While news director for KMEX, this reporter’s coverage focused on the Chicano movement and related incidents, such as the LAPD killing the Sanchez cousins. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activist and longtime reporter for the Los Angeles Times who was killed by a tear gas projectile during a protest against the Vietnam War.
ANSWER: Ruben Salazar
[10e] Among Salazar’s many interviewees was this Mexican American activist who, along with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the United Farm Workers.
ANSWER: Cesar Chavez [or Cesario Estrada Chavez]
[10m] This journalist’s article “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan” described the reaction to Salazar’s death. This journalist described Ed Muskie’s addiction to ibogaine in a book about the “campaign trail” of 1972.
ANSWER: Hunter S. Thompson [or Hunter Stockton Thompson]
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