File:Johnny dio - UP Tretick photo - 1957.jpg

Cropped image of Giovanni Ignazio Dioguardi aka John Dioguardi aka "Johnny Dio," convicted gangster, pushing United Press photographer Stanley Tetrick aside after his testimony on August 8, 1957, before the United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management in Washington, D.C. The image was taken by International News Photos photographer Jim Mahan.

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Dio's testimony was widely reported at the time. (Shanley, J.P. "Du Mont Tally Machine Kept Busy as Dio Invokes Fifth Amendment at Hearing." New York Times. August 9, 1957; Loftus, Joseph A. "Dio Pleads Fifth." New York Times. August 9, 1957.) The image is historic and iconic. As Dio was leaving the committee hearing room, a crowd of press photographers gathered around him. Dio attempted to flee so that his photograph would not be taken. United Press photographer Stanley Tetrick raced ahead of Dio to take a photograph. International News Photos photographer Jim Mahan snapped a photograph of a snarling Dio, cigarette dangling from his mouth, pushing Tetrick out of the way with one hand and his other clenched in a tight fist. ("Strong Arm Dio Doing What Comes Naturally." Life. August 19, 1957, p. 36; Rivers, William L. The Mass Media: Reporting, Writing, Editing. New York: Harper & Row, 1964, p. 69; Baron, Sam. "I Was Near the Top of Jimmy's Drop-Dead List." Life. July 20, 1962.) Dio also screamed, "You sons of bitches, I got a family!" ("Strong Arm Dio Doing What Comes Naturally." Life. August 19, 1957, p. 36.) The photograph was widely published in American newspapers, and became an iconic image of Dio, mafioso in general, and the way in which chic dress and charm conceal brutality and thuggery. (Hannigan, William and Johnston, Ken. Picture Machine: The Rise of American Newspictures. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004, p. 245; Martin, John Barlow. Jimmy Hoffa's Hot. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1959, p. 56.) The image is also a widely known symbol of Teamsters union corruption. (Goldberg, Jeffrey. "Hoffa Lives!" New York. July 31, 1995, p. 32; Leopold, Les. The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 2007, p. 149; Symons, Julian. A Pictorial History of Crime. New York: Bonza Books, 1966, p. 230.)

This is only a small portion of the image. For the full image, see Baron, Sam. "I Was Near the Top of Jimmy's Drop-Dead List." Life. July 20, 1962.