Richard R. Aurelio, the political and public relations virtuoso who helped engineer John V. Lindsay’s comeback to win re-election as mayor in 1969 and whose legacy to New Yorkers included a 24-hour, all-news cable TV channel, died on Tuesday (Nov. 10) at a hospital in Glen Cove, in Long Island, N.Y. He was 98.
His death from complications of an unrepairable hip fracture was confirmed by his son, Marco Aurelio.
Mr. Aurelio, who began his career in journalism, was a member of the Newsday reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1954 for exposing racetrack scandals.
