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Ruben Salazar (March 3, 1928 – August 29, 1970) [1] was a civil rights activist and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was the first Mexican journalist from ...
Salazar was covering the day's events as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and news director of Los Angeles Spanish-language station KMEX-TV. After the conclusion of the march, while sipping a beer at the counter of the Silver Dollar Cafe, Salazar was hit in the head by a tear gas shell fired by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Tom Wilson.
It was a smoggy day Aug. 29, 1970, when journalist Ruben Salazar, 42, went to cover a gathering in East Los Angeles. Billed as the National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, the event ...
Jesús Rubén Darío Salazar Gómez [1] was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1942. He completed his high school studies and philosophy at the seminary of Ibagué . At the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome he followed the theological studies, obtaining a licentiate in dogmatic theology.
The Moratorium became notable for the death of Ruben Salazar, a prominent investigative reporter known for his writings on civil rights and police brutality. Deputy Thomas Wilson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department fired a tear gas canister into the Silver Dollar Café at the conclusion of the August 29 rally, killing Salazar. Wilson ...
General manager Rank managed to outbid the Times for his services, believing that Salazar would complement what Villanueva had started. [53] That August, Salazar was killed by riot police. [54] A documentary on Salazar's death, Peace... on Our Time: KMEX-TV and the Death of Ruben Salazar, won a Peabody Award for TV public service programming. [55]
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[2] [3] Journalist Ruben Salazar, who would himself be killed by an L.A. County sheriff's deputy in August 1970, featured interviews with survivors of the raid on KMEX. [4] The following year the militant Chicano Liberation Front claimed responsibility for bombing Los Angeles City Hall with a telephone message that stated that the bomb was "in ...