The Austrian and American psychiatrist, scientist and free thinker Wilhelm Reich, who died 50 years ago this month, continues to stir debate and controversy.
Reich, born to a prosperous farming and ranching Jewish family in Galicia 1897, died Nov. 3, 1957, in a U.S. jail, a year after the U.S. government literally axed his “orgone accumulator” machines and boxes and burned his research in a chilling echo of the Nazis he fled in the 1930s. (more…)
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November 1
Michael Piller, 57, U.S., writer, TV producer (“Star Trek”), 2005.
November 2
Irwin Allen, 75, U.S., film/TV producer (“The Poseidon Adventure”), 1991.
November 3
Wilhelm Reich, 60, Austria, U.S., psychologist, 1957.
Bob Kane, 83, U.S., cartoonist (“Batman”), 1998.
Stanley Rothenberg, 76, U.S., lawyer, 2006. (more…)
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