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Lester Ziffren (April 30, 1906 – November 12, 2007) was an American reporter and Hollywood screenwriter. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, Ziffren became a reporter for United Press. He was among the first to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Dec 3, 2007 · Lester Ziffren, a foreign correspondent for United Press in the 1930s whose coded message from Madrid signaled to the world the start of the Spanish Civil War, died at his home in Manhattan on...
Nov 22, 2007 · Lester Ziffren, a former United Press reporter who was among the first journalists to report the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and whose later career in Hollywood included credits as...
Dec 9, 2010 · Lester Ziffren, 85, an attorney and civic leader who was devoted to his alma mater, UCLA, and many other causes, died Monday of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his...
Nov 20, 2007 · Lester Ziffren, 101, who broke news of the Spanish Civil War as a young U.S. reporter in Madrid and whose subsequent career took him to Hollywood as a movie writer, South America as a diplomat...
Lester Ziffren, BJ ’27, passed away Nov. 12, 2007, at the age of 101 in New York City. The following story was written on the occasion of his 100th birthday in April 2006. By David Wurtzel Columbia, Mo. (April 24, 2006) — In the spring of 1927, a young man graduated from the Missouri School of … Continued
On the evening of July 17th, 1936, Lester Ziffren, known to his friends as Ziff, was in Chicote’s bar, the place he called ‘our favourite thirst-quencher’. He was preparing his nightly radio broadcast to the United States, ‘Spain Day by Day’.
