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The Life of Ruben Salazar: Year by Year 1928 Born in Ciudad Juarez 1929 Salazar family moves to El Paso 1952 Begins working as a reporter at the El Paso Herald-Post 1954 Graduates from Texas Western College (now UTEP) 1954 Takes a job with the Press Democrat in Calif. after graduation 1959 Goes to work for the Los Angeles Times 1965 Sent to Vietnam to work as the LA Times foreign correspondent 1966 Appointed as LA Times Mexico City bureau chief 1968 Captured in Panama while reporting on election Arnulfo Arias 1969 Hired by KMEX, a Spanish-language TV station, as news director 1970 Killed at age 42, during a raid at Silver Dollar Café in LA while on assignment covering Chicano Anti-War Moratorium 1971 Posthumously awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award 2003 UTEP establishes Ruben Salazar Spanish-Language Media Program 2008 Salazar becomes first Hispanic journalist on a U.S. postage stamp
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 04:14:01 +0000

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