Rubén Salazar, Narrated by Sylvia Salazar

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01][music] >> In the late 1960s, Ruben Salazar was the most influential Latino journalist in the United States.

[00:00:11]Born in Mexico, Salazar grew up in El Paso, Texas. After serving in the army, he became a citizen, earned a degree in journalism, and by 1959 was covering the Vietnam War for the Los Angeles Times.

[00:00:24]He began to champion the growing Chicano movement, declaring, "A Chicano is a Mexican American with a non-Anglo image of himself. He resents being told Columbus discovered America when the Chicano's ancestors, the Mayans and the Aztecs, founded highly sophisticated civilizations centuries before Spain financed the Italian explorer's trip to the New World."

[00:00:46]Salazar was killed by a rubber bullet fired by a sheriff's deputy during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War in 1970. A coroner ruled his death accidental.