Over 40 years ago, LA Times Columnist and KMEX news director, Ruben Salazar was hit in the head by a tear gas canister while sitting in a bar during an anti-Vietnam war protest that had grown violent.

A tear gas projectile a sheriff’s deputy fired pierced Ruben Salazar’s head and killed him. The L.A. Times columnist was resting in an East L.A. bar after a Vietnam War protest became violent.

Hundreds of students attend class daily in Ruben Salazar Hall at Sonoma State University. Chances are, many of them don't know much about the life of the man whose name graces the building.

In the foreground, helmeted police armed with clubs escort a collapsing officer as, in the background, other police confronts a wall of demonstrators during the National Chicano Moratorium in Laguna ...

Salazar was a columnist for the Los Angeles Times as well as the news director of a Spanish-language radio station. On Aug. 29, 1970, he was covering a march in East Los Angeles by Latinos against ...

Crime Remembering Ruben Salazar as reporters are targeted in Los Angeles by John D’Anna • CalMatters June 11, 2025, 10:13 a.m.

It was there during a huge anti-war demonstration in 1970 that well-known Hispanic journalist Ruben Salazar, an L.A. Times columnist and news director of KMEX-TV, was killed by a sheriff's deputy ...

Please remember Ruben Salazar's legacy when the Postal Service unveils the stamp this week. Don't just buy a stamp, though. Tutor a child, mentor a teen and involve yourself in community decisions.

Ruben Salazar is mostly remembered today as a pioneering L.A. Times columnist. But 60 years ago this week, he wrote a groundbreaking series on L.A.'s Mexican American community. We revisit it.