through thick glasses at mounds of letters that arrive each week pleading for his services. "I just look for the most reasonable approach to a story." While working for three years as a reporter at WNET, New York's public TV station, Raab dug up enough evidence of illegal practices to close two bogus methadone clinics. He also unearthed the case of Carl De Flumer, sentenced to life for murder in 1946 at the age of 14 and forgotten when state laws concerning juveniles were later changed...
...just became very important for someone to stick him with something," commented Selwyn Raab, a New York City reporter who dogged the case over the years and helped turn up the evidence that finally liberated Whitmore. The honor of the police was at stake." Though his wife divorced him and disappeared with their two daughters−and though he was imprisoned for nearly four years−Whitmore claimed he was not bitter toward anyone. Less forgiving, his lawyers were considering suing the city or state for malicious prosecution...
WARREN H. RAAB...