For the sake of history and transparency, they must not fumble this opportunity. I first heard of Ruben Salazar in early 1970 when a friend mailed me a few of his columns. I was in the Army in Japan ...

Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds.

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.

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

L.A. Times reporter Ruben Salazar was killed 55 years ago while covering an anti-Vietnam War protest in East L.A. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Fargo-Moorhead's Ruben Salazar drives in a run during his second at-bat of the RedHawks' game against the Schaumburg Flyers on Sunday at Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo. It was Salazar's first game ...

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 ...