Abel, Elie.

American journalist.

From the description of Elie Abel papers, 1941-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872107

Journalist, b. 1920.

From the description of Reminiscences of Elie Abel : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512700

Elie Abel (b. Oct. 17, 1920, Montreal–d. July 22, 2004, Rockville, Md.), a former foreign and domestic correspondent at both The New York Times and NBC News, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in the 1970's. He spent two years in Berlin in the late 1940's as a foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, covering the Nuremberg war-crimes trials and the early attempts to govern postwar Germany. In 1949, he joined The New York Times, which sent him initially to Detroit and Washington, before appointing him bureau chief in Belgrade, from 1956 to 1959, and New Delhi in 1958 and 1959. He left The Times in 1959 to spend two years at The Detroit News, as its Washington bureau chief, before beginning a six-year career at NBC that included tours as State Department correspondent, London bureau chief and chief diplomatic correspondent.

From the description of Abel, Elie, 1920-2004 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580732

Journalist, author, and college teacher; b. in Canada 1920; became U.S. citizen in 1952; writes on history, current affairs, and international relations.

From the description of Elie Abel collection, 1946-1969. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70971767

Biographical Note

• 1920, Oct. 17: Born, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 1941: Reporter, Windsor (Ontario) Star
• 1945 - 1946 : Assistant City Editor, Montreal Gazette
• 1946 - 1947 : Foreign Correspondent, North American Newspaper Alliance, Berlin, Germany
• 1947 - 1949 : United Nations Correspondent, Overseas News Agency
• 1949 - 1959 : Washington Correspondent and Foreign Correspondent, New York Times
• 1959 - 1961 : Washington Bureau Chief, Detroit News
• 1965 - 1967 : London Bureau Chief, NBC
• 1966: Author, The Missile Crisis
• 1967 - 1969 : Diplomatic Correspondent, NBC News, Washington
• 1969 - 1979 : Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor, Columbia University, N.Y.C. Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, N.Y.C.
• 1971: Author (with Marvin Kalb), Roots of Involvement: The U.S. in Asia, 1784-1971
• 1975: Author (with Averell Harriman), Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946
• 1979 - : Harry and Norman Chandler Professor, Stanford University, California

From the guide to the Elie Abel Papers, 1941-1978, (Hoover Institution Archives)